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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety29
Carceral hegemony: Confinement, race and state formation in Italy22
Book Review: Abolish Criminology by Vivian Saleh-Hannah, Jason Williams, and Michael Coyle (eds) Vivian Saleh-Hannah, Jason Williams, and Michael Coyle (13
Reading penalty from the periphery13
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions10
Book Review: Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice by Aaron Kupchik AaronKupchik, Suspended Ed10
Sentencing discretion, authoritarian legacies and punitive consensus in Brazil: A criminological inquiry10
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen10
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP9
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance9
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts7
Pharmaceutical pacification: Racialized superhumanization and low-intensity social war7
Discursive constructions of masculinity in campaigns addressing gender violence in London7
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai7
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration7
Pride and prejudice: Strategic coupling of punishment and welfare in Chinese community corrections7
Book Review: Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice by Owusu-Bempah Akwasi and Rehmatullah Tahira Owusu-BempahAkwasiRe6
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing6
Book Review: Trial By Treatment: Punishing Illness in an Age of Criminal Legal Reform by Mary Ellen Stitt Mary EllenStitt, Trial B5
“Significant bodily intrusions”: A theoretical exploration of law enforcement phlebotomy and the creation of the patient/suspect5
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)5
Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory5
Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece5
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work5
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude5
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X5
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison5
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry5
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland4
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue4
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
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning4
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners4
‘It's the little things that matter’: Material culture and adaptation in a local prison4
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring4
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
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing4
Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices4
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict4
Vernacularising dignity: Prison officers, legality, and the enchantment of carceral humanity3
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression3
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking3
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
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK3
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing3
Book Review: Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry by Andrea Leverentz2
Hyper-agency and county lines2
Navigating emotions behind bars: Emotional governance and the social construction of charisma in Chinese women's prisons2
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?2
Rethinking fieldwork and surveillance in carceral spaces: Reflections from research in Polish guarded detention centres for immigrants2
Book Review: Response to reviewers2
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis2
Reflections on the shadow carceral state2
Book Review: Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James Gacek2
Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control2
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state2
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium2
Book Review: The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology by Victoria Cannings, Greg Martin and Steve Tombs CanningsVictoriaMartinGregTombsSteve (eds), The2
Border penality as antagonistic politics2
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling2
Book Review: Policing the lottery of birth1
The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts1
Book Review: Prisons of Creativity: Artistic Innovation During Incarceration by John R. Whitman WhitmanJohn R., Prisons of Creativity: Artistic Innovatio1
Immigration detention as a shadow carceral system1
Editorial 20231
Emerging penality: Shifting ideologies, reconciliations and clashes1
Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež1
Policía beyond the police1
Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law1
Mass incarceration in times of economic growth and inclusion? Three steps to understand contemporary imprisonment in Brazil1
The capitalization of crime in the city of real estate1
‘The dream to know everything about everyone’: Affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing1
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar1
Punishment and climate change: Southern voices on cooperation-based justice1
‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency1
‘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
Making room: Refurnishing, belonging and justice work in third spaces in prison1
Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety by Charles Bell1
Book Review: The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil by Erika Robb Larkins0
Book Review: Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference by Mareile Kaufmann KaufmannMareile, Making Information Matter: Understanding 0
Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries0
Book Review: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice by Joshua Page and Joe Soss JoshuaPageJoeSoss. Legal Plun0
Book Review: The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology by Gabriele Balbi (translated by Bonnie McClellan-Broussard) BalbiGabriele(translated by Bonnie McCle0
Editorial 20250
Beyond ‘police discretion’: The need for a new conceptual vocabulary0
Preventing prosecution: Narratives on proactive policing0
Book Review: The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input by Tony Cheng Tony Cheng, The Polic0
