OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Law Crime and Justice is 1. 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
Using machine learning to conduct crime linking of residential burglary	33
"Victim is such a touchy word": Rethinking victimhood among human trafficking intervention court defendants in the US	19
An empirical study of social disorganization theory in China	17
Mapping predictors of delinquent and criminal behavior: A bibliometric analysis of trends and research frontiers	16
Patterns of child and adolescent sexual abuse in the era of COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria	15
Does performance appraisal fairness alleviate police officers’ organizational silence? -Considering the moderating effect of trust-	14
Representations of traffickers in official UK discourse: Examining the least known component of the human trafficking equation	13
Penalty effect of China's Plea Leniency System: Evidence from theft cases	12
Forced marriage in Finland: A continuum from honour-based violence to human trafficking	12
The relationship between victimization and vaping results from monitoring the future	11
Implementation issues with hot spot policing	11
Regional variation in sentences for child sexual abuse: An empirical study with Finnish court data	10
Embodied overcrowding and sensory tensions: A carceral autoethnography of Philippine jails	10
Conflict or cooperation: An empirical study on the relationship between prosecution and adjudication behind China's “prosecutorial justice”	10
Criminal responsibility and profile of Turkish firesetters with schizophrenia	10
‘Nowhere is safe for us’: An analysis of gender discrimination against female inmates in a male correctional institution	9
Predicting support for fine penalty replacing imprisonment: Crime type, the severity of crime, situational factors and demographic characteristics: A factorial survey approach	9
Spatio-temporal characteristics of sexual crime and influencing factors of commercial service facilities: A case study of Haining City, China	9
The wave of consent-based rape laws in Europe	8
Procedural justice and state compensation in Ireland: accounting for shortcomings and measuring improvements	8
Discouraging dignity: Linguistic barriers to transforming the prison environment	8
Criminal sanctions on identity theft in Shanghai: An empirical case law analysis	7
The impact of data quality on spatial patterns of burglary and association with socio-environmental characteristics: A comparison between data from the Judicial Documents Website and police records	7
Decentring counter-terrorism	7
“More intelligent, less emotive and more greedy”: Hierarchies of blame in online fraud	7

Criminal record expungement and resocialisation: German experience and reflections for China	6
Serving on WeChat: Understanding the logics of police’s engagement with the public in Chinese contexts	6
Gender, governance, and countering violent extremism (CVE) in the UK	6
Police recruits' attitudes toward the death penalty in Trinidad and Tobago	6
Buffering or enhancing? An exploratory study of gender differences in the moderating role of self-control in cyberbullying perpetration	6
Principle of reasonableness in international standards of civil proceedings	6
Moving out and moving on: The experiences of women who relocated from high crime communities in Trinidad and Tobago	6
“I just took the beating”: Indigenous peoples’ experiences with police use of force	5
Mapping restorative justice and restorative practices in criminal justice in the Republic of Ireland	5
Study on the spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of theft crimes: A comparative analysis before and during COVID-19	5
Possible scope of penalization of criminal attempts in a democratic state	5
On the ‘darkness of dark figure’ of sexual crimes: Survivors' rape reporting experiences with the Nigerian police	5
‘Safety overrides all other concerns’: On why collective discipline in China fail to rehabilitate female prisoners	5
Impression management in corporate corruption settlements: The storied self of the prosecutorial authority	4
Editorial Board	4
Out in the cold? The experiences of foreign national prisoners in Iceland's open prisons	4
“Whenever big changes come, big talks don't” – An examination of the police experience of recruitment and promotion positive action processes	4
Criminal justice participation among Japanese adults: A preliminary study	4
Discipline, morality and the façade of localism in action: The war on terror and the regulation of UK community resilience	4
Evaluations of countering violent extremism programs: Linking success to content, approach, setting, and participants	4
Responding to ‘image-based domestic abuse’	4
Finding employment in the stigma machine: Reflections from Canada’s penal voluntary sector	4
The weakest link? Investigative issues in serial sexual assault that lead to wrongful conviction	3
Societal responses and policing during “lockdown” of the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study between Taiwan and the U.S.	3
Editorial Board	3
The aftermath of campus sexual harassment: Psychological and academic effects	3
Editorial Board	3
Social cohesion, mutual efficacy and informal social control: Collective efficacy and community-based crime prevention	3
The compliance game: Legal endogeneity in anti-bribery settlement negotiations	3
Governance and counter-terrorism: Engaging moderate and non-violent extremist movements in combatting jihadist-linked terrorism	3
The Dutch approach to honour-based violence: Navigating the complexities	3
The effects of reward systems in prison: A systematic review	3
Living with the fear of disclosure: exploring post-hire experiences of people with criminal records in England and Wales	3
Mind the gaps: Improving the legal and institutional approach to forced marriage as honour-based violence in Spain	3
Demystifying China’s police tactical units	2
Editorial Board	2
Bureaucratized snitch markets: The commodification of criminal intelligence under China's ligong regime	2
Research of corporate compliance in China: Review and reflections	2
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue: Feminist approaches to justice: Contributions to CSW68	2
Ecologies of suppression: A constraint-opportunity model of child sexual abuse disclosure among male survivors in China	2
Women demand government action: Violence against women and local government legitimacy	2
Perspectives on peer mentoring and employment prospects post release for incarcerated women in England and Wales	2
