OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Systematic Review of Victim-Survivor, Familial, and Professional Views on the Reintegration of Men Convicted of a Sexual Offense into the Community	21
The Pragmatic American Revisited: A Direct Replication of Pickett and Baker (2014)	20
Unconditional Hope: Advocating for Hope Within a Positive Criminological Perspective	19
Assessing Rural-Urban Differences in Screening for Mental Health Needs Among Individuals in County Jails	18
The Effect of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Based Psychoeducation on Anger Control and Cognitive Flexibility in İndividuals Convicted of Homicide	18
Benefits of Art therapy in Prison Population with a Diagnosis of Mental Illness: A Systematic Review	17
The Greentown Project: Building Evidence to inform Intervention Design for Juveniles Caught-up in Local Criminal Networks	16
Sociodemographic and psycho social Differences Between Hate Crime Offenders and Other Non-Bias-Motivated Criminals: Implications for Prison Rehabilitation Programs	15
Understanding Engagement With Forensic Smartphone Apps: The Service Design Engagement Model	14
Experiences of Loneliness: COVID-19 Versus Incarceration	14
Gender-responsive Classification of Women in Prison: A Typology Based on Mental Health Symptoms and Coping Strategies	12
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis on the Experience of Probation Officers in Managing People With Antisocial Personality Disorder	12
Rehabilitation and Re-entry Programmes for Justice-Involved Individuals and Their Effectiveness in Social Reintegration: A Systematic Review	12
Scientism, Ethics and Evil: From Mens Rea to Cerebrum Reus	11
Expanding the IDEA: Ongoing- and Evolving-Evaluation of an Art Therapy in Prisons Program	10
Prediction of Youth Violence Perpetration by Parental Nurturing Over Time	10
The Effect of Impression Management on Ex-offender Hiring Outcomes Is Not Moderated by Race and Ethnicity of the Ex-offender and Hiring Manager	10
Delusions and Delinquencies: A Comparison of Violent and Non-Violent Offenders With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders	9
Replicating Evidence in a New Context: A Cross-Sectional Study of Multidomain Quality of Life in Serbian Prisons	9
Expanding Knowledge About Music and Well-Being in Carceral Settings: A Methodological Review	9
Estimating the Global Prevalence of Mass Public Shootings	9
Who’s Keeping an Eye on the Kids? Changes in Monitoring During Emerging Adulthood	9
Evading Detection: Characteristics of Individuals With Extrafamilial Child Sexual Offences and Long Detection Lags	8
Burnout Among Probation Officers: The Importance of Resilience	8
Forgiveness-Seeking Behaviors Among Online Romance Fraudsters: Insights from Sakawa Actors in Ghana	8

Implementation of the Good Lives Model in an Open Juvenile Correctional Facility: An Exploration of Social Validity Through Practitioners’ Experiences	8
Entrepreneurship and Criminal Justice Populations: A Social Cognitive Perspective	8
Drug Addiction and Incarceration: A Call for Research and Transparency Among Prison-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Programs	8
Overrepresentation of Young Indigenous Offenders: Differences in Criminogenic Risk/Needs and Implications for Practice	7
Spiritual Victimology: Basic Principles	7
Dignity, Social Reintegration of Prisoners, and the New Penal Power: European Human Rights, Experiences of Belgian Prisoners, and Professional Practices	7
Experiencing Burnout: John Henryism, Gender Role Conflict, and Anxiety Among Incarcerated Black Men	7
Substance Use Treatment for Indigenous Offenders: The Effects of Race on Drug Court Treatment Outcomes	7
Why and When Do Narcissists Aggress Celebrities Online? Investigating Relative Deprivation and Empathic Self-Efficacy as Potential Mechanisms	7
“It’s Just Flourishing Hope Everywhere”: The Experiences of Incarcerated Men Sharing Their Stories	7
Prison Violence Recidivism Among Male Detainees After Discharge From a High-Security and High-Restricted Prison Facility	7
“I’m Not a Child Molester, But a Victim Myself”: Examining Rationalizations Among Male Sex Offenders Who Report Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse	7
Living Situation of Juveniles After Secure Residential Treatment: Exploring the Role of Family Centeredness, Child, and Family Factors	7
Hierarchy of Impact in Justice-Involved Women: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	6
Working with Women in Forensic Mental Health Care: Guidelines for Gender-Responsive Assessment and Treatment	6
Mapping Resident Perspectives on Safety, Participation, and Security Devices: Insights into Community Security Governance in Urban China	6
Practice Frameworks in the Correctional Domain: How Values Drive Knowledge Generation and Treatment	6
What if Marquis de Sade Was a Woman? New Evidence of Sex Differences in Behavioral Manifestation of Sadism	6
The Role of Deterministic Perceptions in Criminal Identity Process Among Adolescent Gang Members	6
