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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	28
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	24
AI-based behaviour analysis in prisons: A multidisciplinary assessment of an Austrian case study	24
Beyond physical violence: A machine learning framework for predicting IPV victimisation using multidimensional predictors	21
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	20
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	17
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	17
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	16
Social attitudes towards sex work and its criminalization: An empirical study with a Spanish sample	14
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	13
Imprisonment or release: What matters for recidivism?	13
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	13
Narratives, policies and responses to rioting in a multi-level governance system: The case study of Wales (UK)	11
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland	11
Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	10
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	10
Gang involvement among adolescents in nine Nordic cities: A comparative study on associated risk factors	10
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation	9
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	9
The evolution of Nigerian cybercrime: Two case studies of UK-based offender networks	8
From a single punch to weapon use: An event typology of public place violence	8
Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: The interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure	8
Corporate involvement in atrocity crimes in Ukraine	8
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	8
Relational dynamics and prison climate in Serbia: Insights from an under-studied European context	8

Understanding criminal justice policy transfers through the narrative policy framework	7
Perceptions of work-on-family conflict among correctional officers in Germany	7
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	7
‘You’re trying to juggle everything’: Understanding the consequences of emotional labour for senior probation officers in England and Wales	6
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	6
Predictors of reward status in prison: Behaviour, motivation, and self-governance ability	6
What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data	6
Thank you to reviewers	6
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	6
Explaining youth aggression: A situational model of peer influence	6
Volunteer monitoring of police and prison detention: Independent custody visitors and independent monitoring boards in England and Wales	6
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	6
Profile of child sexual abuse material offenders in Portugal: Considerations of a decade (2011–2021)	5
Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden	5
“Moving choice to center stage” in the relationship between the self and offending: Integrating symbolic interactionism and rational choice	5
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	5
Hate crime offending among European youth: Prevalence and risk factors	5
Explaining experiences of punishment and degradation in prisons: A comparative analysis of England & Wales and Norway	5
The role of the parent–child relationship and parental control in the link between adolescent cyber-victimization, risky internet behavior, and self-control	5
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	5
Walking a tightrope? Independent sexual violence advisors and their relationship with the police	5
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	4
Leveraging synthetic data to improve open science practices in criminology – releasing a synthetic homicide dataset and dashboard	4
Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets: A six-nation comparison of its recognition in international policy discourses and criminal justice systems	4
Beyond education: An exploration of one-on-one volunteer–student relationships within a prisoner-focused distance learning organization	4
Exploring criminalization and prosecution of wartime collaboration – The case of Ukraine	4
Food and penal legitimacy in women's prisons	4
Assessing and reporting leaking of violent intent: Influences of perpetrator and witness characteristics	4
Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders	4
Deviant peers: Does friendship stability condition the peer-delinquency link?	4
‘You no have to treat me with your hate’: The needs and experiences of female foreign national prisoners in an Irish prison	4
Uncovering institutional child abuse in Francoist Barcelona: A crucial first step toward proper reparation for victims of “total child victimization”	4
Origin stories: Framing 25 years of Dutch political discourse on child sexual exploitation by tourists and travelers	4
Remaining anonymous? The offline side of darknet drug vending	4
War, martial law, and mobilisation: Exploring the characteristics of human smuggling at Ukraine’s borders in 2022–2023	4
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA	4