Critical Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Criminology is 0. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial 31(3)14
Using Speculative Fiction to Imagine Queer Abolition Real Utopias13
Salman, S. (2023). The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need. New York University Press. 248 pp. ISBN: 9,781,479,814,541 (Paperback)11
Normalizing State Rape: (In)Voluntary Consent and the Body Cavity Search9
The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings: Solidarity Actors and Networks in the Arabic and Persian Speaking Virtual Spheres9
A Review of Felicia Arriaga’s “Behind Crimmigration”9
Mountain Myths: Examining the Hierarchy of Whiteness in Film9
Artificial Intelligence, Capitalism, and the Logic of Harm: Toward a Critical Criminology of AI9
Legal but Environmentally Harmful Practices Involved in Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru9
“I am No Longer Active, but I will Always Be a Crip”: A Longitudinal Ethnography (N = 1) of Gang Desistance in the Netherlands8
A Quantum Elephant in the Room-an Entangled Hauntology of Prison8
Exploring Immigration Detention at the Intersection of Federal Grant Funding, Sanctuary, and Political Majorities in 20158
Transnationalism Despite the Border Regime: (De)Bordering Processes and Multiscalar Solidarities Among Moroccan Irregularized Travelers8
State-Crime Relations: Notes on a Necessary Literature8
The Tier One Transformation: Exploring the Convergence of the Material and Cultural Indicators of Police Militarization Between Special Forces Units and Police Tactical Units7
Forceful De-escalation and Organizational Inertia: Identifying Novel Justifications for Entrenched Police Violence7
Queer Experiences in the Italian Criminal Justice System and the Media: A Case Study with Psychodynamic and Social Implications7
Against Reformism: Anarchy and Green Criminology7
Fake News in the Field of COVID Communication: Investigating the ‘Infodemic’ in Taiwan6
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain6
Between Crime and Commemoration: Human–Object Relationships in the Treasure Hunting for World War II Objects6
Introduction to Convict Criminology by Jeffrey Ian Ross6
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice6
Dan Canon: Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class5
Notes from the Empire5
Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes5
Racialized, Sexualized, and Criminalized: Carceral Citizenship of Black Women5
Teen Courts as Alternative Justice? Teens’ Carceral Habitus and the Reproduction of Social Inequality5
“Deliberate Indifference”: Challenging State-Sanctioned Violence Against Transgender People in Carceral Spaces5
Editorial (32)34
Notes from the Empire4
Pathways to Abolition: The Colonial Legacy of the Death Penalty in sub-Saharan Africa4
Punishment in Postcolonial India: Colonial Continuities in Neoliberal Carcerality4
UK Race Riots and Demonstrations: Far Right Ideology, Online and Offline Activism4
Crimmigration Practices and Narratives Resisting and Justifying Mass Deportation in the Central Valley of California4
Critical Criminology, Special Issue Introduction: Critical Engagements with Gender, Race and Class in Crimmigration Controls4
A History of Now: (Re)Historicising Penal Continuities in the Anglophone Caribbean Through Path Dependence Theory4
Eating Cats and Dogs? Trump, the Crimmigrant Other, and the Multi-species Moral Economy of Personhood4
Carceral Logics in Benevolent Places: How Institutions of Care Criminalize Justice-Involved Black Mothers4
Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing4
Women’s Politics of Solidarity in El Salvador: Familial Love, Carceral Peace, and Patriarchy4
Navigating Criminal Governance in Colombia: A Life Stories Approach4
Moving Beyond Abstracted Empiricism: Pursuing New Sociological Directions in Theorizing Male-to-Female Sexual Assault on University/College Campuses3
Anti-femininity or Gender-Nonconformity Prejudice? An Investigation of Femme, Twink, and Butch LGBTQ Victimization Using Norm-Centered Stigma Theory3
‘Stop the Spread’: Criminalizing Physical Recreation During the COVID-19 Pandemic3
Rural Culture and Coercive Sexual Environments: A Queer Path from Victimization to Incarceration3
A Criminology of Dis/Obedience?3
Notes from the Empire3
Negotiating Subversive Adaptation in Morocco: Navigating Borders, Migration Dynamics and Authoritarian Realities3
Victimization and Re-victimization in Hate Crime Cases in Spain: An Intersectional Approach3
Interview with Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty3
