OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social & Legal Studies 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
‘It’s Torture for the Soul’: The Harms of Image-Based Sexual Abuse	61
Trading Nudes Like Hockey Cards: Exploring the Diversity of ‘Revenge Porn’ Cases Responded to in Law	12
Interrogating Vulnerability: Reframing the Vulnerable Suspect in Police Custody	12
Securing the Future: Transformative Justice and Children ‘Born of War’	11
Zooming In: Courtrooms and Defendants’ Rights during the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
Are Conflicts Property? Re-Examining the Ownership of Conflict in Restorative Justice	8
Culture, Milieu, Phenotype: Articulating Race in Judicial Sense-making Practices	7
Disability Law in a Pandemic: The Temporal Folds of Medico-legal Violence	7
In the Name of Prevention? Policing ‘Social Dangerousness’ Through Arrest in China	7
Maintaining exceptionality: Interrogating gestational limits for abortion	7
Racist Victimization, Legal Estrangement and Resentful Reliance on the Police in Sweden	6
Punitive Welfare on the Margins of the State: Narratives of Punishment and (In)Justice in Masiphumelele	6
Contesting Visions of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law and Young People’s Political Discontent	6
It’s Wrong, but that’s the Way it is. Youth, Violence and Justice in North-Eastern Brazil	6
The Governance of Complaints in UK Higher Education: Critically Examining ‘Remedies’ for Staff Sexual Misconduct	6
The International Criminal Trial as a Site for Contesting Historical and Political Narratives: The Case of Dominic Ongwen	6
The changing status of European Union nationals in the United Kingdom following Brexit: The lived experience of the European Union Settlement Scheme	6
Restorative Justice, Crime Victims and Penal Welfarism. Mapping and Contextualising Restorative Justice Policy in Scotland	6
On the Sociology of Law in Economic Relations	5
The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values	5
Audit as Accountability: Technical Authority and Expertise in the Governance of Private Financing for Development	5
States of Exception: Legal Governance of Trans Women in Urban Turkey	4
Brexit, the Press and the Territorial Constitution	4
Understanding Populism	4
Beyond Carceral Expansion: Survivors’ Experiences of Using Specialised Courts for Violence Against Women in Ecuador	4

Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK: Exploring Judicial Responses	4
Moving Beyond Formal Truth Practices and Forensic Truth in the Syrian Conflict: How Informal Truth Practices Contribute to Thicker Understandings of Truth	4
FastRefugee Protection: Temporality and Migration Control	4
Lay Advisers in Family law Settings: The Role and Quality of Advice Provided on Social media	3
Compensation Funds, Trials and the Meaning of Claims: The Example of Asbestos-Related Illness Compensation in France	3
The Legitimation Strategies of “Progressive” Prosecutors	3
Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject	3
The Travels of a Set of Numbers: The Multiple Networks Enabled by the Colombian ‘Estrato’ System	3
Does Gender Blindness Improve Gender Equality? Female Judges and the Glass Ceiling Effect in the Islamic Judicial System in Indonesia	3
The ‘Will of the People’: The Populist Challenge to Democracy in the Name of Popular Sovereignty	3
Dangerous Patterns: Joint Enterprise and the Culture of Criminal Law	3
‘It Is Not 30 Pesos, It Is 30 Years’: Reflections on the Chilean Crisis: Introduction	3
Sexual Violence in the Digital Age: Replicating and Augmenting Harm, Victimhood and Blame	3
Ensuring access to water in an emergency context: Towards an overexploitation and contamination of water resources?	3
Indigenous parents and child welfare: Mistrust, epistemic injustice, and training	3
Categorising the Gendered Harms to Caregivers During Humanitarian Emergencies: An Analysis of Law and Practice During Ebola Crises	3
The Role of Patents as a Gendered Chameleon	3
The Work of Acknowledgment: ‘Loud Fence’ as Community-Level Response to Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Testimony	3
The Working Culture of Legal Aid Lawyers: Developing a ‘Shared Orientation Model’	3
Different but equal? Exploring potential catalysts of disparity in remand decision-making in the youth court	2
‘Let Me Tell You’: Transitional Justice, Victimhood and Dealing with a Contested Past	2
Gendered and Racialised Epistemological Injustice in FGM-safeguarding	2
Settler Colonialism and the South African TRC: Ambivalent Denial and Democratisation Without Decolonisation	2
Insult, Charisma, and Legitimacy: Turkey's Transition to Personalist Rule	2
