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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	19
Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in the Netherlands using prior police contacts	18
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	16
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	16
The role of deprivation and alcohol availability in shaping trends in violent crime	15
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	14
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	14
Penal changes, crises, and the political economy of punishment: An introduction	14
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	13
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	12
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	11
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	10
Social attitudes towards sex work and its criminalization: An empirical study with a Spanish sample	10
Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?	9
Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample	9
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland	9
Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents	8
Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	8
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	8
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	7
What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data	7
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	7
Police visibility, trust in police fairness, and collective efficacy: A multilevel Structural Equation Model	7
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation	7
Crossing borders: Does it matter? Differences between (near-)domestic and cross-border sex traffickers, their victims and modus operandi	6

‘You’re trying to juggle everything’: Understanding the consequences of emotional labour for senior probation officers in England and Wales	6
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	6
The evolution of Nigerian cybercrime: Two case studies of UK-based offender networks	6
Punitive by negligence? The myths and reality of penal nationalism in the Czech Republic	6
Gang members and extremists in Switzerland: Similarities and differences	5
Explaining youth aggression: A situational model of peer influence	5
European legislators’ attitudes toward childhood sexuality from the perspective of age of consent legislation	5
Thank you to reviewers	5
“Moving choice to center stage” in the relationship between the self and offending: Integrating symbolic interactionism and rational choice	4
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	4
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	4
The persistent countervailing consequences of urbanization: A longitudinal study of homicide rates	4
Origin stories: Framing 25 years of Dutch political discourse on child sexual exploitation by tourists and travelers	4
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	4
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	4
A critical perspective on the administrative approach to crime prevention: The case of labour trafficking	4
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	4
Explaining experiences of punishment and degradation in prisons: A comparative analysis of England & Wales and Norway	4
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
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	4
Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy	4
Prison officer students’ perceptions of persons convicted of sexual crimes	4