The Crisis of Higher Education: Neoliberalism and the Privileging of “Innovation” in The Twenty-First Century3
Critical Policing Studies: Toward a “Fully Social” Framework3
No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)3
Comparative Analysis of Coloured Gangs in Cape Town and Indigenous Gangs on Canada’s Prairies: Connecting Localized Opposition to Globalized Grievances Through Street Culture3
Electronic Surveillance in Immigration Court: Evidence from the CalGang Database3
Introduction: The Criminalization-to-Deportation Pipeline in the United States—A Special Issue for Critical Criminology3
From Exceptionalism to Non-conformity: Pandemic Disobedience, Collective Irrationality, and Distributive Justice in India3
Divide & Conquer: Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict3
Skogan, Wesley, G. 2023: Stop and Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago, New York, NY: Oxford University Press3
Imposed Mobility, Legal Ambiguity, Institutionalized Abandonment: Exploring the Sex Work Crimscape in Contemporary Poland3
Review of David Garland’s Law and Order Leviathan3
Editorial (34)13
The Pleasures of Risk and the Limits of Resistance: A Critical Exploration of the Concept of Edgework3
Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa3
A Visual Psychogeography Approach: Mapping Sex Market Facilitation in New York City2
“I am the Mother of the Boss here”: A Relational Biography of a Drug Dealer’s Mother2
Off-the-Cuff Law-Making: Policing Pandemic Dispossession in Spain2
Ways of “Not Hearing”: Corporate Denial in the Case of Aircraft Noise and Victimisation in the UK2
Policing Corona: Crime, Social Bulimia, and Racial Capitalism2
Playing in the Team of Five Million: Conformity and Nonconformity to the New Zealand Covid-19 Pandemic Response2
Cumulative Disadvantages in the Brazilian Criminal Justice System: Is Pretrial Detention a Source of Racial Disparities?2
Lost on the Road to Prosperity: Trajectories to Drug Dealing of the Chinese Heroin Generation2
Yuille Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon and John Joseph Sloan, III (eds): Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence2
Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Living Conditions of Pigs in Sweden’s Factory Farms Between 1980–20182
Fixing Broken Windows or Racial Capitalism’s Fixers: Policing, Displacement, and Gentrification in One of California’s Last Black Enclaves2
Chasing Ghosts: Contested Histories and the Invisibilization of Women in Gang Wars2
Expanding Wildfire Research with Insights from Green Criminology2
Entertainment, Acclaim, and Profit: A Reading of Western Culture Through the Prism of Ecotourism2
Editorial Notes 33(2)2
“Missing the Trees for the Forest?” An Analysis of the Harms to European Eels Caused by Their Trafficking and Trade2
The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation Pipeline1
‘Grew Up with a Silver Spoon in My Mouth, But it Ended Up the Nose’: The Stigma and Labelling of Injection Drug Use in an Affluent Beachside Community1
The Story of Black Jesus: Rebel War, Thug Life and Growing Old in Freetown, Sierra Leone1
Correction: Eating Cats and Dogs? Trump, the Crimmigrant Other, and the Multi-species Moral Economy of Personhood1
It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment1
The Control of “Wandering Women:” The Legacy of Vagrancy Laws in the Contemporary Governance of Migrant Sex Work1
“You are the Scorpion and the Frog”: Crime, Politics and Labor in Argentina Since 19601
Echoes of Empire: Beggary Legislation in Independent India1
A ‘Lens of Labor’: Re-Conceptualizing Young People’s Involvement in Organized Crime1
Demoralizing Internet Contention: Affective Publics and Emotional Mobilization on China’s Social Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic1
“If you dress like a whore you have to accept being treated like one”: An Interview Study About Women’s Experiences of Misogynistic Hate Crime1
Haunting the Margins: Excavating EU Migrants as the ‘Social Ghosts’ of Our Time1
$ over Ethics: Higher Education and the Private Prions Industry, a Symptom of the Theology of Neoliberalism1
Colonialism and Penality: An Introduction1
Katherine Biber: In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence1
Homicide: Policy Intent and Manner of Death Reporting for Undocumented Border Crossers in the US Southwest1
A Theory of Suffering and Healing: Toward a Loving Justice1
Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia1
Green Victimization of Native Americans: Uranium Mining as a Form of Toxic Colonialism and Genocide1
