OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America by Yanilda María González	25
The social dynamics of group offending	16
Reading penalty from the periphery	14
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions	13
“A good client gets arrested a lot”: Constructing and maintaining profitable subjects through marking and surveillance	11
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), knowledge provision and criminal justice reform in Latin America: The case of INECIP	9
Book Review: Defund the Police: An International Insurrection by Chris Cunneen	9
Book Review: Penality in the Underground: The IRA's Pursuit of Informers by Ron Dudai	9
Banking in the shadows of the carceral state: Prisons, paternalism, and the regulation of money in prison trust accounts	8
Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing	8
The boundaries of the carceral state: Accounting for the role of military incarceration	8
Practice without prospect: The imaginary response to the recording and investigations of sexual assault in prison	7
Book Review: Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Rimple Mehta (eds)	7
Book Review: Beyond ambivalence and certitude	7
Book Review: Trading life: organ trafficking, illicit networks, and exploitation by Seán Columb	7
Police legitimacy and approval of vigilante violence: The significance of anger	6
‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X	6
Prison, technology, and consumption: A visual study of the use of electronic commerce strategies in the inmate package industry	6
The construction of intolerable punishments: On the value of documenting the pains of old prisoners	5
‘Not in touch’: Nonverbal communication and frontline perceptions of inter-organizational justice in parole work	5
Boundaries, obligations and belonging: The reconfiguration of citizenship in emergency criminal regimes	4
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 Johns	4
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing	4
Gendering postcolonial penality: The religious detention of women in Ireland	4
Book Review: Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture by Victoria Canning	4

Governing against the tide: Populism, power and the party conference	3
Transnational policing between national political regimes and human rights norms: The case of the Interpol Red Notice system	3
Human rights paradox: Explaining the undeportability of irregular Chinese migrants in the UK	3
Unlikely downsizers: The prison service's role in reversing mass incarceration in Kazakhstan	3
Private security and national security: The case of Estonia	3
Understanding conflict penality: Dominant themes and the case of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict	3
Pains of privacy: Mapping carceral practices onto electronic monitoring	3
Who can organize and exercise effective resistance? A southern criminology perspective on the victimology of state crime	3
Book review: Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy	3
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)	3
Book review: Lisa Flower, Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty	3
Irreducibly social: Why biocriminology’s ontoepistemology is incompatible with the social reality of crime	2
Reflections on the shadow carceral state	2
Book Review: The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology by Victoria Cannings, Greg Martin and Steve Tombs CanningsVictoriaMartinGregTombsSteve (eds), The	2
Capital in illegal online drug markets: How digital capital changes the cultural environment of drug dealing	2
The not-so-hidden partisan politics of community policing: Community police meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina	2
Border penality as antagonistic politics	2
How southern is Southern criminology in Latin America?	2
Legitimation work in privatized criminal justice: Softening, shrinking, and signaling	2
The conceptual limits of risk governance in terrorism prevention: Towards a theory of threat thinking	2
Hyper-agency and county lines	2
Book Review: Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis by Meredith J. Greif GreifMeredith J., Collateral Damages: Landlords and the Urban Housing Crisis	2
Rehabilitation within pre-crime interventions: The hybrid criminology of social crime prevention and countering violent extremism	2
Book Review: The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago by Alison Mountz	2
Community Protection Warnings and the practices of the preventive state	2
Book Review: Ana Aliverti, Policing the Borders WithinHenrique Carvalho, Introduction to the Review Symposium	2