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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	38
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	17
Punishment configuration and prevention of carbon trading fraud crimes: experience from China	15
Revisiting crime, punishment and deterrence in a rapidly changing society: new evidence from panel data analysis in China	15
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	14
Differential effects of corruption on export margins: insights from firm-level data of selected South Asian economies	14
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	14
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	12
To report or not to report corruption? An empirical investigation of the determinants of corruption reporting in Africa	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
Firearms policy and regional structures: how Brazil responds in divergent ways	10
Mass shooters and the death penalty: An exploration of sentencing outcomes and changes over time	10
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	10
Book review	10
COVID-19 as a trigger for racially motivated and extremist violent crime: a temporal analysis of hate crimes in Slovakia amidst a global pandemic	9
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	9
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
Religion and punishment in the post-revolutionary Iran from the durkheimian perspective	9
The systemic issues with the lower judiciary in India and proposed remedial measures	9
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	9
Transnational copyright enforcement in the digital age: balancing rights holders and public access across jurisdictions	8
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	8
Partners in crime: A network perspective of street gangs elites	8
Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	8
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	7

The involvement process for financial-economic cyber-enabled crime: Exploring the roles of preexisting ties and offender convergence settings	7
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
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	6
Correction to: Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape	6
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	6
Politically biased or morally loose? Exploring the role of individual predictors of tolerance towards political corruption	6
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	6
Australian news media portrayals of filicide: depictions of mental health and the flawed mother trope	6
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	6
Work-related suicide: an international social justice perspective	6
Homicidal violence and state capacity in Latin America: the story of the Paper Leviathans	5
Women in organized crime: a comparison of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)	5
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	5
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	5
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	5
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Closing loopholes or maintaining control? Corporate power through algorithmic opacity in Australia’s gig economy regulation	5
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	5
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	5
Does carceral status signal fitness for jury service? An exploratory study of the state’s role in shaping public opinion	4
Network linkages between housing prices and crime risk: evidence from 26 regions in Türkiye	4
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	4
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	4
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	4
How organizational culture shapes criminal organizations’ street-level territorial control capabilities: a study of Los Zetas	4
Access to justice in prisons or the limitations of prison defense	4
Media coverage of darknet market closures: assessing the impact of coverage on US search and Tor use activity	4
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	4
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	4
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	4
Poverty, incivilities, media consumption and the perception of increased crime at the national, local and neighborhood levels: evidence from Chile in 2023	4
Unveiling sextortion in sport: a global inquiry into the nexus of sexual violence, abuse of power, and corruption for enhanced safeguarding	4
Exceptional workers? sex work, labor rights and the law	4
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	4
Profiles of identity theft victimization and the role of lifestyle-routine activities: a conjunctive analysis of case configurations	4
Chinese criminal justice practitioners’ death penalty opinion and justifications:	3
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
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
Towards a democratic use of technologies for urban security: Scoping and practical guidance for decision-makers	3
Strengthening legal frameworks and community engagement: addressing illegal wildlife trade involving Quang Binh laborers in Malaysia	3
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
Predictive policing in action: a field-based critique of the Italian case	3
Those left behind. Selective hospitality and uneven reception of people fleeing Ukraine in Poland	3
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
Factors that influence the criminal justice response to human trafficking: a systematic review of North American and European studies	3
More than “male” and “female”: the role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions	3

Beyond refugee camps: housing solutions for war refugees from Ukraine in Poland	3
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of how corruption, education, inequality and trust in parliament affect voter-turnout	3