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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling the multifaceted dimensions: a sociological inquiry into kidnapping in Nigeria	31
Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice	27
Border crossings from Mexico to the U.S. and the role of border homicides	24
Bid-rigging in public procurement: cartel strategies and bidding patterns	20
Criminal defense work in a sample of arrest hearings in three states of Mexico: the micro-dynamics of case-level engagement, influence, and strategy	12
Regulating deepfakes between Lex Lata and Lex ferenda—a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches in the U.S., the EU and China	12
Twenty-first century political justice: Reflections on the blind spots of current debates on penality	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	10
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa	10
Primary crime-related outcome indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: a comprehensive literature and data review	10
Book review	10
The continued insignificance of genocide in criminological inquiry	9
“You’re a product of your environment for sure”: Correctional educators on their perceptions of and contributions to prison social climate	8
Plea bargaining in the Nigerian criminal justice system: A procedural tool for loot recovery or justice administration?	8
Understanding contextual heterogeneity in the outcomes of large-scale security policies: evidence from Italy (2007–12)	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
A qualitative inquiry: management of recidivism in South Africa	7
Risky business: food fraud vulnerability assessments	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
Intergenerational continuity of crime among children of organized crime offenders in the Netherlands	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
Dietary supplements, harm associated with synthetic adulterants and potential governance solutions	6
Institutional corruption in the criminal justice system: The case of Ferguson	6

Is democracy responsible for persistent corruption in some developing countries? The case of Ghana	6
Challenging the criminal liability of online services providers for sex trafficking – A comparison of the American and French approaches	6
Criminal street gangs and domestic sex trafficking in the United States: evidence from Northern Virginia	6
Echoes of exclusion: a discourse analysis of media representations and the marginalization of the Cono tribe in Adana	5
Policing the Crisis in the 21st Century; the making of “knife crime youths” in Britain	5
The anatomy of ‘So-called Food-Fraud Scandals’ in the UK 1970–2018: Developing a contextualised understanding	5
Punishment before trial: public opinion, perp walks, and compensatory justice in the United States	5
Enacting social engineering: the emotional experience of information security deception	5
Beyond assumptive deterrence: understanding the socio-environmental dynamics in crimes by Christian clerics and its implications for crime control	5
Book review: The corruption dilemma: controlling the power of the powerful, by Stephen D. Morris, Lynne Rienner Publishers (2022)	5
The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal	5
Fault lines of food fraud: key issues in research and policy	5
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
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
State-level arrest trends for human trafficking and prostitution in Ohio, 2008–2018	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
Exploring Perceptions of Portuguese Police about Human Trafficking Victims and Perpetrators	4
The implications of illicit networks for changes in anti-narcotics policies	4
An integrated model of human trafficking response in the prosecution process: restorative justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, survivor centered practice and anti-oppressive practice	4
The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences	4
Italian mafias in the public gambling sector	4
How immigration, level of unemployment, and income inequality affect crime in Europe	3
Methods of terrorism financing: criminal procedural obstacles to the prevention of crime in Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, and Switzerland, by Fabian Teichmann	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
Corporate antitrust prosecutions: Prosecutorial decision making in the assessment of total monetary penalties	3
Occupational crimes in casinos: employee theft in Macau, China	3
Understanding health data falsification and its drivers among Nigerian health workers	3
On bad intentions and harmful consequences: understanding public perceptions of environmental crime seriousness	3
Reviewing international anti-corruption cooperation arrangements in China – based on the implementation review mechanism of UNCAC	3
International connections within the national government: Brazilian public legal careers and international circulation (2008–2018)	3
Mobilizing justice in sociolegal research: a mixed methods meta-analysis	3
“We’re led by stupid people”: Exploring Trump’s use of denigrating and deprecating speech to promote hatred and violence	3
County trajectories of pyramid scheme victimization	3
Borders, bandits and limited statehood in frontier regions: evidence from southwest Niger and northwest Nigeria	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
Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation	3