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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Questioning the economic conditions-imprisonment link: A methodological review of the political economy of punishment's empirical literature	18
Performing rehabilitation: Reentry, art, and identity	15
Pretrial jail experiences and the criminal justice legitimacy divide: Race differences in key sources of legitimacy during pretrial detention	14
Leila Ullrich, Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court. The Blame Cascade UllrichLeila, Victims and	14
Tahaney Alghrani, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian England AlghraniTahaney, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian Engla	11
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
“Forty-some years I’ve been on paper”: Navigating probation in later adulthood	11
Immobilized: (In)congruent collateral consequences and racialized driver's license restrictions	11
The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021)	10
Regulating criminal justice: The role of procedural justice and legitimacy in the inspection of probation in England and Wales	10
Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime	10
Who should be on electronic monitoring: Conceptualizations of ideal supervisees	10
‘Parole is worse than doing time’: Understanding the pains of post-release supervision following a forvaring sentence	10
Bordered welfare in Australia: Income management as a bordering technology of neoliberal and colonial governance	9
Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition	9
Intersecting modalities of prison violence and self-harm in incarcerated women	8
Solitary confinement as state harm: Reimagining sentencing in light of dynamic censure and state blame	8
Beyond the barriers: Analyzing implementation, consequences, and coping mechanisms of collective punishment in Palestine	8
Justifying leniency at a time of punitiveness: Federal clemency narratives in the United States	8
Qi Chen, Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: Community Sanctions and Measures	8
Gauging the totality of criminal legal sanctions and punishment: Implications for research and policy on retribution and deterrence	7
The obsolescence of detention: Versatility, expendability and plasticity in the field of immigration confinement	7
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

‘Entrapped in a penal time capsule’: Extralegal discourses in sentence review of life prisoners in India	6
Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948	6
To support or punish? analyzing the relationship between welfare state attitudes and penal punitiveness	6
Between risk and race: Does diagnostic ambiguity fuel racial disparities under sexually violent predator laws?	6
Architecture, atmospheres, and the pains of unattainable affordances: Tracing prisoners’ lived experience in a ‘new-generation’ prison in Switzerland	6
Jailization: Entering the lobby to the US criminal legal system	6
Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection and Punishment: Armed international Intervention at the ‘End of History’ Teresa Degenhardt, W	6
David Churchill, Henry Yeomans and Iain Channing, Historical Criminology, Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology	6
“They really target people for helping other people”: The criminalization of mutual aid during encampment sweeps in Los Angeles, CA	5
Liam Martin, Halfway House: Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care	5
Haven't they suffered enough? Time to exoneration following wrongful conviction of racially marginalized minority- vs. majority-group members	5
Who cares?: The burdens of care borne by the loved ones of incarcerated men	5
Punitive adjustments at the Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa	5
Time unbound: Nonlinear temporality and structural trauma in prison time	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
Privatisation and accountability in Australian immigration detention: A case of state-corporate symbiosis	5
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
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	4
“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19	4
States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland	4
Carceral networking and penal liminality: A case study of a security NGO	4
Theorizing a way out of reformist reforms: Gladue reports and penal abolition	4
Arresting movement: The history of German immigration detention beyond the camp	4
Life-sentenced prisoners, crime victims, and the multidialog of parole	4
How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention	3
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants	3
Franklin E Zimring, The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration	3
Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors	3
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden: Penal layering and the uneven topography of penal change	3
Paul Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France	3
Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care	3
Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment	3
The politics of rehabilitation within Chinese community corrections: The rise of an enabling and embedded state in a rapidly modernizing society	3
Abolition compromised: How state-nonprofit funding dynamics undermine anti-carceral reform	3
Neil Gong, Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles Alex V. Barnard, Conservatorsh	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
Nicole Bedera, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence Bedera,Nicole On t	3
Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective	3
“The biggest thing you can rob is somebody's time”: Exploring how the carceral state bankrupts fathers through temporal debt	3