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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Legal but Environmentally Harmful Practices Involved in Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru	14
Editorial 31(3)	12
Correction to: Six Lines: A Methodological Agenda for Critical Gang Studies	11
Correction to: Editor’s Final Introduction	11
Using Speculative Fiction to Imagine Queer Abolition Real Utopias	10
Academics Versus Athletics? The Protection and Prioritization of College Athletics in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity	9
Normalizing State Rape: (In)Voluntary Consent and the Body Cavity Search	9
Mountain Myths: Examining the Hierarchy of Whiteness in Film	9
The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings: Solidarity Actors and Networks in the Arabic and Persian Speaking Virtual Spheres	9
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
“I’ll Choose My Own Way”: Delinquent Girls and Boys in Search of Gender Hegemony	8
“I am No Longer Active, but I will Always Be a Crip”: A Longitudinal Ethnography (N = 1) of Gang Desistance in the Netherlands	8
Artificial Intelligence, Capitalism, and the Logic of Harm: Toward a Critical Criminology of AI	8
Against Reformism: Anarchy and Green Criminology	7
Exploring Immigration Detention at the Intersection of Federal Grant Funding, Sanctuary, and Political Majorities in 2015	7
State-Crime Relations: Notes on a Necessary Literature	7
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice	6
Exploring Carceral Food Systems as Sites of Contestation and Possibility in Canadian Federal Prisons: The Food Services Modernization Initiative	6
A Quantum Elephant in the Room-an Entangled Hauntology of Prison	6
“In and Out of Crisis”: Life Course Criminalization for Jefas in the Barrio	6
Forceful De-escalation and Organizational Inertia: Identifying Novel Justifications for Entrenched Police Violence	6
Between Crime and Commemoration: Human–Object Relationships in the Treasure Hunting for World War II Objects	6
The Tier One Transformation: Exploring the Convergence of the Material and Cultural Indicators of Police Militarization Between Special Forces Units and Police Tactical Units	6
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain	6
Transnationalism Despite the Border Regime: (De)Bordering Processes and Multiscalar Solidarities Among Moroccan Irregularized Travelers	6

Teen Courts as Alternative Justice? Teens’ Carceral Habitus and the Reproduction of Social Inequality	5
Fake News in the Field of COVID Communication: Investigating the ‘Infodemic’ in Taiwan	5
Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes	5
‘We Can’t Get No Nine-to-Five’: New York City Gang Membership as a Response to the Structural Violence of Everyday Life	5
Dan Canon: Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class	4
Punishment and Racial Segregation of Schools: Against Racial Threat and Toward a Racial Control Perspective	4
Rafe McGregor: Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism	4
Critical Criminology, Special Issue Introduction: Critical Engagements with Gender, Race and Class in Crimmigration Controls	4
Women’s Politics of Solidarity in El Salvador: Familial Love, Carceral Peace, and Patriarchy	4
Notes from the Empire	4
Racialized, Sexualized, and Criminalized: Carceral Citizenship of Black Women	4
Editorial (32)3	4
Crimmigration Practices and Narratives Resisting and Justifying Mass Deportation in the Central Valley of California	4
Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing	4
“Deliberate Indifference”: Challenging State-Sanctioned Violence Against Transgender People in Carceral Spaces	4
UK Race Riots and Demonstrations: Far Right Ideology, Online and Offline Activism	4
Carceral Logics in Benevolent Places: How Institutions of Care Criminalize Justice-Involved Black Mothers	4
“Ask Me About My Goals!” Challenging Pervasive Assumptions of Gang Members’ Fatalism by Exploring Gay Gang Members’ Goals	4
Moving Beyond Abstracted Empiricism: Pursuing New Sociological Directions in Theorizing Male-to-Female Sexual Assault on University/College Campuses	3
