OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Deviant Behavior is 3. 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
Symbolic Meanings Attributed to Drugs by Drug Dealers	33
Let Moderation Be Your Guide: Neighborhood Characteristics Moderate the Relationship between Victimization and Fear of Crime	24
Notice of Duplicate Publication – A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending	24
National and International Mass Shootings: Examining How Social Media Impacts College Students’ Perceptions	22
COVID-19 Parental Job Disruptions and Adolescent Suicide	21
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm	20
Peeking into the Black Box of Offender Decision-Making: A Novel Approach to Testing Situational Action Theory’s Perception Choice Process	19
Empirical Examination of the Link Between Fear of Crime and Quality of Life: Findings from a Study Conducted in the United States	19
Mechanisms of Perceived Social Norms: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Morality and Outcome Expectations on Prescription Drug Misuse in the Working Population	19
The Impact of Deviant Social Media Influencers and Consumer Characteristics on Purchasing Counterfeit Goods	18
Large Predator Poaching as Situational Action Fueled by Legal Hunts	18
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Medicinal Alcohol, Opioid Prescriptions, and the Accessibility of Folk Devils	18
Code of Conduct: Using Propensity Scores to Evaluate Prison Misconduct Among Veterans in Prison	17
Recruiting money mules on instagram: a qualitative examination of the online involvement mechanisms of cybercrime	16
I Did It, But…: Exploring DUI Offender Deviance Rationalization in the Digital Age	16
Assessment of a Second-Order Multi-Problem Factor Model Involving Sexual Partners, Marijuana Use, and Post-Arrest Placement Among Persistent Male Adolescent Delinquents	15
“Dude, you’re a Bitch!” Gang Members’ Internet Banging Masculinity via Bitch Discourse	15
College Students are Helping Each Other Cheat in the Group Chat and Here’s Why	14
Criminality, Peer selection, and Poor Adjustment in Substance Abusing Adult Parolees: Do Deviant Peers and One’s Attitude Toward Friend Deviance Have an Impact Beyond the Adolescent Years?	13
Theft by Any Other Name is Still Theft: Examining “Looting” During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
An Anatomy of ‘Pig Butchering Scams’: Chinese Victims’ and Police Officers’ Perspectives	13
Polling Pedophilic Preferences: Analyzing Responses to User-Generated Member Polls on a Darknet Child Sexual Abuse Forum	12
The Mediating Role of Self-Control Between Parental Attachment and Adolescent Delinquency	12
Bottlenecks and Opportunities for Improvement in Cybercrime Handling: Insights from Dutch Police Practice	12
What Makes Imprisonment More Painful? A Study from the Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic	11

The Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics on Routine and Gang-Involved Gun Violence: Are Structural Covariates Salient?	11
Slow Panic? The Regulation of Salvia Divinorum in Canada, 1991-2019	11
Exploring How Interactions between Race and Social Bonds Influence Substance Use: Findings from a Predominately Black Juvenile Sample	11
Do Athletes Tolerate Fraud for the Benefit of the Club? Applying the Lens of Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior	10
Constructing an Investment Scam Detection Model Based on Emotional Fluctuations Throughout the Investment Scam Life Cycle	10
In Dubio Pro Reo: The Impact of Certainty and Uncertainty on the Identities and Beliefs of an Organized Crime Member	10
The General Theory of Crime Revisited: Comparing the Relative Effects of Parental Responsiveness and Parental Behavioral Control on Aggressive and Nonaggressive Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence	9
Seeding the Grassroots of Research on Furries: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Creative Knowledge Mobilization, Valuing Community Partnerships, and Correcting the Record on Stigmatized Communities wi	9
Notice of Duplicate Publication – Midwives on the Margins: Stigma Management Among Out-of-Hospital Midwives	9
Beyond Dichotomy: Understanding Violent Offending and Victimization Among Immigrant Youths	9
Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime: The Role of Violent and Property Crime, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Prior Perceived Unsafety and Fear of Crime	9
Age-faking and match-fixing: how table tennis trainers and players face gold-medal pressure in China	9
Liminal Athletes: Abusive Hazing and Masculinities in Homosocial Team sports ¹	8
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach	8
The Coping Strategies of Women Convicted of Homicide in Ghana	8
“She’s a Flagger, and I’m a Panner”: Exploring the Intricacies of Flagging, Panhandling, and Street Economies	7