Book Review: Proud to Punish: The Global Landscapes of Rough Justice by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues and Laurent Gayer0
Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents0
Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona0
Book Review: Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley0
Resocialization, gender and the Global South: A critical analysis of the concept through women's experiences in prisons in Peru0
Reconnecting genealogies of criminal justice and excise tax enforcement0
Book Review: The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation by Aitor Jiménez Aitor Jiménez, The Crime0
A social licence to crime? Organised environmental crime in community context0
Book Review: The Horror of Police by Travis Linnemann0
Savage natures: Police and the wolf0
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador by Silvana Tapia Tapia0
Victim as a relative status0
“I got caught, but I’m not a loser”: Moral economy and arrest narratives in China's heroin trade0
Book Review: The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial by Maya Pagni Barak0
Book Review: Emotional labor and moral weight of border work0
Scientification through privatization: POL-INTEL in Denmark0
Rental housing and the continuum of carcerality0
Book Review: The Infrastructures of Security: Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray0
Book Review: Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda by Katherine Bruce-Lockhart0
Book Review: Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America by Felicia Arriaga0
The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance0
Book Review: Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by Máximo Sozzo (ed.)0
The soundtrack of criminal careers: On music, life courses and life stories0
Prison order through the hyperopticon, collectivism, and atomisation: The surveillance and disciplining of Ukrainian prison officers0
Using theory from the Global South: From social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu0
Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of gang membership made on social media0
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: Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life by Asad L. Asad Asad L. Asad, En0
Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture0
Bourdieusian criminology ‘from off the map’: Violence and symbolic capital in the streets of Naples0
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
De simulatione et veritate : The pragmatics of hypocrisy in the criminological discourse of a high-ranking mafia informant0
Book Review: Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade by Rajeev V Gundur0
Concepts and conditions of penal moderation: Penal policy, public philosophy, and political ideologies. Theoretical reflections from Italy (2010–2018)0
Capital struggles in security networks: A theoretical framework0
Risk, political security and extra-judicial penality under Xi0
Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar HassanOuld Moctar. After0
Book Review: Russia in Four Criminals by Federico Varese FedericoVarese, Russia in Four Criminals , Polity0
Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence0
The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices0
‘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
The remorseful enemy0
Book Review: Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration by Janet Garcia-Hallett Garcia-HallettJanet, Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After0
Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route 0
The new debtors' prison: Conceptualising the relationship between prisoner debt, prison violence and prisoner crisis0
Book Review: Punishment in Latin America: Explorations from the Margins by Luiz Dal Santo and Máximo Sozzo SantoLuiz DalSozzoMáximo (eds.), Punishment in0
The epistemic power of the police0
Governing by think tank? From experts to political ideologues in UK criminal justice and security0
Editorial 20240
Book Review: Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America by Carlos Solar, and Carlos A Pérez Ricart (eds)0
The Glasgow miracle? Storytelling, violence reduction and public policy0
Prison places, foreign prisoners and the Danish welfare state: Towards a conceptualization of prison space as a welfare resource0
Dirty money and financial inequality in North Philadelphia0
Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death0
Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital (in)justice0
The theory crisis in criminology: Causes, consequences, and solutions0
Book Review: Making Surveillance Public: Why You Should Be More Woke About AI and Algorithms by Marc Schuilenburg Marc Schuilenburg, Making Surveillance Public: Why You 0
Editorial0
Understanding contradictory styles of policing0
Introduction to Special Issue on comparative criminology: Context, scope and applicability in critical criminological research0
Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society0
Reforming the shadow carceral state0
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice0
Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice0
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition0
Regulating mobility through detention: Understanding the new geography of control and containment at the Southern European border0
Administrative co-evolution: Penality and welfare in Colombia's child protection system0
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families0
The President and the Boss's son: Prosecuting the crimes of America's most powerful0
Introduction to special issue on dismantling the shadow carceral state0
Book Review: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by Jarrod Shanahan0
Book Review: Envisioning Abolition by David Scott and Emma Bell ScottDavidBellEmma (eds.), Envisioning Abolition 0
Book Review: Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System by Regina Serpa SerpaRegina, Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System, Routledge:0
Victimization as transformative experience: A phenomenological perspective0
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem0
Corrigendum to “A Patchwork of Intra-Schengen Policing: Border Games over National Identity and National Sovereignty”0
Book Review: Macrocriminology and Freedom by John Braithwaite0
Probation and the shadow carceral state: Legal envisioning from Minnesota0
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