OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Criminology & Criminal Justice 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Whiteman and gifts: Underlying concepts influencing Ghanaian officials’ explanation of corruption	35
‘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	27
Holding back the tides? Applying the Canute paradox to the regulation of cyberdeviance	23
Gender equality and female incarceration: Evidence from global and regional analyses	22
Deconstructing imprisonment: Exploring sentencing discourses in the District Court of New South Wales	22
Police empowerment hypothesis: A rare glimpse into attitudes toward the police in Saudi Arabia	21
Efficient versus effectiveness: Performance and detachment in prison-based ideological reform—evidence from China	20
The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection	17
Do police make you feel safe? A qualitative comparison of youth and youth service provider perspectives	16
Leaving the table: Organisational (in)justice and the relationship with police officer retention	15
Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation	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	11
Victims of religious hate crime: Victimisation of Muslims, Jews and Hindus compared	10
Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?	10
Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)	10
Moral sight and ethical praxis in the prison classroom	10
Fear, learning, or self-control? Predictors of Russian citizens’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary Covid-19 prevention measures	10
‘Like having your heart ripped out’: Metaphors of loss and survival in the narratives of incarcerated mothers separated from their babies	10
Do rewards support or thwart autonomy in prison? A survey study into the relationships between rewards, autonomy and self-governance ability	9
The judge lottery: Female versus male judges’ decision-making toward restorative justice in intimate partner violence	9
Situational context and public perceptions of officer appearance: A vignette-based study of police uniforms and accouterments	9
Similar cases, different punishment: Case matching as a method for understanding differing detention population trends between the Netherlands and Belgium	8
Mutual legal assistance in investigating online child sexual exploitation and abuse: An analysis of mechanisms in Australia, The Philippines, and Implications for Vietnam	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
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
Women’s perceptions of domestic, intimate partner violence and the government’s interventions in Nigeria: A qualitative study	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
Telecommunication and cyber fraud victimization among Chinese college students: An application of routine activity theory	8
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks	8
Making, unmaking, remaking: Mapping the boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales	7
Reflections on organisational justice among police officers investigating rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	7
Anti-fracking protests and compliance with police: An examination of public opinion in the Anthropocene	7
Improving the ‘victim journey’ when reporting domestic abuse cyberstalking to the police – A pilot project evaluation	6
The technification of domestic abuse: Methods, tools and criminal justice responses	6
Care for both victim-survivors and police investigators of rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	6
Artificial intelligence, illegalised mobility and lucrative alchemy of border utopia	5
Public defenders versus private attorneys: A comparison of criminal case disposition outcomes by type of counsel in Mexico	5
Listening to men on probation: Physical health, access barriers, and improving inclusion health in justice-involved populations	5
Evaluation of an enhanced behavioural monitoring system in UK open prisons	5
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective	5
Sex workers’ experiences of criminal justice in the United Kingdom: Improving responses to sexual violence and harms	5
Going for gold: Professionals’ perspectives on the design and implementation of transformative coercive control offences in Scotland and England and Wales	5
The UK sex offender register: Has the net been cast too wide?	5
A study on challenges and improvement strategies for Taiwan’s anti-money laundering and financial fraud prevention mechanisms: Focusing on virtual currency	5
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter?	5
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs: A meta-analysis of recidivism and other relevant outcomes	5
Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence	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
Book review: Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media	5
Big Data technologies in criminal investigations: The frames of the members of Judiciary Police in Portugal	5
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	5
Signifiers of desistance from a positive criminology perspective: The case of responsibility taking in restorative proceedings	5
‘They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers	5
Making the enforcement rehabilitative: Penal welfarism and emotional labor of police officers in Chinese drug policing	5
Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: How can universities respond?	4
Self-isolation as torture: Autonomy, legal imagination and suffering in prison	4
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry	4
Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime	4
Debt, sex, and money: Imperialist discourses of transactional sex across three geographic and cultural contexts	4
Identifying and understanding barriers to investigation of gender-based hate crimes: Perspectives from law enforcement in Ireland and the United Kingdom	4
Taking back a justice-impacted identity: From person with a legal conviction to professor ex	4
Book review: Criminal Women: Gender Matters	4
Under surveillance: Does Global Positioning System monitoring of offenders reduce recidivism?	4
The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market	4
Ethnic affiliation and reentry difficulties and barriers among parolees	4
Artificial intelligence-assisted criminal justice reporting: An exploratory study of benefits, concerns, and future directions	4
The dynamics of envy in the street field: A sociology of emotions approach to violence in retail drug market	4
The gendered framing of language impairments in criminalised young people	4
Tackling debt problems in the criminal justice system: A study into the trajectories and bottlenecks of imposed financial requirements in the Netherlands	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
People with intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning in the Spanish criminal justice system	4

Coercion and crime: Convergences, divergences and ‘county lines’	4
Organized crime after earthquakes	4
The role of collective efficacy in shaping behavioral responses to fear of crime	4
An astro-green criminological examination of orbital space debris	4
The production of hate crime victim status: Discourses of normalisation and the experiences of LGBT community members	4
‘Facilitator-coordinators’ or ‘umbilical cords’: Staff experiences of supporting desistance following release from prison	4