How acts become hate crime: The police's documenting of criminal cases	2
Sanction for prosecution in ‘Offences Against the State’ in India: The prerogative of the political and the withdrawal of the judicial	2
Corrigendum to ‘Establishing the nexus among mob justice, human rights violations and the state: Evidence from Nigeria’ [Int. J. Crime Crim. Justice Law volume (2023) Start page–End page/100573]	2
“I know it when I see it”: Public opinion on removing guns from compromised owners	2
Factors that foster individual willingness to serve in rehabilitation-oriented penal sector volunteer roles in Japan	2
Exploring victim-survivors’ lived experiences of coercion and coercive contexts in forced marriage	2
Resettlement and citizenship in Iceland: The role and position of halfway house Vernd	2
Cyber victimization and social cohesion: Unraveling correlates of cyberbullying and cyberstalking in Canada	2

Evolutionary fraud, the global scamming ecosystem and a typology of actors	2
The systemic procedural injustice faced by victim-survivors in police responses to rape and ‘serious’ sexual offences: A comprehensive study of four forces in England and Wales	2
Informality in magistrates’ courts as a barrier to participation	2
The path from childhood to crime: Adverse childhood experiences, personality, substance abuse, and criminal decision-making	2
Inequality, cumulative disadvantage and youth justice: Towards an analytical framework for understanding and addressing inequalities in youth justice decision-making	2
Surviving in a small island state prison. Analysing prison officer support and assistance as narrated by people in prison	2
Understanding the role of case management systems in criminal investigations	2
Editorial Board	2
Intelligent justice: AI-driven forensics and legal process for criminal justice reforms	2
Moralization of law, heavy-penaltyism, and retributive justice: A corpus-assisted study of legal consciousness on Chinese social media	1
Predictive policing and negotiations of (in)formality: Exploring the Swiss case	1
From ‘talismanic label’ to accountability: tracing the public–private divide in political elites' drug trafficking crimes	1
Addressing honour-based violence: Comparative perspectives	1
Community-led diversion of Indigenous young people from the justice system: The role of government administrative data	1
When numbers meet justice: Examining the consistency between quantitative risk assessment tools (PCL-R, KSORAS) scores and court dispositions	1
Addressing structural epistemic injustice in relation to honour killings under the shadow of court decisions in Türkiye	1
Jurisdiction in online speech crime cases in the European Union	1
Revisiting packer’s models: Examining Nigeria's criminal justice system in the COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 era	1
Editorial Board	1
Political pressure and information bias in arrests hearings in Mexico city	1
Innocent suspects’ willingness to disclose critical information: Examining the impact of awareness of possible evidence and type of crime-unrelated act	1
Who participates in criminal justice? An exploratory study in Japan	1
How much is the crime prevention programme for fraud worth? On the cost benefit analysis in the case of police with unsolved cases remaining	1
Access to technology, access to justice: China’s artificial intelligence application in criminal proceedings	1
The work of intercept interpreters in lawful communication surveillance: A daily trade-off between formal requirements and informal needs	1
Prosecutions for female genital mutilation in Swedish courts: Tip of the iceberg or manifestation of epistemic injustice?	1
‘It sounds like lived experience’ - On empathy in rape trials	1
Burnout in the DA's office: Correlates and coping strategies among male and female prosecutors	1
The politics of informality in criminal procedures	1
Perceived procedural justice and deviant behaviors in school: The moderating role of bullying victimization	1
“It’s the workload, not the pictures that keep me up at night.” Experiences of Norwegian police prosecutors working with child abuse cases	1
Preventing fraud victimisation against older adults: Towards a holistic model for protection	1
Non serviam: Narrative dimensions of organized crime resistance and susceptibility	1
Effects of bounded rationality on prosecutorial decision making: Analysis of penalties on corporate fraud violators	1
Leniency for otherwise law-abiding citizens? Testing the lapse theory and sentencing in England and Wales	1
Effects of foreign residents on crime: Evidence from South Korea	1
“Behind bars: Understanding prisoner perception of penitentiary rehabilitation in Kazakhstan”	1
A phenomenological analysis of young male prisoners’ experiences of trauma: 'Trauma is every day'	1
Computer-dependent or computer-assisted? The social context of online crime in Lithuanian court judgements	1
A user-centric taxonomy of cyber harm in the metaverse	1
Counter-terrorism & the intelligence network in Europe	1
“If we're wrong, take us to court”: An analysis of special police services (SPS) arrangements for the policing of football in England and Wales	1
Extended reality environments and child safety: Examining the emerging risks for child sexual exploitation and abuse and discussing prevention and response through a technologised neo-ecological persp	1
Women intimate partner violence revictimization during protection orders in Montevideo, Uruguay. Risk factors and policy implications	1
Female pathways to recidivism after domestic violence in Türkiye	1
The effects of absolute status, relative status, and patriarchal culture on the victimization of women: An international comparative study	1
Introduction and validation of the Modern Adolescent Dating Violence Attitude (MADVA) scale: A contemporary tool for assessing adolescent attitudes towards dating violence in offline and online enviro	1
Building restorative justice services: Considerations on top-down and bottom-up approaches	1
Harnessing clinical forensic medicine in rape investigations: Analyzing legal frameworks and practices in Bangladesh	1
Enforcement of COVID-19 lockdown regulations and human rights violations: Accounts of arbitrary arrests, detention and hazardous conditions in Nigerian police cells	1
Delegated safeguarding or surveillance by proxy? Education: The prevent statutory duty in action	1
The impact of built environment on the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of theft crime: A geodetector approach in X District, China	1
Promoting access to justice in Bangladesh: Towards a hybrid justice model	1