OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Criminology is 5. 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
Inequality, welfare and punishment. Comparative notes between the Global North and South	13
Science denial and medical misinformation in pandemic times: A psycho-criminological analysis	13
In nomine Diaboli: The ideologies of organized crime	12
The impact of fear on young people’s mobility	12
Classical deterrence theory revisited: An empirical analysis of Police Force Areas in England and Wales	12
Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway	11
Loneliness in prison	11
Police visibility, trust in police fairness, and collective efficacy: A multilevel Structural Equation Model	11
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
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	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
‘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
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