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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Symbolic Meanings Attributed to Drugs by Drug Dealers	37
Notice of Duplicate Publication – A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending	26
Let Moderation Be Your Guide: Neighborhood Characteristics Moderate the Relationship between Victimization and Fear of Crime	24
National and International Mass Shootings: Examining How Social Media Impacts College Students’ Perceptions	22
COVID-19 Parental Job Disruptions and Adolescent Suicide	21
Peeking into the Black Box of Offender Decision-Making: A Novel Approach to Testing Situational Action Theory’s Perception Choice Process	20
When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm	20
Recruiting money mules on instagram: a qualitative examination of the online involvement mechanisms of cybercrime	19
Football Crowds, Protestors, and Visions of Transnational (Dis)order on the EU Level	19
Psycho-Social Determinants Underlying Mental Illness and Homelessness: Insights from a Case Series	19
Empirical Examination of the Link Between Fear of Crime and Quality of Life: Findings from a Study Conducted in the United States	18
Mechanisms of Perceived Social Norms: The Mediating and Moderating Role of Morality and Outcome Expectations on Prescription Drug Misuse in the Working Population	18
The Impact of Deviant Social Media Influencers and Consumer Characteristics on Purchasing Counterfeit Goods	17
Large Predator Poaching as Situational Action Fueled by Legal Hunts	16
Just What the Doctor Ordered: Medicinal Alcohol, Opioid Prescriptions, and the Accessibility of Folk Devils	16
Code of Conduct: Using Propensity Scores to Evaluate Prison Misconduct Among Veterans in Prison	14
Assessment of a Second-Order Multi-Problem Factor Model Involving Sexual Partners, Marijuana Use, and Post-Arrest Placement Among Persistent Male Adolescent Delinquents	14
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	13
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
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	11
Do Athletes Tolerate Fraud for the Benefit of the Club? Applying the Lens of Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior	11
“I’m Not a Serial Killer:” Exploring Identity and Boundary-Setting in the Narratives of a Serial Homicide Offender	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	10
What Makes Imprisonment More Painful? A Study from the Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
In Dubio Pro Reo: The Impact of Certainty and Uncertainty on the Identities and Beliefs of an Organized Crime Member	9
Constructing an Investment Scam Detection Model Based on Emotional Fluctuations Throughout the Investment Scam Life Cycle	9
“Dude, you’re a Bitch!” Gang Members’ Internet Banging Masculinity via Bitch Discourse	9
College Students are Helping Each Other Cheat in the Group Chat and Here’s Why	9
Notice of Duplicate Publication – Midwives on the Margins: Stigma Management Among Out-of-Hospital Midwives	8
Beyond Dichotomy: Understanding Violent Offending and Victimization Among Immigrant Youths	8
Age-faking and match-fixing: how table tennis trainers and players face gold-medal pressure in China	8
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	8
College Students and the Neutralization of Unsafe Sex: Applying a New Model and Establishing a New Research Agenda	8
Liminal Athletes: Abusive Hazing and Masculinities in Homosocial Team sports ¹	7
Prevalence of Counterfeit Fashion Goods in a West African Country: Crime in Perspective	7
Exposure to Violence at Home and Bullying in School: A Test of an Additional Layer of General Strain Theory	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
The Coping Strategies of Women Convicted of Homicide in Ghana	7
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	7
Assessing Human Trafficking and Cybercrime Intersections Through Survivor Narratives	7
The Anxiety of the Pandemic: Binge-watching, Splurging, Sexting, Hooking Up, and Masturbating among College Students	7
Perceptions of Potential White-Collar Criminals in Romania: A Convenience Theory Approach	7
Communities of Inquiry for Offenders: Learning Malware Development on Asynchronous Platforms	7
“She’s a Flagger, and I’m a Panner”: Exploring the Intricacies of Flagging, Panhandling, and Street Economies	7
Theorizing the Use of Performance Enhancing Substances and Methods in Sport as Four Different Types of Deviant Behavior	7
Unveiling Insider Threats in South Korean Companies: Causes and Countermeasures Through Convenience Theory and Perceived Punishment	6
The Evolution of a Social Problem: The Case of the Switchblade Knife	6
Deviant Labels, Negative Emotions, and Secondary Deviance: Integrating Labeling and Strain Perspectives	6
Drivers of Criminal Legal System Processes for Physician Fraudsters in Federal Court	6
A Systematic Literature Review on the Evolving Landscape of the Shadow Economy and Tax Evasion: Global Challenges in the Digital Age	6
Silent Struggles: Family Dynamics and Drug Abuse Reporting Under Harsh Laws and Stigmatizing Perceptions	6
A Comparison of Traditional Delinquency and Cyber-Delinquency: General Strain Theory and Community Protective Factors	6
How Do College Students with Exposure to Bullying Define Bullying: A Qualitative Analysis	6
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise	6
The Transgressive Individual in Foucault’s Rights-Punishment Theory - A Record of Self-Resistant Subjectivity in China	6
A Socio-Spatial Analysis of Race and Crime in New Orleans	6
Flying as Self-Expression: Autonomy and Pole Dancing in Strip Clubs	5
Associations Between Problematic Internet Use and Externalizing Problem Behaviors Among Chinese Rural Adolescent	5
‘Life is More Important Than money’: Ransom Mobilization and Delivery to Kidnappers in Northeast Nigeria	5
Reciprocating Desire in China: A Comparative Approach between High-end and Low-end Sex Workers and Their Clients	5
Conservative Anger and Police Misconduct: Exploring Conservative Discussion of Police on Social Media	5
