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Papers

(The median citation count of Critical Criminology is 1. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Permission to be Cruel: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Harms Against People Seeking Asylum	28
Plastic Waste and the Environmental Crisis Industry	25
Decolonizing Southern Criminology: What Can the “Decolonial Option” Tell Us About Challenging the Modern/Colonial Foundations of Criminology?	21
The Trifecta of Violence: A Socio-Historical Comparison of Lynching and Violence Against Transgender Women	17
Latino Criminology: Unfucking Colonial Frameworks in “Latinos and Crime” Scholarship	16
Corrosive Control: State-Corporate and Gendered Harm in Bordered Britain	16
From “Infant Hercules” to “Ghost Town”: Industrial Collapse and Social Harm in Teesside	16
Southern Green Cultural Criminology and Environmental Crime Prevention: Representations of Nature Within Four Colombian Indigenous Communities	15
“A Human Being Like Other Victims”: The Media Framing of Trans Homicide in the United States	14
Borders as Mirrors: Racial Hierarchies and Policing Migration	12
Building an Intersectional and Trans-Inclusive Criminology: Responding to the Emergence of “Gender Critical” Perspectives in Feminist Criminology	11
Social Control and the Gang: Lessons from the Legalization of Street Gangs in Ecuador	9
Waste Crime and the Global Transference of Hazardous Substances: A Southern Green Perspective	9
Essential Crimes? Essential Punishments? Rethinking Essentiality in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Experiences of Trans Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice	8
At Risk of Rights: Rehabilitation, Sentence Management and the Structural Violence of Prison	8
The Prison Trajectories of Foreign National Women in Spain: Intersections of Citizenship, Gender, Race, and Social Class	8
David Whyte: Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us	7
Toxic Dispossession: On the Social Impacts of the Aerial Use of Glyphosate by the Sugarcane Agroindustry in Colombia	7
Zero-Tolerance in Catalonia: Policing the Other in Public Space	7
Onward and Upward: the Significance of Mentorship for Formerly Incarcerated Students and Academics	7
Data, Damn Lies, and Cannabis Policy: Reefer Madness and the Methodological Crimes of the New Prohibitionists	7
A Visual and Sensory Participatory Methodology to Explore Social Perceptions: A Case Study of the San Vittore Prison in Milan, Italy	7
Toward a Critical Criminology of HIV Criminalization	7
The Frontline of Housing Access: Comparing Criminal Stigma among Landlords and Real Estate Agents in New York	6

The Emotional Confluence of Borders, Refugees and Visual Culture: The Case of Behrouz Boochani, Held in Australia’s Offshore Detention Regime	6
Punishment and Racial Segregation of Schools: Against Racial Threat and Toward a Racial Control Perspective	6
The Strategy of Tension: Understanding State Labeling Processes and Double-Binds	6
Medicinal Marijuana, Inc.: A Critique on the Market-led Legalization of Cannabis and the Criminalization of Rural Livelihoods in Colombia	6
Governing Poverty: Compulsory Income Management and Crime in Australia	6
Mexican Necropolitical Governmentality and the Management of Suffering Through Human Rights Technologies	5
Rediscovering the Relative Deprivation and Crime Debate: Tracking its Fortunes from Left Realism to the Precariat	5
Carceral Citizenship as Strength: Formerly Incarcerated Activists, Civic Engagement and Criminal Justice Transformation	5
Prohibiting the Queer Body: Gender Affirmation, Female Genital Cutting, and the Promise of Gender Intelligibility	5
Corporate Violence in the Central Appalachian Coal Industry: From Roots to Repercussions	4
Targeting Vulnerability with Electronic Location Monitoring: Paternalistic Surveillance and the Distortion of Risk as a Mode of Carceral Expansion	4
Whitewashing Criminology: A Critical Tour of Cesare Lombroso’s Museum of Criminal Anthropology	4
On Neoliberal Exceptionalism in Spain: A State Plan to Prevent Radicalization	4
