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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Too much policing: Why calls are made to defund the police	33
Decolonizing the criminal question	24
The carceral production of transgender poverty: How racialized gender policing deprives transgender women of housing and safety	23
Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested”	20
The Taint of The Other: Prison Work as ‘Dirty Work’ In Australia	18
The effects of language on the stigmatization and exclusion of returning citizens: Results from a survey experiment	17
(In)-justice: An exploration of the dehumanization, victimization, criminalization, and over-incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada	15
Carceral churn: A sensorial ethnography of the bail and remand court	14
The promises and pitfalls of path dependence frameworks for analyzing penal change	14
Criminogenic risk assessment: A meta-review and critical analysis	13
Desistance, persistence, resilience and resistance: A qualitative exploration of how Black fathers with criminal records navigate employer discrimination	13
Prison official perceptions of technology in prison	11
Punitive ambiguity: State-level criminal record data quality in the era of widespread background screening	11
The politics of prison air: Breath, smell, and wind in Myanmar prisons	11
Trashing Appalachia: Coal, prisons and whiteness in a region of refuse	11
Coloniality, just war & carceral injustice in Brazil	11
Punishing status and the punishment status quo: Solitary confinement in U.S. Immigration prisons, 2013–2017	10
The role of storylines in penal policy change	9
‘This is not what I signed up for’ – Danish prison officers’ attitudes towards more punitive penal policies	8
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	8
Reparative justice: The final stage of decolonization	8
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	8
The Mississippi model: Dangers of prison reform in the context of fiscal austerity	8
COVID-19 and European carcerality: Do national prison policies converge when faced with a pandemic?	8
Punishment on arrival: New Zealand’s Returning Offenders Act 2015	7

Let me take a vacation in prison before the streets kill me! Rough sleepers’ longing for prison and the reversal of less eligibility in neoliberal carceral continuums	7
Carcerality and the legacies of settler colonial punishment in Nairobi	7
The resettlement net: ‘revolving door’ imprisonment and carceral (re)circulation	7
Narratives of normality: Finnish prisoners envisioning their future	7
Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism	7
Between legality and legitimacy: The courtroom as a site of resistance in the criminalization of migration	6
“The Struggle is Real”: Punitive assessment in community services	6
Stories of the “good father”: The role of fatherhood among incarcerated men in Mexico	6
The dual penal empire: Emergency powers and military courts in Palestine/Israel and beyond	6
The policing of subway fare evasion in postindustrial Los Angeles	6
The Politics of Pain in Immigration Detention	6
Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections	6
Neo-colonial penality? Travelling penal power and contingent sovereignty	5
Penal nationalism in the settler colony: On the construction and maintenance of ‘national whiteness’ in settler Canada	5
Preventive justice: Exploring the coercive power of community protection notices to tackle anti-social behaviour	5
Lost in translation: The principle of normalisation in prison policy in Norway and the Netherlands	5
Prison officers and esprit de corps. Ingroup and outgroup relationships in prison	5
Carceral urbanism: Reconstructing the architecture of punitive space in post-genocide Rwanda	4
Comparing expert versus general public rationale for death penalty support and opposition: Is expert perspective on capital punishment consistent with “disciplined retention”?	4
“I have to be a man for my son”: The narrative uses of fatherhood in prison	4
Calories, commerce, and culture: The multiple valuations of food in prison	4
The downside of downsizing: Persistence of racial disparities following state prison reform	4
Cars, compounds and containers: Judicial and extrajudicial infrastructures of punishment in the ‘old’ and ‘new’ South Africa	4
Under the punitive aegis: Dependency and the family justice center model	4
Investigating prison suicides: The politics of independent oversight	4
Shaping the road to reentry: Organizational variation and narrative labor in the penal voluntary sector	4
Artificial intelligence, digital capital, and epistemic domination on Twitter: A study of families affected by imprisonment	4
Introduction: Legacies of Empire	4
The Galápagos as penal colony: Exile, peonage, and state control at the Hacienda El Progreso, 1878–1904	3
Catholics and capital punishment: Do Pope Francis’s teachings matter in policy preferences?	3
Predicting support for community corrections: Crime type and severity, and offender, observer, and victim characteristics	3
Prosecutors as punishers: A case study of Trump-era practices	3
Enhancing the tellability of death-row exoneree narratives: Exploring the role of rhetoric	3
Parole, parole boards and the institutional dilemmas of contemporary prison release	3
‘Time's relentless melt’: The severity of life imprisonment through the prism of old age	3
Intellectual disability and mental illness among women sentenced to death in the U.S.: Constitutional and evidentiary dilemmas	3
Rights protection in prisons: Understanding recommendations-making by prison inspection and monitoring bodies in the European Union	3
Surveillance and the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic for formerly incarcerated individuals	3
The moral foundations of crime control in American presidential platforms, 1968–2016	3
Talking punishment: How victim perceptions of punishment change when they communicate with offenders	3
Transformational learning and identity shift: Evidence from a campus behind bars	3
Penal diversity, penality and community sanctions in Australia	3
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces: A study of hunting nomads in postcolonial India	3