OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Questioning the economic conditions-imprisonment link: A methodological review of the political economy of punishment's empirical literature	17
Performing rehabilitation: Reentry, art, and identity	15
Leila Ullrich, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court. The Blame Cascade UllrichLeila, Victims and	12
Elizabeth Cook, Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence CookElizabeth, Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence, Routledge: London a	11
Alice Ievins, The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offense	11
Pretrial jail experiences and the criminal justice legitimacy divide: Race differences in key sources of legitimacy during pretrial detention	11
Immobilized: (In)congruent collateral consequences and racialized driver's license restrictions	11
Tahaney Alghrani, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian England AlghraniTahaney, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian Engla	10
The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021)	10
“Forty-some years I’ve been on paper”: Navigating probation in later adulthood	9
Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition	9
Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime	9
Bordered welfare in Australia: Income management as a bordering technology of neoliberal and colonial governance	9
Regulating criminal justice: The role of procedural justice and legitimacy in the inspection of probation in England and Wales	9
Qi Chen, Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: Community Sanctions and Measures	8
Solitary confinement as state harm: Reimagining sentencing in light of dynamic censure and state blame	8
Who should be on electronic monitoring: Conceptualizations of ideal supervisees	8
Justifying leniency at a time of punitiveness: Federal clemency narratives in the United States	8
‘Parole is worse than doing time’: Understanding the pains of post-release supervision following a forvaring sentence	7
Beyond the barriers: Analyzing implementation, consequences, and coping mechanisms of collective punishment in Palestine	7
Intersecting modalities of prison violence and self-harm in incarcerated women	7
To support or punish? analyzing the relationship between welfare state attitudes and penal punitiveness	6
Time unbound: Nonlinear temporality and structural trauma in prison time	6
Architecture, atmospheres, and the pains of unattainable affordances: Tracing prisoners’ lived experience in a ‘new-generation’ prison in Switzerland	6
There is no place to go in “America's Finest City”: Basic sanitation deprivation is punishment in San Diego, California, USA	6

“Social workers by day and terrorists by night?” Wounded healers, restorative justice, and ex-prisoner reentry	6
Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection and Punishment: Armed international Intervention at the ‘End of History’ Teresa Degenhardt, W	6
Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948	6
Jailization: Entering the lobby to the US criminal legal system	6
David Churchill, Henry Yeomans and Iain Channing, Historical Criminology, Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology	5
Gauging the totality of criminal legal sanctions and punishment: Implications for research and policy on retribution and deterrence	5
Privatisation and accountability in Australian immigration detention: A case of state-corporate symbiosis	5
The obsolescence of detention: Versatility, expendability and plasticity in the field of immigration confinement	5
Liam Martin, Halfway House: Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care	5
Punitive adjustments at the Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa	5
Between risk and race: Does diagnostic ambiguity fuel racial disparities under sexually violent predator laws?	5
‘Entrapped in a penal time capsule’: Extralegal discourses in sentence review of life prisoners in India	5
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns, Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis	5
Arresting movement: The history of German immigration detention beyond the camp	4
Who cares?: The burdens of care borne by the loved ones of incarcerated men	4
States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland	4
Haven't they suffered enough? Time to exoneration following wrongful conviction of racially marginalized minority- vs. majority-group members	4
Penal-welfare systems in a (post)colonial world: The rise and disregard of alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in South Africa	4
The ideological work of penal reform: How reformers justify penal-welfare hybridization	4
“They really target people for helping other people”: The criminalization of mutual aid during encampment sweeps in Los Angeles, CA	4
Theorizing a way out of reformist reforms: Gladue reports and penal abolition	4
“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19	4
Nicole Bedera, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence Bedera,Nicole On t	3
“The biggest thing you can rob is somebody's time”: Exploring how the carceral state bankrupts fathers through temporal debt	3
The politics of rehabilitation within Chinese community corrections: The rise of an enabling and embedded state in a rapidly modernizing society	3
Book Review: Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitio	3
Paul Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France	3
Carceral networking and penal liminality: A case study of a security NGO	3
Life-sentenced prisoners, crime victims, and the multidialog of parole	3
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	3
Beyond punishment: Towards a framework of transformative accountability	3
Punishing people through property: Strategic task force inspections at the nexus of criminal and civil legal systems	3
Distinguishing peer from non-peer across the criminal justice sector: A taxonomy differentiating peer roles grounded in the insight of those with living experience of the peer mentor role in prison	3
Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors	3
Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care	3
Abolition compromised: How state-nonprofit funding dynamics undermine anti-carceral reform	3
Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment	3
Making sense of penal difference: Political cultures and comparative penology	2
Neil Gong, Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles Alex V. Barnard, Conservatorsh	2
Prosecutors as punishers: A case study of Trump-era practices	2
Of boredom and havoc: Correctional officers and meaning making	2
Shaping the road to reentry: Organizational variation and narrative labor in the penal voluntary sector	2
Corrigendum to “Carceral urbanism: Reconstructing the architecture of punitive space in post-genocide Rwanda”	2
Shifting the practice of coercive penal care over time in a problem-solving court	2
Kate Herrity, Sound, Order and Survival in Prison – The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown HerrityKate, Sound, Order and Survival	2
A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners	2
Franklin E Zimring, The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration	2
Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective	2
Zoha Waseem, Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi	2
The submerged prison state: Punishment, private interests, and the politics of public accountability	2

Understanding carceral mobilities in and through lived experiences of incarceration	2
How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention	2
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden: Penal layering and the uneven topography of penal change	2
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants	2
Pushbacks in Greece as enemy under-criminalization	2
Nuances of fragmentation, (mis)recognition and closeness: Narratives of challenges and support during resettlement	2
Trauma and imported vulnerability in prison suicides	2
Punishment as text	2