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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Legal but Environmentally Harmful Practices Involved in Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru13
Editorial 31(3)11
Correction to: Six Lines: A Methodological Agenda for Critical Gang Studies11
Correction to: Editor’s Final Introduction11
Mountain Myths: Examining the Hierarchy of Whiteness in Film9
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)9
Using Speculative Fiction to Imagine Queer Abolition Real Utopias9
Academics Versus Athletics? The Protection and Prioritization of College Athletics in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity8
Editor’s Final Introduction8
Normalizing State Rape: (In)Voluntary Consent and the Body Cavity Search8
The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings: Solidarity Actors and Networks in the Arabic and Persian Speaking Virtual Spheres8
“I am No Longer Active, but I will Always Be a Crip”: A Longitudinal Ethnography (N = 1) of Gang Desistance in the Netherlands8
“I’ll Choose My Own Way”: Delinquent Girls and Boys in Search of Gender Hegemony7
Exploring Immigration Detention at the Intersection of Federal Grant Funding, Sanctuary, and Political Majorities in 20157
Artificial Intelligence, Capitalism, and the Logic of Harm: Toward a Critical Criminology of AI7
A Quantum Elephant in the Room-an Entangled Hauntology of Prison7
Against Reformism: Anarchy and Green Criminology6
State-Crime Relations: Notes on a Necessary Literature6
The Tier One Transformation: Exploring the Convergence of the Material and Cultural Indicators of Police Militarization Between Special Forces Units and Police Tactical Units5
Exploring Carceral Food Systems as Sites of Contestation and Possibility in Canadian Federal Prisons: The Food Services Modernization Initiative5
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice5
Transnationalism Despite the Border Regime: (De)Bordering Processes and Multiscalar Solidarities Among Moroccan Irregularized Travelers5
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain5
Fake News in the Field of COVID Communication: Investigating the ‘Infodemic’ in Taiwan5
Forceful De-escalation and Organizational Inertia: Identifying Novel Justifications for Entrenched Police Violence5
“In and Out of Crisis”: Life Course Criminalization for Jefas in the Barrio5
Between Crime and Commemoration: Human–Object Relationships in the Treasure Hunting for World War II Objects5
Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes4
Notes from the Empire4
Rafe McGregor: Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism4
Punishment and Racial Segregation of Schools: Against Racial Threat and Toward a Racial Control Perspective4
Dan Canon: Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class4
Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Life Itself: A Review of Reviews4
Teen Courts as Alternative Justice? Teens’ Carceral Habitus and the Reproduction of Social Inequality4
‘We Can’t Get No Nine-to-Five’: New York City Gang Membership as a Response to the Structural Violence of Everyday Life4
Racialized, Sexualized, and Criminalized: Carceral Citizenship of Black Women4
“Deliberate Indifference”: Challenging State-Sanctioned Violence Against Transgender People in Carceral Spaces4
From Exceptionalism to Non-conformity: Pandemic Disobedience, Collective Irrationality, and Distributive Justice in India3
A Systems-Based Approach to Green Criminology3
Moving Beyond Abstracted Empiricism: Pursuing New Sociological Directions in Theorizing Male-to-Female Sexual Assault on University/College Campuses3
Critical Criminology, Special Issue Introduction: Critical Engagements with Gender, Race and Class in Crimmigration Controls3
Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing3
Navigating Criminal Governance in Colombia: A Life Stories Approach3
Victimization and Re-victimization in Hate Crime Cases in Spain: An Intersectional Approach3
Anti-femininity or Gender-Nonconformity Prejudice? An Investigation of Femme, Twink, and Butch LGBTQ Victimization Using Norm-Centered Stigma Theory3
Skogan, Wesley, G. 2023: Stop and Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago, New York, NY: Oxford University Press3
Carceral Logics in Benevolent Places: How Institutions of Care Criminalize Justice-Involved Black Mothers3