Creating Insecurity Through Youth Street Groups and Applying Security for Control and Governance. A Case Study of Barcelona Latin Kings1
Critical Gangster Life Histories1
A Mixed-Method Analysis of the News Media Framing of Gender Non-Conforming Victims of Homicide in the U.S. from 2012 to 20221
Fear of Crime as a Punitive Project—The Swedish Case1
“Something Could Happen to You at Any Moment”: Safety, Strategy, and Solidarity Among Trans and Nonbinary Protesters Against Police Violence1
Harms and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecology, Green Criminology and the European Eel1
Correction to: Editorial: (31)21
Editorial for Critical Criminology (33)31
The Deportation Regime in the Sanctuary City: Reformist Sanctuary Policies, Law Enforcement Legitimization, and Universal Representation in New York City1
Gentrification, White Encroachment, and the Policing of Black Residents in Washington, DC1
Dis/ableist Criminology: Beyond Ableism Through a Zemiological Framework1
The Dichotomies of State Laws explored through Lived Experiences of Partition-affected Families1
Structural Intersections, Hierarchical Citizenship and Criminalization of the Migrant in Assam1
Always Showing Up Late to the Wrong Party: Criminology’s Posthumous Dalliance with Rock Music1
The Exchange of Sex Out of Necessity: A Look at Transactional Sex in Prison Settings1
The Social Organization of Pervasive Penality in the Lives of Young People Experiencing Homelessness1
Editorial 31(4) by David C. Brotherton and Jayne Mooney1
Michael Gibson-Light: Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison1
Immigration Enforcement and the Criminal Record: Using the Secure Communities Program to Understand the Role of Criminal History in ICE Enforcement1
Amanda Graham, Francis T. Cullen and Bruce G. Link: The Hidden Measurement Crisis in Criminology: Procedural Justice as a Case Study1
A New Theory of Globalization, Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women: Toward Solving the Linkage Problem1
An Appreciation of Herman Schwendinger 1926–20221
Transversal Harm and Zemiology: Reconsidering Green Criminology and Mineral Extractivism in Cerro de Pasco, Peru1
Affect as Praxis in Prison Research: An Exploration of Emotion, Experience, and Transformation1
Benedict, R. W. (2023). Incarceration and Older Women: Giving Back Not Giving Up. (L. Presser & B. Easterling, Eds.). Bristol University Press. 134 pp. ISBN: 1529231612 (Hardcover), ISBN: 978152921
Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley1
Prisons as Law-Violators and Sites of Environmental Injustice0
Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: Prison Cruelty, Sentencing Theory, and the Failure of Liberal Retributivism0
Trans-Neutrality in Intimate Partner Violence Service Provision in the USA and Canada0
The Penality of Preventive Detention: Colonial Roots and Continuities in Contemporary Bangladesh0
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Editorial (33)10
“Missing the Community for the Dots”: Newspaper Crime Maps, Territorial Stigma and Visual Criminology0
Interventionitis in the Criminal Justice System: Three English Cases0
Feminist Convict Criminology for the Future0
The Relational Costs of Wrongful Convictions0
Surveillance Load: A Burden of Search Borne by Black and Brown Bodies0
Governing Immobility in the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: Non-conforming Behaviors of Migrants Confronting the New Old Processes of Othering0
“The ‘Ficha’ is Made on the Streets”: Experiences in Shaping Criminal Identity Among Recidivist Justice-Involved Men0
Kubrick on Crime and Deviance 0
The Variegated Game of Border Crossing Along the Balkan Route0
Aya Gruber: The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration0
Wendy Fitzgibbon: Applied Photovoice in Criminal Justice Voices Made Visible0
The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil0
The Social Reproduction Crisis During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Barcelona: Potentialities and Limitations0
Penal Contradictions and the Pre-emptive Criminalisation of ‘Marriages of Convenience’: Towards an Anticipation-Discretion Nexus0
James M. Binnall: Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System0
Introduction to the Special Issue in the Journal of Critical Criminology Mapping Covid Nonconformities0
Criminology’s Paradox: Applying the Propaganda Model to the Criminological Literature0
The Pursuit of the ‘Dead Bandit’: A Decolonial Analysis of the Persecution of the Marginalized in Brazil0
A Man of his Times: Using Historical Periods to Understand an Aging Gang Member’s Life0
