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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Misinformation about fake news: A systematic critical review of empirical studies on the phenomenon and its status as a ‘threat’	24
Cannabis users and stigma: A comparison of users from European countries with different cannabis policies	20
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
The transgender pains of imprisonment	9
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
In nomine Diaboli: The ideologies of organized crime	9
Inequality, welfare and punishment. Comparative notes between the Global North and South	9
Experiencing human rights protections in prisons: The case of prison monitoring in Ireland	9
‘A sense of purpose’: Older prisoners’ experiences of successful ageing behind bars	8
Parole as resentencing: Exploring the punitive accounts of parole decision-making through the comparative case study of Israel	8
Loneliness in prison	8
Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway	8
The role of deprivation and alcohol availability in shaping trends in violent crime	8
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	8
Dignity and its discontents: Towards an abolitionist rethinking of dignity	8
Using crowdsourcing for a safer society: When the crowd rules	7
Fraud reporting in Catalonia in the Internet era: Determinants and motives	7
Links between adverse childhood experiences, psychopathological symptoms and recidivism risk in juvenile delinquents	7
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: Building public confidence	7

Prevalence of sexual violence: A comparison of estimates from UK national surveys	7
Mapping Cannabis Social Clubs in Europe	7
The role of victims’ lawyers in criminal proceedings in the Netherlands	6
Behind closed doors: An exploration of cell-sharing and its relationship with wellbeing	6
Police visibility, trust in police fairness, and collective efficacy: A multilevel Structural Equation Model	6
Can European human rights instruments limit the power of the national state to punish? A tale of two Europes	6
Women police leaders in Europe: A tale of prejudice and patronage	6
The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach	6
Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies	6
The SECI model and darknet markets: Knowledge creation in criminal organizations and communities of practice	6
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
Outlaw motorcycle gangs and their members’ crime: Examining the social organization of crime and its relationship to formal club hierarchy	6
The next Pandora’s Box of criminal background checks	6
‘If you don’t have documents or a legal procedure, you are out!’ Making humanitarian organizations partner in migration control	6
The ‘officer effect’ in risk assessment for domestic abuse: Findings from a mixed methods study in England and Wales	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
Muslim narratives of desistance among Norwegian street criminals: Stories of reconciliation, purification and exclusion	6
The impact of fear on young people’s mobility	6
Elegant security: Concept, evidence and implications	5
Suspicious minds? Empirical analysis of insider witness assessments at the ICTY, ICTR and ICC	5
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	5
Feeling unsafe in Italy’s biggest cities	5
Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland	5
Trafficking in human beings in Spain: What do the data on detected victims tell us?	5
A CCTV-based analysis of target selection by guardians intervening in interpersonal conflicts	5
Exploring cultural criminology: The police world in fiction	5