Women’s Politics of Solidarity in El Salvador: Familial Love, Carceral Peace, and Patriarchy3
“Ask Me About My Goals!” Challenging Pervasive Assumptions of Gang Members’ Fatalism by Exploring Gay Gang Members’ Goals3
Interview with Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty3
Deaths of Despair: Gang Violence after the Crack Crisis3
Divide & Conquer: Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict3
Editorial (32)33
Crimmigration Practices and Narratives Resisting and Justifying Mass Deportation in the Central Valley of California3
Introduction: The Criminalization-to-Deportation Pipeline in the United States—A Special Issue for Critical Criminology3
No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)2
The Pleasures of Risk and the Limits of Resistance: A Critical Exploration of the Concept of Edgework2
Imposed Mobility, Legal Ambiguity, Institutionalized Abandonment: Exploring the Sex Work Crimscape in Contemporary Poland2
The Crisis of Higher Education: Neoliberalism and the Privileging of “Innovation” in The Twenty-First Century2
Rural Culture and Coercive Sexual Environments: A Queer Path from Victimization to Incarceration2
Editorial Notes 33(2)2
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
Negotiating Subversive Adaptation in Morocco: Navigating Borders, Migration Dynamics and Authoritarian Realities2
Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa2
Critical Policing Studies: Toward a “Fully Social” Framework2
Ludic Negation: Thrasher's The Gang and the Creative Foundations of Gang Sociality2
“I am the Mother of the Boss here”: A Relational Biography of a Drug Dealer’s Mother2
Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Living Conditions of Pigs in Sweden’s Factory Farms Between 1980–20182
Expanding Wildfire Research with Insights from Green Criminology2
A Criminology of Dis/Obedience?2
Gang Phantasmagoria: How Racialized Gang Allegations Haunt Immigration Legal Work2
Electronic Surveillance in Immigration Court: Evidence from the CalGang Database2
Comparative Analysis of Coloured Gangs in Cape Town and Indigenous Gangs on Canada’s Prairies: Connecting Localized Opposition to Globalized Grievances Through Street Culture2
Off-the-Cuff Law-Making: Policing Pandemic Dispossession in Spain2
Yuille Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon and John Joseph Sloan, III (eds): Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence2
Ways of “Not Hearing”: Corporate Denial in the Case of Aircraft Noise and Victimisation in the UK2
Lost on the Road to Prosperity: Trajectories to Drug Dealing of the Chinese Heroin Generation2
Guardianship Among Immigrant Intimate Partner Violence Survivors1
Fucking with the Model Minority Myth: The Experiences of Two Vocal Asian American Women in (white, male) Criminology and Academia1
The Social Organization of Pervasive Penality in the Lives of Young People Experiencing Homelessness1
Entertainment, Acclaim, and Profit: A Reading of Western Culture Through the Prism of Ecotourism1
Ontological Shift in Classical Criminology: Engagement with the New Sciences1
A Visual Psychogeography Approach: Mapping Sex Market Facilitation in New York City1
Introduction: Special Issue Vol. 30 # 1—“Critical Gang Studies”1
A Mixed-Method Analysis of the News Media Framing of Gender Non-Conforming Victims of Homicide in the U.S. from 2012 to 20221
A Theory of Suffering and Healing: Toward a Loving Justice1
Harms and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecology, Green Criminology and the European Eel1
‘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
$ over Ethics: Higher Education and the Private Prions Industry, a Symptom of the Theology of Neoliberalism1
Power(ful) Connections: Exploring the Revolving Doors Phenomenon as a Form of State-Corporate Crime1
When the Islamic State Kills: Ironies of American and ISIS Executions1
Editorial 31(4) by David C. Brotherton and Jayne Mooney1
Creating Insecurity Through Youth Street Groups and Applying Security for Control and Governance. A Case Study of Barcelona Latin Kings1
Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia1
Critical Gangster Life Histories1
Policing Corona: Crime, Social Bulimia, and Racial Capitalism1
“Missing the Trees for the Forest?” An Analysis of the Harms to European Eels Caused by Their Trafficking and Trade1
