Theoretical Criminology

Papers
(The median citation count of Theoretical Criminology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González26
Women's lives after life imprisonment in the shadow of notoriety22
Reading penalty from the periphery20
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen19
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance17
Sentencing discretion, authoritarian legacies and punitive consensus in Brazil: A criminological inquiry12
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP11
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions11
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai10
Pharmaceutical pacification: Racialized superhumanization and low-intensity social war10
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts9
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration9
Book Review: Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice by Owusu-Bempah Akwasi and Rehmatullah Tahira Owusu-BempahAkwasiRe9
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing9
Discursive constructions of masculinity in campaigns addressing gender violence in London9
Self-destruction in prison: A queer view on pain through decolonial and psychoanalytic theory9
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude7
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry7
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison6
Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb6
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)6
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work5
Book Review: Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis by Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns5
Criminalizing solidarity, regulating the enemy: Analyzing the criminalization of migrant solidarity through ‘enemy under-criminalization’ in Greece5
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning5
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X5
“Significant bodily intrusions”: A theoretical exploration of law enforcement phlebotomy and the creation of the patient/suspect5
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger5
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners4
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice: Introduction to the Special Issue4
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system4
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan4
Book Review: Carceral Communities in Latin America: Troubling Prison Worlds in the 21st Century by Sacha Darke, Chris Garces, Luis Duno-Gottberg and Andrés Antillano (eds)4
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing4
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict4
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring4
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing4
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK4
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland4
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia4
Violent exchange: Towards a global criminology of exchange relations in criminal justice practices4
Conceptualizing hate crime as group oppression4
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking4
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime4
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium3
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis3
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?3
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism3
Hyper-agency and county lines3
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state3
Reflections on the shadow carceral state3
Navigating emotions behind bars: Emotional governance and the social construction of charisma in Chinese women's prisons3
The not-so-hidden partisan politics of community policing: Community police meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina3
Book Review: The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology by Victoria Cannings, Greg Martin and Steve Tombs CanningsVictoriaMartinGregTombsSteve (eds), The3
Border penality as antagonistic politics3
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling2
Book Review: Response to reviewers2
Policía beyond the police2
Penal duress in (post)colonial Myanmar2
Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control2
The moral economy of pretrial justice: Formal and informal punishments of female defendants in Colombian courts2
Book Review: Negotiating Class in Youth Justice: Professional Practice and Interactions by Jasmina Arnež2
‘History is written by the victor … but in some cases, it's also now written by the recordings’: Body-worn cameras and the double-edged nature of police visibility2
Book Review: Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry by Andrea Leverentz2
Book Review: Portable Prisons: Electronic Monitoring and the Creation of Carceral Territory by James Gacek2
Book Review: Policing the lottery of birth2
The capitalization of crime in the city of real estate1
Making victims, making offenders: County lines, modern slavery and the criminal law1
Book Review: Suspended: Punishment, Violence, and the Failure of School Safety by Charles Bell1
Book Review: Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi by Zoha Waseem1
Exploring the impact of algorithmic policing on social justice: Developing a framework for rhizomatic harm in the pre-crime society1
The remorseful enemy1
Mass incarceration in times of economic growth and inclusion? Three steps to understand contemporary imprisonment in Brazil1
‘The dream to know everything about everyone’: Affordances of commercial data systems and digital net-widening in policing1
The externalization of border control in the global South: The cases of Malaysia and Indonesia1
The family policing industrial complex: The shadow carceral state in sites intended for the support of families1
‘Come on mate, let's make you a cup of tea’: Theorising materiality and its impacts on detainee dignity inside police detention1
Book Review: Emotional labor and moral weight of border work1
Editorial 20231
Immigration detention as a shadow carceral system1
‘Parli l’italiano?’: Revealing hierarchies of non-citizenship in judicial practices through the lens of language proficiency1
Emerging penality: Shifting ideologies, reconciliations and clashes1
Book Review: Feminism, Violence Against Women, and Law Reform: Decolonial Lessons from Ecuador by Silvana Tapia Tapia1
Introduction to special issue on dismantling the shadow carceral state1
Book Review: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing by Sarah Brayne1
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