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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Misinformation about fake news: A systematic critical review of empirical studies on the phenomenon and its status as a ‘threat’	20
Cannabis users and stigma: A comparison of users from European countries with different cannabis policies	19
Labelled as ‘risky’ in an era of control: How young people experience and respond to the stigma of criminalized identities	14
The nature and role of morality in situational action theory	12
Questioning Anglocentrism in plural policing studies: Private security regulation in Belgium and the United Kingdom	11
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?	11
Science denial and medical misinformation in pandemic times: A psycho-criminological analysis	10
Playing Pac-Man in Portville: Policing the dilution and fragmentation of drug importations through major seaports	10
Rethinking social capital in the desistance process: The ‘Artful Dodger’ complex	9
Situational Action Theory and the particular case of settings including a group	9
Inequality, welfare and punishment. Comparative notes between the Global North and South	9
Parole as resentencing: Exploring the punitive accounts of parole decision-making through the comparative case study of Israel	8
Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway	8
‘A sense of purpose’: Older prisoners’ experiences of successful ageing behind bars	8
The transgender pains of imprisonment	8
Dignity and its discontents: Towards an abolitionist rethinking of dignity	8
Experiencing human rights protections in prisons: The case of prison monitoring in Ireland	8
The role of deprivation and alcohol availability in shaping trends in violent crime	8
Mapping Cannabis Social Clubs in Europe	7
Prevalence of sexual violence: A comparison of estimates from UK national surveys	7
Fraud reporting in Catalonia in the Internet era: Determinants and motives	7
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	7
Loneliness in prison	7
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: Building public confidence	7
In nomine Diaboli: The ideologies of organized crime	7

Does truancy make the delinquent? A situational and longitudinal analysis of the truancy–delinquency relationship	6
Planned hooligan fights: Contributing factors and significance for individuals who take part	6
Women police leaders in Europe: A tale of prejudice and patronage	6
The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks	6
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
Using crowdsourcing for a safer society: When the crowd rules	6
The impact of fear on young people’s mobility	6
‘If you don’t have documents or a legal procedure, you are out!’ Making humanitarian organizations partner in migration control	6
Can European human rights instruments limit the power of the national state to punish? A tale of two Europes	6
Links between adverse childhood experiences, psychopathological symptoms and recidivism risk in juvenile delinquents	6
The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach	6
The role of victims’ lawyers in criminal proceedings in the Netherlands	5
Behind closed doors: An exploration of cell-sharing and its relationship with wellbeing	5
Police visibility, trust in police fairness, and collective efficacy: A multilevel Structural Equation Model	5
Elegant security: Concept, evidence and implications	5
A CCTV-based analysis of target selection by guardians intervening in interpersonal conflicts	5
Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland	5
The SECI model and darknet markets: Knowledge creation in criminal organizations and communities of practice	5
Exploring cultural criminology: The police world in fiction	5
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	5
Outlaw motorcycle gangs and their members’ crime: Examining the social organization of crime and its relationship to formal club hierarchy	5
Suspicious minds? Empirical analysis of insider witness assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC	5
Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies	5
The ‘officer effect’ in risk assessment for domestic abuse: Findings from a mixed methods study in England and Wales	5
Trafficking in human beings in Spain: What do the data on detected victims tell us?	5
Feeling unsafe in Italy’s biggest cities	5
Utilizing personal values to explain people’s attitudes towards legal norms	4
Mental health, substance abuse, prison victimization and suicide attempts amongst incarcerated women	4
Crime count and crime harm in a post-socialist city: How does the law of crime concentration at places apply?	4
Human rights oversight of correctional institutions in Australia	4
Untrustworthy subjects? Risks, blame and gradual prison release in Ukraine	4
Employment and crime: A longitudinal follow-up of organized crime offenders	4
The path to human rights in Romania: Emergent voice(s) of legal mobilization in prisons	4
Muslim narratives of desistance among Norwegian street criminals: Stories of reconciliation, purification and exclusion	4
Culture and corruption: An experimental comparison of cultural patterns on the corruption propensity in Poland and Russia	4
No longer a ‘collateral consequence’: Imprisonment and the reframing of citizenship	4
Crime, justice and criminology in the Republic of Ireland	4
A failed attempt to radically reduce inter-court sentencing disparities by legislation: Empirical evidence from Poland	4
Explaining cheating in schools with Situational Action Theory: Within-estimations using a German school panel	3
Community sanctions in youth justice compared to other youth crime responses: A meta-analysis	3
Classical deterrence theory revisited: An empirical analysis of Police Force Areas in England and Wales	3
What’s Left? Political orientation, economic conditions and incarceration in Greece under Syriza-led government	3
Sleep and delinquency: The context of self-control, social support, and sex differences among French adolescents	3
Explaining post-prison rehabilitation through music from the Good Lives Model perspective	3
Towards a typology of prisoners’ awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies	3
Encountering authority and avoiding trouble: Young migrant men’s narratives of negotiation in Europe	3
Why European mayors emphasize urban security: Evidence from a survey in 28 European countries	3
Law in action: Local-level prostitution policies and practices and their effects on sex workers	3
The financial management of cocaine trafficking in Italy	3
The foraging perspective in criminology: A review of research literature	3

Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns	3
Examining experiential fear of crime using STUNDA: Findings from a smartphone-based experience methods study	3
Social inequality in alternative sanctions: A register data study on all adolescent drug offenders in Norway 2005–2015	3
‘It causes a lot of problems’: Relational ambiguities and dynamics between prisoners and staff in a women's prison	3
‘Cocooning’ in prison during COVID-19: Findings from recent research in Ireland	3
Violence and the crime drop	3
The impact of victimization on feelings of unsafety in different welfare regimes	3
An appreciative inquiry into foreign national prisoners’ participation in prison activities: The role of language	3
Sentencing multiple conviction offenders	3
Police communications and social media	3
Prison employment and its conflict with therapeutic and counselling programmes: The experiences of Czech prison personnel	3
Same, same but different: A comparative study of the Swedish and German support systems for young victims of crime	2
Women trafficking networks: Structure and stages of women trafficking in five Dutch small-scale networks	2
Punitive by negligence? The myths and reality of penal nationalism in the Czech Republic	2
Chains, trains and automobiles: Medical transport for prisoners in Switzerland	2
Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample	2
Beyond the austerity-driven hypothesis: Political economic theses on penality and the recent prison population decline	2
Exploring gender disparities in the prosecution of theft cases: Propensity score matching on data from German court files	2
European legislators’ attitudes toward childhood sexuality from the perspective of age of consent legislation	2
Two decades of European criminology: Exploring the conferences of the European Society of Criminology through topic modelling	2
Maximizing the utility of peer support in carceral settings: A few stumbling blocks to consider	2
Introduction: Human rights, prisons and penal policies	2
Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying	2
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	2
Crossing borders: Does it matter? Differences between (near-)domestic and cross-border sex traffickers, their victims and modus operandi	2
Is there a penalty for going to trial in Spain? Plea bargaining and courtroom efficiency	2
‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police	2
Who are our owners? Exploring the ownership links of businesses to identify illicit financial flows	2
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	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
Same problems, different concepts and language: What happens when prison climate research goes on a journey?	2