Fear of Crime as a Punitive Project—The Swedish Case1
The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation Pipeline1
Structural Intersections, Hierarchical Citizenship and Criminalization of the Migrant in Assam1
Correction to: Introduction: Special Issue Vol. 30 # 1—“Critical Gang Studies”1
Editors' Introduction1
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
Gentrification, White Encroachment, and the Policing of Black Residents in Washington, DC1
Strange Bedfellows: Austerity and Social Justice at the Neoliberal University1
Immigration Enforcement and the Criminal Record: Using the Secure Communities Program to Understand the Role of Criminal History in ICE Enforcement1
A ‘Lens of Labor’: Re-Conceptualizing Young People’s Involvement in Organized Crime1
A New Theory of Globalization, Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women: Toward Solving the Linkage Problem1
Green Victimization of Native Americans: Uranium Mining as a Form of Toxic Colonialism and Genocide1
The Control of “Wandering Women:” The Legacy of Vagrancy Laws in the Contemporary Governance of Migrant Sex Work1
Heteronormativity and the Victimization of Bisexual and Pansexual Women: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory1
Perilous Policing: An Analysis of the Resident Evil Series1
Michael Gibson-Light: Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison1
Dis/ableist Criminology: Beyond Ableism Through a Zemiological Framework1
“Something Could Happen to You at Any Moment”: Safety, Strategy, and Solidarity Among Trans and Nonbinary Protesters Against Police Violence1
Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley1
Demoralizing Internet Contention: Affective Publics and Emotional Mobilization on China’s Social Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic1
Correction to: Ludic Negation: Thrasher’s The Gang and the Creative Foundations of Gang Sociality1
The Deportation Regime in the Sanctuary City: Reformist Sanctuary Policies, Law Enforcement Legitimization, and Universal Representation in New York City1
Katherine Biber: In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence1
It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment1
The Spirit of Ultra-Realism: Meditations on Metaphysics and Criminal Etiology0
Surveillance Load: A Burden of Search Borne by Black and Brown Bodies0
An Examination of Cyber-Systemic Regulation in Criminology Through the Lens of “Flows”0
Gacek, James (2021) Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory0
Editorial (33)10
Christian L. Bolden: Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption0
Outlaw Heroes or Extremists: Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” and the Social Construction of a National Emergency0
Punishing Pregnancy Loss: Miscarriage Criminalization as an Embodied Carceral Practice0
Legal Process as Racialized Punishment: The Material Consequences of Discretionary Arrests in New York City0
Zones of Entrapment and Impunity: On the Constitution of Vague and Strange Regimes of Power0
The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain: State Harm, the Aftermath of Exoneration, and Compensation for the Wrongly Convicted0
Guest Editors’ Introduction0
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
Karyorrhexis of Sovereignty: Necropolitization of Immunity0
Fighting Back, Moving Forward: Refugee Women’s Agency in Stories of Resistance and Resilience0
Lifting the Veil of Ignorance: Prison Cruelty, Sentencing Theory, and the Failure of Liberal Retributivism0
Editorial for Issue (31)1 by David C. Brotherton and Jayne Mooney0
A Place of Safety? Women, Crimmigration Control and a Stigmatised Identity0
Kubrick on Crime and Deviance 0
To See and be Seen: Multilayered Field Ethnography in the Evros Region0
Tim Goddard and Randy Myers: Youth, Community and the Struggle for Social Justice0
Fake Vaccine Certificates as Tickets to Deviant Freedom and Certainty: A Critical Analysis of Media Discourses0
Beyond Measure: On the Marketization of British Universities, and the Domestication of Academic Criminology0
Border Control Reinterpreted: Collective Memory and the Narrative Self0
Global Capitalism as Blood Sacrifice: Mainstream American Comic Books and Depictions of Economic Inequality0
