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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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 Norway	53
Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961–2019	28
‘Where is the Justice?’ Unauthorized Migrants’ Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Dutch Immigration System	22
Modern Slavery, Victim Identification and the ‘Victimized State’	22
Unraveling Gender Equality: Gender Equality Domain-Specific Analysis of Cross-National Female Homicide Victimization	21
Humanitarianism From Below: Border Police, Professional Identities and Moral Dilemmas	20
Extending Procedural Justice Theory to the Chinese Context: The Role of Collective Efficacy	19
Better Bang for the Buck? Generalizing Trust in Online Drug Markets	16
‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales	16
From Parking Tickets to the Pandemic: Fixed Penalty Notices, Inequity and the Regulation of Everyday Behaviours	16
Corrigendum to: Deepfakes and Digitally Altered Imagery Abuse: A Cross-Country Exploration of an Emerging form of Image-Based Sexual Abuse	15
Dual Liminars: Teenagers and Young People with a Family Member in Prison	15
The Structure of Trade-type and Governance-type Organized Crime Groups: A Network Study	15
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 Violence	15
The Social Processes and Integrated Theory of the Credible Messenger	14
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries	14
Now with the possibility of parole: Enabling a juvenile lifer’s meaningful review	14
Do prisons cause radicalization? Order, leadership, political charge and violence in two maximum security prisons	13
Judicial indifference in criminal sentencing: Explaining inequality of the Thai Fines	13
The Dialectics of Migration: Social Bulimia and the Deportation Pipeline in New York City	12
‘Allowed Deviations’: Co-Governance and Patron–Client Relationships in Chinese Prisons	12
Urban housing affordability, economic disadvantage and racial disparities in gun violence: A neighbourhood analysis in four US cities	12
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-Offender	11
The COVID-19 Outbreak as a Trigger Event for Sinophobic Hate Crimes in the United Kingdom	11
Criminalizing Style: Aesthetic Injustice and Racial Profiling in Sweden	11
‘Seeing Like a Cop’: Police Perception in Spaces of Gender and Racial Criminalization	11
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
Is the Party Really Over? Parties, Partisanship and the Politics of Crime	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
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
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan	10
Building Public Confidence in Parole Boards: Findings From a Four-Country Study	9
Criminology Towards the Metaverse: Cryptocurrency Scams, Grey Economy and the Technosocial	9
Nationalist Soundscapes: The Sonic Violence of the Far Right	9
The Relational Carceral State and the Segregated Origins of Drug Policy: A Du Boisian Perspective	9
The Conducive Environment: Reconceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Beings	9
Are Perceptions of Corruption Matching Experience? Evidence from Microdata	8
Public Responsiveness to Declining Crime Rates in the United States and England and Wales	8
Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations	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
‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism	8
Child Criminal Exploitation and the Interactional Emergence of Victim Status	8
‘Filming Is Our Only Weapon Against the Police’: Ethnic Minorities and Police Encounters in the New Visibility Era	8
Rich Crime, Poor Crime. Inequality and the Rule of Law By Colin Webster (Bingley: Emerald Publishing, 2023, 242 pp., £30.00 pbk)	8
East is East? Beyond the Global North and Global South in Criminology	7
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 Consciousness	7
Crime Victims, Immigrants And Social Welfare: Creating The Racialized Other In Sweden	7
Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: Evidence from London	7
Anchors Through Change: Exploring Identity Work in the Unified Probation Service for England & Wales	7
Criminal Court Sentencing: The Case for Specialist ‘Young Adult’ Courts	7
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, 1990–2019	7
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 Spaces	7
Decomposing Neighbourhood (In)Stability: The Structural Determinants of Turnover and Implications for Neighbourhood Crime	7
The Racial Ideology of the British Police: Protecting and Maintaining the Racial Interests of the White Institution	7