Blind Justice or Blind Justices? On Punitive Discrimination of Arab Criminal Defendants in Israel	4
Fucking with the Model Minority Myth: The Experiences of Two Vocal Asian American Women in (white, male) Criminology and Academia	4
Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, “Southern Criminologies: Methods, Theories and Indigenous Issues”	4
Sentencing “Unwanted” Migrants: the Border, Racism, and Narrating Punishability	4
Coronial Inquests, Indigenous Suicide and the Colonial Narrative	4
Total Extraction: Exploitative Behaviors of the Carceral Apparatus Towards Carceral Officers in Central Appalachia	4
Truth and Method in Southern Criminology	3
“In and Out of Crisis”: Life Course Criminalization for Jefas in the Barrio	3
A Criminology of Dis/Obedience?	3
David Whyte: Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us	3
Governmentality and Environmental Rights: Regulatory Failure and the Volkswagen Emissions Fraud Case	3
Water Theft Through the Ages: Insights for Green Criminology	3
In the Shadow of the Monster: Gothic Narratives of Violence Prevention	3
David Whyte: Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us	3
Simon Springer: Fuck Neoliberalism: Translating Resistance	3
Governing Through Human Rights in Counter-terrorism: Proofing, Problematization and Securitization	3
David Whyte: Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us	3
“I’ve Got Something to Live for Now”: A Study of Prison Nursery Mothers	3
New Times, New Crimes: Notes on the Depillarization of the Criminal Justice System	3
‘We Can’t Get No Nine-to-Five’: New York City Gang Membership as a Response to the Structural Violence of Everyday Life	3
Kettle Logic	3
Indigenous People, Organized Crime and Natural Resources: Borders, Incentives and Relations	3
Object not Agent: Reflexivity and Violence in Police Research	3
David Whyte: Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us	3
Heteronormativity and the Victimization of Bisexual and Pansexual Women: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory	3
A ‘Lens of Labor’: Re-Conceptualizing Young People’s Involvement in Organized Crime	2
Structural Disorganization: Can Prison Gangs Mitigate Serious Violence in Carceral Institutions?	2
Decolonizing Zemiology: Outlining and Remedying the Blindness to (Post)colonialism Within the Study of Social Harm	2
State Co-offending: The Case of the Recolonization of the Chagos Archipelago and the Forced Eviction of the Chagossians	2
Exploring Violent Cosmologies From a “Radical Interactionist” Approach	2
Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue, “Centering the Margins: Addressing the Implementation Gap of Critical Criminology”	2
The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertain: State Harm, the Aftermath of Exoneration, and Compensation for the Wrongly Convicted	2
The Crisis of Higher Education: Neoliberalism and the Privileging of “Innovation” in The Twenty-First Century	2
‘A Real Gap’: Consequences of Removing Reintegration Support in Tasmania, Australia	2
Exploring the Rhetoric: How State Gender Diversity Laws Address Rights for Gender-Diverse Students	2
Local Media Framing of Scrap Metal Collection as Crime	2
Strange Bedfellows: Austerity and Social Justice at the Neoliberal University	2

Living Death at the Intersection of Necropower and Disciplinary Power: A Qualitative Exploration of Racialised and Detained Groups in Australia	2
“Without Drug Court, You’ll End Up in Prison or Dead”: Therapeutic Surveillance and Addiction Narratives in Treatment Court	2
Speak About It, Be About It: Spoken-Word Poetry Communities and Transformative Social Justice	2
Resistance and the Radical Imagination: A Reflection on the Role of the Critical Criminologist in Social Movements	2
The Urban Zemiology of Carnival Row: Allegory, Racism and Revanchism	2
“It Often Feels Like You Are Talking to a Wall”: Police and Private Security Responses to the Campaign to Protect Pont Valley Against Opencast Coal Extraction	2
Prisons as Law-Violators and Sites of Environmental Injustice	2
The Civic Duty to Denounce: The Romanian Middle Class and its Demands for Security	2