College Students and the Neutralization of Unsafe Sex: Applying a New Model and Establishing a New Research Agenda	7
The Moderating Effects of Dispositions for Crime and Legitimate Coping on Negative Emotions and Aggressive Behavioral Intentions: A Test of General Strain Theory	7
How Do College Students with Exposure to Bullying Define Bullying: A Qualitative Analysis	7
Prevalence of Counterfeit Fashion Goods in a West African Country: Crime in Perspective	7
The Anxiety of the Pandemic: Binge-watching, Splurging, Sexting, Hooking Up, and Masturbating among College Students	7
A Comparison of Traditional Delinquency and Cyber-Delinquency: General Strain Theory and Community Protective Factors	7
Theorizing the Use of Performance Enhancing Substances and Methods in Sport as Four Different Types of Deviant Behavior	7
Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms	7
When and How Does Anti-Semitism Occur? the Different Trigger Mechanisms Associated with Different Types of Criminal and Non-Criminal Hate Incidents	7
Exposure to Violence at Home and Bullying in School: A Test of an Additional Layer of General Strain Theory	7
Drivers of Criminal Legal System Processes for Physician Fraudsters in Federal Court	6
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise	6
The Evolution of a Social Problem: The Case of the Switchblade Knife	6
Broadcasting Self-Injury for Change: Exploring the Presentation of Advocacy Strategies on YouTube	6
Unveiling Insider Threats in South Korean Companies: Causes and Countermeasures Through Convenience Theory and Perceived Punishment	6
Assessing Human Trafficking and Cybercrime Intersections Through Survivor Narratives	6
Silent Struggles: Family Dynamics and Drug Abuse Reporting Under Harsh Laws and Stigmatizing Perceptions	6
“A Deviation from the Norm”: Qualitative Scholars’ Perceptions of Self and Belonging in Criminology and Criminal Justice	6
What Counts as “Violence?” Semantic Divergence in Cultural Conflicts	6
A Systematic Literature Review on the Evolving Landscape of the Shadow Economy and Tax Evasion: Global Challenges in the Digital Age	6
A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Race and Crime in New Orleans	6
Deviant Labels, Negative Emotions, and Secondary Deviance: Integrating Labeling and Strain Perspectives	6
Flying as Self-Expression: Autonomy and Pole Dancing in Strip Clubs	6
The Transgressive Individual in Foucault’s Rights-Punishment Theory - A Record of Self-Resistant Subjectivity in China	6
Examining the Moderating Effects of Neuroticism and Gender in the Mediation of Deviant Peer Affiliation to Cyberbullying Through Moral Disengagement	5
Associations Between Problematic Internet Use and Externalizing Problem Behaviors Among Chinese Rural Adolescent	5
“They Come in the Night and in Large Numbers”: Explaining the Common Features of School Attack and Mass Abduction of Students in Katsina State, Nigeria	5
Reciprocating Desire in China: A Comparative Approach between High-end and Low-end Sex Workers and Their Clients	5
Unpacking the Construction of Online Identities of Hybristophilia Communities on TikTok	5
Accounting For Deviant Behaviors Among Marathon Runners	5
Emotional Processing and Psychopathy Among Women: A Systematic Review	5
Protection and Obedience. Deviant Masonry, Corruption, and Mafia in Italy	5
To Be Deviant or Not to Be: Exploring Bar Dancers’ Narratives in Indian Documentaries	5
Parental Attachment and Digital Self-Harm	5

‘Life is More Important Than money’: Ransom Mobilization and Delivery to Kidnappers in Northeast Nigeria	5
Explaining the Unexplainable: Theorizing the Starving of the Disabled Other	5
Attitudes Toward Violence and Cyberstalking: Gender’s Moderating Role	4
We are All Green: Do Military Experiences and Involvement in the Criminal Justice System Vary Across Race and Ethnicity Among Incarcerated Veterans?	4
Sakawa in Ghana: The Influence of Weak Ties on Economic Cybercrime Offender Networks	4
Offender Journeys in Restorative Youth Justice Conferencing: The Overlap Between Restorative Justice and Desistance	4
Early Adverse Childhood Experiences and Later Delinquency: Considering the Role of Middle Childhood Risk Factors	4
Accounting for Enhanced Interrogation: Elite Perspectives	4
Weaponized Autism: Making Sense of Violent Internalized Ableism in Online Incel Communities	4
Pinpointing Persistent Polluters: Environmental Offending and Recidivist Companies in England	4
Identity Interruption Processes Among Young Adults in Community Supervision: Evidence from Interactive Journaling	4
The Deterrent Role of Social Norms on Tax Evasion in Indonesia	4
Cheating with ChatGPT and Techniques of Neutralization	4
Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap	4
Modeling the Structural Effects of Residential Instability, Family Disruptions, and Social Support on Neighborhood Crime Perceptions: A Partial Test of Social Disorganization Theory	4
