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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.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González	32
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety	21
Reading penalty from the periphery	19
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions	17
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance	16
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen	14
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP	13
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai	11
Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory	10
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts	9
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration	9
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing	8
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X	8
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry	8
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude	7
Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb	7
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)	7
Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece	6
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison	6
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work	6
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger	6
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners	5
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 Johns	5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning	5
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia	5

Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland	5
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing	5
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices	4
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression	4
Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference	4
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 monitoring	4
Book review: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy	4
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	4
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK	4
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system	4
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking	3
Book Review: The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology by Victoria Cannings, Greg Martin and Steve Tombs CanningsVictoriaMartinGregTombsSteve (eds), The	3
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?	3
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan	3
Hyper-agency and county lines	3
Border penality as antagonistic politics	3
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state	3
Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz	3
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing	3
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium	3
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis	3
Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime	3
Reflections on the shadow carceral state	3
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime	3
The not-so-hidden partisan politics of community policing: Community police meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina	3
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism	2
Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control	2
Policía beyond the police	2
Book Review: Policing the lottery of birth	2
Book review: Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko (eds), Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets and Offenders	2
Mass incarceration in times of economic growth and inclusion? Three steps to understand contemporary imprisonment in Brazil	2
Book Review: Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James Gacek	2
Book Review: Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry by Andrea Leverentz	2
‘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 visibility	2
‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency	2
‘The dream to know everything about everyone’: Affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing	2
The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts	2
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling	2
Book Review: Response to reviewers	2
Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež	2
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar	2
Immigration detention as a shadow carceral system	2
Book Review: The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray	1
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem	1
Book review: Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture	1
Book Review: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne	1
The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia	1
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador by Silvana Tapia Tapia	1

Why Global North criminology fails to explain organized crime in Mexico	1
‘Come on mate, let's make you a cup of tea’: Theorising materiality and its impacts on detainee dignity inside police detention	1
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families	1
Editorial 2024	1
Book Review: Emotional labor and moral weight of border work	1
Emerging penality: Shifting ideologies, reconciliations and clashes	1
Revisiting police reform: Rank-Neutral Space as resistance and conformity	1
Editorial 2023	1
Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society	1
Book Review: Proud to Punish: The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer	1
The remorseful enemy	1
Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety by Charles Bell	1
The capitalization of crime in the city of real estate	1
Introduction to special issue on dismantling the shadow carceral state	1