‘I’m his safe space’: Mothers’ Experiences of Physical Violence From Their Neurodivergent Children—Gender, Conflict and the Ethics of Care	6
‘People are Trapped in History and History is Trapped Inside Them’: Exploring Britain’s Racialized Colonial Legacies in Criminological Research	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
Working Through Desistance: Employment in Women’s Identity and Relational Desistance	6
The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice: Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980s Radical Right	6
Dirty Work in Probation: The Breadth and Depth of Taint Amongst Specialist Roles	6
No Country For ‘Bad’ Men: Volatile Citizenship and the Emerging Features Of Global Neo-colonial Penality	6
‘I Feel Persecuted. It’s So Distressing and Upsetting, It Is All Too Much’. A Disablist Hate Crime Typology: Intimidation, Exploitation and Brutalization	6
More of the Same, Only Worse: COVID-19 and the Administrative Burdens Facing Loved Ones of Incarcerated Men	6
The Home Office’s Racism Studies Before the Macpherson Inquiry: Revisiting Administrative Criminology’s Corpus	6
Residential turnover and crime—Evidence from administrative data for England and Wales	6
The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens	6
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?	5

‘Hug-a-hoods’, ‘Ra Men’ and ‘Touts’: Legitimizing Restorative Justice to the Community in Northern Ireland	5
‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work	5
Violence, Conflicts and Weapons in the World of Financial–Economic Cybercrime	5
‘Why did he do it? Because he’s a Fucking Bloke’: Victim Insights into the Perpetration of Street Harassment	5
This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector	5
Policing Vulnerability: The Care and Control of Sex Workers Through Designated Police Officers	5
Punishing the Non-convicted Through Disclosure of Police Records	5
Digital Ritual: Police–Public Social Media Encounters and ‘Authentic’ Interaction	5
Prosecution Deferred, Prosecution Exempt: On the Interests of (In)Justice in the Non-Trial Resolution of Transnational Corporate Bribery	5
Estimating the Reliability of Crime Data in Geographic Areas	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
Dissecting Cross-Border Bride Trafficking to China: A Crime Script Analysis Approach	5
‘Power to the Convicted Class’: Re-Assessing Prisoner-Led Movements and Trade Union Organizing	5
The Iconic Apache: Early 1900s Paris and the Making of a Criminal Bogeyman	5
Procedural Violence in Chinese Criminal Courtrooms	5
Colonization and Its Legacy: The Correlates of Indigenous Arrest	5
Judges as Agents of Coloniality: Understanding the Coloniality of Justice at the Pre-trial Stage in Brazil	5
Delinquent Peers and Delinquency: Findings From a Longitudinal Study of Youth	5
Empowering Victims/Survivors or Restorative Washing? Institutional and Clerical Sexual Abuse of School Children and Restorative Justice	5
Welfare Becomes Punishment: Penal Nationalism in Danish Social Policy	5
Sentencing without Guidelines. By Rhys Hester (Temple University Press, 2024, 184 pp. £19.99 pbk)	5
Earlier or Later? A Survival Analysis of Criminal Career and Contextual Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide in Canada	4
Discovering Chinese Criminal Procedure	4
The antiepistemology of organized abuse: Ignorance, exploitation, inaction	4
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 Fear	4
Still the Exception? Challenging Ideas of Gender in Norwegian Policing	4
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 Potential	4
‘Trap Life’: The psychosocial underpinnings of street crime in inner-city London	4
Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders: Atrocity and Its Aftermath in the Films of Jasmila Žbanić	4
Prison Life: Pain, Resistance, and Purpose. By Ian O’Donnell (New York University Press, 2023, 304pp. £24.00 pbk)	4
Confirm Not Command: Examining Fraudsters’ Use of Language to Compel Victim Compliance in Their Own Exploitation	4
The Colour of Eco-Crime	4
Correction to: Poppers, the Politics of Exemption and the Characteristics of Poppers Users in the annual English Festival Study, 2014–23	4
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 Criminalisation	4
Contested, Discounted and Disproven Stories of Rape: The Social Pathways of Rape Reporting	4
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 Courts	4
Should ‘Moral Taint’ Be a Factor in Police Technology Procurement? The Case of Cellebrite	4
Digital Transformations of Illicit Drug Markets: Reconfiguration and Continuity. By Tzanetakis Meropi and South Nigel (eds) (Emerald, 2023, 183pp., open access)	4