OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asian Journal of Criminology 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Outrage Cyberbullying Versus General Cyberbullying: Assessing the Explanatory Capacity of Control and Strain Theories and the Mediating Role of Moral Disengagement	15
Correction to: The Penalty of Maternal Migration: Parental Migration, Caretaking Arrangements, and Custodial Interference Among Divorced Households in Rural China	14
Victim Welfare, Social Harmony, and State Interests: Implementing Restorative Justice in Chinese Environmental Criminal Justice	11
Plea Discount Deviations: a Mechanism for Gender Disparities in Hong Kong	10
Prosecutors’ and Defense Lawyers’ Views on the Challenges to a New Trial Waiver System in China	10
Equality in Representation? The Efficacy of Court-Appointed Lawyers in the Chinese Criminal Courts	9
Developing Authenticity, Building Connections: Exploring Research Methodologies in Asia	9
Testing the Theoretical Relationship Between the Role of the Society at Large and the Willingness to Adhere to the Police Code of Silence	8
Review of Björn Ahl, Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure Post-2013 Reforms	7
Review of Børge Bakken, Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony	7
Driven to Death: a Chinese Case Study on the Counterfeiting of Automotive Components	7
Review of Sarah Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing	7
Fragmentation of Criminology: A Challenge or a Chance?	6
Application of Situational Action Theory in Japan Using Vignette Survey	5
Social Context and the Static and Dynamic Age–Crime Relationship in the Republic of Korea	5
Public and Professionals’ Perceptions of Wrongful Convictions in Pakistan: Scale Development and Validation	5
Is Machine Learning Really Unsafe and Irresponsible in Social Sciences? Paradoxes and Reconsideration from Recidivism Prediction Tasks	5
Predictors of Attitudes Toward Sexual Harassment Among Chinese Nationals: Are College Students Different?	5
Shaping Future Justice: Comparative Insights into Prison Rape Myths in South Korea and the United States	4
Predicting Police Integrity: An Application of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to the Police Integrity Instrument	4
Association of Health and Victimization with Discrete Group Membership in Offending Frequency: Results from a Sample of Taiwanese Male Prisoners	4
The Past, Present, and Future of Restorative Justice in the Chinese Mainland: A Systematic Review of Chinese Literature	4
Organizational Structure and Its Connection with the Justice Views of Police Officers	4
Beyond Focal Concerns: A Qualitative Study of Sentencing Decisions in China’s Sociopolitical Context	3
Measuring Cybercrime in Calls for Police Service	3

The Pluralism of Restorative Justice in Greater China: an Introduction	3
Cyber Victimisation, Restorative Justice and Victim-Offender Panels	3
Metacrime and Cybercrime: Exploring the Convergence and Divergence in Digital Criminality	3
Translational and Transnational Approaches in Comparative Criminological Research: A Content Analysis Focused on Asian Countries	2
Changes in the Most Cited Scholars in Five International Journals Between 2006 and 2020	2
North Korean Migrants in China: A Case Study of Human Smuggling and Trafficking	2
Policing, Labor Market, and Crime in Japan: Evidence from Prefectural Panel Data	2
The Challenges of Comparative Criminology Research	2
Misperceptions About People Who Have Sexually Offended and Support of Community Notification for Juveniles Among Koreans	2
Triadization as a Rite of Passage: Conceptualizing the Links between Youth Gangs and Adult-Based Secret Societies in Singapore	2
Restorative Justice in Hong Kong — a Research Study on the Struggle Between Retribution and Restoration	2
Investigating the Moderators in the Relationship Between Righteous Anger and Support for Lynching	2
Child Laborers’ Exposure to Physical Maltreatment in Rural Bangladesh: Prevalence and Risk Factors	2
Plea Discounts or Trial Penalties? An Empirical Analysis of China’s Plea-Leniency System and Its Impact on Sentencing	2
Review of Xiaojin Chen, China’s Left-Behind Children: Caretaking Parenting, and Struggles	2
Modernizing Penal Capacity and Defusing Political Tensions: How Social Workers’ Rehabilitation Shapes Offenders’ Perceptions of Justice within Chinese Community Corrections	2
Review of Wook Kang, Youth Involvement in Street Gangs in California’s Central Valley	2
Continuation of Systemic Failures: from Cui Ning to Contemporary Wrongful Conviction Cases in China	2
Stability or Change in Age-Crime Relation in Taiwan, 1980–2019: Age-Period-Cohort Assessment	2
Criminology and Crime Science in the Arab World	2
Examining the Fairness of Criminal Judicial Procedures in China: a Quantitative Analysis of the Influential Factors in the Application of Technical Investigations in Drug-related Cases	1
Review of Bin Liang and Jianhong Liu, Chinese Netizens’ Opinions on Death Sentences: An Empirical Examination	1
Tip of The Iceberg? An Evaluation of the Non-uploaded Criminal Sentencing Documents in China	1
Understanding Causes for Wrongful Convictions in Vietnam: a View from the Top and the Bottom of the Iceberg	1
The Relationism Theory of Criminal Justice—A Paradigm Shift	1
Children’s Delinquency in Rural China: The Additive and Interactional Effects of Parental Divorce and Parental Migration	1
Offending-Victimization Overlap in Cyberbullying among Chinese Youths: Theories, Gender Differences, and Methodological Innovation	1
Policing Child Protection: Motivational Postures of Contesting Third Parties	1
Adolescents Kolberi in Iran’s Western Borderlands: a Case for Cultural Criminology of Border	1
The Penalty of Maternal Migration: Parental Migration, Caretaking Arrangements, and Custodial Interference Among Divorced Households in Rural China	1
Ghost Brides and Crime Networks in Rural China	1
Gender Differences in Occupational Attitudes Among Chinese Judges	1
Self-Control, Contextual Factors, and Delinquency: Assessing the Interactional Effects Among A Sample of Youth in Rural China	1
Applications of GIS in Public Security Agencies in China	1
A Preliminary Test of a Proposed Path Model of the Direct Associations of Organizational Justice’s Relationship with Organizational Trust for Chinese Prison Staff	1
The Effects of Wartime on Discrimination in the Punishment of Arab vs. Jewish Defendants in the Israeli Criminal Law System	1
Analysing the Levels of Fear of Crime Before and After the Implementation of Security Box: a Community Policing Case Study in Chiba Prefecture, Japan	1
Gender Differences in the Treatment Needs of Drug Offenders in Taiwanese Society	1
Public Confidence Attitude Formation Toward the Police in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan: Similarities and Differences	1