Skogan, Wesley, G. 2023: Stop and Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago, New York, NY: Oxford University Press	3
Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa	3
Critical Policing Studies: Toward a “Fully Social” Framework	3
Anti-femininity or Gender-Nonconformity Prejudice? An Investigation of Femme, Twink, and Butch LGBTQ Victimization Using Norm-Centered Stigma Theory	3
Interview with Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty	3
Deaths of Despair: Gang Violence after the Crack Crisis	3
Imposed Mobility, Legal Ambiguity, Institutionalized Abandonment: Exploring the Sex Work Crimscape in Contemporary Poland	3
The Pleasures of Risk and the Limits of Resistance: A Critical Exploration of the Concept of Edgework	3
Divide & Conquer: Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict	3
From Exceptionalism to Non-conformity: Pandemic Disobedience, Collective Irrationality, and Distributive Justice in India	3
Introduction: The Criminalization-to-Deportation Pipeline in the United States—A Special Issue for Critical Criminology	3
Victimization and Re-victimization in Hate Crime Cases in Spain: An Intersectional Approach	3
Electronic Surveillance in Immigration Court: Evidence from the CalGang Database	3
A Systems-Based Approach to Green Criminology	3
Navigating Criminal Governance in Colombia: A Life Stories Approach	3
Cumulative Disadvantages in the Brazilian Criminal Justice System: Is Pretrial Detention a Source of Racial Disparities?	2
No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)	2
Gang Phantasmagoria: How Racialized Gang Allegations Haunt Immigration Legal Work	2
Comparative Analysis of Coloured Gangs in Cape Town and Indigenous Gangs on Canada’s Prairies: Connecting Localized Opposition to Globalized Grievances Through Street Culture	2
Off-the-Cuff Law-Making: Policing Pandemic Dispossession in Spain	2
Perilous Policing: An Analysis of the Resident Evil Series	2
Parliamentary Debates Concerning the Living Conditions of Pigs in Sweden’s Factory Farms Between 1980–2018	2
Editorial Notes 33(2)	2
Rural Culture and Coercive Sexual Environments: A Queer Path from Victimization to Incarceration	2
The Crisis of Higher Education: Neoliberalism and the Privileging of “Innovation” in The Twenty-First Century	2
Negotiating Subversive Adaptation in Morocco: Navigating Borders, Migration Dynamics and Authoritarian Realities	2
Chasing Ghosts: Contested Histories and the Invisibilization of Women in Gang Wars	2
Ontological Shift in Classical Criminology: Engagement with the New Sciences	2
Yuille Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon and John Joseph Sloan, III (eds): Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence	2
Ways of “Not Hearing”: Corporate Denial in the Case of Aircraft Noise and Victimisation in the UK	2
Lost on the Road to Prosperity: Trajectories to Drug Dealing of the Chinese Heroin Generation	2

Ludic Negation: Thrasher's The Gang and the Creative Foundations of Gang Sociality	2
A Criminology of Dis/Obedience?	2
“I am the Mother of the Boss here”: A Relational Biography of a Drug Dealer’s Mother	2
Playing in the Team of Five Million: Conformity and Nonconformity to the New Zealand Covid-19 Pandemic Response	2
Expanding Wildfire Research with Insights from Green Criminology	2
“Missing the Trees for the Forest?” An Analysis of the Harms to European Eels Caused by Their Trafficking and Trade	2
A Visual Psychogeography Approach: Mapping Sex Market Facilitation in New York City	2
Correction to: Introduction: Special Issue Vol. 30 # 1—“Critical Gang Studies”	1
The Deportation Regime in the Sanctuary City: Reformist Sanctuary Policies, Law Enforcement Legitimization, and Universal Representation in New York City	1
‘A Real Gap’: Consequences of Removing Reintegration Support in Tasmania, Australia	1
Harms and the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecology, Green Criminology and the European Eel	1
The Story of Black Jesus: Rebel War, Thug Life and Growing Old in Freetown, Sierra Leone	1
Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley	1
Introduction: Special Issue Vol. 30 # 1—“Critical Gang Studies”	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
Katherine Biber: In Crime’s Archive: The Cultural Afterlife of Evidence	1
Power(ful) Connections: Exploring the Revolving Doors Phenomenon as a Form of State-Corporate Crime	1
Michael Gibson-Light: Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison	1
Creating Insecurity Through Youth Street Groups and Applying Security for Control and Governance. A Case Study of Barcelona Latin Kings	1
The Control of “Wandering Women:” The Legacy of Vagrancy Laws in the Contemporary Governance of Migrant Sex Work	1
Fixing Broken Windows or Racial Capitalism’s Fixers: Policing, Displacement, and Gentrification in One of California’s Last Black Enclaves	1
Entertainment, Acclaim, and Profit: A Reading of Western Culture Through the Prism of Ecotourism	1
Structural Intersections, Hierarchical Citizenship and Criminalization of the Migrant in Assam	1
Demoralizing Internet Contention: Affective Publics and Emotional Mobilization on China’s Social Media During the Covid-19 Pandemic	1
Rafe McGregor: A Criminology of Narrative Fiction	1
Strange Bedfellows: Austerity and Social Justice at the Neoliberal University	1
A New Theory of Globalization, Natural Resource Extraction and Violence Against Women: Toward Solving the Linkage Problem	1
Transversal Harm and Zemiology: Reconsidering Green Criminology and Mineral Extractivism in Cerro de Pasco, Peru	1
A Mixed-Method Analysis of the News Media Framing of Gender Non-Conforming Victims of Homicide in the U.S. from 2012 to 2022	1
When the Islamic State Kills: Ironies of American and ISIS Executions	1
“You are the Scorpion and the Frog”: Crime, Politics and Labor in Argentina Since 1960	1
A Theory of Suffering and Healing: Toward a Loving Justice	1
Editorial for Critical Criminology (33)3	1
Dis/ableist Criminology: Beyond Ableism Through a Zemiological Framework	1
It is “Part of this Larger Tapestry of Anti-queer Experiences”: LGBTQ+ Australians’ Experiences of Street Harassment	1
Green Victimization of Native Americans: Uranium Mining as a Form of Toxic Colonialism and Genocide	1
Critical Gangster Life Histories	1
Fear of Crime as a Punitive Project—The Swedish Case	1
Policing Corona: Crime, Social Bulimia, and Racial Capitalism	1
“Something Could Happen to You at Any Moment”: Safety, Strategy, and Solidarity Among Trans and Nonbinary Protesters Against Police Violence	1
$ over Ethics: Higher Education and the Private Prions Industry, a Symptom of the Theology of Neoliberalism	1
Editorial 31(4) by David C. Brotherton and Jayne Mooney	1
Haunting the Margins: Excavating EU Migrants as the ‘Social Ghosts’ of Our Time	1
Amanda Graham, Francis T. Cullen and Bruce G. Link: The Hidden Measurement Crisis in Criminology: Procedural Justice as a Case Study	1
Fucking with the Model Minority Myth: The Experiences of Two Vocal Asian American Women in (white, male) Criminology and Academia	1
Editors' Introduction	1
The Institutional Hearing Program and the Incarceration-to-Deportation Pipeline	1
Gentrification, White Encroachment, and the Policing of Black Residents in Washington, DC	1
Guardianship Among Immigrant Intimate Partner Violence Survivors	1
Correction to: Ludic Negation: Thrasher’s The Gang and the Creative Foundations of Gang Sociality	1
Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia	1
Immigration Enforcement and the Criminal Record: Using the Secure Communities Program to Understand the Role of Criminal History in ICE Enforcement	1
A ‘Lens of Labor’: Re-Conceptualizing Young People’s Involvement in Organized Crime	1
The Social Organization of Pervasive Penality in the Lives of Young People Experiencing Homelessness	1
Heteronormativity and the Victimization of Bisexual and Pansexual Women: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory	1
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: 97815292	1
The Spirit of Ultra-Realism: Meditations on Metaphysics and Criminal Etiology	1
Correction to: Editorial: (31)2	1