OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminology & Criminal Justice is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Whiteman and gifts: Underlying concepts influencing Ghanaian officials’ explanation of corruption	30
Police empowerment hypothesis: A rare glimpse into attitudes toward the police in Saudi Arabia	25
‘I thought I was screwed before I started that program’: The impact on self-belief of the Peace Education Program at Adelaide Women’s Prison	22
Holding back the tides? Applying the Canute paradox to the regulation of cyberdeviance	19
Gender equality and female incarceration: Evidence from global and regional analyses	19
Deconstructing imprisonment: Exploring sentencing discourses in the District Court of New South Wales	18
Leaving the table: Organisational (in)justice and the relationship with police officer retention	17
Efficient versus effectiveness: Performance and detachment in prison-based ideological reform—evidence from China	16
Do police make you feel safe? A qualitative comparison of youth and youth service provider perspectives	16
Victims of religious hate crime: Victimisation of Muslims, Jews and Hindus compared	14
The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection	14
Complex lives: Enduring vulnerability associated with care-experience for women in the criminal justice system	13
Identity theft, cheating and corruption in college admission in China	13
‘It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?	12
Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation	12
Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)	12
Fear, learning, or self-control? Predictors of Russian citizens’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary Covid-19 prevention measures	12
‘Like having your heart ripped out’: Metaphors of loss and survival in the narratives of incarcerated mothers separated from their babies	10
Moral sight and ethical praxis in the prison classroom	10
Community perspectives of terrorism and the Nigerian government’s counterterrorism strategies: A systematic review	10
Children and young people’s perceptions of and interactions with the police: A case for ‘defunding the police’, ‘refunding civil society’ and introducing ‘community first’	9
Situational context and public perceptions of officer appearance: A vignette-based study of police uniforms and accouterments	9
Punishment and personality: Low agreeableness and low conscientiousness as mediators of the inconsistent/angry parenting–delinquency relationships	9
Women’s perceptions of domestic, intimate partner violence and the government’s interventions in Nigeria: A qualitative study	9

Similar cases, different punishment: Case matching as a method for understanding differing detention population trends between the Netherlands and Belgium	9
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks	8
Criminal justice policy as evolutionary: A study of disjointed incrementalism and the evolving definition of victim of trafficking in persons in U.S. law	8
Anti-fracking protests and compliance with police: An examination of public opinion in the Anthropocene	8
Telecommunication and cyber fraud victimization among Chinese college students: An application of routine activity theory	8
Reflections on organisational justice among police officers investigating rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	8
How concentrated disadvantage moderates the built environment and crime relationship on street segments in Los Angeles	8
Body-worn cameras: An effective or cosmetic policing response to domestic and family violence?	7
Improving the ‘victim journey’ when reporting domestic abuse cyberstalking to the police – A pilot project evaluation	7
A study on challenges and improvement strategies for Taiwan’s anti-money laundering and financial fraud prevention mechanisms: Focusing on virtual currency	7
Making, unmaking, remaking: Mapping the boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales	7
The technification of domestic abuse: Methods, tools and criminal justice responses	7
Care for both victim-survivors and police investigators of rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	7
Big Data technologies in criminal investigations: The frames of the members of Judiciary Police in Portugal	7
Exploring sentencing disparities in the Nordic context: A multilevel analysis of court- and judge-level variation in sentences of ‘aggravated driving under the influence’ in Finnish district courts	7
Evaluation of an enhanced behavioural monitoring system in UK open prisons	6
Public defenders versus private attorneys: A comparison of criminal case disposition outcomes by type of counsel in Mexico	6
Going for gold: Professionals’ perspectives on the design and implementation of transformative coercive control offences in Scotland and England and Wales	6
Book review: Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media	6
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective	6
The UK sex offender register: Has the net been cast too wide?	5
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs: A meta-analysis of recidivism and other relevant outcomes	5
The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market	5
Book review: Criminal Justice in Scotland BuchanJAndersonSMorrisonK, Criminal Justice in Scotland, Routledge: London, 2025; 284 pp.: ISBN: 9781032445816, £145.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781032445809, £39.9	5
Signifiers of desistance from a positive criminology perspective: The case of responsibility taking in restorative proceedings	5
Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime	5
‘They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers	5
Ethnic affiliation and reentry difficulties and barriers among parolees	5
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter?	5
Artificial intelligence, illegalised mobility and lucrative alchemy of border utopia	5
Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence	5
Sex workers’ experiences of criminal justice in the United Kingdom: Improving responses to sexual violence and harms	5
Self-isolation as torture: Autonomy, legal imagination and suffering in prison	4
Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives	4
The gendered framing of language impairments in criminalised young people	4
Invisible ghosts of care and penality: Exploring Canadian correctional workers’ perceptions of prisoner well-being, accountability and power	4
Debt, sex, and money: Imperialist discourses of transactional sex across three geographic and cultural contexts	4
Artificial intelligence-assisted criminal justice reporting: An exploratory study of benefits, concerns, and future directions	4
“Would your level of disgust change?” Accounting for variant reactions to fatal violence against women on social media	4
Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: How can universities respond?	4
Organized crime after earthquakes	4
