OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Crime Law and Social Change is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	40
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	21
Punishment configuration and prevention of carbon trading fraud crimes: experience from China	17
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	16
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	15
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	14
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	14
Book review	14
To report or not to report corruption? An empirical investigation of the determinants of corruption reporting in Africa	12
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	12
The systemic issues with the lower judiciary in India and proposed remedial measures	11
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	11
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	10
Firearms policy and regional structures: how Brazil responds in divergent ways	10
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	10
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	10
COVID-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: a temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic	10
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	9
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	9
The involvement process for financial-economic cyber-enabled crime: Exploring the roles of preexisting ties and offender convergence settings	8
Transnational copyright enforcement in the digital age: balancing rights holders and public access across jurisdictions	8
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	8
Partners in crime: A network perspective of street gangs elites	8
Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	7
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	7

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	7
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	7
Trust on the move: policing and displacement in wartime Ukraine	7
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Politically biased or morally loose? Exploring the role of individual predictors of tolerance towards political corruption	6
Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective	6
Book Review: Evaluating anti-trafficking interventions: critical reflections and lessons from the field. Edited by Ella Cockbain, Aiden Sidebottom and Sheldon X. Zhang	6
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	6
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	6
The obligation of network security management in the era of deep falsification: the legal, judicial and policy implications of artificial intelligence abuse	6
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	6
An analysis of public crimes committed by migrants of Syrian origin in Türkiye	6
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	6
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
Homicidal violence and state capacity in Latin America: the story of the Paper Leviathans	5
Women in organized crime: a comparison of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)	5
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	5
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	5
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	5
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	5
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	5
Exceptional workers? sex work, labor rights and the law	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Closing loopholes or maintaining control? Corporate power through algorithmic opacity in Australia’s gig economy regulation	5
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	5
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	5
Poverty, incivilities, media consumption and the perception of increased crime at the national, local and neighborhood levels: evidence from Chile in 2023	4
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	4
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	4
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	4
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	4
Does carceral status signal fitness for jury service? An exploratory study of the state’s role in shaping public opinion	4
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	4
Profiles of identity theft victimization and the role of lifestyle-routine activities: a conjunctive analysis of case configurations	4
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	4
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	4
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	4
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	4
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	4
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	4