OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Criminology is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	22
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	20
AI-based behaviour analysis in prisons: A multidisciplinary assessment of an Austrian case study	19
Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in the Netherlands using prior police contacts	16
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	16
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	14
Penal changes, crises, and the political economy of punishment: An introduction	12
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
Social attitudes towards sex work and its criminalization: An empirical study with a Spanish sample	11
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	11
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	10
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	9
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	9
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	8
Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?	8
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	8
What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data	7
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland	7
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation	7
Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	7
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	7
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	6
Crossing borders: Does it matter? Differences between (near-)domestic and cross-border sex traffickers, their victims and modus operandi	6
Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: The interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure	6
From a single punch to weapon use: An event typology of public place violence	6

Corporate involvement in atrocity crimes in Ukraine	6
The evolution of Nigerian cybercrime: Two case studies of UK-based offender networks	6
Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden	5
Thank you to reviewers	5
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	5
Hate crime offending among European youth: Prevalence and risk factors	5
‘You’re trying to juggle everything’: Understanding the consequences of emotional labour for senior probation officers in England and Wales	5
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	5
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	5
Explaining youth aggression: A situational model of peer influence	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	4
Explaining experiences of punishment and degradation in prisons: A comparative analysis of England & Wales and Norway	4
The persistent countervailing consequences of urbanization: A longitudinal study of homicide rates	4
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	4
“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
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	4
Food and penal legitimacy in women's prisons	4
A critical perspective on the administrative approach to crime prevention: The case of labour trafficking	4