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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Police empowerment hypothesis: A rare glimpse into attitudes toward the police in Saudi Arabia	23
Deconstructing imprisonment: Exploring sentencing discourses in the District Court of New South Wales	20
The Whiteman and gifts: Underlying concepts influencing Ghanaian officials’ explanation of corruption	16
Gender equality and female incarceration: Evidence from global and regional analyses	16
‘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	15
Investigating the role of social media abuse in gender-based violence: The experiences of women police officers	12
Do police make you feel safe? A qualitative comparison of youth and youth service provider perspectives	11
The value of liminal cases in developing a narrative victimology: The case of families of people serving an indeterminate sentence for public protection	11
Leaving the table: Organisational (in)justice and the relationship with police officer retention	10
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?	10
Empowering the police during COVID-19: How do normative and instrumental factors impact public willingness to support expanded police powers?	10
‘It is not about punishment, it’s about protection’: Policing ‘vulnerabilities’ and the securitisation of public health in the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Streamlining out-of-court disposals: Assessing the impact on reoffending and police practice	9
Concentrations of harm: Geographic and demographic patterning in human trafficking and related victimisation	9
Victims of religious hate crime: Victimisation of Muslims, Jews and Hindus compared	9
Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?	8
Fear, learning, or self-control? Predictors of Russian citizens’ compliance with mandatory and voluntary Covid-19 prevention measures	8
Dispositions that matter: Investigating criminalized women’s resettlement through their (trans)carceral habitus	7
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
Moral sight and ethical praxis in the prison classroom	6
Community perspectives of terrorism and the Nigerian government’s counterterrorism strategies: A systematic review	6
Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)	6
Negotiating bereavement and loss: Influencing persistence and desistance from crime	6
The technification of domestic abuse: Methods, tools and criminal justice responses	5
Criminal justice policy as evolutionary: A study of disjointed incrementalism and the evolving definition of victim of trafficking in persons in U.S. law	5

Women’s perceptions of domestic, intimate partner violence and the government’s interventions in Nigeria: A qualitative study	5
How concentrated disadvantage moderates the built environment and crime relationship on street segments in Los Angeles	5
Training police search and rescue teams: Implications for missing persons work	5
Punishment and personality: Low agreeableness and low conscientiousness as mediators of the inconsistent/angry parenting–delinquency relationships	5
Persist to desist: How to maintain desistance from crime in the face of severe setbacks	5
Situational context and public perceptions of officer appearance: A vignette-based study of police uniforms and accouterments	5
Telecommunication and cyber fraud victimization among Chinese college students: An application of routine activity theory	5
Public defenders versus private attorneys: A comparison of criminal case disposition outcomes by type of counsel in Mexico	4
Care for both victim-survivors and police investigators of rape and serious sexual offences in England and Wales	4
UK victim-survivor experiences of intimate partner spiritual abuse and religious coercive control and implications for practice	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
Going for gold: Professionals’ perspectives on the design and implementation of transformative coercive control offences in Scotland and England and Wales	4
Routine activities and fraud re-victimization among older adults: Do types of routine activities matter?	4
Big Data technologies in criminal investigations: The frames of the members of Judiciary Police in Portugal	4
Accessing justice: The impact of discretion, ‘deservedness’ and distributive justice on the equitable allocation of policing resources	4
Anti-fracking protests and compliance with police: An examination of public opinion in the Anthropocene	4
Evaluation of an enhanced behavioural monitoring system in UK open prisons	4
Bricks or cooks? Geographical and social determinants of the investment choices of mafia-type organized crime	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
Signifiers of desistance from a positive criminology perspective: The case of responsibility taking in restorative proceedings	4
Assessing the seriousness of cybercrime: The case of computer misuse crime in the United Kingdom and the victims’ perspective	4
Making, unmaking, remaking: Mapping the boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales	4
Body-worn cameras: An effective or cosmetic policing response to domestic and family violence?	4
Book review: Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media	4
‘A welcome change . . . but early days’: Irish Service Provider Perspectives on Domestic Abuse and the Domestic Violence Act 2018	4
What is trauma-informed practice? Towards operationalisation of the concept in two prisons for women	4
The effectiveness of restorative justice programs: A meta-analysis of recidivism and other relevant outcomes	4
Artificial intelligence, illegalised mobility and lucrative alchemy of border utopia	4
Street gangs and coercive control: The gendered exploitation of young women and girls in county lines	4
Improving the ‘victim journey’ when reporting domestic abuse cyberstalking to the police – A pilot project evaluation	4
‘They don’t do nothing’: Exploring marginalized people who use drugs’ experiences with and expectations of private security officers	3
The geographies and complexities of online networks in the off-street sex market	3
“Would your level of disgust change?” Accounting for variant reactions to fatal violence against women on social media	3
Under surveillance: Does Global Positioning System monitoring of offenders reduce recidivism?	3
An astro-green criminological examination of orbital space debris	3
Debt, sex, and money: Imperialist discourses of transactional sex across three geographic and cultural contexts	3
Reintegration experiences in a sample of Israeli parolees on completion of their term of supervision: A qualitative study	3
Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry	3
Organized crime after earthquakes	3
Students’ help-seeking for experiences of interpersonal violence: How can universities respond?	3
Shame and blame: Secondary stigma among families of convicted sex offenders	3
Merging the peer selection and peer influence effects: Can neutralization beliefs and cognitive impulsivity serve as links in the chain?	3
Ethnic affiliation and reentry difficulties and barriers among parolees	3
Mismatches and criminal justice policy: The case of GPS for domestic violence	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
‘I’m a red-blooded male’: Understanding men’s experiences of domestic abuse through a feminist lens	3
The dynamics of envy in the street field: A sociology of emotions approach to violence in retail drug market	3
Coercion and crime: Convergences, divergences and ‘county lines’	3