OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Redemption or Manipulation? Revisiting the Art of a Serial Killer—A Dialogue	36
Bridge Over Troubled Waters? Certified Recovery Specialist Support and Community Reentry: A Pilot Study	34
Developing an Intervention to Improve Occupational Participation for Justice-Involved People with a Personality Disorder: Defining and Describing Intervention Components	23
“One of Us”: Reframed Labels, Compassion and Hope in Voluntary Prison Work With Ex-Servicemen	18
Results From a Non-Randomized Pilot Study Evaluating the Impact of a Novel Group Treatment Program Targeting Aggressive Script Rehearsal and Emotion Regulation in a Sample of Incarcerated Males	15
The Importance of Positive Social Support During Reentry From Prison: Examining the Role of Volunteer Mentoring	15
Parenting Attitudes and Abusive Parenting among Incarcerated Mothers in Japan	14
Adolescent Violent Delinquency Associated With Increased Emergency Department Usage in Young Adulthood	13
The Gray Pains of Imprisonment: Examining the Perceptions of Confinement among a Sample of Sexagenarians and Septuagenarians	12
Using Strength and Risk Factors to Inform Treatment Typologies Over Time for Men on Community Supervision	12
Treatment Evaluation in Forensic Psychiatry. Which One Should Be Used: The Clinical Judgment or the Instrument-based Assessment of Change?	12
Puberty Timing and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: The Role of Callous-Unemotional Traits, Sensation Seeking, and Parental Hostility	11
Ben Crewe on the Bench? Bringing the Dimensional Pains of Punishment into the Courtroom	11
Police Job Stress, Workload and Burnout in Nigeria: The Tired and Frustrated Cops	10
Pornography Use and Sexual Offending: An Examination of Perceptions of Role and Risk	10
Adolescent Delinquency and Adulthood Economic Disadvantage and Job Benefits: Results From a Longitudinal Sample of Males and Females	10
Unmasking the Pandemic’s Dark Side: Exploring the Roles of Stress, Emotions, and Alcohol Use in Violent Behavior Across Six Countries	10
Wrongful Convictions and Erroneous Acquittals: Applying Packer’s Model to Examine Public Perceptions of Judicial Errors in Australia	9
“People say you’re going home, but I don’t have a home”: Housing After Prison	9
Creating a Benevolent World: Exploration of a Music-Based Rehabilitation Program for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals	9
Religion and Misconduct Among Prison Inmates in South Korea	9
Applying a Maternal Standards of Care Audit Tool and Quality Improvement Process to Improve Healthcare for Pregnant Women in Prison	9
A Content Analysis of Prison Websites: Exploring Approaches to Rehabilitation in Latin America	8
Longitudinal Change of Risk Factors During Treatment in High-Security Forensic Psychiatry in Flanders	8
Differentiating Categories of Violent Adolescent Offending and the Associated Risks in Police and Youth Offending Service Records	8

Do Triarchic Psychopathy Components of New Zealand High-Risk Parolees Predict Probation Officer Relationship Quality, Quality of Life on Parole, and Recidivism?	7
Sexual Offending: The Intrepid Professional-Adventurer and The Dejected Revenger-Victim	7
Critical Social Media Analysis: Problematising Online Policy Representations of the Impact of Imprisonment on Families	7
Collaborative Healthcare in Incarcerated Settings	7
Psychopathic Traits in a Swedish Court-Ordered Forensic Sample: Preferential Associations of Boldness, Meanness, and Disinhibition	7
Residential Instability and Suicidal Ideation Among Persons on Parole	7
The Role of Gender Stereotypes, Sexual Myths, and Professional Experience on the Attitudes Toward Female-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse Among Turkish Professionals	7
Low Self-Control and Perceptions of Procedural Justice Among Urban-Born Youth: The Moderating Role of Officer Intrusiveness	7
Multiple Disadvantage and Social Networks: Toward an Integrated Theory of Health Care Use During Reentry From Criminal Justice Settings	7
Psychological Normality or Abnormality: A Case Study on Salafi-Jihadists in the Middle-East	6
Assessing Rural-Urban Differences in Screening for Mental Health Needs Among Individuals in County Jails	6
Procedural Justice in Their Eyes: A Qualitative Interview Study Among Detainees	6
