Theoretical Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical 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.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González32
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety21
Reading penalty from the periphery19
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions17
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance16
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen14
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP13
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai11
Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory10
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts9
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration9
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing8
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X8
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry8
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)7
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude7
Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb7
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger6
Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece6
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison6
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work6
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland5
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing5
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners5
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 Johns5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning5
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia5
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue4
Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices4
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression4
Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference4
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)4
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring4
Book review: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy4
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict4
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK4
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system4
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime3
The not-so-hidden partisan politics of community policing: Community police meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina3
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking3
Book Review: The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology by Victoria Cannings, Greg Martin and Steve Tombs CanningsVictoriaMartinGregTombsSteve (eds), The3
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?3
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan3
Hyper-agency and county lines3
Border penality as antagonistic politics3
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state3
Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz3
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing3
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium3
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis3
Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime3
Reflections on the shadow carceral state3
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar2
Immigration detention as a shadow carceral system2
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism2
Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control2
Policía beyond the police2
Book Review: Policing the lottery of birth2
Book review: Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko (eds), Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets and Offenders2
Mass incarceration in times of economic growth and inclusion? Three steps to understand contemporary imprisonment in Brazil2
Book Review: Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James Gacek2
Book Review: Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry by Andrea Leverentz2
‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility2
‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency2
‘The dream to know everything about everyone’: Affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing2
The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts2
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling2
Book Review: Response to reviewers2
Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež2
Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety by Charles Bell1
The capitalization of crime in the city of real estate1
Introduction to special issue on dismantling the shadow carceral state1
Book Review: The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray1
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem1
Book review: Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture1
Book Review: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne1
The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia1
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador by Silvana Tapia Tapia1
Why Global North criminology fails to explain organized crime in Mexico1
‘Come on mate, let's make you a cup of tea’: Theorising materiality and its impacts on detainee dignity inside police detention1
Editorial 20241
Book Review: Emotional labor and moral weight of border work1
Emerging penality: Shifting ideologies, reconciliations and clashes1
Revisiting police reform: Rank-Neutral Space as resistance and conformity1
Editorial 20231
Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society1
Book Review: Proud to Punish: The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer1
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families1
The remorseful enemy1
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