Punitive Governance and the Criminalization of Socioenvironmental, Anti-Austerity, and Anticorruption Mobilizations in Puerto Rico	2
Traversing the Fantasy: Why Leftist Academics Must Abandon the Myth of Organic Resistance and Think Again About the Problems We Face	2
A New Theory of Globalization, Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women: Toward Solving the Linkage Problem	2
Regulating Undercover Policing: Subjects, Rights and Governmentality	2
A Systems-Based Approach to Green Criminology	1
Hadar Aviram: Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole	1
‘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 Community	1
Creating Insecurity Through Youth Street Groups and Applying Security for Control and Governance. A Case Study of Barcelona Latin Kings	1
“Missing the Community for the Dots”: Newspaper Crime Maps, Territorial Stigma and Visual Criminology	1
Disciplinary Paternalism and Resistance in Ontario’s Forensic Mental Health System	1
Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law: Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms	1
Judith Butler: The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind	1
Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Life Itself: A Review of Reviews	1
Legal Process as Racialized Punishment: The Material Consequences of Discretionary Arrests in New York City	1
No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)	1
Becoming an Immigrant? Border Harms and “British” Men with Previous Convictions in British Immigration Removal Centers	1
Christine Montross: Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration	1
Independent School Rhetoric and its Role in the Neoliberal Construction of Whiteness	1
Remembering Roger Matthews (1948–2020) and Editors’ Introduction to “New Times” and “Environmental Crimes”	1
Legal but Environmentally Harmful Practices Involved in Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru	1
Making Crime Visible in the Digital Age: The Ethnomethods of Data Policing	1
Ontological Shift in Classical Criminology: Engagement with the New Sciences	1
Power(ful) Connections: Exploring the Revolving Doors Phenomenon as a Form of State-Corporate Crime	1
Eric Madfis: How to Stop School Rampage Killing: Lessons from Averted Mass Shootings and Bombings	1
Exploring Media Representations of the Nexus Between Climate Change and Crime in the United States	1
$ over Ethics: Higher Education and the Private Prions Industry, a Symptom of the Theology of Neoliberalism	1
Beyond Measure: On the Marketization of British Universities, and the Domestication of Academic Criminology	1
“Like Fetching Water with a Bucket Full of Holes”: High-Profile Cases and Perceptions of System Failure	1
Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia	1
Introduction to the Special Issue in the Journal of Critical Criminology Mapping Covid Nonconformities	1
Seismic Risks: a Criminological Analysis of European Investment Bank Support for the Castor Project	1
Fake Vaccine Certificates as Tickets to Deviant Freedom and Certainty: A Critical Analysis of Media Discourses	1
A Typology of Heritage Crime Victims	1
Looking at the Big Picture: Using Systems Theory to Understand the Impact of Body-Worn Cameras on Police Accountability	1
Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, “Governing Through Human Rights and Critical Criminology”	1
In Defense of Class Struggle	1
Shut In, Shut Out: Barriers and Opportunities for Gang Disengagement in El Salvador	1
“We’re Out Here Risking Our Lives”: Value-of-Life Decisions in a Prison Labor Program	1
“I Can Be Big Sister, Even If You Can’t Be Big Brother:” Spectatorship and Punishment in Anti-trafficking Efforts	1
Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, “Critical Engagements with Borders, Racisms and State Violence”	1
Anatomy of Moral Panic: The “List of 88” and Runaway Constructionism	1
Introduction: Special Issue Vol. 30 # 1—“Critical Gang Studies”	1
Civilizing Space or Criminalizing Place: Using Routine Activities Theory to Better Understand How Legal Hybridity Spatially Regulates “Deviant Populations”	1
Victoria E. Collins and Dawn L. Rothe: The Violence of Neoliberalism: Crime, Harm and Inequality	1