OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Punishment & Society-International Journal of Penology is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Tightness’, recognition and penal power	28
Exceptional states: The political geography of comparative penology	28
Too much policing: Why calls are made to defund the police	22
The depth of imprisonment	19
A kinder, gentler drug war? Race, drugs, and punishment in 21st century America	18
The carceral production of transgender poverty: How racialized gender policing deprives transgender women of housing and safety	18
Decolonizing the criminal question	18
Liminality revisited: Mapping the emotional adaptations of women in carceral space	18
Public opinion and the politics of collateral consequence policies	15
Bordered penality in the Netherlands: The experiences of foreign national prisoners and prison officers in a crimmigration prison	15
Trans architecture and the prison as archive: “don’t be a queen and you won’t be arrested”	15
The Taint of The Other: Prison Work as ‘Dirty Work’ In Australia	14
Sex logics: Negotiating the prison rape elimination act (PREA) against its’ administrative, safety, and cultural burdens	13
The promises and pitfalls of path dependence frameworks for analyzing penal change	13
Desistance, persistence, resilience and resistance: A qualitative exploration of how Black fathers with criminal records navigate employer discrimination	12
Sanctifying the expansion of carceral control: Spiritual Supervision in the religious lives of criminalized Latinas	12
Criminogenic risk assessment: A meta-review and critical analysis	11
Carceral churn: A sensorial ethnography of the bail and remand court	10
Punishing status and the punishment status quo: Solitary confinement in U.S. Immigration prisons, 2013–2017	10
Prison official perceptions of technology in prison	10
Punitive ambiguity: State-level criminal record data quality in the era of widespread background screening	9
(In)-justice: An exploration of the dehumanization, victimization, criminalization, and over-incarceration of Indigenous women in Canada	9
The effects of language on the stigmatization and exclusion of returning citizens: Results from a survey experiment	9
The role of storylines in penal policy change	9
Performing the enemy? No-risk logic and the assessment of prisoners in “radicalization assessment units” in French prisons	9

The politics of prison air: Breath, smell, and wind in Myanmar prisons	9
Religious perceptions of crime and implications for punitiveness	9
Coloniality, just war & carceral injustice in Brazil	8
Trashing Appalachia: Coal, prisons and whiteness in a region of refuse	8
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	8
Evaluating voluntary sector involvement in mass incarceration: The case of Samaritan prisoner volunteers	8
COVID-19 and European carcerality: Do national prison policies converge when faced with a pandemic?	8
Comparing electronic monitoring regimes: Length, breadth, depth and weight equals tightness	7
The Mississippi model: Dangers of prison reform in the context of fiscal austerity	7
Reparative justice: The final stage of decolonization	7
‘This is not what I signed up for’ – Danish prison officers’ attitudes towards more punitive penal policies	7
Managing drugs in the prisoner society: heroin and social order in Kyrgyzstan’s prisons	7
Narratives of normality: Finnish prisoners envisioning their future	7
Long sentenced women prisoners: Rights, risks and rehabilitation	6
The resettlement net: ‘revolving door’ imprisonment and carceral (re)circulation	6
The policing of subway fare evasion in postindustrial Los Angeles	6
“The Struggle is Real”: Punitive assessment in community services	6
Punishment on arrival: New Zealand’s Returning Offenders Act 2015	6
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	6
Stories of the “good father”: The role of fatherhood among incarcerated men in Mexico	5
Neo-colonial penality? Travelling penal power and contingent sovereignty	5
The dual penal empire: Emergency powers and military courts in Palestine/Israel and beyond	5
Civic death as a mechanism of retributive punishment: Academic purges in Turkey	5
Between legality and legitimacy: The courtroom as a site of resistance in the criminalization of migration	5
Carcerality and the legacies of settler colonial punishment in Nairobi	5
Enhancing the legitimacy of sentences in the minds of the public: Evidence from a public opinion survey in Hong Kong	5
Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections	5
“And you will wait …”: Carceral transportation in electronic monitoring as part of the punishment process	5
Diminished citizenship in the era of mass incarceration	5
State supervision, punishment and poverty: The case of drug bans on welfare receipt	5
Theorizing financial extraction: The curious case of telephone profits in the Los Angeles county jails	5
Calories, commerce, and culture: The multiple valuations of food in prison	4
Artificial intelligence, digital capital, and epistemic domination on Twitter: A study of families affected by imprisonment	4
Comparing expert versus general public rationale for death penalty support and opposition: Is expert perspective on capital punishment consistent with “disciplined retention”?	4
Under the punitive aegis: Dependency and the family justice center model	4
Public opinion and the death penalty in Japan	4
The Politics of Pain in Immigration Detention	4
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	4
Uneasy partnerships: Prisoner re-entry, family problems and state coercion in the era of neoliberalism	4
Penal nationalism in the settler colony: On the construction and maintenance of ‘national whiteness’ in settler Canada	4
Lost in translation: The principle of normalisation in prison policy in Norway and the Netherlands	4
Broke people, broken rules: Explaining welfare fraud investigators’ attributions	4
The social meaning of snitching in Chinese drug detention centers	3
The downside of downsizing: Persistence of racial disparities following state prison reform	3
Intellectual disability and mental illness among women sentenced to death in the U.S.: Constitutional and evidentiary dilemmas	3
Introduction: Legacies of Empire	3
Enhancing the tellability of death-row exoneree narratives: Exploring the role of rhetoric	3
Prison officers and esprit de corps. Ingroup and outgroup relationships in prison	3
Talking punishment: How victim perceptions of punishment change when they communicate with offenders	3
Predicting support for community corrections: Crime type and severity, and offender, observer, and victim characteristics	3

Investigating prison suicides: The politics of independent oversight	3
The Galápagos as penal colony: Exile, peonage, and state control at the Hacienda El Progreso, 1878–1904	3
Theorizing the drop in white-collar crime prosecutions: An ecological model	3
From rehabilitation to penal communication: The role of furlough and visitation within a retributivist framework	3
Penal welfarism ‘gone global’? Comparing international criminal justice to The Culture of Control	3
Preventive justice: Exploring the coercive power of community protection notices to tackle anti-social behaviour	3