OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Crime Law and Social Change is 1. 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
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	27
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	26
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	21
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides	16
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	12
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	11
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	10
Book review	10
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	10
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	10
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	9
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	9
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Plea bargaining in the Nigerian criminal justice system: A procedural tool for loot recovery or justice administration?	8
COVID-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: a temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic	8
“You’re a product of your environment for sure”: Correctional educators on their perceptions of and contributions to prison social climate	8
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	7
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	7
Understanding contextual heterogeneity in the outcomes of large-scale security policies: evidence from Italy (2007–12)	7
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	7
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	6
From an offender-based to an offense-based justice: Changes in sentencing patterns in the juvenile justice system in São Paulo from 1990 to 2006	6
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	6
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	6

Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	6
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	5
A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing	5
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	5
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	5
Dietary supplements, harm associated with synthetic adulterants and potential governance solutions	5
Politically biased or morally loose? Exploring the role of individual predictors of tolerance towards political corruption	5
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	5
Beyond assumptive deterrence: understanding the socio-environmental dynamics in crimes by Christian clerics and its implications for crime control	5
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	5
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	4
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	4
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	4
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	4
Enacting social engineering: the emotional experience of information security deception	4
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	4
Behind the criminal economy: using UK tax fraud investigations to understand money laundering myths and models	4
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	4
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	4
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	4
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	3
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	3
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	3
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	3
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	3
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	3
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	3
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	3
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	3
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	3
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	3
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	3
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	3
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	3
Rethinking cybercrime prevention in the age of the internet	3
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	3
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	3
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	3
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	3
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	3
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	3
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	2
The attribution of empirical desert in complex contexts: an experimental criminal law approach to voluntary intoxication	2
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	2
Hate in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: dehumanisation as a side effect; re-humanisation as a remedy	2
Carceral Experiences of White-Collar Offenders: Qualitative Research Design Utilising the Offender-Based Definition and Pierre Bourdieu’s Capital Theory	2

Designed to break: planned obsolescence as corporate environmental crime	2
Funding the colonial tax haven: unpacking the role of the paycheck protection program in Puerto Rico’s state-corporate crimes	2
Analyzing the anti-corruption potential of ICT in SAARC countries	2
Assessing legal socialisation in a youth sample: procedural justice, legitimacy, and popular discontent in Nigeria	2
Book Review: Political corruption: the internal enemy of public institutions, by Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti, Oxford University Press (2021)	2
Tax evasion and illicit cigarettes in California: prevalence and demand-side correlates	2
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	2
Children and youth born of conflict-related sexual violence: the making of the ‘other’ in Northern Uganda and Rwanda	2
Does internet access increase the perception of corruption?	2
Equality, collaboration, flexibility: the emergence of (fragile) legitimacy in prison settings during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The working of electoral corruption: the Ekiti model of vote buying	2
A continuum of hate: delimiting the field of hate studies	2
Astronomical withdrawals: a green criminological examination of extreme energy mining on extraterrestrial objects	2
The dark hand of the underworld: measuring the economic impact of organized crime	2
Correction to: Protest policing and policing protesters: litigation in the U.S. Circuit courts of appeals	2
Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore	2
The unintended consequences of anti-corruption measures: Regulating judicial conduct in Ghana	2
Why are victims fooled by fake investment platforms in China?? Insights from trust transfer theory	2
The corporate legal profession’s role in global corruption: obligations and opportunities for contributing to collective action	2
Should gains from criminal knowledge be forfeited?	2
A color-blind Lens: public perceptions of systemic racism in the criminal justice system	2
Nelen, H. (2022) Ostrageous: How greed and crime erode professional football and we all look the other way	2
Characteristics and situational aspects of seafood fraud: a comparative crime script analysis	2
Limitations of the international approach to anti-corruption: a systematic review of South Africa’s compelling case of failing anti-corruption	2
Violence against Women and Femicide: an analysis on the murders of foreign women in Italy	2
The logic of CPTED for public space or the social potential of physical security	2
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel determinants of corruption types in China	2
Tigers vs. flies: impact of official ranks on judicial trials in PRC’s anti-corruption campaign	1
Correction to: Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	1
Stolen goods markets and criminal redistribution in Enugu state of Nigeria	1
A positive feedback mechanism? Institutional responsiveness to bribery reporting by citizens in 12 African countries	1
Following the (DNM) Bible? A crime script analysis of darknet drug vending	1
Long-term mental health, victimization, and behavioral consequences associated with human sex trafficking	1
The “New Wars”: security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America	1
How does the MDB cross-debarment system curb corruption? — From the perspective of deterrence theory	1
Hawala in criminal court: the role of law and commercial culture in informal financial exchange	1
Decreasing corruption in the field of disaster management	1
Obligation-based bribes in Vietnam: A view from the norm of reciprocity	1
The perils to democratic consolidation: citizens’ opinion on the army and support for democracy	1
Policing injustice in the digital age: analyzing police representation in social media activism	1
Illicit organ trade: an empirical study of kidney trading networks in China	1
Towards malum prohibitum: crime deterrence strategies for reducing illicit antiquities trade	1
Between the legal technique and the social question: the plural commitments of public defenders in Argentina	1
The horror of corporate harms: purdue pharma and the opioid epidemic	1
Unveiling the Nexus of trafficking: Socio-economic determinants, victimization forms, and psychological impacts on women in Bangladesh	1
Murder, gender and the law: from crime of passion to femicide	1
Capture, commodify, kill: Legitimized harms and industrial meatpacking in the United States	1
Judicial practices in brazil: How do inquisitorial institutions apply adversarial norms?	1
From (Possible) Detection to Action: The Real-World Impact of Suspicious Transaction Reports in Italy	1
A qualitative exploration of factors associated with recidivism in South Africa	1
Regulatory theater in the pork industry: how the capitalist state harms workers, farmers, and unions	1
Measuring judiciarization of people with mental illnesses	1
Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	1
Idleness as work? How public defenders do their job by waiting	1
Shadow state structures and the threat to anti-corruption enforcement: evidence from Uzbekistan’s telecommunications bribery scandal	1
Accident, scandal, disaster: the media framing of corporate crime	1
Connected to the end: the deterrence/identity continuum in online criminal networks	1
Crime and crisis in China’s P2P online lending market: a comparative analysis of fraud	1
Trafficking North Korean women into China for forced marriage: Evidence from court judgments	1
Criminal liability for correctional officer excessive use of force	1
‘I have used up my entire youth in the bush’: the Comités de Autodefensa during and after the Peruvian internal armed conflict	1
The role of helplines in the anti-trafficking space: examining contacts to a major ‘modern slavery’ hotline	1
Examining the multifaceted harms of corporate and white-collar crime	1
Social Media Jurors: Conceptualizing and Analyzing Online Public Engagement in reference to Legal Cases	1
Longitudinal patterns of regulatory violations in chemical corporations	1