Shut In, Shut Out: Barriers and Opportunities for Gang Disengagement in El Salvador0
An Appreciation of Herman Schwendinger 1926–20220
Between the Sea and a Hard Place: Encounters with Sub-Saharan African Migration in Sfax in Mid-20230
Young People, Antisocial Behavior and Unemployment: Toward a Trans-Disciplinary Analysis of Criminalization0
The Dominance of Individualism and Positivism: Trends of Theorizing Sexual Victimization/Perpetration in Higher Education, 2013–20220
Child Execution in Iran: Furthering Our Understanding of Child Execution as a Form of Structural Violence0
Embracing ‘Abolition Ecology’: A Green Criminological Rejoinder0
Making Crime Visible in the Digital Age: The Ethnomethods of Data Policing0
Editorial (32)10
The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil0
Rafe McGregor: A Criminology of Narrative Fiction0
Aya Gruber: The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration0
Interpretive Harms and Contested Agency: Transphobic Ideology, Correctional Officers, and the Law0
Indigenous Solidarities and Contemptuous Ethnographic Fieldworks0
Haunting the Margins: Excavating EU Migrants as the ‘Social Ghosts’ of Our Time0
Eliciting Selves: Narrating Collective Redemption Through Historical Representation0
Feminist Convict Criminology for the Future0
Notes from the Empire0
Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm0
“We’re Out Here Risking Our Lives”: Value-of-Life Decisions in a Prison Labor Program0
Editorial: (31)20
Tribute to a Criminological Ethnographer: Remembering Gary W. Potter0
Challenging Crimmigration Racialising Politics Through Co-creative Filmmaking with Migrant Sex Workers0
The Pursuit of the ‘Dead Bandit’: A Decolonial Analysis of the Persecution of the Marginalized in Brazil0
Indigent Injustice: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of People’s Criminal Legal Outcomes0
Editorial (Critical Criminology)0
COVID Non-Conformity via the Korean National Petition: Citizens’ Responses to Pandemic Biopolitical Social Control0
Correction to: Editor’s Final Introduction0
Criminology’s Paradox: Applying the Propaganda Model to the Criminological Literature0
From Meaning to Ecocide: The Value of Phenomenology for Green Criminology0
Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in Israel: Toward an Agentic Research Perspective that Opposes Othering and Estrangement0
Barker, Kim & Olga Jurasz (2019): Online Misogyny as a Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation? 0
Toward a Queer Pathways Framework: Understanding the Disproportionate Incarceration of LGBTQ People0
Who are the Smugglers? Ethnography on Mobility Facilitation Practices at the Sfax and Ventimiglia Borders0
Whitewashing Criminology: A Critical Tour of Cesare Lombroso’s Museum of Criminal Anthropology0
“A Path of Narrowing Options”: Contextualizing the Polyvictimization Narratives of Women Incarcerated in a South African Correctional Centre0
Allyn Walker: A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity0
Sexual Assault Impacts on Sexuality and Queer Identity: A Qualitative Study of Queer Substance-Involved Sexual Assault Survivors0
Trans-Neutrality in Intimate Partner Violence Service Provision in the USA and Canada0
Exploring Media Representations of the Nexus Between Climate Change and Crime in the United States0
How Far does Prison Punishment Extend? Re-entry Processes in the Digitalised Society0
Interventionitis in the Criminal Justice System: Three English Cases0
The Relational Costs of Wrongful Convictions0
Disciplinary Paternalism and Resistance in Ontario’s Forensic Mental Health System0
“I Feel Like I Have Three Strikes Against Me”: Transgender Women’s Experiences with Police Bias and Discrimination0
“If you dress like a whore you have to accept being treated like one”: An Interview Study About Women’s Experiences of Misogynistic Hate Crime0
Governing Immobility in the COVID-19 Crisis in Italy: Non-conforming Behaviors of Migrants Confronting the New Old Processes of Othering0
#WayfairGate and the Growth of Sex Trafficking Panics Across Social Media0
Structural Disorganization: Can Prison Gangs Mitigate Serious Violence in Carceral Institutions?0
On Neoliberal Exceptionalism in Spain: A State Plan to Prevent Radicalization0
Inside the Pushback Apparatus in Tunisia: Countering Mobility, Extracting its Value and Manufacturing Infrastructures of Solidarity0
