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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Misinformation about fake news: A systematic critical review of empirical studies on the phenomenon and its status as a ‘threat’	30
Cannabis users and stigma: A comparison of users from European countries with different cannabis policies	27
The transgender pains of imprisonment	15
Questioning Anglocentrism in plural policing studies: Private security regulation in Belgium and the United Kingdom	14
The association between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency in the context of Situational Action Theory: Crime propensity and criminogenic exposure as mediators in a sample of European youth?	14
The nature and role of morality in situational action theory	14
Science denial and medical misinformation in pandemic times: A psycho-criminological analysis	13
Inequality, welfare and punishment. Comparative notes between the Global North and South	13
Classical deterrence theory revisited: An empirical analysis of Police Force Areas in England and Wales	12
In nomine Diaboli: The ideologies of organized crime	12
The impact of fear on young people’s mobility	12
Police visibility, trust in police fairness, and collective efficacy: A multilevel Structural Equation Model	11
Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway	11
Loneliness in prison	11
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	10
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	10
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: Building public confidence	10
‘A sense of purpose’: Older prisoners’ experiences of successful ageing behind bars	9
The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach	9
The role of deprivation and alcohol availability in shaping trends in violent crime	9
The SECI model and darknet markets: Knowledge creation in criminal organizations and communities of practice	8
Muslim narratives of desistance among Norwegian street criminals: Stories of reconciliation, purification and exclusion	8
The ‘officer effect’ in risk assessment for domestic abuse: Findings from a mixed methods study in England and Wales	8
Beyond the austerity-driven hypothesis: Political economic theses on penality and the recent prison population decline	8
Parole as resentencing: Exploring the punitive accounts of parole decision-making through the comparative case study of Israel	8

Dignity and its discontents: Towards an abolitionist rethinking of dignity	8
‘It causes a lot of problems’: Relational ambiguities and dynamics between prisoners and staff in a women's prison	7
Can European human rights instruments limit the power of the national state to punish? A tale of two Europes	7
Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland	7
Outlaw motorcycle gangs and their members’ crime: Examining the social organization of crime and its relationship to formal club hierarchy	7
Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies	7
Behind closed doors: An exploration of cell-sharing and its relationship with wellbeing	7
Are frequent offenders more difficult to find and less willing to participate? An analysis of unit non-response in an online survey among offenders	6
Examining experiential fear of crime using STUNDA: Findings from a smartphone-based experience methods study	6
Punitive by negligence? The myths and reality of penal nationalism in the Czech Republic	6
Crime count and crime harm in a post-socialist city: How does the law of crime concentration at places apply?	6
The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks	6
Mental health, substance abuse, prison victimization and suicide attempts amongst incarcerated women	6
Who are our owners? Exploring the ownership links of businesses to identify illicit financial flows	6
Trafficking in human beings in Spain: What do the data on detected victims tell us?	5
Attitudes towards the death penalty: An assessment of individual and country-level differences	5
‘Cocooning’ in prison during COVID-19: Findings from recent research in Ireland	5
Culture and corruption: An experimental comparison of cultural patterns on the corruption propensity in Poland and Russia	5
Suspicious minds? Empirical analysis of insider witness assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC	5
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	5
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	4
Police communications and social media	4
Receiving visits in prison and aggressive and contraband misconduct among Dutch prisoners	4
Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns	4
Sentencing multiple conviction offenders	4
Community sanctions in youth justice compared to other youth crime responses: A meta-analysis	4
Sleep and delinquency: The context of self-control, social support, and sex differences among French adolescents	4
Social inequality in alternative sanctions: A register data study on all adolescent drug offenders in Norway 2005–2015	4
Explaining cheating in schools with Situational Action Theory: Within-estimations using a German school panel	4
How the COVID-19 pandemic hit crime in Barcelona: Analysis of variation in crime trends	4
European legislators’ attitudes toward childhood sexuality from the perspective of age of consent legislation	3
‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police	3
What’s Left? Political orientation, economic conditions and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government	3
The foraging perspective in criminology: A review of research literature	3
Same problems, different concepts and language: What happens when prison climate research goes on a journey?	3
Prison employment and its conflict with therapeutic and counselling programmes: The experiences of Czech prison personnel	3
Towards a typology of prisoners’ awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies	3
Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory: What it is and how to move forward theoretically and empirically	3
Chains, trains and automobiles: Medical transport for prisoners in Switzerland	3
Crime, justice and criminology in the Republic of Ireland	3
Old habits die hard: Assessing the validity of using homicide as an indicator of other violent crimes	3
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	3
Can inner and outer containment counteract pulls and pushes toward delinquency? A test of Walter Reckless’s containment theory	3
Explaining post-prison rehabilitation through music from the Good Lives Model perspective	3
Women trafficking networks: Structure and stages of women trafficking in five Dutch small-scale networks	3
An appreciative inquiry into foreign national prisoners’ participation in prison activities: The role of language	3
The financial management of cocaine trafficking in Italy	3
Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying	3
Child sexual abuse in religious institutions: A comparative study based on sentences in Spain	3
Does fear of migrant crime predict xenophobia: Evidence from three Russian cities	3

Entangled in the technology-driven borderscape: Border crossers rendered to their digital self	2
Preventing outlaw biker crime in the Netherlands or just changing the dark figure? Estimating the impact of the Dutch whole-of-government approach on outlaw biker crime using interrupted time series a	2
Depression and repression: Global capitalism, economic crisis and penal politics in interwar Greece	2
Two decades of European criminology: Exploring the conferences of the European Society of Criminology through topic modelling	2
Introduction: Human rights, prisons and penal policies	2
Severe versus less severe intimate partner violence: Aggressors and victims	2
Comparing the criminal careers of organized crime offenders in Italy and the Netherlands	2
The enforcement turn in plural policing? A comparative analysis of public police auxiliaries in England and Wales, France and The Netherlands	2
Regulatory voids in the prevention of environmental crime in Finland	2
Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany	2
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	2
Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample	2
Exploring gender disparities in the prosecution of theft cases: Propensity score matching on data from German court files	2
Is there a penalty for going to trial in Spain? Plea bargaining and courtroom efficiency	2
Crossing borders: Does it matter? Differences between (near-)domestic and cross-border sex traffickers, their victims and modus operandi	2
Using criminal histories to empower victim–survivors of domestic abuse	2