OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Crime Law and Social Change is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	29
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	24
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides	20
Drugs behind the veil of Islam: a view of Saudi youth	20
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	17
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	16
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	11
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	11
Book review	10
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	9
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	8
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	8
At risk: betting-related match-fixing in Brazilian football	8
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	8
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	8
Public policies against criminal assets in mexico: challenges and opportunities from the north border states	8
COVID-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: a temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic	7
Plea bargaining in the Nigerian criminal justice system: A procedural tool for loot recovery or justice administration?	7
Effect of incarceration on criminality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil	7
Anger versus fear about crime: how common is it, where does it come from, and why does it matter?	7
“You’re a product of your environment for sure”: Correctional educators on their perceptions of and contributions to prison social climate	7
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	6
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	6
Understanding contextual heterogeneity in the outcomes of large-scale security policies: evidence from Italy (2007–12)	6
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	6

Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	6
The communicative impact of terrorist attacks on the financial marketplace: a perspective from the efficient market hypothesis	5
Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	5
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	5
From an offender-based to an offense-based justice: Changes in sentencing patterns in the juvenile justice system in São Paulo from 1990 to 2006	5
Dietary supplements, harm associated with synthetic adulterants and potential governance solutions	5
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	5
Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	4
A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing	4
The ouster clause in the Hong Kong national security law: its effectiveness in the common law and its implications for the rule of law	4
Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy	4
Beyond assumptive deterrence: understanding the socio-environmental dynamics in crimes by Christian clerics and its implications for crime control	4
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	4
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	4
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	4
The politics of criminal violence in Brazil: State violence, gang and the plebs	4
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	4
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	4
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	3
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	3
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	3
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	3
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	3
Exploring Perceptions of Portuguese Police about Human Trafficking Victims and Perpetrators	3
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	3
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	3
Behind the criminal economy: using UK tax fraud investigations to understand money laundering myths and models	3
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	3
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	3
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	3
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	3
Enacting social engineering: the emotional experience of information security deception	3
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	3
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	3
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	2
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	2
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	2
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	2
Book Review: Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions, by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, Oxford University Press (2021)	2
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	2
Does internet access increase the perception of corruption?	2
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	2
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	2
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	2
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	2
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	2
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	2
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	2
Mobilizing justice in sociolegal research: a mixed methods meta-analysis	2
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	2

Should gains from criminal knowledge be forfeited?	2
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	2
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	2
Reviewing international anti-corruption cooperation arrangements in China – based on the implementation review mechanism of UNCAC	2
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	2
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	2
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security	2
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel determinants of corruption types in China	2
Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore	2
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	2
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	2