Unpacking the Construction of Online Identities of Hybristophilia Communities on TikTok	5
Broadcasting Self-Injury for Change: Exploring the Presentation of Advocacy Strategies on YouTube	5
Parental Attachment and Digital Self-Harm	5
Accounting For Deviant Behaviors Among Marathon Runners	5
To Be Deviant or Not to Be: Exploring Bar Dancers’ Narratives in Indian Documentaries	5
Examining the Moderating Effects of Neuroticism and Gender in the Mediation of Deviant Peer Affiliation to Cyberbullying Through Moral Disengagement	5
“A Deviation from the Norm”: Qualitative Scholars’ Perceptions of Self and Belonging in Criminology and Criminal Justice	5
What Counts as “Violence?” Semantic Divergence in Cultural Conflicts	5
The Influence of Environmental Factors on Sexual Harm in Geelong Nightlife Venues: An Observational Study	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

Protection and Obedience. Deviant Masonry, Corruption, and Mafia in Italy	5
Cybersecurity Expert Perspectives on Data Thieves’ Actions in Digital Environments: Potential Refinements for Routine Activity Theory	4
Early Adverse Childhood Experiences and Later Delinquency: Considering the Role of Middle Childhood Risk Factors	4
From Financial Statement Fraud to Asset Misappropriation: Fraud in Nonprofit Sports Clubs and Cultural Underpinnings	4
Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap	4
Emotional Processing and Psychopathy Among Women: A Systematic Review	4
Determinants of Tax Evasion in the Perspective of Enforcement, Psychology, Trust, and Services	4
The Deterrent Role of Social Norms on Tax Evasion in Indonesia	4
Explaining the Unexplainable: Theorizing the Starving of the Disabled Other	4
Weaponized Autism: Making Sense of Violent Internalized Ableism in Online Incel Communities	4
It’s Pride Y’all: Mechanical and Organic Solidarity’s Impact on White LGBTQ+ Individuals in the Deep South	4
The Espouse of Women in the Online Romance Fraud World: Role of Sociocultural Experiences and Digital Technologies	4
We are All Green: Do Military Experiences and Involvement in the Criminal Justice System Vary Across Race and Ethnicity Among Incarcerated Veterans?	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
Cheating with ChatGPT and Techniques of Neutralization	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
Attitudes Toward Violence and Cyberstalking: Gender’s Moderating Role	4
Offender Journeys in Restorative Youth Justice Conferencing: The Overlap Between Restorative Justice and Desistance	4
“Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime	4
The Reputation of the Invisibles: The Society of Santa as a Para-Masonic Criminal Entity Above the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta	4
Accounting for Enhanced Interrogation: Elite Perspectives	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
The Dark Side of Combat Sports: Exploring Narcissism and Aggression	4
Sakawa in Ghana: The Influence of Weak Ties on Economic Cybercrime Offender Networks	4
Identity Interruption Processes Among Young Adults in Community Supervision: Evidence from Interactive Journaling	4
Indigenous Youths’ Strain and Delinquency: Investigating the Individual and Cumulative Impact of Strain Through a Cultural Lens	4
Examining Role Models, Guardianship, and Violent Crime Prevention in Ghana: A Social Learning Approach	3
“It’s Not You, It’s Me”: Examining the Role of Conflicted Relationships, Mental Illness, and Intimate Partner Violence	3
Non-Suicidal Self Injury in Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: A Clinical Sample from Turkey	3
Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States: Results from a National Survey	3
Order or Stability: The Role of Penal Administrators in the Transformation of Instability within Correctional Institution	3
Risk Profiles for Cybercrime Victimization: A Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations	3
Caught Between a Culture of Risk and Precaution: The Inevitability of Deviance in Concussion Safety for Coaches in Minor League Hockey	3
Why Do Men Solicit Sex? Examining Etiology Through the Masculinities Theory	3
Homosexual/Bisexual Men’s HIV or Sexually Transmitted Infection and Their Heterosexual Wives’ Remarriage in China	3
Correction	3
Parental Management on Juvenile Delinquency through Low Self-control And Misperception	3
Unsportsmanlike Behavior: Examining Variation in Arrests at National Football League Games	3
From Outsider to Insider: A Look at the Subculture of Microdosing	3
Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims	3
Yahoo Boys, Yahoo Parents? An Explorative and Qualitative Study of Parents’ Disposition Towards Children’s Involvement in Cybercrimes	3
A Social Network Analysis of Large-Scale Wildlife Seizures Made at US Ports of Entry	3
Understanding and Mitigating Fraud Risk in Professional Football	3
Pinpointing Persistent Polluters: Environmental Offending and Recidivist Companies in England	3
Toward a Typology of Identity Theft Victimization: A Latent Class Analysis	3
How After-Hours Population Composition Affects Crime: Analyzing Resident-Visitor Ratios in Urban Neighborhoods Throughout the Day	3
Drug Dependency Due to Traumatic Childhood Experiences and Low Emotional Intelligence of Juvenile Felons in India	3
Games to Control Gaming Behavior: An Observation Based on Teenager Families	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
A Content Analysis of the Stigma of Multilevel Marketing Participants on Reddit	3
Athletes’ Perceptions and Knowledge About Match Fixing: An Investigation in Six European Countries	3
Lifestyle-Exposure Theory as a Framework to Analyze Victimization of People Experiencing Homelessness	3
Expressions of Belief in the QAnon Conspiracy Movement	3
Expanding the Lens: Developments and Theoretical Limits in Desistance Research	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
Dancing Through COVID: The Precarious Working Conditions of Exotic Dancers During the Pandemic	3
Ransomware HR: Human Resources Practices and Organizational Support in the Conti Ransomware Group	3