OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology 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
Surviving cell-sharing: Resistance, cooperation and collaboration	43
Book Review: Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court. The Blame Cascade by Leila Ullrich	32
The Taint of The Other: Prison Work as ‘Dirty Work’ In Australia	25
Immobilized: (In)congruent collateral consequences and racialized driver's license restrictions	25
The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021)	18
Elizabeth Cook, Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence CookElizabeth, Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence, Routledge: London and New York, 202	18
Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime	16
Alice Ievins, The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offense	15
Bordered welfare in Australia: Income management as a bordering technology of neoliberal and colonial governance	14
Book Review: Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian England by Tahaney Alghrani AlghraniTahaney, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian England, Bloomsbury: London,	14
Regulating criminal justice: The role of procedural justice and legitimacy in the inspection of probation in England and Wales	13
Justifying leniency at a time of punitiveness: Federal clemency narratives in the United States	10
Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition	10
Qi Chen, Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: Community Sanctions and Measures	10
Book Review: ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 by Ben Bethell	9
Solitary confinement as state harm: Reimagining sentencing in light of dynamic censure and state blame	9
David Churchill, Henry Yeomans and Iain Channing, Historical Criminology, Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology	8
Lila Kazemian, Positive Growth and Redemption in Prison: Finding Light Behind Bars and Beyond	8
‘Entrapped in a penal time capsule’: Extralegal discourses in sentence review of life prisoners in India	8
Enemy parole	6
The obsolescence of detention: Versatility, expendability and plasticity in the field of immigration confinement	6
There is no place to go in “America's Finest City”: Basic sanitation deprivation is punishment in San Diego, California, USA	6
Book review: War as Protection and Punishment: Armed international Intervention at the ‘End of History’ by Teresa Degenhardt DegenhardtTeresa, War as Protection and Puni	6
Talking punishment: How victim perceptions of punishment change when they communicate with offenders	6
“Social workers by day and terrorists by night?” Wounded healers, restorative justice, and ex-prisoner reentry	6

Coloniality, just war & carceral injustice in Brazil	5
Penal nationalism in the settler colony: On the construction and maintenance of ‘national whiteness’ in settler Canada	5
Ruptured alliances: Prosecutorial lobbying, victims’ interests and punishment policy in Illinois	5
Who cares?: The burdens of care borne by the loved ones of incarcerated men	5
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns, Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis	5
Architecture, atmospheres, and the pains of unattainable affordances: Tracing prisoners’ lived experience in a ‘new-generation’ prison in Switzerland	5
Privatisation and accountability in Australian immigration detention: A case of state-corporate symbiosis	5
Liam Martin, Halfway House: Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care	5
Theorizing a way out of reformist reforms: Gladue reports and penal abolition	4
Penal-welfare systems in a (post)colonial world: The rise and disregard of alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in South Africa	4
Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors	4
Arresting movement: The history of German immigration detention beyond the camp	4
“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19	4
A ‘crimmigrant ban’? Global mobility, urban (in)security and the changing dynamics of judicial practices	4
Haven't they suffered enough? Time to exoneration following wrongful conviction of racially marginalized minority- vs. majority-group members	4
States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland	4
Criminogenic risk assessment: A meta-review and critical analysis	4
Joshua Dubler and Vincent W Lloyd, Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons	3
Making sense of penal difference: Political cultures and comparative penology	3
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden: Penal layering and the uneven topography of penal change	3
Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections	3
“The biggest thing you can rob is somebody's time”: Exploring how the carceral state bankrupts fathers through temporal debt	3
Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico	3
Abolition compromised: How state-nonprofit funding dynamics undermine anti-carceral reform	3
Franklin E Zimring, The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration	3
How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention	3
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants	3
Understanding carceral mobilities in and through lived experiences of incarceration	2
Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal	2
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	2
Punishing people through property: Strategic task force inspections at the nexus of criminal and civil legal systems	2
Boyles A., You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties	2
Nuances of fragmentation, (mis)recognition and closeness: Narratives of challenges and support during resettlement	2
Shaping the road to reentry: Organizational variation and narrative labor in the penal voluntary sector	2
Trauma and imported vulnerability in prison suicides	2
Marion Vannier, Normalizing Extreme Imprisonment: The Case of Life Without Parole in California	2
Book Review: Sound, Order and Survival in Prison – The Rhythms and Routines of HMP Midtown by Kate Herrity	2
Zoha Waseem, Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi	2
A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners	2
Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective	2
Lost in translation: The principle of normalisation in prison policy in Norway and the Netherlands	2
Ashley T Rubin, The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary and The Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913	2
Prosecutors as punishers: A case study of Trump-era practices	2
Living through extended liminality: Reintegration experiences of génocidaire ex-prisoners in Rwanda	2
Slave “Corrections” in Luanda, Angola from 1836 to 1869	2
Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care	2
Beyond punishment: Towards a framework of transformative accountability	2
Paul Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France	2
Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment	2
Shifting the practice of coercive penal care over time in a problem-solving court	2

Of boredom and havoc: Correctional officers and meaning making