OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigating the role of social media abuse in gender-based violence: The experiences of women police officers	22
Book review: Capital Punishment in Independent Ireland: A Social, Political and Legal History, by David M Doyle and Liam O’Callaghan (eds.)	16
Criminal records and post-prison employment in Ghana: Formal and informal means of performing criminal background checks	16
Deconstructing imprisonment: Exploring sentencing discourses in the District Court of New South Wales	15
‘Devastating, like it broke me’: Responding to image-based sexual abuse in Aotearoa New Zealand	10
Institutional thoughtlessness and the incarcerated pregnancy	10
Sport, criminal justice interventions and possible future selves: Towards a research agenda	9
Book review: Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media	9
The anticipation of an investigation: The effects of expecting investigations after a death from natural causes in prison custody	9
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	8
The parole dossier and its negative impacts on prisoner identity	8
Evaluation of an enhanced behavioural monitoring system in UK open prisons	7
Going for gold: Professionals’ perspectives on the design and implementation of transformative coercive control offences in Scotland and England and Wales	6
The pains of going to court: Unrepresented defendants’ ability to effectively participate in court proceedings	6
Signifiers of desistance from a positive criminology perspective: The case of responsibility taking in restorative proceedings	6
“It’s not because they’re Gypsy”: Practitioners perspectives of Gypsies, Travellers and Crime and Justice	6
The limits of ‘professionalisation from above’: On the ‘re-professionalisation’ of street-level policing in England	6
Book review: Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control, by Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea	6
Does context matter? Examining robbery reporting in a high crime country	5
Sexual offences committed by members of the armed forces: Is the service justice system fit for purpose?	5
Gender equality and female incarceration: Evidence from global and regional analyses	5
Whose confidence? Regional leaders’ perspectives on building confidence in a reconfigured probation service	5
The Whiteman and gifts: Underlying concepts influencing Ghanaian officials’ explanation of corruption	5
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs: A meta-analysis of recidivism and other relevant outcomes	5
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on police recorded domestic abuse: Empirical evidence from seven English police forces	5

Prison reform and torture prevention under ‘compromised circumstances’	4
Child maltreatment, low self-control, and delinquent behaviour of early-aged adolescents	4
Children and police questioning: A rights-based approach	4
Questions and control in victim–offender meetings	4
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective	4
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter?	4
Book review: Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment: The Case of Life Without Parole in California	4
Book review: Drug Courts and the Criminal Justice System	4
Public defenders versus private attorneys: A comparison of criminal case disposition outcomes by type of counsel in Mexico	4
What is trauma-informed practice? Towards operationalisation of the concept in two prisons for women	4
Mass shootings, fatality thresholds and defining by numbers: Political and social consequences	4
Rape myth acceptance among Croatian and Cypriot police officers	4
What it takes to be a “Good” correctional officer: Occupational fitness and co-worker expectations from the perspective of correctional officer recruits in Canada	4
Book review: Responses to Serious Offending by Children: Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives Lynch N, Van den Brink Y and Forde L (eds)	4
Lifting the lid on Pandora’s box: Putting professional curiosity into practice	4
Is it part of my job? Prosecution and restorative justice in Chile	4
Understanding the new geographies of organised crime: Empirical studies into the spatialities of organised criminal phenomena	4
Mechanisms of the social control of children and young people: From ‘stop and search’ to ‘stop and engage’ in Police Scotland	4
Preventing future crime in adolescent drug offenders: A study of differential sanction effects on recidivism	4
Artificial intelligence, illegalised mobility and lucrative alchemy of border utopia	3
Ethnic affiliation and reentry difficulties and barriers among parolees	3
‘Dragonisation’ revisited: A progressive criminal justice policy in Wales?	3
Reflecting on flexibility in the probation system: Learning from Catalonia and England and Wales	3
Book review: Macrocriminology and Freedom, by John Braithwaite	3
New ideas, enduring cultural barriers? An analysis of recommendations from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Restorative Justice in England and Wales	3
Conducting criminological fieldwork in China: A comprehensive review and reflection on power relations in the field	3
Me? A criminal? Relationships with offenders and implicit criminal associations	3
Leaving the table: Organisational (in)justice and the relationship with police officer retention	3
The Qianke system in China: Disorganisation, discrimination and dispersion	3
Researching inside police custody in four jurisdictions: ‘Getting in’, ‘getting on’, ‘getting your hands dirty’ and ‘getting through it’	3
The impact of the kingpin strategy on extortion and kidnapping	3
The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market	3
The predictability of court-adjudicated compensation for pain and suffering damages within the criminal proceedings and the role of victim labels: A case study on victims of sexual crime in the Nether	3
The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection	3
Privacy, promotionalism and the proliferation of state-performed criminal record screening in the Netherlands: How a restrictive legal framework can still result in a steep increase of criminal backgr	2
‘A wee kick up the arse’: Mentoring, motivation and desistance from crime	2
Stable housing, ‘home’ and desistance: Views from Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Direct supervision and the epistemic culture of prisons	2
The geographical embeddedness of organised crime in China: A rural–urban divide perspective	2
Is it possible to reform police stops? Politicisation and police change in two European countries	2
“It’s all about covering your . . .”: The unintended consequences of police accountability measures	2
‘A welcome change . . . but early days’: Irish Service Provider Perspectives on Domestic Abuse and the Domestic Violence Act 2018	2
The Kerry Babies, criminology, and Reinhart Koselleck	2
“You are first a migrant”: The role of police procedural injustice and social identity among Nigerian immigrants in the United States	2
Painful lives: Understanding self-harm amongst care-experienced women in prison	2
Exploring reconvictions and ‘crime-free’ gaps over time: What were the experience of one cohort of English probationers?	2
‘They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers	2
Do police make you feel safe? A qualitative comparison of youth and youth service provider perspectives	2
The exclusion of serious and organised offenders and their victims from the offer of restorative justice: Should this be so and what happens when the offer is put on the table?	2
Exiting the captaverse: Digital resistance and its limits pre and post the Covid-19 pandemic	2

To pay or not to pay: An exploratory analysis of sextortion in the context of romance fraud	2
Human rights abuses and criminal justice in policing practices in Bangladesh	2
Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime	2
De(a)fining consent: Exploring nuances of offering and receiving sexual consent among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people	2
Reintegration experiences in a sample of Israeli parolees on completion of their term of supervision: A qualitative study	2
When social media feeds classic punitivism on media: The coverage of the glorification of terrorism on XXI	2
Book review: Crime, Justice and Social Order: Essays in Honour of A. E. Bottoms, Clarendon Studies in Criminology Liebling A, Shapland J, Sparks R, et al. (eds)	2
Professional support and re-entry preparedness among prisoners	2
Exploring criminal justice policy transfer models and mobilities using a case study of violence reduction	2
UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious coercive control and implications for practice	2
The drop in worry about crime and its gender gap: Trends in England and Wales from 1998 to 2019/2020	2
The emotional infrastructure of a cybercrime collective: Evidence from Dark0de	2
Empowering the police during COVID-19: How do normative and instrumental factors impact public willingness to support expanded police powers?	2
Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence	2