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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Whiteman and gifts: Underlying concepts influencing Ghanaian officials’ explanation of corruption	27
Police empowerment hypothesis: A rare glimpse into attitudes toward the police in Saudi Arabia	24
‘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	24
Holding back the tides? Applying the Canute paradox to the regulation of cyberdeviance	22
Gender equality and female incarceration: Evidence from global and regional analyses	19
Empowering the police during COVID-19: How do normative and instrumental factors impact public willingness to support expanded police powers?	17
Deconstructing imprisonment: Exploring sentencing discourses in the District Court of New South Wales	17
Do police make you feel safe? A qualitative comparison of youth and youth service provider perspectives	16
The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection	16
Efficient versus effectiveness: Performance and detachment in prison-based ideological reform—evidence from China	16
Leaving the table: Organisational (in)justice and the relationship with police officer retention	14
Fear, learning, or self-control? Predictors of Russian citizens’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary Covid-19 prevention measures	14
Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation	12
Complex lives: Enduring vulnerability associated with care-experience for women in the criminal justice system	12
Victims of religious hate crime: Victimisation of Muslims, Jews and Hindus compared	12
Identity theft, cheating and corruption in college admission in China	12
‘It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)	12
Community perspectives of terrorism and the Nigerian government’s counterterrorism strategies: A systematic review	11
Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?	11
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks	9
Moral sight and ethical praxis in the prison classroom	9
Women’s perceptions of domestic, intimate partner violence and the government’s interventions in Nigeria: A qualitative study	9
Analysing the impact of being a sole or primary carer for dependent relatives on the sentencing of women in the Crown Court, England and Wales	9
Situational context and public perceptions of officer appearance: A vignette-based study of police uniforms and accouterments	9

Telecommunication and cyber fraud victimization among Chinese college students: An application of routine activity theory	8
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’	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
How concentrated disadvantage moderates the built environment and crime relationship on street segments in Los Angeles	8
Punishment and personality: Low agreeableness and low conscientiousness as mediators of the inconsistent/angry parenting–delinquency relationships	8
Similar cases, different punishment: Case matching as a method for understanding differing detention population trends between the Netherlands and Belgium	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
Anti-fracking protests and compliance with police: An examination of public opinion in the Anthropocene	7
The technification of domestic abuse: Methods, tools and criminal justice responses	7
Making, unmaking, remaking: Mapping the boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales	7
Care for both victim-survivors and police investigators of rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	7
Reflections on organisational justice among police officers investigating rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	7
Artificial intelligence, illegalised mobility and lucrative alchemy of border utopia	6
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter?	6
Big Data technologies in criminal investigations: The frames of the members of Judiciary Police in Portugal	6
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective	6
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	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
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs: A meta-analysis of recidivism and other relevant outcomes	6
What is trauma-informed practice? Towards operationalisation of the concept in two prisons for women	5
Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime	5
The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market	5
Ethnic affiliation and reentry difficulties and barriers among parolees	5
The UK sex offender register: Has the net been cast too wide?	5
Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence	5
Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing	5
‘They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers	5
Evaluation of an enhanced behavioural monitoring system in UK open prisons	5
Signifiers of desistance from a positive criminology perspective: The case of responsibility taking in restorative proceedings	5
Book review: Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media	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
Sex workers’ experiences of criminal justice in the United Kingdom: Improving responses to sexual violence and harms	5
Identifying and understanding barriers to investigation of gender-based hate crimes: Perspectives from law enforcement in Ireland and the United Kingdom	4
Debt, sex, and money: Imperialist discourses of transactional sex across three geographic and cultural contexts	4
Merging the peer selection and peer influence effects: Can neutralization beliefs and cognitive impulsivity serve as links in the chain?	4
Coercion and crime: Convergences, divergences and ‘county lines’	4
Self-isolation as torture: Autonomy, legal imagination and suffering in prison	4
UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious coercive control and implications for practice	4
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry	4
Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives	4
The production of hate crime victim status: Discourses of normalisation and the experiences of LGBT community members	4
An astro-green criminological examination of orbital space debris	4
