OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Criminology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System	66
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019	45
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	40
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)	34
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours	31
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas	27
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales	22
Talking Good: Analysing Narratives of Desistance in Norway	20
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’	19
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy	19
The War against Civilians: Victims of the “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and Pakistan. By Vasja Badalič (Palgrave, 2019, 257 pp., £49.99 pbk)	17
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City	17
Corrigendum to: Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse	15
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences	14
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons	13
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons	13
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison	13
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines	13
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review	12
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence	12
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities	12
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom	12
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries	12
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	12
Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and “Revolving-Door” Imprisonment in the UK. By D. Maguire (Palgrave, 2021, 243pp, £89.99 hb)	11

Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan	11
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)	11
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization	10
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime	10
The Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender	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 Sovereignties	10
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
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility	10
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain	10
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status	9
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations	9
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology	9
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial	9
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales	9
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right	9
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk)	9
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era	9
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019	9
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study	9
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London	8
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence By Iva Vukušić (Routledge, 2023, 230 pp. £120 hbk)	8
Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden	8
Situating Crime Pattern Theory Into The Explanation Of Co-Offending: Considering Area-Level Convergence Spaces	8
Between Remand and Verdict: Ethnic Minority Prisoners’ Legal and Penal Consciousness	8
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales	8
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime	8
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata	8
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)	8
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution	8
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts	8
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right	7
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men	7
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work	7
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)	7
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles	7
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research	7
‘I Feel Persecuted. It’s So Distressing and Upsetting, It Is All Too Much’. A Disablist Hate Crime Typology: Intimidation, Exploitation and Brutalization	7
The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus	7
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care	7
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens	6
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas	6
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)	6
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales	6
Thinking Beyond Extremism: A Critique of Counterterrorism Research on Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Social Movements	6
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance	6
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents	6
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction	6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality	6
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil	6

Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?	6
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
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman	5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth	5
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector	5
Does Third-Party Intervention Matter? A Video-Based Analysis of the Effect of Third-Party Intervention on the Continuation of Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour	5
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada	5
Policing’s New Vulnerability Re-Envisioning Local Accountability in an Era of Global Outrage	5
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy	5
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery	5
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23	5
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)	5
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing	5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records	5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers	5
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment	5
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)	5
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’. By Degenhardt Teresa(Oxon: Routledge, 2024, 192pp. £108 hardback, £31.99 eBook)	5
The pains of police custody for children: a recipe for injustice and exclusion?	4
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić	4
Discovering Chinese Criminal Procedure	4
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear	4
Profiting From Pablo: Victimhood and Commercialism in A Global Society	4
Correction to: Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
‘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 Work	4
Crime And Punishment: Public Opinion And Political Law-And-Order Rhetoric In Europe 1996–2019	4
Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts	4
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London	4
Access to Justice in Clientelist Networks	4
Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing	4
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction	4
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
Killing Time: The Role of Boredom in Glasgow Gangs	4
Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs)	4
The Immigration–Crime Relationship: Evidence Across and Within Vancouver Census Tracts 2003–16	4
The Colour of Eco-Crime	4
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting	4
Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach	4
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation	4
A Social Theory of Corruption: Notes from the Indian Subcontinent	4