OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Criminology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond physical violence: A machine learning framework for predicting IPV victimisation using multidimensional predictors	22
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	22
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	20
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	20
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	17
Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in the Netherlands using prior police contacts	16
AI-based behaviour analysis in prisons: A multidisciplinary assessment of an Austrian case study	16
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	13
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	13
Social attitudes towards sex work and its criminalization: An empirical study with a Spanish sample	11
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	11
Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?	11
The relation between parental substance abuse and the attitude towards violence of the child and the mediating role of self-control and parental involvement: A cross-national multilevel analysis	11
Gang involvement among adolescents in nine Nordic cities: A comparative study on associated risk factors	10
Narratives, policies and responses to rioting in a multi-level governance system: The case study of Wales (UK)	10
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	9
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	8
Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	8
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation	8
What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data	7
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	7
The evolution of Nigerian cybercrime: Two case studies of UK-based offender networks	7
From a single punch to weapon use: An event typology of public place violence	7
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland	7
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	7

Corporate involvement in atrocity crimes in Ukraine	7
Volunteer monitoring of police and prison detention: Independent custody visitors and independent monitoring boards in England and Wales	6
‘You’re trying to juggle everything’: Understanding the consequences of emotional labour for senior probation officers in England and Wales	6
Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: The interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure	6
Explaining youth aggression: A situational model of peer influence	6
Predictors of reward status in prison: Behaviour, motivation, and self-governance ability	6
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	5
Profile of child sexual abuse material offenders in Portugal: Considerations of a decade (2011–2021)	5
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	5
Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden	5
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	5
Walking a tightrope? Independent sexual violence advisors and their relationship with the police	5
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	5
Thank you to reviewers	5
Out of prison, out of crime? The complex interplay between the process of desistance and severe resource disadvantages in women‘s post-release lives	5
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	5
Explaining experiences of punishment and degradation in prisons: A comparative analysis of England & Wales and Norway	5
Hate crime offending among European youth: Prevalence and risk factors	5
“Moving choice to center stage” in the relationship between the self and offending: Integrating symbolic interactionism and rational choice	4
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	4
‘You no have to treat me with your hate’: The needs and experiences of female foreign national prisoners in an Irish prison	4
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets: A six-nation comparison of its recognition in international policy discourses and criminal justice systems	4
The persistent countervailing consequences of urbanization: A longitudinal study of homicide rates	4
Origin stories: Framing 25 years of Dutch political discourse on child sexual exploitation by tourists and travelers	4
Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders	4
Food and penal legitimacy in women's prisons	4
Assessing and reporting leaking of violent intent: Influences of perpetrator and witness characteristics	4
Remaining anonymous? The offline side of darknet drug vending	4
War, martial law, and mobilisation: Exploring the characteristics of human smuggling at Ukraine’s borders in 2022–2023	3
What is of relevance to European criminology?	3
The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization, and resistance to extremism	3
Moral foundations in gender violence cases decided in Portuguese courts	3
Acting crazy: A strategy on the streets of Copenhagen	3
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA	3
Exploring criminalization and prosecution of wartime collaboration – The case of Ukraine	3
Greenspace in prison improves well-being irrespective of prison/er characteristics, with particularly beneficial effects for younger and unsentenced prisoners, and in overcrowded prisons	3
Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns	3
Monitoring prisoners preparing for release: Who ‘fails’ in open prison conditions?	3
Deviant peers: Does friendship stability condition the peer-delinquency link?	3
Beyond education: An exploration of one-on-one volunteer–student relationships within a prisoner-focused distance learning organization	3
Is there an ideal missing person? A theoretical case study using long-term unresolved missing persons cases	3
Old habits die hard: Assessing the validity of using homicide as an indicator of other violent crimes	3
Cocaine and the port: Utopias of security, urban relations, and displacement of policing efforts in the port of Piraeus	3
The involvement mechanisms of cybercrime: Explaining previous exposure of young people to money mule recruiters	3
Short infrequent police stops maximize crime-free time at street segments: Revisiting the Koper curve to establish optimal police dosage	2
A Thank You to Our Reviewers	2
Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory: What it is and how to move forward theoretically and empirically	2
Human trafficking risks in countries unaccustomed to migration: Romanian assistance providers’ experiences with conflict-affected migrants from Ukraine	2
Assessment of a domestic violence telecare protection system from the victims’ perspective	2
European Criminology needs European Data: The case for a pan-European crime and victimization survey	2

Does fear of migrant crime predict xenophobia: Evidence from three Russian cities	2
Assessing the role of COVID-19 stressors on perceptions of police misconduct in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	2
Introduction to Now wider and deeper? A special collection of editorial reflections on the progress of European criminology	2
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	2
Human, institutional, political and technological factors involved in a public health approach to frauds against individuals	2
The rise of European criminology through European penal integration?	2
Ransomware crime through the lens of neutralisation theory	2
Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany	2
The psychological correlates of cybercrime offending: Exploring the self-control/social learning relationship in serious cyber-dependent crime	2
Interest in booter services and distributed denial of service attacks: Insight from Google search data	2
Understanding violent extremism: Risk and protective factors in a jihadi male detainee population in the Netherlands	2
Negotiating meaning in a narrative world: The case of drink spiking victimization in Belgium	2