Benefits of Art therapy in Prison Population with a Diagnosis of Mental Illness: A Systematic Review	6
Religion, Accountability, and the Risk of Aggressive Misconduct Among Prisoners: Preliminary Evidence of Restorative Rehabilitation	6
Sociodemographic and psycho social Differences Between Hate Crime Offenders and Other Non-Bias-Motivated Criminals: Implications for Prison Rehabilitation Programs	6
The Impact of Life Domains on Developmental Trajectories of Peer Delinquency among Korean Adolescents: A Partial Test of Agnew’s General Theory of Crime and Delinquency with a Group-Based Trajectory M	6
Inmates’ Adaptation to Prison: Investigating the Mediating Role of Resilience in the Relationship between Religiosity and Prison Adjustment	6
The Greentown Project: Building Evidence to inform Intervention Design for Juveniles Caught-up in Local Criminal Networks	6
Effectiveness of Moral Developmental Interventions for Youth Engaged in Delinquent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis	6
The Synergistic Effects of Risk-Principle Adherence in the Supervision and Treatment of Individuals Who Have Sexually Offended	6
Involvement in Crime and Delinquency and the Development of Technological and Computer Skills: A Longitudinal Analysis	6
Exploring Models of Care and the Perceived Impact in an Offender Rehabilitation Program	6
Criticism, Compassion, and Conspiracy Theories: A Thematic Analysis of What Twitter Users Are Saying About COVID-19 in Correctional Settings	5
Unsuspectingly Vulnerable: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the vulnerability of University Students to Criminal Exploitation	5
Correlates of Treatment Satisfaction among Adults Convicted of Sex Offenses	5
The Unusual Case of Sexual Homicide Against Males: Comparisons and Classification	5
Examining Correlates of Substance Use Treatment Needs for Adults Under Community Supervision	5
The Effects of Vocational Education on Recidivism and Employment Among Individuals Released Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Emotional States Related to Sexual Offending Versus Violent Offending Using a Schema Therapy Perspective	5
The Role of Situational Factors in Child-to-Parent Abuse: Implications for Assessment, Management, and Intervention	5
Motivations for Seeking Laser Tattoo Removal and Perceived Outcomes as Reported by Justice Involved Adults	5
Understanding the Self-Harming Behavior of Filipino Male Detainees (32–58 Years Old): A Descriptive Phenomenology	5
Formerly Detained Adolescents’ Narratives: On the Interplay between Quality of Life and Desistance	5
Parental Divorce and Adolescent Offending: A Comparison Between Children of Discordant Siblings	5
The Pragmatic American Revisited: A Direct Replication of Pickett and Baker (2014)	5
Screening for Light Personalities in Portugal: A Cross-Cultural Validation of the Light Triad Scale With an At-risk-of-delinquency Sample	5
Effects of Empathy and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy on Difficulties and Strengths in Juvenile Offenders	5
Wildlife Trade and Law Enforcement: A Proposal for a Remodeling of CITES Incorporating Species Justice, Ecojustice, and Environmental Justice	5
Measuring Aggression in German Youth Prison—A Validation of the German Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ) in a Sample of Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders	4
A Scoping Review of Family Focussed Interventions to Prevent Prison Violence	4
Improving Social Climate In Youth Detention	4
Evading Detection: Characteristics of Individuals With Extrafamilial Child Sexual Offences and Long Detection Lags	4
The Effect of Reality Therapy on Resilience and Self-Efficacy of Prisoners: A Randomized Controlled Trial Study	4
General Offending and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Young Adulthood: A Dutch Longitudinal Study	4
The Contribution of Static and Dynamic Factors to Recidivism Prediction for Black and White Youth Offenders	4
Modeling Recovery Housing Retention and Program Outcomes by Justice Involvement among Residents in Virginia, USA: An Observational Study	4
Don’t Beat Around the Bush! The Relationship Between Forensic Vigilance and Communication Style	4
Criminogenic and Non-Criminogenic Factors and Their Association With Reintegration Success for Individuals Under Judicial Orders in Canada	4
Experiences of Loneliness: COVID-19 Versus Incarceration	4
