OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Criminology is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Smart’ crime prevention? Digitization and racialized crime control in a Smart City	34
Rethinking police procedural justice	22
The two-sided spectacle at the border: Frontex, NGOs and the theatres of sovereignty	12
Reconceptualizing multisectoral prison regulation: Voluntary organizations and bereaved families as regulators	12
Biometric statehood, transnational solutionism and security devices: The performative dimensions of the IOM’s MIDAS	11
Why Global North criminology fails to explain organized crime in Mexico	11
Three-dimensional policeman: Security, sovereignty and volumetric police power	10
Corona crimes: How pandemic narratives change criminal landscapes	8
Borders as penal transplants: Control of territory, mobility and illegality in West Africa	8
The security mindset: Corrections officer workplace culture in late mass incarceration	8
Drill, discipline and decency? Exploring the significance of prior military experience for prison staff culture	7
A guilty pleasure: The legal, social scientific and feminist verdict against rap	7
A fighting fetish: On transnational police and their warlike presentation of self	7
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing	7
Revisiting police reform: Rank-Neutral Space as resistance and conformity	6
Reimagining access to justice through the eyes of rural domestic violence survivors	6
The social dynamics of group offending	6
Re-theorizing the progress of women in policing: An alternative perspective from the Global South	6
Who owns desistance? A triad of agency enabling social structures in the desistance process	6
Radical hope and processes of becoming: Examining short-term prisoners’ imagined futures in England & Wales and Norway	6
Criminalization or instrumentalism? New trends in the field of border criminology	6
Foucault, prison, and human rights: A dialectic of theory and criminal justice reform	5
The long history of prevention: Social Defence, security and anticipating future crimes in the era of ‘penal welfarism’	5
Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime	4
Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference	4

Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan	4
Violence and bordering on the margins of the State: A view from South Africa and the southern border of Spain	4
Immigration trials and international crimes: Expressing justice and performing race	4
Carceral lock-in: How organizational conditions stymie the development of justice alternatives in a rape crisis center	3
Risk, political security and extra-judicial penality under Xi	3
Reading penalty from the periphery	3
Trajectories of hope/lessness among men and women in the late stage of a life sentence	3
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system	3
Critical stasis and disruptive performances: ICJ and the Anwar R trial in Koblenz	3
Gestalt contexture and contested motives: Understanding video evidence in the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager	3
Carceral racialization, prison segregation, and the Integrated Housing Program in Arizona	3
Negotiating penal hybridity: Time–space boundary-work in parole decision making	2
The de-realization of Black bodies in an era of mass digital surveillance: A techno-criminological critique	2
Theatrics of transnational criminal justice: Ethnographies of penality in a global age	2
Foreigners’ crime and punishment: Punitive application of immigration law as a substitute for criminal justice	2
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions	2
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia	2
Prison order through the hyperopticon, collectivism, and atomisation: The surveillance and disciplining of Ukrainian prison officers	2
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger	2
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking	2
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar	2
Embodiments and frictions of statehood in transnational criminal justice	2
Feminized need and racialized danger: Punitive therapeutics and historical addict tropes in a Midwestern drug court	2
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism	2
The civic crime of corruption: Citizen networks and public sector bribery in the non-democracies	2