Theoretical Criminology

Papers
(The TQCC of Theoretical Criminology is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González26
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety22
Reading penalty from the periphery20
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen19
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance17
Sentencing discretion, authoritarian legacies and punitive consensus in Brazil: A criminological inquiry12
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP11
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions11
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai10
Pharmaceutical pacification: Racialized superhumanization and low-intensity social war10
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
Book Review: Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice by Owusu-Bempah Akwasi and Rehmatullah Tahira Owusu-BempahAkwasiRe9
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing9
Discursive constructions of masculinity in campaigns addressing gender violence in London9
Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory9
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude7
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry7
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison6
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
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger5
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work5
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
Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning5
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X5
“Significant bodily intrusions”: A theoretical exploration of law enforcement phlebotomy and the creation of the patient/suspect5
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression4
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking4
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime4
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners4
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue4
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system4
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan4
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
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing4
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict4
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring4
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing4
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK4
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland4
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia4
Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices4
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