#WayfairGate and the Growth of Sex Trafficking Panics Across Social Media0
Katheryn Russell-Brown: Little Melba and Her Big Trombone Frank Morrison, Illus., Lee & Low Books, New York, 2014, 36 pp, ISBN: 9781600608988 (HB) Katheryn Russell-Brown: A Voice Named Aretha Laur0
Interpretive Harms and Contested Agency: Transphobic Ideology, Correctional Officers, and the Law0
“Not Everything is an RCT”: A Zemiological Analysis of Researcher Social Harms0
A Place of Safety? Women, Crimmigration Control and a Stigmatised Identity0
The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge0
María-José Del-Pino-Espejo and Joaquín García Arias (eds.): Lectura Fácil: Mujeres Fundadoras De La sociología Y De La teoría Social En español O inglés0
Insecurity and Fragility: The Perpetual Duo of Precarity for ‘Convict Criminologists’ in a Risk Averse Academy0
Doing Harm with Things: Making Sense of Intention in Harmful Actions Using Technology0
Stranger Danger: The Political Debate on Crimmigrants0
“I Feel Like I Have Three Strikes Against Me”: Transgender Women’s Experiences with Police Bias and Discrimination0
Navigating Contradictory Demands: An Analysis of Corporate Responses to Regulatory Hardening0
How Far does Prison Punishment Extend? Re-entry Processes in the Digitalised Society0
Slippery Slopes and Russian Roulettes: Abjection and Drug User (Self-)Governance in an Online Harm Reduction Forum0
The Criminological Analysis of Communal Motives on Corrective Rape in African Communities: A Case Study of Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal0
Punishing Pregnancy Loss: Miscarriage Criminalization as an Embodied Carceral Practice0
To See and be Seen: Multilayered Field Ethnography in the Evros Region0
Identitas per Fabulam: Joint Fantasising in the Construction of Criminal Group Identities0
Border Control Reinterpreted: Collective Memory and the Narrative Self0
Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm0
Creating and Contesting “Universal” Penal Norms: The United Nations, Decolonization, and Global Visions of the Prison0
Transformative Justice in the Shadow of Neoliberalism: A Critical Look at California’s Division of Juvenile Justice0
Editorial for Issue (31)1 by David C. Brotherton and Jayne Mooney0
An Examination of Cyber-Systemic Regulation in Criminology Through the Lens of “Flows”0
“Not a Gangster, a Preman!”: Farry Malonda in Indonesia0
Editorial (Critical Criminology)0
Tribute to a Criminological Ethnographer: Remembering Gary W. Potter0
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Embracing ‘Abolition Ecology’: A Green Criminological Rejoinder0
War and the Politics of Denial: Israel as a “Special Case”?0
Dino’s Story: The Challenges of Co-writing the Life History of a Brazilian Gangster0
Obituary: David Brown0
The O.G. Homegirl Mayra: A Testimonio of Gendered Stressors, Survival, and Healing0
Fear and Loathing in the Homeland Security State: A Bourdieusian Account for the Expansion of ICE0
Khat-Chewing, Adiaphorisation and Morality: Rethinking Ethics in the Age of the Synopticon0
Transforming Relations: In Loving Memory of Hal Pepinsky0
Book Review of Alec Karakatsanis. (2025). Copaganada: How Police and the Media Manipulate our News. The New Press0
The Age of Impunity: White-Collar Crime and the Erosion of Accountability0
Disciplinary Paternalism and Resistance in Ontario’s Forensic Mental Health System0
Bluewashing and the Illusion of Sustainability in the Cruise Industry0
To Resist = to Destroy: Rethinking the Resistance as Liberation Paradigm0
Punitive Governance and the Criminalization of Socioenvironmental, Anti-Austerity, and Anticorruption Mobilizations in Puerto Rico0
“Life Should be Difficult for the Poor, but Safe”: Exploring the Discourses Used to Garner Support for Transforming Ontario’s Community Housing into a Transcarceral Space0
Christian L. Bolden: Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption0
Fake Vaccine Certificates as Tickets to Deviant Freedom and Certainty: A Critical Analysis of Media Discourses0
Outlaw Heroes or Extremists: Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” and the Social Construction of a National Emergency0
Making Crime Visible in the Digital Age: The Ethnomethods of Data Policing0
Sentence Reduction Legislation and Legal Incrementalism0
Drug Trafficking as Crime Against Humanity: Global Moral Panics and Drugs at the United Nations0
Barker, Kim & Olga Jurasz (2019): Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation? 0
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COVID Non-Conformity via the Korean National Petition: Citizens’ Responses to Pandemic Biopolitical Social Control0
