British Journal of Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of British 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)68
Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway53
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–201928
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System22
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’22
Unraveling Gender Equality: Gender Equality Domain-Specific Analysis of Cross-National Female Homicide Victimization21
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas20
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy19
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales16
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours16
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets16
Corrigendum to: Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse15
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison15
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study15
The War against Civilians: Victims of the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and Pakistan. By Vasja Badalič (Palgrave, 2019, 257 pp., £49.99 pbk)15
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence15
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger14
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries14
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review14
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines13
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons13
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons12
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities12
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City12
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom11
Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden11
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization11
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)11
The Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender11
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime10
Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach. By Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight (University of Toronto Press, 2016, 280 pp. £32.99 pbk)10
Policing Sport Mega-Events: Security, Spectacle, and Camouflage in Rio De Janeiro. By Pauschinger Dennis (Oxford University Press, 2024, 289pp. £90.00 hbk)10
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties10
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan10
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility10
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain10
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right9
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy: A Du Boisian Perspective9
The Conducive Environment: Reconceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Beings9
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study9
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial9
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata8
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales8
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations8
Mano Dura v. Uneasy Peace in El Salvador: Effects of Tough-on-Crime and Gang Truce Policies in the Former Murder Capital of the World8
‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism8
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status8
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era8
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk)8
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London7
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales7
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts7
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)7
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–20197
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales Vol. IV: The Politics of Law and Order. By David Downes and Tim Newburn (Routledge, 2023, 342pp., £96.00 hbk)7
Situating Crime Pattern Theory Into The Explanation Of Co-Offending: Considering Area-Level Convergence Spaces7
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime7
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution7
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology7
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence By Iva Vukušić (Routledge, 2023, 230 pp. £120 hbk)7
Between Remand and Verdict: Ethnic Minority Prisoners’ Legal and Penal Consciousness7
Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden7
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right6
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality6
‘I Feel Persecuted. It’s So Distressing and Upsetting, It Is All Too Much’. A Disablist Hate Crime Typology: Intimidation, Exploitation and Brutalization6
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men6
The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus6
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales6
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens6
I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care6
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research6
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: Vol III: The Rise and Fall of Penal Hope. By David Downes (Routledge, 2021, 277pp. £96.00 hb)6
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance6
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment5
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers5
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction5
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas5
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery5
Does Third-Party Intervention Matter? A Video-Based Analysis of the Effect of Third-Party Intervention on the Continuation of Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour5
Dissecting Cross-Border Bride Trafficking to China: A Crime Script Analysis Approach5
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing5
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman5
Colonization and Its Legacy: The Correlates of Indigenous Arrest5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth5
Procedural Violence in Chinese Criminal Courtrooms5
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil5