Indigenous Youths’ Strain and Delinquency: Investigating the Individual and Cumulative Impact of Strain Through a Cultural Lens	4
It’s Pride Y’all: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity’s Impact on White LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Deep South	4
Cybersecurity Expert Perspectives on Data Thieves’ Actions in Digital Environments: Potential Refinements for Routine Activity Theory	4
Caught Between a Culture of Risk and Precaution: The Inevitability of Deviance in Concussion Safety for Coaches in Minor League Hockey	4
“Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime	4
From Financial Statement Fraud to Asset Misappropriation: Fraud in Nonprofit Sports Clubs and Cultural Underpinnings	4
The Effect of Bully Victimization on Self-Reported Delinquency and Substance Use Using the General Strain Theory Framework: Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Differences	4
Conservative Anger and Police Misconduct: Exploring Conservative Discussion of Police on Social Media	4
The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies	4
Determinants of Tax Evasion in the Perspective of Enforcement, Psychology, Trust, and Services	4
The Reputation of the Invisibles: The Society of Santa as a Para-Masonic Criminal Entity Above the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta	4
Toward a Typology of Identity Theft Victimization: A Latent Class Analysis	4
The Illusion of Safety: Empirical Evidence of the Fear of Crime and the Perception of Risk from a Safe City in Eskişehir/Türkiye	4
The Dark Side of Combat Sports: Exploring Narcissism and Aggression	4
Risk Profiles for Cybercrime Victimization: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations	3
How After-Hours Population Composition Affects Crime: Analyzing Resident-Visitor Ratios in Urban Neighborhoods Throughout the Day	3
“Some Do it Out of Necessity, Others Because They Like Money and Others Because They Find it Easy” : Motivations for the Involvement of Women in Drug Trafficking in Peru	3
The Dynamics of Internet Sexual Solicitation: Examining the Criminal Careers of Online Groomers	3
Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Parents? An Explorative and Qualitative Study of Parents’ Disposition Towards Children’s Involvement in Cybercrimes	3
Non-Suicidal Self Injury in Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: A Clinical Sample from Turkey	3
Politicization of Economic Cybercrime: Perceptions Among Ghanaian Facebook Users	3
Examining Role Models, Guardianship, and Violent Crime Prevention in Ghana: A Social Learning Approach	3
Ransomware HR: Human Resources Practices and Organizational Support in the Conti Ransomware Group	3
Unsportsmanlike Behavior: Examining Variation in Arrests at National Football League Games	3
Games to Control Gaming Behavior: An Observation Based on Teenager Families	3
Homosexual/Bisexual Men’s HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives’ Remarriage in China	3
A Social Network Analysis of Large-Scale Wildlife Seizures Made at US Ports of Entry	3
Lifestyle-Exposure Theory as a Framework to Analyze Victimization of People Experiencing Homelessness	3
Athletes’ Perceptions and Knowledge About Match Fixing: An Investigation in Six European Countries	3
Understanding and Mitigating Fraud Risk in Professional Football	3
From Outsider to Insider: A Look at the Subculture of Microdosing	3
“It’s Not You, It’s Me”: Examining the Role of Conflicted Relationships, Mental Illness, and Intimate Partner Violence	3
How K-pop Fans Utilize Conventional and Subcultural Frameworks to Construct Fan Identities: A Case Study of Seungri and the Burning Sun Scandal	3
Correction	3
Fraud as Legitimate Retribution for Colonial Injustice: Neutralization Techniques in Interviews with Police and Online Romance Fraud Offenders	3
Unpacking the Impact of Gratitude on Unethical Behavior	3
Drug Dependency Due to Traumatic Childhood Experiences and Low Emotional Intelligence of Juvenile Felons in India	3
Why Do Men Solicit Sex? Examining Etiology Through the Masculinities Theory	3
Expanding the Lens: Developments and Theoretical Limits in Desistance Research	3
Order or Stability: The Role of Penal Administrators in the Transformation of Instability within Correctional Institution	3
A Content Analysis of the Stigma of Multilevel Marketing Participants on Reddit	3
Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States: Results from a National Survey	3
Exploring a Darker Side of Personality: Development and Validation of a Self-Report Scale Using the Dimensional Clinical Personality Inventory 2	3
Dancing Through COVID: The Precarious Working Conditions of Exotic Dancers During the Pandemic	3
From Safety Space to Embattled Home: Family Dynamics in the Wake of Hong Kong’s Summer of Dissent	3
Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims	3
Parental Management on Juvenile Delinquency through Low Self-control And Misperception	3