Documenting the Document: The Forensic Hospital Report and Its Knowledge Moves	2
Do the Challenges of LGBTQ Asylum Applicants Under Dublin Register With the European Court of Human Rights?	2
Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’?	2
Multiple Discrimination: From Perceptions and Experiences to Proposals for Anti-Discrimination Policies	2
Silence and Voice in Oral Hearings: Spatial, Temporal, and Relational Conditions for Communication in Asylum and Compulsory Care Hearings	2
Legal Struggles: A Social Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation and Legal Mobilisation	2
Reconceptualising ‘risk’: Towards a humanistic paradigm of sexual offending	1
‘You Can Sue for Anything’: Student Rights to Participate in School Disciplinary Procedures and Legal Socialisation	1
Body Memories as a Neglected Legacy of Human Rights Abuses: Exploring Their Significance for Transitional Justice	1
Diversity, Dissent and Representation: Lessons From The First Minority Judge in the Israeli Supreme Court	1
Fake News in Brazil's 2018 Presidential Elections: A Systems Theory Approach to Judicial and Legal Responses	1
You Ain’t Woman Enough: Tracing the Policing of Intersexuality in Sports and the Clinic	1
Traditional Healing and Law in Contemporary Senegal: Legitimacies, Normativities and Practices	1
Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England	1
In What Sense Does Right-Wing Populism Pose a Democratic Challenge for the European Union?	1
Book Review: The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence	1
Revisiting Polish Abortion Law: Doctors and Institutions in a Restrictive Regime	1
Cont(r)actualisation: A Politics of Transformative Legal Recognition of Adult Unions	1
Is Anti-FGM Legislation Cultural Imperialism? Interrogating Kenya's Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act	1
In Ambiguous Times and Spaces: The Everyday Assemblage of Lay Participation to Argentine Courthouses	1
Bringing Sociology of Law Back into Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology: Elements of Bourdieu's Sociology of Law and Dispute Transformation	1
Embedding digital economy: Fictitious triple movement in the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act	1
Examining the Legal Legitimacy of Informal Economic Activities	1
Drug Violence, War-Crime Distinction, and Hierarchies of Victimhood	1
Workers’ Perspectives on State-Constructed Vulnerability to Labour Exploitation: Experiences of Migrant Fishers in Ireland	1
‘They Are Here Without Chains, but With Invisible Chains’: Understandings of Modern Slavery Within the New South Wales Settlement Sector	1

Shifting Accounts of Justice: The Legalisation and Politicisation of International Criminal Justice	1
Book Review: Dispute Resolution in China: Litigation, Arbitration, Mediation, and their Interactions	1
External Intimacy: Community-based Intervention Concerning Crime and the Integral State in Quebec	1
The Life and Times of Human Rights Organizations: Organizational Biographies and the Sociology of Human Rights	1
Enhancing Participatory Strategies With Designerly Ways for Sociolegal Impact: Lessons From Research Aimed at Making Hate Crime Visible	1
From Love to Justice: Families’ Interrogation of Racial State Violence	1
Reasonably Unreasonable: American Use of Force Jurisprudence and Police Impunity	1
The Changing Natures of the Medical Register: Doctors, Precarity, and Crisis	1
Law, Culture and Decolonisation: The Perspectives of Aboriginal Elders on Family Violence in Australia	1
Book Review: Concessionaires, Financiers and Communities: Implementing Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Land in Transnational Development Projects	1
Narrating Communist Repression in and Outside the Courtroom: The Case of Former Prison Commander Alexandru Vișinescu and its Resonance with (Societally) Available ‘Narrative Worlds’	1
Queer Conflicts, Concept Capture and Category Co-Option: The Importance of Context in the State Collection and Recording of Sex/Gender Data	1
The Culture of Emergency in Italy and Spain: State Antiterrorism	1
‘Rightificating’ Coercion – A Critical Perspective on the Transformation of State-Driven Coercive Care	1
Registering Cosmetics? The Constitution of Legal Form and Injurious Substance in Canada (1945–1946)	1
The Form of Forms: Everyday Enablers of Access to Justice	1
A Gendered EU Settlement Scheme: Intersectional Oppression of Immigrant Women in a Post-Brexit Britain	1
It’s All or Nothing: Consent, Reasonable Belief, and the Continuum of Sexual Violence in Judicial Logic	1
‘Gold Standard' Legislation for Adults Only: Reconceptualising Children as ‘Adjoined Victims' Under the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018	1