OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond Black and White: the Intersection of Ideologies in Online Extremist Communities	38
Disinformation Dynamics and Regulation in Portugal: Insights from a Qualitative Study	23
Mainstreaming the Blackpill: Understanding the Incel Community on TikTok	19
Professional Perspectives on the Debt Situation of Incarcerated Persons: A Mixed-Methods Study	19
Crime within a Bandwidth: Testing “the Law of Crime Concentration at Place” in Brussels	17
Police Investigations Into Financial-Economic Cybercriminal Networks: The Experiences and Perceptions of Dutch Law Enforcement	16
Occupation, Organisation, Opportunity, and Oversight: Law Firm Client Accounts and (Anti-)Money Laundering	16
Police Body-Worn Cameras and Structuration: A Silver-Plated Bullet and the Status Quo	13
Digital Defiance. Memetic Warfare and Civic Resistance	12
Sustainable Measures To End gender-based Violence in Academia: What Lies between the ERA Policy Paradigm and Reality?	10
How do Ivorian Cyberfraudsters Manage Their Criminal Proceeds?	9
Antifa’s Political Violence on Twitter: a Grounded Theory Approach	8
Towards an Evidence-Based Approach to Pre-trial Detention in Europe	8
Professionals’ Knowledge and Perceptions on Child Trafficking: Evidence from Portugal	7
The Paradox of Saving Fish by Eating them: Food Crime at the Intersection of Green Criminology and Political Ecology	7
The Role of Social Media as a Source of Information and Perception of Insecurity	7
The Criminal Selfie: Conveying Grievance While Recording and Live Streaming Antisocial Behavior	7
EU and UK Sanctions Policies After Brexit: Divergent Allies? The Case Study of Belarus	6
To Be or Not to Be Empathic: the Role of Empathy in Child Sexual Offending	6
Affective Atmosphere in an Art Fair Jewel Heist	6
How ‘Outlaws’ React: a Case Study on the Reactions to the Dutch Approach to Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs	6
The Role of Political Ideology in Agreement with Prisoner Responsibility for Personal Safety and Well-Being	6
The Impact of Collective Efficacy, and Policing Practices on Perceived Crime Problem: Evidence from Neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	6
“In Police We Trust?”—Confidence in the Police Among Adolescents With and Without a Migration Background in Germany	5
Terrorism and Tourism Growth in France: A Critical Dilemma and Criminal Policy Directions	5

Innovative Paradigms in Policing: A Quantitative Study of Technology, Training, and Community Engagement in China	5
Financial Crime Scripting: an Analytical Method to Generate, Organise and Systematise Knowledge on the Financial Aspects of Profit-Driven Crime	5
Sources of Police Legitimacy in Europe: the Role of Immigrant Status and Ethnic Discrimination	5
Impact of General Death Penalty Belief on Preferred Punishment in Specific Cases: An Exploratory Examination of Chinese Criminal Justice Professionals’ Perspectives	5
The Russian Oil Ban: Reassessment of The Effectiveness of Sanctions	5
Introduction to the Special Issue: Urban Mobility and Crime Patterns	5
First Do No Harm (online): When Healthcare Practitioners Become Agents of Information Pollution	4
Predicting Recidivism Risk Meets AI Act	4
Risk Assessment—the Key to More Security? Factors, Tools, and Practices in Dealing with Extremist Individuals	4
Institutional Response to Trafficking in Human Beings in Spain: Are All Victims Equally Protected?	4
Prosecution and Punishing Femicide in Serbia	4
Female-perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence Against Men: Perceptions of Portuguese Police Officers	4
Beyond Fear of Crime: Exploring the True Worries of Older Adults in the Context of Fear of Crime and Vulnerability in Sweden	4
EU Harmonisation of Norms Regulating Detention: Is EU Competence (Art. 82(2)b TFEU) Fit for Purpose?	4
Pathways to School Shooting Subculture: Re-thinking Theory Across Strain, Imitation, and Digital Mediation	4
Examining the Role of Legal Culture as a Protective Factor Against High Rates of Pre-trial Detention: the Case of Ireland	4
Correction to: Invisible Victims: Exploring Gendered Trends in Youth Intimate Partner Homicide	4
Investigating sentence severity with judicial open data	4
Burglaries Constellations: A New Approach to Deal with Burglaries’ Repeat Patterns in Heterogeneous Environments	4
Encounters with Professional Money Launderers; An Analysis of Financial Transactions as Reported by Gatekeepers	3
Freedom Waived: A Systematic Review of Research on People in Prison Who Forgo the Opportunity for Release on Parole	3
Information Disorder in the Chilean Constitutional Process: When Disinformation Originates with the Political Authorities Themselves	3
Turning Legally Obtained Resources into Illegal Payments: A Money Dirtying Scheme	3
Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons Trafficking: Its Contributory Factors and Key Actors in Selected Areas of Ethiopia	3
A Comparison of Public and Police Perceptions of the Seriousness of Crime	3
‘Is This a Hate Speech?’ The Difficulty in Combating Radicalisation in Coded Communications on Social media Platforms	3
Transformation-Related Anxieties and Worry About Crime: Testing the Sponge Function of the Fear of Crime	3
Beyond Custody Versus Care: Understanding the Ethical Dilemmas of Prison Officers in Belgium	3
Too Lucky to Be a Victim? An Exploratory Study of Online Harassment and Hate Messages Faced by Social Media Influencers	3
Searching for Teachable Moments at the Intersection of Youth Violence, Criminal Justice and Public Health	3
Sanctions Effects on Russia: A Possible Sanction Transmission Mechanism?	3
The Social Construction of Human Trafficking Victims in the Russian Media	3
Rethinking Experts’ Perceptions in Money Laundering Risk Assessment	3
Hate Crime Investigation and Sentencing in Sweden: What Have We Learned in the Past 20 Years?	3
Exploring Overlaps of Cultural Property Crime with Organised Crime in EU Policy Documents	3
More Than a Glance: Investigating the Differential Efficacy of Radicalizing Graphical Cues with Right-Wing Messages	3
Linguistic Radicalisation of Right-Wing and Salafi Jihadist Groups in Social Media: a Corpus-Driven Lexicometric Analysis	2
The Imperfect ‘Perfect’ Fraudster: Exploring How Vulnerability Framing, Fraudster Identity, and Victim Attachment Shape Financial Risk Perception	2
Stalking Behaviors Among Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence in Portugal: Correlates and Mediating Variables	2
Introduction to Special Issue on “Understanding Money Laundering: Empirical and Theoretical Insights into Offenders, Typologies, and Determinants of Criminal Behaviour”	2
The Path from Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy to Compliance and Cooperation in the Context of Terrorism in Multiculturally Diverse Student Population in the Netherlands	2
Patterns and Predictors of Stranger Rape Locations	2
The Prevalence, Directionality, and Dyadic Perpetration Types of Intimate Partner Violence in a Community Sample in Portugal: a Gender-Inclusive Inquiry	2
Upholding Fundamental Rights in National Arrest Warrant Proceedings in Practice: a Need for Third Level of Judicial Protection?	2
Aporophobic and Homeless Victimisation—the Case of Ghent	2
Players Don’t Die, They Respawn: a Situational Analysis of Toxic Encounters Arising from Death Events in League of Legends	2
Looking for a preventive approach to sexual harassment in academia. A systematic review	2
A Biographical Perspective on Processes of Radicalisation	2
Conspiracy to Commit: Information Pollution, Artificial Intelligence, and Real-World Hate Crime	2