OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Criminology is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety	29
Carceral hegemony: Confinement, race and state formation in Italy	22
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 periphery	13
Sentencing discretion, authoritarian legacies and punitive consensus in Brazil: A criminological inquiry	10
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen	10
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions	10
Book Review: Suspended Education: School Punishment and the Legacy of Racial Injustice by Aaron Kupchik AaronKupchik, Suspended Ed	10
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance	9
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP	9
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration	7
Pride and prejudice: Strategic coupling of punishment and welfare in Chinese community corrections	7
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts	7
Pharmaceutical pacification: Racialized superhumanization and low-intensity social war	7
Discursive constructions of masculinity in campaigns addressing gender violence in London	7
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai	7
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing	6
Book Review: Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice by Owusu-Bempah Akwasi and Rehmatullah Tahira Owusu-BempahAkwasiRe	6
Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece	5
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work	5
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude	5
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X	5
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison	5
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry	5
Book Review: Trial By Treatment: Punishing Illness in an Age of Criminal Legal Reform by Mary Ellen Stitt Mary EllenStitt, Trial B	5

“Significant bodily intrusions”: A theoretical exploration of law enforcement phlebotomy and the creation of the patient/suspect	5
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 theory	5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning	4
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners	4
‘It's the little things that matter’: Material culture and adaptation in a local prison	4
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring	4
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 Johns	4
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing	4
Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices	4
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	4
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland	4
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue	4
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
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK	3
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing	3
Vernacularising dignity: Prison officers, legality, and the enchantment of carceral humanity	3
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression	3
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking	3
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime	3
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan	3