Empowering Victims/Survivors or Restorative Washing? Institutional and Clerical Sexual Abuse of School Children and Restorative Justice5
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy5
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)5
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?5
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work5
‘Hug-a-hoods’, ‘Ra Men’ and ‘Touts’: Legitimizing Restorative Justice to the Community in Northern Ireland5
Violence, Conflicts and Weapons in the World of Financial–Economic Cybercrime5
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation4
The Colour of Eco-Crime4
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–234
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’. By Teresa Degenhardt (Routledge, 2024, 192pp. £108 hbk.)4
Online and Offline Stalking Victimisation in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Its Predictors and Victim/Survivors’ Views on Criminalisation4
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting4
Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs)4
Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts4
Should ‘Moral Taint’ Be a Factor in Police Technology Procurement? The Case of Cellebrite4
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)4
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada4
Discovering Chinese Criminal Procedure4
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction4
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?4
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear4
Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing4
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)4
The Mischaracterization of Restorative Justice: Claims, Limits, and Potential4
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London4
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić4
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)4
Penal Practices and the Social Reproduction of Inequalities: A Panel Analysis of 22 Years (1998–2019) of Penal Practices in Canadian Provinces3
‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces3
Police-Related Deaths in the United States. By David Baker (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021, 155pp, £73.00hbk)3
The End of the Age-Crime Curve? A Historical Comparison of Male Arrest Rates in the United States, 1985–20193
A world alone: Masculinities, humiliation and aggrieved entitlement on an incel forum3
Alcohol and Violence: Isolating the Impact of the Off-Trade3
The Radzinowicz Memorial Prize3
Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–20193
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs3
Social Democratic Criminology by Robert Reiner3
The (In)Stability of Punishment Preferences: Implications for Empirical Desert3
Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–233
Correction to: Relational Police Work: How Police Officers Work With, On and Through ‘Personal Relationships’ in a Danish Gang Exit Programme3
Striking the Balance? On the Relationship Between Public and Private Security in Western Countries3
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, Volumes 1 and 2. By Paul Rock (Routledge, 2018/2020, 616pp/564pp. £36.99 pbk/£36.99 pbk)3
Correction to: Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)3
‘You’re Walking into Situations Where You Just Really Don’t Know How It’s Going to Go Down’: The Production of Carceral Space and Risk in Parole Work3
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent3
Gangs and the Gig Economy: Triads, Precarity and Illicit Work in Hong Kong3
Genocide and Victimology. By Yarin Eski (ed.) (Routledge, 2021, 234pp., £96.00 hbk)3
Taking Prison to Court: Exploring the Judicial Review of Prison Decision-Making Through Supreme Court Judges in Israel3
‘The Anxiety of a Lifetime’—Dealing with Debt in Desistance from Crime3
Probation, Technical Compliance and the ‘Drowning’ of Hope3
Managing Trouble Along a Continuum of Accountability: On Police Practices for Dealing with Less-Than-Competent Subjects3
Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach3
Policing, punishment and comparative penality3
US Immigration Politics, Sanctions Threats and Private Prison Corporations’ Stock Market Values2
Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse2
Support for Private Security in Latin America: An Explanation Based on the Social Threat Theory2
‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse2
The Secret Nexus. A Case Study of Deviant Masons, Mafia and Corruption in Italy2
Feeling (Un)safe in Prison: A Comparative Analysis of England & Wales and Norway2
Para-crime: Notes Towards A ‘Grey Criminology’2
Testing Routine Activity Theory: Behavioural Pathways Linking Temperature to Crime2
Envisioning Social Justice With Criminalized Young Adults2
Race and Men’s Imprisonment in the United States: Religious Conservatism, Political Conservatism and Racial Threat2
Techniques To Exploit Vulnerabilities: Persuasion And Education In Chinese Police Interrogations2
How Social Media Facilitate the Governance of the Underground Economy: The Case of Petty Smuggling in Macao SAR, China2
‘Who better to be training them?!’: Renewed Moments of Liberal Carceral Expansion and the Role of Higher Education2
Desperation on the Battlefield, the Ethnic Security Dilemma, or Economic Competition? Mass Shootings in Chicago’s Gang Wars, 2010–202
No Justice, No Police? The Politics of Protest and Social Change. Edited by Clement Matt (Zero Books, 2023, 356pp. £17.99 pbk)2
Social Change, Gender Stratification and the Sex Gap of Homicide Victimization in 76 Countries, 1975–20172
Critical Narratives Or Crime Stories? The Ethics And Politics Of Narrative Research In Criminology2
The Political Economy of Crime: Did Universal Credit Increase Crime Rates?2
The Construction of Capital Among Family Members of People in Prison2
An Arc of Time Through Crime: Representations of Gypsies and Travellers in Police Killings2
The Long Arm Of Welfare Retrenchment: How New Right Socio-Economic Policies In The 1980s Affected Contact With The Criminal Justice System In Adulthood2
Weather, Light and Darkness in Remote Island Policing: Expanding the Horizons of the Criminological Imagination2
Hereditary: The Persistence of Biological Theories of Crime. By Julien Larregue (Stanford University Press, 2024, 252pp. £23.99 pbk)2
