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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Accessing the right to vote among system-impacted people	40
Matthew Clair, Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court	29
Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg, Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform	26
Calories, commerce, and culture: The multiple valuations of food in prison	22
Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism	22
Understanding the lived experiences of youth incarcerated in adult facilities through their letters: A content analysis	17
The resettlement net: ‘revolving door’ imprisonment and carceral (re)circulation	16
Enhancing the tellability of death-row exoneree narratives: Exploring the role of rhetoric	14
Matt Tidmarsh, Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation	13
Penal extractivism: A qualitative study on punishment and extractive industries in Peru	13
Immobilized: (In)congruent collateral consequences and racialized driver's license restrictions	13
Penal hybridization: State influence and local resistance at a community-based reentry organization	12
Barry Goldson, Chris Cunneen, Sophie Russell, David Brown, Eileen Baldry, Melanie Schwartz, and Damon Briggs, Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context	11
Book Review: Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court. The Blame Cascade by Leila Ullrich	9
Carceral reckoning and twenty-first century US abolition movements: Generational struggles in the fight against prisons	9
The politics of abolition: Reframing the death penalty's history in comparative perspective	8
A ‘crimmigrant ban’? Global mobility, urban (in)security and the changing dynamics of judicial practices	8
Joshua Dubler and Vincent W Lloyd, Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons	8
Magnus Hörnqvist, The Pleasure of Punishment	8
Katja Franko, The Crimmigrant Other	8
Roxana Willis, A Precarious Life: Community and Conflict in a Deindustrialized Town	7
Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors	7
Surviving austerity: Commissary stores, inequality and punishment in the contemporary American prison	7
Surveillance and the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic for formerly incarcerated individuals	7
Surviving cell-sharing: Resistance, cooperation and collaboration	7

Louise Brangan, The Politics of Punishment: A comparative study of imprisonment and political culture	6
Penal diversity, penality and community sanctions in Australia	6
David Maguire, Male, Failed, Jailed: Masculinities and ‘Revolving Door’ Imprisonment in the UK	5
Florian Jeßberger and Julia Geneuss (eds), Why Punish Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities? Purposes of Punishment in International Criminal Law	5
Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith and Mark Halsey, Power, and Pain in the Modern Prison: The Society of Captives Revisited	5
Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea, Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control	5
Migratory dependency and the death penalty: Foreign nationals facing capital punishment in the Gulf	4
Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections	4
Punitiveness and atrocity: Why do some Filipinos support mass violence?	4
Alice Ievins, The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offense	4
Abolition compromised: How state-nonprofit funding dynamics undermine anti-carceral reform	4
Contaminated memories: How formerly incarcerated mothers remember their pasts and imagine their futures	4
“The biggest thing you can rob is somebody's time”: Exploring how the carceral state bankrupts fathers through temporal debt	4
Market development, state formation, and the historical abolition of the debtors’ prison	4
Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime	4
Rights protection in prisons: Understanding recommendations-making by prison inspection and monitoring bodies in the European Union	4
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	4
Imperial legacies and southern penal spaces: A study of hunting nomads in postcolonial India	4
Life without parole and euthanasia: The future unintended consequences of current sentencing policies	4
Sarah Esther Lageson, Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice	4
Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico	4
The Taint of The Other: Prison Work as ‘Dirty Work’ In Australia	4
Franklin E Zimring, The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration	3
The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021)	3
Paul Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France	3
Introduction: Legacies of Empire	3
How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention	3
Within-race variations in sentencing outcomes: Nationality and punishment among Asians in United States federal courts	3
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden: Penal layering and the uneven topography of penal change	3
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration	3
Let me take a vacation in prison before the streets kill me! Rough sleepers’ longing for prison and the reversal of less eligibility in neoliberal carceral continuums	3
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants	3
The exercise of authority during interactions in custody hearings in São Paulo (Brazil): Building legitimacy through exclusion	3
A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners	3
Shaping the road to reentry: Organizational variation and narrative labor in the penal voluntary sector	2
Punishing people through property: Strategic task force inspections at the nexus of criminal and civil legal systems	2
“We’re not the first and we’re not going to be the last”: Perspectives of system-involved black and Latinx young adults on racial injustice during the 2020 black lives matter protests	2
Corrigendum to The politics of prison air: breath, smell, and wind in Myanmar prisons	2
Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested”	2
Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment	2
Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen, Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration Nasrul Ismail, The English Prison Health Sy	2
Beyond punishment: Towards a framework of transformative accountability	2
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	2
The dual penal empire: Emergency powers and military courts in Palestine/Israel and beyond	2
Paul Rock, The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales: Vol II Institution Building	2
The rise and ongoing legacy of localism as collective identity in Hong Kong: Resinicisation anxieties and punishment of political dissent in the post-colonial era	2
WITHDRAWAL – Administrative Duplicate Publication: Book review: The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence & the Politics of Policing in America by Michelle S. Phelps	2
John M. Halushka, A Weberian nightmare: Review of Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry	2
Boyles A., You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties	2
Making sense of penal difference: Political cultures and comparative penology	2

Robin Fitzgerald, Arie Freiberg, Shannon Dodd, Lorana Bartels, Parole on Probation: Parole Decision-Making, Public Opinion and Public Confidence	2
Michael S. Sherry, The Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War	2
“Broken windows” discipline and racial disparities in school punishment	2
Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective	2