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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González30
Reading penalty from the periphery17
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety16
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions16
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance14
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen13
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP12
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 theory9
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts8
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X7
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing7
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry7
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration7
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison6
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude6
Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb6
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)6
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing5
Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece5
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
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning5
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger5
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners4
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict4
Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference4
Book review: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy4
Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices4
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland4
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia4
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue4
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing3
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system3
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression3
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan3
The not-so-hidden partisan politics of community policing: Community police meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina3
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK3
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring3
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking3
Hyper-agency and county lines3
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
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime3
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium3
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism2
Border penality as antagonistic politics2
Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime2
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling2
Policía beyond the police2
Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež2
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?2
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
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
The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts2
Book Review: Policing the lottery of birth2
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state2
Reflections on the shadow carceral state2
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis2
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar2
Book Review: Response to reviewers2
‘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
Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control2
Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety by Charles Bell1
Editorial 20231
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
Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society1
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families1
Introduction to special issue on dismantling the shadow carceral state1
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
‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency1
Emerging penality: Shifting ideologies, reconciliations and clashes1
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador by Silvana Tapia Tapia1
Book review: Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A Comparative Study of Imprisonment and Political Culture1
‘The dream to know everything about everyone’: Affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing1
Immigration detention as a shadow carceral system1
Revisiting police reform: Rank-Neutral Space as resistance and conformity1
Book Review: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne1
‘Come on mate, let's make you a cup of tea’: Theorising materiality and its impacts on detainee dignity inside police detention1
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
Book Review: Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System by Regina Serpa SerpaRegina, Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System, Routledge:0
Editorial 20240
Book Review: Prisons, Inmates and Governance in Latin America by Máximo Sozzo (ed.)0
The de-realization of Black bodies in an era of mass digital surveillance: A techno-criminological critique0
Book Review: The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input by Cheng, T. ChengT.The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and t0
Administrative co-evolution: Penality and welfare in Colombia's child protection system0
Editorial 20250
Introduction: Punishment in global peripheries0
Book Review: Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life by Asad, A. L. AsadA. L.Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families0
Gestalt contexture and contested motives: Understanding video evidence in the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager0
Introduction to Special Issue on comparative criminology: Context, scope and applicability in critical criminological research0
The long history of prevention: Social Defence, security and anticipating future crimes in the era of ‘penal welfarism’0
Bargaining with criminals: The morality of witness collaboration in Mexico's “war on drugs”0
Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making0
Rethinking police procedural justice0
Deen and Dunya: Islam, street spirituality, crime and redemption in English road culture0
Reforming the shadow carceral state0
Why Global North criminology fails to explain organized crime in Mexico0
Book Review: The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology by Gabriele Balbi (translated by Bonnie McClellan-Broussard) BalbiGabriele(translated by Bonnie McCle0
Book Review: The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime in an Age of Exploitation by Aitor Jiménez JiménezAitor, The Crimes of Digital Capitalism: Corporate Crime0
Book Review: Carceral Afterlives: Prisons, Detention, and Punishment in Postcolonial Uganda by Katherine Bruce-Lockhart0
Understanding contradictory styles of policing0
Book Review: The Slow Violence of Immigration Court: Procedural Justice on Trial by Maya Pagni Barak0
Dead or alive? Reassessing the health of the death penalty and the prospects of global abolition0
Rental housing and the continuum of carcerality0
Book Review: Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner0
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice0
Book Review: Emotional labor and moral weight of border work0
Victim as a relative status0
Gendering the carceral web: Public sector reform, technology and digital (in)justice0
Book Review: Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by Jarrod Shanahan0
Scientification through privatization: POL-INTEL in Denmark0
Trajectories of hope/lessness among men and women in the late stage of a life sentence0
Book Review: The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil by Erika Robb Larkins0
The President and the Boss's son: Prosecuting the crimes of America's most powerful0
Violence and bordering on the margins of the State: A view from South Africa and the southern border of Spain0
Beyond ‘police discretion’: The need for a new conceptual vocabulary0
The civic crime of corruption: Citizen networks and public sector bribery in the non-democracies0
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: Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America by Felicia Arriaga0
Radical hope and processes of becoming: Examining short-term prisoners’ imagined futures in England & Wales and Norway0
Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route0
Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona0
Book Review: Macrocriminology and Freedom by John Braithwaite0
Book Review: The Horror of Police by Travis Linnemann0
Book Review: Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade by Rajeev V Gundur0
The new debtors' prison: Conceptualising the relationship between prisoner debt, prison violence and prisoner crisis0
Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents0
Outsourcing the brains: The epistemic power of consultancies in criminal justice0
The theory crisis in criminology: Causes, consequences, and solutions0
The epistemic power of the police0
Keeping it real: A signaling theory perspective on authentic claims of gang membership made on social media0
The securitization of research ethics: Navigating the ethics of engaging criminalized voices0
Innocence as burden and resource: Adaptation and resistance during wrongful imprisonment0
Resocialization, gender and the Global South: A critical analysis of the concept through women's experiences in prisons in Peru0
Book Review: Crime, Violence, and Justice in Latin America by Carlos Solar, and Carlos A Pérez Ricart (eds)0
The kindness of strangers: Trust, recognition, and the co-production of desistance0
Corrigendum to “A Patchwork of Intra-Schengen Policing: Border Games over National Identity and National Sovereignty”0
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem0
Book Review: Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail by Michael L Walker0
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
Governing by think tank? From experts to political ideologues in UK criminal justice and security0
Prison order through the hyperopticon, collectivism, and atomisation: The surveillance and disciplining of Ukrainian prison officers0
Who defines desistance? Exploring the perspectives and experiences of female victim–survivors of intimate partner violence0
Preventing prosecution: Narratives on proactive policing0
Temporicide: Waiting, punishment, and (social) death0
Using theory from the Global South: From social cohesion and collective efficacy to ubuntu0
Book Review: Making Information Matter: Understanding Surveillance and Making a Difference by Mareile Kaufmann KaufmannMareile, Making Information Matter: Understanding 0
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
Remote control: Horizontal surveillance and the gendering of carceral punishment0
Re-theorizing the progress of women in policing: An alternative perspective from the Global South0
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: Armando Lara-Milan, Redistributing the Poor: Jails, Hospitals, and the Crisis of Law and Fiscal Austerity0
Probation and the shadow carceral state: Legal envisioning from Minnesota0
Capital struggles in security networks: A theoretical framework0
Dirty money and financial inequality in North Philadelphia0
Victimization as transformative experience: A phenomenological perspective0
Regulating mobility through detention: Understanding the new geography of control and containment at the Southern European border0
Concepts and conditions of penal moderation: Penal policy, public philosophy, and political ideologies. Theoretical reflections from Italy (2010–2018)0
The soundtrack of criminal careers: On music, life courses and life stories0
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
Reconnecting genealogies of criminal justice and excise tax enforcement0
The Glasgow miracle? Storytelling, violence reduction and public policy0
Book Review: Purgatory Citizenship: Reentry, Race, and Abolition by Calvin John Smiley0
Risk, political security and extra-judicial penality under Xi0
The remorseful enemy0
The security mindset: Corrections officer workplace culture in late mass incarceration0
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