The Impact of Ineffective Parenting Practices on Cyber-Deviance in South Korean Adolescents: Examining the Applicability of General Strain Theory	6
Addressing Aggression in Intimate Partner Violence: Preliminary Findings from a Multimodal Intervention for Male Perpetrators	6
Overt and Covert Delinquency: Socio-Demographic Correlates in Justice-Involved Adolescent Males	6
Prison Adjustment Among Military Veterans: The Impact of Traumatic Events, Service History, and PTSD	6
Access to Healthcare Among Young Adult Probationers Participating in a Pilot Health-Focused Reentry Program	6
Introducing the New Editor-in-Chief of IJOTCC: Continuing a Legacy of Excellence and Advancing a Vision for the Future	6
Assessing a Faith-Based Program for Trauma Healing Among Jail Inmates: A Quasi-Experimental Study	6
“People say you’re going home, but I don’t have a home”: Housing After Prison	5
An Intervention Program for Male Juvenile Offenders in Turkey: A Pilot Randomized Trial	5
Empathy and Offending, a Study About the Role of Cognitive and Affective Empathy in Sexual Violence	5
The Impact of Working with Farm Animals on People with Offending Histories: A Scoping Review	5
The Predictive Value of Criminogenic Needs on Institutional Misconduct in a Dutch Forensic Hospital	5
The Synergistic Effects of Risk-Principle Adherence in the Supervision and Treatment of Individuals Who Have Sexually Offended	5
Parental Divorce and Adolescent Offending: A Comparison Between Children of Discordant Siblings	5
Power and Intimacy Motives in Narratives About Closeness Presented by People Staying in a Penitentiary Institution	5
Learning a Lesson: Spiritual Attributions of Sexual Trauma and Revictimization	5
Which Clinical and Demographic Factors are Related to Incarceration in Male Patients With Antisocial Personality Disorder?	5
Police-Identified Psychological Distress, Substance Use, and Physical Violence Among Male Intimate Partner Stalkers	5
In Search of Public Perceptions of Disorder and Crime: Examining the Core Tenets of Broken Windows Theory	5
Emotional States Related to Sexual Offending Versus Violent Offending Using a Schema Therapy Perspective	5
Sexual Offending: The Intrepid Professional-Adventurer and The Dejected Revenger-Victim	5
Understanding the Self-Harming Behavior of Filipino Male Detainees (32–58 Years Old): A Descriptive Phenomenology	5
A Tailored Approach for Justice Involved Youth With an Intellectual Disability: The Suitability of a Small-Scale Community-Integrated Approach	5
Female Murderers and Stigma: Coping With the “Bad Woman” Label	5
Possibility of Sincere Apology in Restorative Justice: When and How?	5
Creating a Benevolent World: Exploration of a Music-Based Rehabilitation Program for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals	5
Motivations for Seeking Laser Tattoo Removal and Perceived Outcomes as Reported by Justice Involved Adults	5
Retraction “Proof in the Science of the Criminal Process in Ukraine: Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the Essence”	4
Predictors of General Deviance in the Context of COVID-19	4
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?	4
Environmental Associations of Body Disposal in New Zealand Homicides	4

Mentoring: A Traditional Cook Island Approach to Support Men	4
Examining Trajectories of Change on the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-Entry (DRAOR)	4
The Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Different Types of Offending Behavior: An Examination Across Two Generations of British Males	4
Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Male Portuguese Prisoners	4
Clinical Subgroups of Individuals Receiving Care in a Forensic Hospital: A 20-Year Comparison and Treatment Need Implications	4
Strengths and Weaknesses of Inviting Men to a Voluntary-Based Domestic Violence Intervention	4
Implementing a Recovery Capital Model Into Therapeutic Courts: Case Study and Lessons Learned	4
The Role of Insecure Attachment Styles in the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Psychopathy in Adulthood	4
Women, Opioid Use Disorder, and the Role of Recovery Housing: Exploring Challenges for Justice-Involved Women in Rural Sober Living Homes	4
Don’t Beat Around the Bush! The Relationship Between Forensic Vigilance and Communication Style	4
Understanding Violent Extremism: Identifying Motivational Classes in Male Jihadist Detainees	4
The Efficacy of Outsourced Employment Services for Adults Exiting Australian Prisons	4
Systematic Aggression Registration in Forensic Psychiatric Care: A Qualitative Study on Preconditions for Successful Implementation	4
What Works and What Doesn’t? Responsivity from the Perspective of Incarcerated Individuals with a History of Sexual Recidivism	4
Effectiveness of Ellis’s Rational-Emotional Approach on Criminal Thinking and Law-Evasion in Male Prisoners	4
Therapeutic Alliance Moderates Psychopathy-Outcome Relation in Treatment of Substance-Abusing Offenders	4
Challenging Antisocial Behaviour in Probation Practice	4