OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Contaminated memories: How formerly incarcerated mothers remember their pasts and imagine their futures	38
The politics of abolition: Reframing the death penalty's history in comparative perspective	29
Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea, Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control	26
The resettlement net: ‘revolving door’ imprisonment and carceral (re)circulation	22
Barry Goldson, Chris Cunneen, Sophie Russell, David Brown, Eileen Baldry, Melanie Schwartz, and Damon Briggs, Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context	19
Surveillance and the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic for formerly incarcerated individuals	17
Migratory dependency and the death penalty: Foreign nationals facing capital punishment in the Gulf	15
(In)-justice: An exploration of the dehumanization, victimization, criminalization, and over-incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada	14
Florian Jeßberger and Julia Geneuss (eds), Why Punish Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities? Purposes of Punishment in International Criminal Law	13
“The biggest thing you can rob is somebody's time”: Exploring how the carceral state bankrupts fathers through temporal debt	13
COVID-19 and European carcerality: Do national prison policies converge when faced with a pandemic?	12
Carceral reckoning and twenty-first century US abolition movements: Generational struggles in the fight against prisons	11
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces: A study of hunting nomads in postcolonial India	11
Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors	11
Immobilized: (In)congruent collateral consequences and racialized driver's license restrictions	11
Investigating prison suicides: The politics of independent oversight	11
Enhancing the tellability of death-row exoneree narratives: Exploring the role of rhetoric	9
Accessing the right to vote among system-impacted people	9
Katja Franko, The Crimmigrant Other	8
Book Review: Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence by Elizabeth Cook	8
Magnus Hörnqvist, The Pleasure of Punishment	8
Matt Tidmarsh, Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation	8
Understanding the lived experiences of youth incarcerated in adult facilities through their letters: A content analysis	7
Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith and Mark Halsey, Power, and Pain in the Modern Prison: The Society of Captives Revisited	7
The Taint of The Other: Prison Work as ‘Dirty Work’ In Australia	7

Penal hybridization: State influence and local resistance at a community-based reentry organization	7
Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A comparative study of imprisonment and political culture	7
Surviving austerity: Commissary stores, inequality and punishment in the contemporary American prison	7
Penal extractivism: A qualitative study on punishment and extractive industries in Peru	7
Surviving cell-sharing: Resistance, cooperation and collaboration	6
David Maguire, Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and ‘Revolving Door’ Imprisonment in the UK	6
Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections	6
Penal diversity, penality and community sanctions in Australia	6
Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg, Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform	5
Matthew Clair, Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court	5
Punitiveness and atrocity: Why do some Filipinos support mass violence?	5
Calories, commerce, and culture: The multiple valuations of food in prison	5
Roxana Willis, A Precarious Life: Community and Conflict in a Deindustrialized Town	5
Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism	5
Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico	4
Market development, state formation, and the historical abolition of the debtors’ prison	4
The exercise of authority during interactions in custody hearings in São Paulo (Brazil): Building legitimacy through exclusion	4
Joshua Dubler and Vincent W Lloyd, Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons	4
“We’re not the first and we’re not going to be the last”: Perspectives of system-involved black and Latinx young adults on racial injustice during the 2020 black lives matter protests	4
Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective	4
Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime	4
Rights protection in prisons: Understanding recommendations-making by prison inspection and monitoring bodies in the European Union	4
A ‘crimmigrant ban’? Global mobility, urban (in)security and the changing dynamics of judicial practices	4
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	4
Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested”	4
The rise and ongoing legacy of localism as collective identity in Hong Kong: Resinicisation anxieties and punishment of political dissent in the post-colonial era	4
Life without parole and euthanasia: The future unintended consequences of current sentencing policies	4
Book Review: Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen	4
Alice Ievins, The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offense	3
How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention	3
Sarah Esther Lageson, Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice	3
Making sense of penal difference: Political cultures and comparative penology	3
A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners	3
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants	3
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration	3
Within-race variations in sentencing outcomes: Nationality and punishment among Asians in United States federal courts	3
Introduction: Legacies of Empire	3
Robin Fitzgerald, Arie Freiberg, Shannon Dodd, Lorana Bartels, Parole on Probation: Parole Decision-Making, Public Opinion and Public Confidence	3
Michael S. Sherry, The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War	3
Boyles A., You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties	3
Paul Rock, The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: Vol II Institution Building	3
The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021)	3
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden: Penal layering and the uneven topography of penal change	3