The Dominance of Individualism and Positivism: Trends of Theorizing Sexual Victimization/Perpetration in Higher Education, 2013–20220
Tim Goddard and Randy Myers: Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice0
Inside the Pushback Apparatus in Tunisia: Countering Mobility, Extracting its Value and Manufacturing Infrastructures of Solidarity0
Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in Israel: Toward an Agentic Research Perspective that Opposes Othering and Estrangement0
Notes from the Empire0
Sarah Hupp Williamson: Human Trafficking Hysteria: Historical and Modern Perspectives on Moral Panics, Media, and Crime0
Smirnova, M. (2023). The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline: The Medicalization and Criminalization of Pain. Duke University Press0
Indigenous Solidarities and Contemptuous Ethnographic Fieldworks0
From Meaning to Ecocide: The Value of Phenomenology for Green Criminology0
T. Linneman: The Horror of Police0
Indigent Injustice: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of People’s Criminal Legal Outcomes0
Problematising the Will to Intervene: Discourses on Alternative Solutions to Prison0
Guest Editors’ Introduction0
Anna Gjika: When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age. University of California Press, 20240
The Irritation of Doubt: Pragmatism and Critical Criminology0
Intersecting Identities in Carceral Spaces: Assessing Trans Female Inmates’ Risks of Violent Victimization0
Sexual Assault Impacts on Sexuality and Queer Identity: A Qualitative Study of Queer Substance-Involved Sexual Assault Survivors0
The Spirit of Ultra-Realism: Meditations on Metaphysics and Criminal Etiology0
Ryan, Hugh. (2022). The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. New York, NY: Bold Type Books0
Flexible Labor and Political Competition: Understanding Women’s Race-Specific Incarceration Rates0
The Zemiological Afterlife of Wrongful Conviction: Spoiled Identity, Repair and Survivorship0
A Green Criminological Analysis of Industrial Environmental Crime in Bangladesh: The Karnaphuli River Case0
Towards the Theory of Criminologically Unequal Exchange0
Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People0
Biology and Criminology: Data Practices and the Creation of Anatomic and Genomic Body ‘Types’0
Who are the Smugglers? Ethnography on Mobility Facilitation Practices at the Sfax and Ventimiglia Borders0
Vannier, M. (2021). Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment: The Case of Life Without Parole in California. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 240 pp. $99.00 (hardback), ISBN 97801988278250
Between the Sea and a Hard Place: Encounters with Sub-Saharan African Migration in Sfax in Mid-20230
Notes from the Empire0
Gacek, James (2021) Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory0
Re-contextualising Institutional-Anomie Theory in Turkey: Institutional Breakdown and Crime Rise0
Finding Ramón: Navigating Failure and Luck in Mexico0
Hunger Strikes and the Incarcerated Credible Messenger: A Lived Perspective on Solidarity, Labeling, and Resistance in California Prisons0
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The Effects of Criminalisation on Activists: The Case of the NoTAP Environmental Movement0
“I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know:” A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention0
“Like We’re Livestock”: Post-Truth and Non-consensual Experimentation in the Carceral Context0
Challenging Crimmigration Racialising Politics Through Co-creative Filmmaking with Migrant Sex Workers0
Doomed by the Data? Latina/o/x Racialization and Sentencing Outcomes in Florida0
“A Path of Narrowing Options”: Contextualizing the Polyvictimization Narratives of Women Incarcerated in a South African Correctional Centre0
Karyorrhexis of Sovereignty: Necropolitization of Immunity0
Does the Concentration of the Treadmill of Production Predict US EPA Environmental Violations Across States? A Test of Green Criminological Propositions from Ecological Disorganization Theory0
Ethical Considerations at the Intersection of Climate Change and Reproductive Justice: Directions from Green Criminology0
Queer Victimology0
Fighting Back, Moving Forward: Refugee Women’s Agency in Stories of Resistance and Resilience0
Revising the Critical Gaze: An Inversion of Criminological Theories to Center Race, Racism, and Resistance0
Legacy of Death: How Colonial and Socio-Cultural Factors Support Capital Punishment in Indonesia0
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