Incarcerated Women’s Perceptions of the Role Model Prison Officer as Procedurally Just	4

Lifetime and Jail-Specific Suicidal Ideation: Prevalence and Correlates in a Sample of People in Jail in the United States	4
The Efficacy of Outsourced Employment Services for Adults Exiting Australian Prisons	4
Sexual Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities: An Exploratory Comparison Study in an Incarcerated U.S. Sample	4
The Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Mental Illness, and Personality Differences on Attitudes Toward Self-Efficacy Among Females on Parole/Probation	4
Scientism, Ethics and Evil: From Mens Rea to Cerebrum Reus	4
Researching Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Youth Justice System: Reflections on Methodology From a Members of a Non-Indigenous Research Team	4
Prediction of Youth Violence Perpetration by Parental Nurturing Over Time	3
The Moderating Roles of Resilience and Coping Strategy on Well-Being of Victimized Forensic Workers	3
Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue: The Virtues of Justice: Rethinking Crime and Punishment	3
Retraction “Proof in the Science of the Criminal Process in Ukraine: Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Essence”	3
Callous-Unemotional Traits are Associated With Child-to-Parent Aggression	3
Forgiveness-Seeking Behaviors Among Online Romance Fraudsters: Insights from Sakawa Actors in Ghana	3
Delusions and Delinquencies: A Comparison of Violent and Non-Violent Offenders With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders	3
Children Who Offend in Turkey: The Case of the Ankara Child Education Center	3
Transformative Learning Theory and Its Application to the Delivery of Community Maintenance Programs for Men Who Have Sexually Offended	3
Do the Redundant and Locally Dependent Items of the LS/CMI Contribute in Any Meaningful Way to Its Reliability and Its Potential to Predict Criminal Recidivism?	3
The Contribution of Volunteering to Volunteers’ Life: The Case of Volunteering Beneficiaries Turned Volunteers	3
Entrepreneurship and Criminal Justice Populations: A Social Cognitive Perspective	3
The Course of Psychiatric Symptoms During Remand Imprisonment	3
Drug Addiction and Incarceration: A Call for Research and Transparency Among Prison-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Programs	3
A Proposal for a Best-evidence Model of Care and Program Logic for Supported Accommodation for People Released From Prison	3
Cycles of Neglect: A Statutory Review of State Policies Regarding Feminine Hygiene Product Provision During Incarceration	3
Estimating the Global Prevalence of Mass Public Shootings	3
Reexploring Female Pathways to Incarceration: Assessing the Role of Mental Illness	3
Explaining the Patterns of Bullying Victimization Trajectories: Assessing the Generality of Low Self-Control and Crime Opportunity Models to Bullying Victims	3
Veiling Religion: The Public Face of Czech Re-Entry Faith-Based Organizations	3
Evaluating Self-Control Theory Among the Deaf Community	3
Impressive Factors of the Victimization of Shiite Muslim Minorities in Afghanistan: A Case Study District 13 of Kabul during the Pre-Taliban Period	3
Power and Intimacy Motives in Narratives About Closeness Presented by People Staying in a Penitentiary Institution	3
Should Relapse Always Be Punished? A Survey Study into Forensic Social Professionals’ Attitudes to Substance Use	3
An Empirical Comparison of the Profiles of Security Threat Group Offenders with General Offenders	3
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? A Triarchic Perspective on Psychopathy at Work	3
The Practice of Spiritual Criminology: A Non-Doing Companionship for Crime Desistance	3
Surviving Senior Psychopathy: Informant Reports of Deceit and Antisocial Behavior in Multiple Types of Relationships	3
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis on the Experience of Probation Officers in Managing People With Antisocial Personality Disorder	3
The Effect of Impression Management on Ex-offender Hiring Outcomes Is Not Moderated by Race and Ethnicity of the Ex-offender and Hiring Manager	3
Mixed Signals: The Effect of Employment Training on Employment Outcomes for Previously Incarcerated Individuals	3
Religion and Responsibility-Taking Among Offenders in Colombia and South Africa: A Qualitative Assessment of a Faith-Based Program in Prison	3