Living Death at the Intersection of Necropower and Disciplinary Power: A Qualitative Exploration of Racialised and Detained Groups in Australia0
The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge0
Ethical Considerations at the Intersection of Climate Change and Reproductive Justice: Directions from Green Criminology0
Transversal Harm and Zemiology: Reconsidering Green Criminology and Mineral Extractivism in Cerro de Pasco, Peru0
The Variegated Game of Border Crossing Along the Balkan Route0
Ryan, Hugh. (2022). The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. New York, NY: Bold Type Books0
Identitas per Fabulam: Joint Fantasising in the Construction of Criminal Group Identities0
‘A Real Gap’: Consequences of Removing Reintegration Support in Tasmania, Australia0
Flexible Labor and Political Competition: Understanding Women’s Race-Specific Incarceration Rates0
Anna Gjika: When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age. University of California Press, 20240
Introduction to the Special Issue in the Journal of Critical Criminology Mapping Covid Nonconformities0
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
A Typology of Heritage Crime Victims0
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
Transforming Relations: In Loving Memory of Hal Pepinsky0
Stranger Danger: The Political Debate on Crimmigrants0
Punitive Governance and the Criminalization of Socioenvironmental, Anti-Austerity, and Anticorruption Mobilizations in Puerto Rico0
Re-contextualising Institutional-Anomie Theory in Turkey: Institutional Breakdown and Crime Rise0
Editorial (32)40
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
Queer Victimology0
Justin R. Ellis: Policing Legitimacy: Social Media, Scandal and Sexual Citizenship0
Problematising the Will to Intervene: Discourses on Alternative Solutions to Prison0
¡A Nosotros, nos Tienen que Respetar! (They Have to Respect us!): Gangs, Inter-Generational Conflict, and Graduated Governance in Urban Nicaragua0
Blind Justice or Blind Justices? On Punitive Discrimination of Arab Criminal Defendants in Israel0
Fear and Loathing in the Homeland Security State: A Bourdieusian Account for the Expansion of ICE0
Prisons as Law-Violators and Sites of Environmental Injustice0
Khat-Chewing, Adiaphorisation and Morality: Rethinking Ethics in the Age of the Synopticon0
Navigating Contradictory Demands: An Analysis of Corporate Responses to Regulatory Hardening0
James M. Binnall: Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System0
Governing Queer Histories and Futures: A Critical Place-Based Analysis of State Apology0
COVID-19: A Neoliberal Nirvana?0
“I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know:” A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention0
The Effects of Criminalisation on Activists: The Case of the NoTAP Environmental Movement0
The Irritation of Doubt: Pragmatism and Critical Criminology0
Revising the Critical Gaze: An Inversion of Criminological Theories to Center Race, Racism, and Resistance0
Doing Harm with Things: Making Sense of Intention in Harmful Actions Using Technology0
Doomed by the Data? Latina/o/x Racialization and Sentencing Outcomes in Florida0
The Social Reproduction Crisis During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Barcelona: Potentialities and Limitations0
The O.G. Homegirl Mayra: A Testimonio of Gendered Stressors, Survival, and Healing0
“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
Looking at the Big Picture: Using Systems Theory to Understand the Impact of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Accountability0
Drug Trafficking as Crime Against Humanity: Global Moral Panics and Drugs at the United Nations0
Correction to: Editorial: (31)20
Intersecting Identities in Carceral Spaces: Assessing Trans Female Inmates’ Risks of Violent Victimization0
Six Lines: A Methodological Agenda for Critical Gang Studies0
T. Linneman: The Horror of Police0
Editorial for Critical Criminology (33)30
Editorial (30) 20
Expendable Lives: Race and Segmented Representation in the Politics of Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States0
Insecurity and Fragility: The Perpetual Duo of Precarity for ‘Convict Criminologists’ in a Risk Averse Academy0
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