Theoretical Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Reading penalty from the periphery25
The social dynamics of group offending16
Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González14
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions13
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance9
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai8
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen8
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing8
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts7
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)7
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration7
Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb7
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger6
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison6
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude6
Book review: Matthew Clair, Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning4
Book review: Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration4
Book Review: Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis by Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns4
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work4
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing4
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners4
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry4
Boundaries, obligations and belonging: The reconfiguration of citizenship in emergency criminal regimes3
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system3
Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference3
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia3
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland3
Book review: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy3
Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz2
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing2
Book Review: Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century by Sacha Darke, Chris Garces, Luis Duno-Gottberg and Andrés Antillano (eds)2
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK2
Hyper-agency and county lines2
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism2
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium2
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime2
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring2
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking2
Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime2
Border penality as antagonistic politics2
Book review: Lisa Flower, Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty2
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict2
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan2
The not-so-hidden partisan politics of community policing: Community police meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina2
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state2
Reflections on the shadow carceral state1
Book Review: Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James Gacek1
Book Review: Response to reviewers1
Mass incarceration in times of economic growth and inclusion? Three steps to understand contemporary imprisonment in Brazil1
Immigration detention as a shadow carceral system1
Editorial 20231
Book Review: The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology by Victoria Cannings, Greg Martin and Steve Tombs1
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis1
Book Review: Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry by Andrea Leverentz1
Book Review: Policing the lottery of birth1
Reimagining access to justice through the eyes of rural domestic violence survivors1
Revisiting police reform: Rank-Neutral Space as resistance and conformity1
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar1
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?1
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling1
Policía beyond the police1
Book review: Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko (eds), Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets and Offenders1
The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia1
The capitalization of crime in the city of real estate1
Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež1
Regulating mobility through detention: Understanding the new geography of control and containment at the Southern European border0
Book Review: Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda by Katherine Bruce-Lockhart0
Book Review: Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law0
Foucault, prison, and human rights: A dialectic of theory and criminal justice reform0
Remote control: Horizontal surveillance and the gendering of carceral punishment0
Book Review: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne0
The President and the Boss's son: Prosecuting the crimes of America's most powerful0
Book Review: Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers by Lynne Haney Lynne Haney, Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers, University of C0
Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society0
Book Review: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by Jarrod Shanahan0
Gestalt contexture and contested motives: Understanding video evidence in the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager0
The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance0
Introduction to special issue on dismantling the shadow carceral state0
Feminized need and racialized danger: Punitive therapeutics and historical addict tropes in a Midwestern drug court0
Prison places, foreign prisoners and the Danish welfare state: Towards a conceptualization of prison space as a welfare resource0
Book Review: Emotional labor and moral weight of border work0
Trajectories of hope/lessness among men and women in the late stage of a life sentence0
Understanding contradictory styles of policing0
The de-realization of Black bodies in an era of mass digital surveillance: A techno-criminological critique0
Drill, discipline and decency? Exploring the significance of prior military experience for prison staff culture0
The civic crime of corruption: Citizen networks and public sector bribery in the non-democracies0
Book review: Armando Lara-Milan, Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity0
Book Review: The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing by Michael Sierra-Arévalo0
Book Review: The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil by Erika Robb Larkins0
Book Review: Macrocriminology and Freedom by John Braithwaite0
Book Review: Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms by Marc Schuilenburg0
Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital (in)justice0
Resocialization, gender and the Global South: A critical analysis of the concept through women's experiences in prisons in Peru0
Editorial 20240
Rental housing and the continuum of carcerality0
Reforming the shadow carceral state0
The security mindset: Corrections officer workplace culture in late mass incarceration0
Editorial 20250
Book Review: Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference by Mareile Kaufmann0
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice0
Re-theorizing the progress of women in policing: An alternative perspective from the Global South0
Book Review: Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America by Carlos Solar, and Carlos A Pérez Ricart (eds)0
Dirty money and financial inequality in North Philadelphia0
Emerging penality: Shifting ideologies, reconciliations and clashes0
Corrigendum to “A Patchwork of Intra-Schengen Policing: Border Games over National Identity and National Sovereignty”0
Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route0
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador by Silvana Tapia Tapia0
Book Review: Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration by Janet Garcia-Hallett0
Innocence as burden and resource: Adaptation and resistance during wrongful imprisonment0
Book Review: The Horror of Police by Travis Linnemann0
Book review: Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture0
Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture0
Book Review: Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner0
Book Review: Proud to Punish: The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer0
Book Review: Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment: The Case of Life Without Parole in California by Marion Vannier0
The soundtrack of criminal careers: On music, life courses and life stories0
Theatrics of transnational criminal justice: Ethnographies of penality in a global age0
Beyond ‘police discretion’: The need for a new conceptual vocabulary0
Preventing prosecution: Narratives on proactive policing0
Book Review: Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America by Felicia Arriaga0
Rethinking police procedural justice0
Radical hope and processes of becoming: Examining short-term prisoners’ imagined futures in England & Wales and Norway0
Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona0
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem0
The epistemic power of the police0
Book Review: Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade by Rajeev V Gundur0
Book Review: Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley0
Book Review: The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial by Maya Pagni Barak0
Book review: Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far-Right0
The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices0
Concepts and conditions of penal moderation: Penal policy, public philosophy, and political ideologies. Theoretical reflections from Italy (2010–2018)0
Book Review: The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology by Gabriele Balbi0
Reconnecting genealogies of criminal justice and excise tax enforcement0
Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety by Charles Bell0
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition0
Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of gang membership made on social media0
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families0
Victim as a relative status0
A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap0
Book Review: Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System by Regina Serpa SerpaRegina, Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System, Routledge:0
‘Come on mate, let's make you a cup of tea’: Theorising materiality and its impacts on detainee dignity inside police detention0
Book Review: Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail by Michael L Walker0
Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents0
Probation and the shadow carceral state: Legal envisioning from Minnesota0
Bargaining with criminals: The morality of witness collaboration in Mexico's “war on drugs”0
Biometric statehood, transnational solutionism and security devices: The performative dimensions of the IOM’s MIDAS0
Prison order through the hyperopticon, collectivism, and atomisation: The surveillance and disciplining of Ukrainian prison officers0
Why Global North criminology fails to explain organized crime in Mexico0
Risk, political security and extra-judicial penality under Xi0
Critical stasis and disruptive performances: ICJ and the Anwar R trial in Koblenz0
Violence and bordering on the margins of the State: A view from South Africa and the southern border of Spain0
Book Review: The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray0
Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries0
The Glasgow miracle? Storytelling, violence reduction and public policy0
Introduction to Special Issue on comparative criminology: Context, scope and applicability in critical criminological research0
Using theory from the Global South: From social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu0
Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making0
Book Review: Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by Máximo Sozzo (ed.)0
Victimization as transformative experience: A phenomenological perspective0
Capital struggles in security networks: A theoretical framework0
The long history of prevention: Social Defence, security and anticipating future crimes in the era of ‘penal welfarism’0
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