OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Criminology is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	19
Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in the Netherlands using prior police contacts	18
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	16
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	16
The role of deprivation and alcohol availability in shaping trends in violent crime	15
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	14
Penal changes, crises, and the political economy of punishment: An introduction	14
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	14
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	13
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	12
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	11
Social attitudes towards sex work and its criminalization: An empirical study with a Spanish sample	10
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	10
Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample	9
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland	9
Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?	9
Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	8
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	8
Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents	8
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	7
Police visibility, trust in police fairness, and collective efficacy: A multilevel Structural Equation Model	7
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation	7
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	7
What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data	7
The evolution of Nigerian cybercrime: Two case studies of UK-based offender networks	6

Punitive by negligence? The myths and reality of penal nationalism in the Czech Republic	6
Crossing borders: Does it matter? Differences between (near-)domestic and cross-border sex traffickers, their victims and modus operandi	6
‘You’re trying to juggle everything’: Understanding the consequences of emotional labour for senior probation officers in England and Wales	6
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	6
Explaining youth aggression: A situational model of peer influence	5
European legislators’ attitudes toward childhood sexuality from the perspective of age of consent legislation	5
Thank you to reviewers	5
Gang members and extremists in Switzerland: Similarities and differences	5
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	4
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	4
A critical perspective on the administrative approach to crime prevention: The case of labour trafficking	4
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	4
Explaining experiences of punishment and degradation in prisons: A comparative analysis of England & Wales and Norway	4
Out of prison, out of crime? The complex interplay between the process of desistance and severe resource disadvantages in women‘s post-release lives	4
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	4
Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy	4
Prison officer students’ perceptions of persons convicted of sexual crimes	4
“Moving choice to center stage” in the relationship between the self and offending: Integrating symbolic interactionism and rational choice	4
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	4
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	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
Parole as resentencing: Exploring the punitive accounts of parole decision-making through the comparative case study of Israel	3
Social inequality in alternative sanctions: A register data study on all adolescent drug offenders in Norway 2005–2015	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
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of corruption and homicide in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries through the lens of the institutional anomie theory	3
Receiving visits in prison and aggressive and contraband misconduct among Dutch prisoners	3
Bringing narrative victimology to transitional justice: Blame, victimhood and life stories of wrongful conviction	3
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA	3
Women trafficking networks: Structure and stages of women trafficking in five Dutch small-scale networks	3
Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders	3
‘You no have to treat me with your hate’: The needs and experiences of female foreign national prisoners in an Irish prison	3
Deviant peers: Does friendship stability condition the peer-delinquency link?	3
Assessing and reporting leaking of violent intent: Influences of perpetrator and witness characteristics	3
The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization, and resistance to extremism	2
The involvement mechanisms of cybercrime: Explaining previous exposure of young people to money mule recruiters	2
Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns	2
Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany	2
Cocaine and the port: Utopias of security, urban relations, and displacement of policing efforts in the port of Piraeus	2
Old habits die hard: Assessing the validity of using homicide as an indicator of other violent crimes	2
Monitoring prisoners preparing for release: Who ‘fails’ in open prison conditions?	2
Acting crazy: A strategy on the streets of Copenhagen	2
Regulatory voids in the prevention of environmental crime in Finland	2
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	2
Moral foundations in gender violence cases decided in Portuguese courts	2
Inequality and penality: The hidden side of a complex relationship	2
Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory: What it is and how to move forward theoretically and empirically	2
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	2
A Thank You to Our Reviewers	1
Assessment of a domestic violence telecare protection system from the victims’ perspective	1

Understanding violent extremism: Risk and protective factors in a jihadi male detainee population in the Netherlands	1
How the COVID-19 pandemic hit crime in Barcelona: Analysis of variation in crime trends	1
Criminal governance in a large European city: The case of gangs in London	1
How unique are terrorist suspects? Investigating similarities and differences between terrorist suspects, their siblings, and other suspects	1
The pandemic as a criminological experiment: Crime in the Netherlands during 12 months of COVID-19 measures	1
Assessing the role of COVID-19 stressors on perceptions of police misconduct in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
Does fear of migrant crime predict xenophobia: Evidence from three Russian cities	1
The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation	1
Explaining cheating in schools with Situational Action Theory: Within-estimations using a German school panel	1
Inside the slippery world of glass eel trafficking: Lessons learned from Spain to prevent the illegal trade of European eels	1
‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police	1
Using criminal histories to empower victim–survivors of domestic abuse	1
Jihadist prisoners in Spain and the application of the high security prison regime	1
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: Building public confidence	1
Interest in booter services and distributed denial of service attacks: Insight from Google search data	1
Ransomware crime through the lens of neutralisation theory	1
European Criminology needs European Data: The case for a pan-European crime and victimization survey	1
Examining experiential fear of crime using STUNDA: Findings from a smartphone-based experience methods study	1
What next for tests of the situational model of Situational Action Theory? Recommendations from a systematic review	1
Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms	1
A thank you to our reviewers	1
Cross-country comparison analysis of individual and institutional factors of anomie and online offending	1