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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González26
Reading penalty from the periphery16
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety13
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen12
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions12
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP11
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance10
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai9
Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory8
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts7
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing7
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration7
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude6
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X6
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)6
Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb6
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison5
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work5
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning4
Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference4
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing4
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger4
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners4
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia4
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
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland4
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 conflict3
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK3
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring3
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)3
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression3
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system3
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime3
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan3
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking2
The not-so-hidden partisan politics of community policing: Community police meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina2
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism2
Book Review: The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology by Victoria Cannings, Greg Martin and Steve Tombs CanningsVictoriaMartinGregTombsSteve (eds), The2
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
Hyper-agency and county lines2
Reflections on the shadow carceral state2
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?2
Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime2
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium2
Border penality as antagonistic politics2
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis2
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state2
Book Review: Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James Gacek1
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar1
‘Come on mate, let's make you a cup of tea’: Theorising materiality and its impacts on detainee dignity inside police detention1
Book Review: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne1
Editorial 20231
The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia1
Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež1
Book Review: Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry by Andrea Leverentz1
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling1
Policía beyond the police1
Reimagining access to justice through the eyes of rural domestic violence survivors1
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador by Silvana Tapia Tapia1
Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety by Charles Bell1
Revisiting police reform: Rank-Neutral Space as resistance and conformity1
The capitalization of crime in the city of real estate1
‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency1
The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts1
Book Review: Response to reviewers1
Book review: Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko (eds), Latinas in the Criminal Justice System: Victims, Targets and Offenders1
Immigration detention as a shadow carceral system1
Mass incarceration in times of economic growth and inclusion? Three steps to understand contemporary imprisonment in Brazil1
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families1
Emerging penality: Shifting ideologies, reconciliations and clashes1
‘The dream to know everything about everyone’: Affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing1
Book Review: Policing the lottery of birth1
‘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 visibility1
Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control1
Book Review: Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration by Janet Garcia-Hallett Garcia-HallettJanet, Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After0
Book Review: The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray0
The President and the Boss's son: Prosecuting the crimes of America's most powerful0
Prison order through the hyperopticon, collectivism, and atomisation: The surveillance and disciplining of Ukrainian prison officers0
Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital (in)justice0
Editorial 20250
Beyond ‘police discretion’: The need for a new conceptual vocabulary0
The long history of prevention: Social Defence, security and anticipating future crimes in the era of ‘penal welfarism’0
Book Review: The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing by Michael Sierra-Arévalo Sierra-ArévaloMichael, The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, an0
Book Review: The Horror of Police by Travis Linnemann0
Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route0
The soundtrack of criminal careers: On music, life courses and life stories0
Book Review: Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms by Marc Schuilenburg0
Using theory from the Global South: From social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu0
Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture0
Capital struggles in security networks: A theoretical framework0
Book Review: The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology by Gabriele Balbi0
Book review: Armando Lara-Milan, Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity0
Book Review: Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by Máximo Sozzo (ed.)0
Book Review: Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference by Mareile Kaufmann0
Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries0
Resocialization, gender and the Global South: A critical analysis of the concept through women's experiences in prisons in Peru0
Risk, political security and extra-judicial penality under Xi0
Rental housing and the continuum of carcerality0
Corrigendum to “A Patchwork of Intra-Schengen Policing: Border Games over National Identity and National Sovereignty”0
Rethinking police procedural justice0
Book Review: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by Jarrod Shanahan0
Book review: Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture0
Book Review: Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment: The Case of Life Without Parole in California by Marion Vannier0
Book Review: Proud to Punish: The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer0
Scientification through privatization: POL-INTEL in Denmark0
Governing by think tank? From experts to political ideologues in UK criminal justice and security0
Book Review: The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil by Erika Robb Larkins0
The security mindset: Corrections officer workplace culture in late mass incarceration0
Violence and bordering on the margins of the State: A view from South Africa and the southern border of Spain0
Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence0
Introduction to Special Issue on comparative criminology: Context, scope and applicability in critical criminological research0
Radical hope and processes of becoming: Examining short-term prisoners’ imagined futures in England & Wales and Norway0
Gestalt contexture and contested motives: Understanding video evidence in the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager0
Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making0
Probation and the shadow carceral state: Legal envisioning from Minnesota0
Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents0
Feminized need and racialized danger: Punitive therapeutics and historical addict tropes in a Midwestern drug court0
Book Review: Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade by Rajeev V Gundur0
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
Understanding contradictory styles of policing0
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: Macrocriminology and Freedom by John Braithwaite0
Book Review: The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial by Maya Pagni Barak0
The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices0
The civic crime of corruption: Citizen networks and public sector bribery in the non-democracies0
Dirty money and financial inequality in North Philadelphia0
Reconnecting genealogies of criminal justice and excise tax enforcement0
Preventing prosecution: Narratives on proactive policing0
Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society0
Book Review: Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail by Michael L Walker0
Book Review: Emotional labor and moral weight of border work0
Book Review: Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System by Regina Serpa SerpaRegina, Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System, Routledge:0
Editorial 20240
Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of gang membership made on social media0
The de-realization of Black bodies in an era of mass digital surveillance: A techno-criminological critique0
The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance0
Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death0
The new debtors' prison: Conceptualising the relationship between prisoner debt, prison violence and prisoner crisis0
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice0
Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona0
Bargaining with criminals: The morality of witness collaboration in Mexico's “war on drugs”0
A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap0
The epistemic power of the police0
Prison places, foreign prisoners and the Danish welfare state: Towards a conceptualization of prison space as a welfare resource0
Re-theorizing the progress of women in policing: An alternative perspective from the Global South0
The Glasgow miracle? Storytelling, violence reduction and public policy0
Reforming the shadow carceral state0
Why Global North criminology fails to explain organized crime in Mexico0
Victimization as transformative experience: A phenomenological perspective0
Book Review: Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America by Felicia Arriaga0
Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice0
Concepts and conditions of penal moderation: Penal policy, public philosophy, and political ideologies. Theoretical reflections from Italy (2010–2018)0
Innocence as burden and resource: Adaptation and resistance during wrongful imprisonment0
Book Review: Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley0
Book Review: Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America by Carlos Solar, and Carlos A Pérez Ricart (eds)0
Remote control: Horizontal surveillance and the gendering of carceral punishment0
Book Review: Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner0
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition0
Victim as a relative status0
Introduction to special issue on dismantling the shadow carceral state0
Trajectories of hope/lessness among men and women in the late stage of a life sentence0
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem0
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