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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Hate Crime Policy and Disability: From Vulnerability to Ableism. By Taylor Seamus (Bristol University Press, 2022, 262 pp. £85.00 hbk)	73
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas	36
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours	26
Unraveling Gender Equality: Gender Equality Domain-Specific Analysis of Cross-National Female Homicide Victimization	23
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	20
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’	20
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales	19
Corrigendum to: Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse	17
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System	17
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
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019	17
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries	16
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines	16
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons	16
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City	15
Definition and Measurement of Violence in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Implications for the Amount and Gendering of Violence	14
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review	14
Iatrogenic Effects and the Myth of the Downfall of Delinquency Prevention: Joan McCord and the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, 1975–2004	14
Justice After Grenfell? Crime, Harm and Structural Inequality	13
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison	13
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom	12
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities	12
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons	12
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	12
Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden	11

The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger	11
Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges After the Brighton Bomb – A Memoir. By Patrick Magee (Pluto Press, 2021, 272pp. £20.00 hbk)	11
Struggles for Regulatory Hardening: Exploring Swedish Politics on Corporate Social Responsibility	10
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy: A Du Boisian Perspective	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
Increases In Disadvantage and Instability Are Associated With Rising Violence	10
‘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
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right	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
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial	9
Foreign and Dangerous? Unpacking the Role of Judges and Prosecutors in Sentencing Disparities in Spain	9
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan	9
Law in the Margins: Economies of Illegality and Contested Sovereignties	9
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status	9
The Conducive Environment: Reconceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Beings	9
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales	8
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London	8
Mano Dura v. Uneasy Peace in El Salvador: Effects of Tough-on-Crime and Gang Truce Policies in the Former Murder Capital of the World	8
‘Should I Call the Police?’ Exploring Public Views on Whether to Invoke Police in Incidents Involving People with Vulnerabilities	8
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era	8
‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism	8
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata	8
Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence By Iva Vukušić (Routledge, 2023, 230 pp. £120 hbk)	8
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology	8
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk)	8
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate: An Empirical Test of a Variety of Democracies, 1990–2019	8
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations	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
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales	7
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution	7
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men	7
Intersectional Harm and M other hood in the UK Asylum System	7
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts	7
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right	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
Skolnick Goes Undercover: A Sketch of the ‘Working Personality’ of a Police Surveillance Officer	7
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime	7
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles	7
Family Criminology: An Introduction By Amanda Holt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 283 pp. £34.99 pbk)	7
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction	6
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales	6
Colonization and Its Legacy: The Correlates of Indigenous Arrest	6
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research	6
Systemic Violence, Social Harms and Necropolitics: The Interaction of Prison and Life ‘on Road’ for Women Engaged in Sexual Commerce in East London	6
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work	6
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance	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 Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus	6

Procedural Violence in Chinese Criminal Courtrooms	6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality	6
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens	6
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care	6
Epistemic Harm: On Zemiology and Epistemic Injustice	6
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman	5
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas	5
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing	5
Empowering Victims/Survivors or Restorative Washing? Institutional and Clerical Sexual Abuse of School Children and Restorative Justice	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
The Mischaracterization of Restorative Justice: Claims, Limits, and Potential	5
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?	5
Contested Boundaries and Perceptions of Inter-ethnic Disorder	5
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)	5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers	5
Violence, Conflicts and Weapons in the World of Financial–Economic Cybercrime	5
‘Hug-a-hoods’, ‘Ra Men’ and ‘Touts’: Legitimizing Restorative Justice to the Community in Northern Ireland	5
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil	5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records	5
Dissecting Cross-Border Bride Trafficking to China: A Crime Script Analysis Approach	5
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery	5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth	5
Online and Offline Stalking Victimisation in the Crime Survey for England and Wales: Its Predictors and Victim/Survivors’ Views on Criminalisation	4
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)	4
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment	4
Introduction to Convict Criminology. By Jeffrey Ian Ross (Bristol University Press, 2024, 222 pp. £27.99 pbk)	4
Witnessing (Dis)engagement: A Framework for Examining Legitimacy in the Criminal Courts	4
Discovering Chinese Criminal Procedure	4
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić	4
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23	4
Should ‘Moral Taint’ Be a Factor in Police Technology Procurement? The Case of Cellebrite	4
War as Protection and Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’. By Teresa Degenhardt (Routledge, 2024, 192pp. £108 hbk.)	4
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada	4
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting	4
Correction to: Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
Historical Co-offending Networks: A Social Network Analysis Approach	4
The Colour of Eco-Crime	4
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London	4
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy	4
When Law-And-Order Politics Fail: Media Fragmentation and Protective Factors That Limit the Politics of Fear	4
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction	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
Factoring in Family: Considerations of Parenthood in the Assessment, Enforcement, and Collection of Legal Financial Obligations (LFOs)	4