Under surveillance: Does Global Positioning System monitoring of offenders reduce recidivism?	4
Tackling debt problems in the criminal justice system: A study into the trajectories and bottlenecks of imposed financial requirements in the Netherlands	4
Identifying and understanding barriers to investigation of gender-based hate crimes: Perspectives from law enforcement in Ireland and the United Kingdom	4
An astro-green criminological examination of orbital space debris	4
Coping, aggression, perceived social support and demographic variables as predictors of prison adjustment among male incarcerated offenders	4
Coercion and crime: Convergences, divergences and ‘county lines’	4
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry	4
Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing	4
‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens	4

Merging the peer selection and peer influence effects: Can neutralization beliefs and cognitive impulsivity serve as links in the chain?	4
Taking back a justice-impacted identity: From person with a legal conviction to professor ex	4
The production of hate crime victim status: Discourses of normalisation and the experiences of LGBT community members	4
The dynamics of envy in the street field: A sociology of emotions approach to violence in retail drug market	4
‘It feels a bit more sinister’: Police perception of intimate partner violence in the context of socio-economic status	4
UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious coercive control and implications for practice	4
People with intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning in the Spanish criminal justice system	4
Prison reform and torture prevention under ‘compromised circumstances’	3
Manufacturing concern: Inside Richard Nixon’s “law and order” campaign	3
‘Facilitator-coordinators’ or ‘umbilical cords’: Staff experiences of supporting desistance following release from prison	3
Children and police questioning: A rights-based approach	3
Refugee and migrant women’s pathways into and through prisons: A systematic review of qualitative studies	3
Disciplinary discretion, interaction and compassion: Transports between prisons from the perspective of the transporters	3
‘Falling from a cliff-face’ into the necropolitical abyss: experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison	3
The dark side of nature conventions: A call to end anthropogenic wildlife destruction	3
Book review: Criminal Women: Gender Matters	3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on police recorded domestic abuse: Empirical evidence from seven English police forces	3
Within-case comparison of the adult and youth justice systems: New directions for a ‘fractured’ penal state?	3
Mitigating and bordering: The dual nature of Canadian collateral consequences of conviction	3
Hollowing out peer support: Knowledge conversion in hostile knowledge environments of open prisons	3
The nexus of scam and fake news: An exploratory study of cases of fake news-scams in Singapore	3
Is it part of my job? Prosecution and restorative justice in Chile	3
Exploring the effects of age and gender on the relationship between psychological distance and worry about crime	3
Progression and parole: The perceived institutional consequences of maintaining innocence in prison in England and Wales	3
The role of collective efficacy in shaping behavioral responses to fear of crime	3
‘Seeing disorder’ in an English town	3
(En)gendering change: Understanding the gendered dynamics of domestic abuse perpetrator programmes	3
Locating a queer regional imaginary through media framing of male same-sex criminalisation in Newcastle, Australia, post WWII to 1989	3
Questions and control in victim–offender meetings	3
The pains of going to court: Unrepresented defendants’ ability to effectively participate in court proceedings	2
Anticipatory justice: Exploring expectations of police treatment and trust in police	2
European probation order: What doesn’t work? Recommendations to overcome its underuse	2
An international review and normative examination of the collateral consequences of criminal record disclosures for domestic abuse	2
The Appropriate Adult: Their perspective working in the criminal justice system	2
Prison ethnography by correspondence?	2
Chinese triads and the notion of territory	2
Who is the victim? Exploring the complexities of misidentification	2
Beyond networks and institutions: Rethinking the role of organization in illicit drug market interaction	2
The emotional infrastructure of a cybercrime collective: Evidence from Dark0de	2
‘Devastating, like it broke me’: Responding to image-based sexual abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Understanding the new geographies of organised crime: Empirical studies into the spatialities of organised criminal phenomena	2
‘Unforeseeable’ and ‘inevitable’: Constructions of prison suicide in Scotland’s Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiries	2
How cryptomarket communities navigate marketplace structures, risk perceptions and ideologies amid evolving cryptocurrency practices	2
Rape myth acceptance among Croatian and Cypriot police officers	2
Just for kids? How the youth decarceration discourse endorses adult incarceration	2
Does the sex of judges matter? Analysis of sentencing in sex crimes in Spain	2
Conflicting institutional logics in the control of crime and disorder: The double strategy of administrative and criminal law	2
The framing of private security and its regulation in Belgium, 1980–2020	2
Exploring ‘problematisations’ of alcohol intoxication in sentencing	2
Friend and foe: A study on the Dutch intelligence service’s sense-making of AI	2
Exiting the captaverse: Digital resistance and its limits pre and post the Covid-19 pandemic	2
“It’s not because they’re Gypsy”: Practitioners perspectives of Gypsies, Travellers and Crime and Justice	2
Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose?	2
UK–EU law enforcement cooperation post-Brexit: A UK law enforcement practitioner perspective	2
From desistance narratives to narratives of rehabilitation: Risk-talk in groupwork for addressing sexual offending	2
A criminological analysis of proceeds of crime legislation in three Australian states	2
Parental socialization and adolescent dating violence victimization	2
Insulation from loss: Exploring the impact of changing relationships in the liminal period between reoffending and desistance, and substance misuse and recovery	2
The role of ‘place’ in understanding the drivers of serious youth violence: An examination of identity, territorialism and community	2
Police leadership and legitimacy in the context of a global pandemic	2
Non-prison confinement as soft carceralism: Architectural ethics and the post-release detention regime in Thailand	2
Institutional thoughtlessness and the incarcerated pregnancy	2
The drop in worry about crime and its gender gap: Trends in England and Wales from 1998 to 2019/2020	2