OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Criminology & Criminal Justice is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Deconstructing imprisonment: Exploring sentencing discourses in the District Court of New South Wales	20
Investigating the role of social media abuse in gender-based violence: The experiences of women police officers	17
The Whiteman and gifts: Underlying concepts influencing Ghanaian officials’ explanation of corruption	13
Gender equality and female incarceration: Evidence from global and regional analyses	13
The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection	12
‘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	12
Empowering the police during COVID-19: How do normative and instrumental factors impact public willingness to support expanded police powers?	12
Do police make you feel safe? A qualitative comparison of youth and youth service provider perspectives	12
Police empowerment hypothesis: A rare glimpse into attitudes toward the police in Saudi Arabia	12
Leaving the table: Organisational (in)justice and the relationship with police officer retention	11
Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation	10
Fear, learning, or self-control? Predictors of Russian citizens’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary Covid-19 prevention measures	10
Streamlining out-of-court disposals: Assessing the impact on reoffending and police practice	10
‘It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Victims of religious hate crime: Victimisation of Muslims, Jews and Hindus compared	9
Identity theft, cheating and corruption in college admission in China	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	7
Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?	7
Telecommunication and cyber fraud victimization among Chinese college students: An application of routine activity theory	6
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks	6
Criminal justice policy as evolutionary: A study of disjointed incrementalism and the evolving definition of victim of trafficking in persons in U.S. law	6
Punishment and personality: Low agreeableness and low conscientiousness as mediators of the inconsistent/angry parenting–delinquency relationships	6
How concentrated disadvantage moderates the built environment and crime relationship on street segments in Los Angeles	6
Training police search and rescue teams: Implications for missing persons work	6
Moral sight and ethical praxis in the prison classroom	6

Women’s perceptions of domestic, intimate partner violence and the government’s interventions in Nigeria: A qualitative study	6
Community perspectives of terrorism and the Nigerian government’s counterterrorism strategies: A systematic review	6
Situational context and public perceptions of officer appearance: A vignette-based study of police uniforms and accouterments	6
Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)	6
Big Data technologies in criminal investigations: The frames of the members of Judiciary Police in Portugal	5
Making, unmaking, remaking: Mapping the boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales	5
Care for both victim-survivors and police investigators of rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	5
The technification of domestic abuse: Methods, tools and criminal justice responses	5
Improving the ‘victim journey’ when reporting domestic abuse cyberstalking to the police – A pilot project evaluation	5
Street gangs and coercive control: The gendered exploitation of young women and girls in county lines	5
What it takes to be a “Good” correctional officer: Occupational fitness and co-worker expectations from the perspective of correctional officer recruits in Canada	5
Book review: Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media	5
Body-worn cameras: An effective or cosmetic policing response to domestic and family violence?	5
Anti-fracking protests and compliance with police: An examination of public opinion in the Anthropocene	5
Artificial intelligence, illegalised mobility and lucrative alchemy of border utopia	5
Ethnic affiliation and reentry difficulties and barriers among parolees	4
‘A welcome change . . . but early days’: Irish Service Provider Perspectives on Domestic Abuse and the Domestic Violence Act 2018	4
Reintegration experiences in a sample of Israeli parolees on completion of their term of supervision: A qualitative study	4
Public defenders versus private attorneys: A comparison of criminal case disposition outcomes by type of counsel in Mexico	4
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter?	4
Going for gold: Professionals’ perspectives on the design and implementation of transformative coercive control offences in Scotland and England and Wales	4
‘They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers	4
Sex workers’ experiences of criminal justice in the United Kingdom: Improving responses to sexual violence and harms	4
Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime	4
What is trauma-informed practice? Towards operationalisation of the concept in two prisons for women	4
The UK sex offender register: Has the net been cast too wide?	4
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	4
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs: A meta-analysis of recidivism and other relevant outcomes	4
Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing	4
Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence	4
The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market	4
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective	4
Evaluation of an enhanced behavioural monitoring system in UK open prisons	4
Signifiers of desistance from a positive criminology perspective: The case of responsibility taking in restorative proceedings	4
“Would your level of disgust change?” Accounting for variant reactions to fatal violence against women on social media	3
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry	3
Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: How can universities respond?	3
Merging the peer selection and peer influence effects: Can neutralization beliefs and cognitive impulsivity serve as links in the chain?	3
Coping, aggression, perceived social support and demographic variables as predictors of prison adjustment among male incarcerated offenders	3
An astro-green criminological examination of orbital space debris	3
Identifying and understanding barriers to investigation of gender-based hate crimes: Perspectives from law enforcement in Ireland and the United Kingdom	3
Coercion and crime: Convergences, divergences and ‘county lines’	3
Organized crime after earthquakes	3
People with intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning in the Spanish criminal justice system	3
Artificial intelligence-assisted criminal justice reporting: An exploratory study of benefits, concerns, and future directions	3
The gendered framing of language impairments in criminalised young people	3
Invisible ghosts of care and penality: Exploring Canadian correctional workers’ perceptions of prisoner well-being, accountability and power	3
Institutionalising restorative justice for adults in Scotland: An empirical study of criminal justice practitioners’ perspectives	3
UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious coercive control and implications for practice	3
Under surveillance: Does Global Positioning System monitoring of offenders reduce recidivism?	3

‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens	3
Debt, sex, and money: Imperialist discourses of transactional sex across three geographic and cultural contexts	3
Understanding violent extremism: Socio-demographic, criminal and psychopathological background characteristics of detainees residing in Dutch terrorism wings	3
The dynamics of envy in the street field: A sociology of emotions approach to violence in retail drug market	3
Book review: Organizational Change in an Urban Police Department: Innovating to Reform	3