Invisible ghosts of care and penality: Exploring Canadian correctional workers’ perceptions of prisoner well-being, accountability and power	4
Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: How can universities respond?	4
People with intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning in the Spanish criminal justice system	4
“Would your level of disgust change?” Accounting for variant reactions to fatal violence against women on social media	4
Artificial intelligence-assisted criminal justice reporting: An exploratory study of benefits, concerns, and future directions	4
The gendered framing of language impairments in criminalised young people	4

Coping, aggression, perceived social support and demographic variables as predictors of prison adjustment among male incarcerated offenders	4
The dynamics of envy in the street field: A sociology of emotions approach to violence in retail drug market	4
Under surveillance: Does Global Positioning System monitoring of offenders reduce recidivism?	4
‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens	4
‘It feels a bit more sinister’: Police perception of intimate partner violence in the context of socio-economic status	4
Organized crime after earthquakes	4
Manufacturing concern: Inside Richard Nixon’s “law and order” campaign	3
The framing of private security and its regulation in Belgium, 1980–2020	3
Conflicting institutional logics in the control of crime and disorder: The double strategy of administrative and criminal law	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
Prison reform and torture prevention under ‘compromised circumstances’	3
The role of collective efficacy in shaping behavioral responses to fear of crime	3
Tackling debt problems in the criminal justice system: A study into the trajectories and bottlenecks of imposed financial requirements in the Netherlands	3
Book review: Criminal Women: Gender Matters	3
Children and police questioning: A rights-based approach	3
Insulation from loss: Exploring the impact of changing relationships in the liminal period between reoffending and desistance, and substance misuse and recovery	3
(En)gendering change: Understanding the gendered dynamics of domestic abuse perpetrator programmes	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
‘Facilitator-coordinators’ or ‘umbilical cords’: Staff experiences of supporting desistance following release from prison	3
Questions and control in victim–offender meetings	3
Exploring the effects of age and gender on the relationship between psychological distance and worry about crime	3
Temporal measures of modern slavery victimisation	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
‘Seeing disorder’ in an English town	3
‘Falling from a cliff-face’ into the necropolitical abyss: experiences of those with sexual convictions leaving prison	3
Chinese triads and the notion of territory	3
Locating a queer regional imaginary through media framing of male same-sex criminalisation in Newcastle, Australia, post WWII to 1989	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
The dark side of nature conventions: A call to end anthropogenic wildlife destruction	3
Taking back a justice-impacted identity: From person with a legal conviction to professor ex	3
Progression and parole: The perceived institutional consequences of maintaining innocence in prison in England and Wales	3
An international review and normative examination of the collateral consequences of criminal record disclosures for domestic abuse	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
Non-prison confinement as soft carceralism: Architectural ethics and the post-release detention regime in Thailand	2
Me? A criminal? Relationships with offenders and implicit criminal associations	2
Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose?	2
‘Devastating, like it broke me’: Responding to image-based sexual abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
‘Unforeseeable’ and ‘inevitable’: Constructions of prison suicide in Scotland’s Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiries	2
Beyond networks and institutions: Rethinking the role of organization in illicit drug market interaction	2
Prison ethnography by correspondence?	2
From desistance narratives to narratives of rehabilitation: Risk-talk in groupwork for addressing sexual offending	2
UK–EU law enforcement cooperation post-Brexit: A UK law enforcement practitioner perspective	2
The drop in worry about crime and its gender gap: Trends in England and Wales from 1998 to 2019/2020	2
Police leadership and legitimacy in the context of a global pandemic	2
Reflecting on flexibility in the probation system: Learning from Catalonia and England and Wales	2
Rape myth acceptance among Croatian and Cypriot police officers	2
The pains of going to court: Unrepresented defendants’ ability to effectively participate in court proceedings	2
The role of ‘place’ in understanding the drivers of serious youth violence: An examination of identity, territorialism and community	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
Parental socialization and adolescent dating violence victimization	2
The Appropriate Adult: Their perspective working in the criminal justice system	2
How cryptomarket communities navigate marketplace structures, risk perceptions and ideologies amid evolving cryptocurrency practices	2
An intersectional analysis of stranger, acquaintance and domestic violence victimisation in England and Wales using MAIHDA	2
“It’s not because they’re Gypsy”: Practitioners perspectives of Gypsies, Travellers and Crime and Justice	2
Understanding the new geographies of organised crime: Empirical studies into the spatialities of organised criminal phenomena	2
Institutional thoughtlessness and the incarcerated pregnancy	2
European probation order: What doesn’t work? Recommendations to overcome its underuse	2
Anticipatory justice: Exploring expectations of police treatment and trust in police	2
A criminological analysis of proceeds of crime legislation in three Australian states	2
Who is the victim? Exploring the complexities of misidentification	2