OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Criminology 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Mountain Myths: Examining the Hierarchy of Whiteness in Film	30
Editor’s Final Introduction	16
Correction to: Six Lines: A Methodological Agenda for Critical Gang Studies	16
Correction to: Editor’s Final Introduction	11
Using Speculative Fiction to Imagine Queer Abolition Real Utopias	10
Salman, S. (2023). The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need. New York University Press. 248 pp. ISBN: 9,781,479,814,541 (Paperback)	10
Legal but Environmentally Harmful Practices Involved in Gold Mining in Madre de Dios, Peru	9
Editorial 31(3)	8
Academics Versus Athletics? The Protection and Prioritization of College Athletics in an Era of Neoliberal Austerity	8
Hadar Aviram: Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole	7
“I’ll Choose My Own Way”: Delinquent Girls and Boys in Search of Gender Hegemony	7
Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue, “Southern Criminologies: Methods, Theories and Indigenous Issues”	7
The Digital Infrastructures of Illegal Border Crossings: Solidarity Actors and Networks in the Arabic and Persian Speaking Virtual Spheres	7
Normalizing State Rape: (In)Voluntary Consent and the Body Cavity Search	7
Against Reformism: Anarchy and Green Criminology	7
Correction to: David Whyte: Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us	7
Exploring Immigration Detention at the Intersection of Federal Grant Funding, Sanctuary, and Political Majorities in 2015	7
Decolonizing Southern Criminology: What Can the “Decolonial Option” Tell Us About Challenging the Modern/Colonial Foundations of Criminology?	6
State-Crime Relations: Notes on a Necessary Literature	6
“… Here I Went Through Deportation – Which was also Torture for Me”: Air-Deportations and Liberal Violence in Great Britain	5
Forceful De-escalation and Organizational Inertia: Identifying Novel Justifications for Entrenched Police Violence	5
Towards a Critical Race Criminology: Decolonising Criminological Practice	5
“In and Out of Crisis”: Life Course Criminalization for Jefas in the Barrio	5
Bill McClanahan: Visual Criminology	4
Teen Courts as Alternative Justice? Teens’ Carceral Habitus and the Reproduction of Social Inequality	4

The Tier One Transformation: Exploring the Convergence of the Material and Cultural Indicators of Police Militarization Between Special Forces Units and Police Tactical Units	4
Illegally Crossing an Open Border: The Experiences of Venezuelan Women’s Journeys to Colombia Through Unauthorised Routes	4
“Deliberate Indifference”: Challenging State-Sanctioned Violence Against Transgender People in Carceral Spaces	4
Exploring Carceral Food Systems as Sites of Contestation and Possibility in Canadian Federal Prisons: The Food Services Modernization Initiative	4
Indigenous People, Organized Crime and Natural Resources: Borders, Incentives and Relations	4
Dan Canon: Pleading Out: How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal Class	4
Fake News in the Field of COVID Communication: Investigating the ‘Infodemic’ in Taiwan	4
Between Crime and Commemoration: Human–Object Relationships in the Treasure Hunting for World War II Objects	4
Kill the Corporation Before it Kills Life Itself: A Review of Reviews	3
‘We Can’t Get No Nine-to-Five’: New York City Gang Membership as a Response to the Structural Violence of Everyday Life	3
Critical Criminology, Special Issue Introduction: Critical Engagements with Gender, Race and Class in Crimmigration Controls	3
Hyper-policing the Homeless: Lived Experience and the Perils of Benevolent and Malevolent Policing	3
Anti-femininity or Gender-Nonconformity Prejudice? An Investigation of Femme, Twink, and Butch LGBTQ Victimization Using Norm-Centered Stigma Theory	3
“Ask Me About My Goals!” Challenging Pervasive Assumptions of Gang Members’ Fatalism by Exploring Gay Gang Members’ Goals	3
David Whyte: Ecocide: Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us	3
Punishment and Racial Segregation of Schools: Against Racial Threat and Toward a Racial Control Perspective	3
Rafe McGregor: Critical Criminology and Literary Criticism	3
Carceral Logics in Benevolent Places: How Institutions of Care Criminalize Justice-Involved Black Mothers	3
Corporate Violence in the Central Appalachian Coal Industry: From Roots to Repercussions	3
Racialized, Sexualized, and Criminalized: Carceral Citizenship of Black Women	3
Crimmigration Practices and Narratives Resisting and Justifying Mass Deportation in the Central Valley of California	3
Editorial (32)3	3
Introduction: The Criminalization-to-Deportation Pipeline in the United States—A Special Issue for Critical Criminology	3
Moving Beyond Abstracted Empiricism: Pursuing New Sociological Directions in Theorizing Male-to-Female Sexual Assault on University/College Campuses	3
Critical Policing Studies: Toward a “Fully Social” Framework	2
A Criminology of Dis/Obedience?	2
The Crisis of Higher Education: Neoliberalism and the Privileging of “Innovation” in The Twenty-First Century	2
Negotiating Subversive Adaptation in Morocco: Navigating Borders, Migration Dynamics and Authoritarian Realities	2
Skogan, Wesley, G. 2023: Stop and Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago, New York, NY: Oxford University Press	2
Interview with Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty	2
Prohibiting the Queer Body: Gender Affirmation, Female Genital Cutting, and the Promise of Gender Intelligibility	2
“Without Drug Court, You’ll End Up in Prison or Dead”: Therapeutic Surveillance and Addiction Narratives in Treatment Court	2
No Time for Rest: An Exploration of Sleep and Social Harm in the North East Night-Time Economy (NTE)	2
Gang Phantasmagoria: How Racialized Gang Allegations Haunt Immigration Legal Work	2
A Systems-Based Approach to Green Criminology	2
From Exceptionalism to Non-conformity: Pandemic Disobedience, Collective Irrationality, and Distributive Justice in India	2
Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa	2
Electronic Surveillance in Immigration Court: Evidence from the CalGang Database	2
Comparative Analysis of Coloured Gangs in Cape Town and Indigenous Gangs on Canada’s Prairies: Connecting Localized Opposition to Globalized Grievances Through Street Culture	2
Imposed Mobility, Legal Ambiguity, Institutionalized Abandonment: Exploring the Sex Work Crimscape in Contemporary Poland	2
Deaths of Despair: Gang Violence after the Crack Crisis	2
Divide & Conquer: Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict	2