Competing Through Service: Entrepreneurial Bricolage and the Servitization of Local Drug Markets2
Pain in Vain: Penal Abolition and the Legacy of Louk Hulsman. Edited by Justin Piché (J. Piché and J. Hulsman Trans.). (Red Quill Books, Ottawa, 2023, 290pp. £26.99 pb)2
Pulling Back the Curtain on the California Gang Database: Evidence of Racial, Ethnic and Gender Disparities Among 222 Law Enforcement Agencies2
A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and their Pursuit of Dignity. By Allyn Walker (University of California Press, 2021, 236pp. £52.85 hb)2
The Role of Banks in Addressing and Preventing Coerced Debt in the Context of Intimate Partner Abuse2
Variably Legal Markets: Beyond the Dichotomy Between Legal and Criminal Markets2
Desistance Upon Release From Prison: Narratives of Tragedy, Irony, Romance and Comedy2
Harmful, Expensive and Criminogenic: The Case for Abolishing Detention and Training Orders in England and Wales2
Queering Crime Reporting: Representing Anti-queer Violence in LGBTQ News Media2
Surveillance Cameras and Resistance: A Case Study of a Middle School in China2
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex1
The Ideal Client: Selecting Candidates for Drug Treatment in Prison1
Corrigendum to: Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements1
Penal Policy on Families of Imprisoned People—An Impossible Situation? Understanding Scottish Prison Policy Through Prison Staff’s Moral Sensibilities1
Confronting intergenerational harm: Care experience, motherhood and criminal justice involvement1
Invisible Stripes? A Field Experiment on the Disclosure of a Criminal Record in the British Labour Market and the Potential Effects of Introducing Ban-The-Box Policies1
Contesting Crime Science: Our Misplaced Faith In Crime Prevention Technology By Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson (University of California Press, 2022, 275 pp. £24.00 pbk)1
Ghosts of the Gulag: Negotiating Spectres of the Penal Past in Northern Russia1
Unintended Consequences? The Effects of Neighbourhood Walkability on Crime in Nine US Cities1
Planetary Geopolitics, Space Weaponization and Environmental Harms1
Regimes of Extreme Permission in Southeast Asia: Theorizing State-Corporate Crime in the Global South1
The Radzinowicz Memorial Prize1
A Criminology of Time1
The Material of Policing: Budgets, Personnel and the United States’ Misdemeanour Arrest Decline1
Racial Profiling, Anti-Black Racism, Black Resistance and the Policing of Young Londoners1
Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm: The Work and Legacy of Steven Box. By David Gordon Scott and Joe Sim (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 561pp. €137.14 hbk)1
Policing and Sense of Place: ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ Security in an English Town1
Between Democratic Modernization and Authoritarian Punitiveness in Brazil: Mass Incarceration, Political Rationalities and the Dynamics of Subnational Variation1
Small Things in Everyday Places: Homelessness, Dissent and Affordances in Public Space1
Conceptualizing the Nepalese ‘Gang’1
Why and How Do Prison Litigation Strategies and Their Cultures Matter?1
Discipline in New Clothes: The Controversial Use of Punishments in A Montreal Rehabilitation Centre for Young Offenders1
Procedural Justice, Compliance and The ‘Upstanding Citizen’: A Study of Community Protection Notices1
Coal Criminals: Crimes of the Powerful, Extractivism and Historical Harm in the Global South1
Seizing the Populist Moment: Towards a New Penal Politics?1
Relational Police Work: How Police Officers Work With, On and Through ‘Personal Relationships’ in a Danish Gang Exit Programme1
Co-offending in context: The role of economic hardship1
The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Australia and Indonesia: Asylum Out of Reach. By Antje Missbach (Routledge, 2022, 224 pp. £130 hbk)1
Organized Crime and Violence in Local Communities: A Study of an ‘Ordinary’ Setting in the United Kingdom1
Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials: Is the Jury Out? By Herriott Charlotte (Routledge, 2023, 190 pp. £120.00 hbk)1
Incorporating a One Health Approach Into the Study of Environmental Crimes and Harms: Towards a ‘One Health Green Criminology’1
Wrongful Conviction as Racialized Cumulative Disadvantage1
Understanding the Attraction: Prison Tourism and the Public Gaze1
Work, Money and Duality. Trading Sex as a Side Hustle, By Raven Bowen (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2021, 194pp, £26.99pbk)1
Reassessing the Criminogenic Risk of the ‘Broken Home’: The Concept of ‘The Good Family’ From the Perspective of Young Offenders in Trinidad and Tobago1
COVID-19 and the New Pains of Imprisonment1
Is the Sinaloa Cartel a Mafia?1
‘A Prison Is a Prison’: Perspectives From Incarcerated Men on the Therapeutic and Punitive Aspects of Halden Prison in Norway1
‘Robocops’ in the Making: Reframing Police–Citizen Interactions Through the Lens of Body-Worn Cameras1
Hate Crime and Class Vulnerability: A Case Study of White Nationalist Violence Against Unhoused Indigenous People1
Building Trust and Honouring Agreements in the Supply of Protected Wildlife Products1
ACEs, Places and Inequality: Understanding the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poverty on Offending in Childhood1
Beyond Technology-Facilitated Abuse: Domestic and Family Violence and Temporary Migration1
Gender and (Fictive) Family in a Women’s Post-Incarceration Mentoring Program1
Disciplinary Neo-Liberalisation and the New Politics of Inequality1
The Prison as a Space of Non-life: How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People?1
The Safety Work of Women Who Run: Negotiating Fear, Experiences and Normalization of Abuse1
Correction to: Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm: Understanding the Role of Technological Mediation in Technology-Facilitated Violence1
Rabbits in Headlights: Professional Responses to Children’s Help-Seeking Practices When They Are Victims of Domestic abuse1
Con Air: exploring the trade in counterfeit and unapproved aircraft parts1
The Liminality of Fraud: Reimagining Fraud Theory to Inform Financial Crime Prevention1
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