OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Crime Law and Social Change 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	29
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	17
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	13
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides	12
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	11
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
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	10
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	10
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	9
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	8
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
Understanding contextual heterogeneity in the outcomes of large-scale security policies: evidence from Italy (2007–12)	7
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	7
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	7
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	7
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	6
Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	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
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	6
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	6

Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	5
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	5
Uncovering patterns of public perceptions towards biodiversity crime using conservation culturomics	5
A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing	5
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	5
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	5
A socio-legal analysis of the Belgian protective legislation towards victims of aggravated forms of migrant smuggling	5
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	5
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	5
Politically biased or morally loose? Exploring the role of individual predictors of tolerance towards political corruption	5
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	5
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	4
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	4
An empirical test of techniques of neutralization regarding polluting behaviors in rural Iran	4
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	4
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	4
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	4
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	4
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	4
Rethinking cybercrime prevention in the age of the internet	3
Democratic values, relative deprivation, political trust, and the resilience of corruption in Portugal: a survey analysis	3
Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective	3
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	3
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	3
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	3
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	3
Fear and perceived risk of cyber fraud victimization among Chinese University students	3
Why are victims fooled by fake investment platforms in China?? Insights from trust transfer theory	3
Are women less corrupt than men? Evidence from Ghana	3
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	3
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	3
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	3
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	3
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	3
Online and offline determinants of drug trafficking across countries via cryptomarkets	3
Who steals? Who bribes? Multilevel determinants of corruption types in China	3
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	3
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	3
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	3
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	3