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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Surviving cell-sharing: Resistance, cooperation and collaboration	47
Immobilized: (In)congruent collateral consequences and racialized driver's license restrictions	30
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	27
Performing rehabilitation: Reentry, art, and identity	18
The Taint of The Other: Prison Work as ‘Dirty Work’ In Australia	18
Book Review: Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court. The Blame Cascade by Leila Ullrich	17
Extraction without reserve: The case of Arizona's penal care regime	14
The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (summer 2021)	14
Book Review: Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian England by Tahaney Alghrani AlghraniTahaney, Wayward girls in Victorian and Edwardian England, Bloomsbury: London,	10
Alice Ievins, The Stains of Imprisonment. Moral Communication and Men Convicted of Sex Offense	10
Bordered welfare in Australia: Income management as a bordering technology of neoliberal and colonial governance	9
Regulating criminal justice: The role of procedural justice and legitimacy in the inspection of probation in England and Wales	9
Qi Chen, Governance, Social Control and Legal Reform in China: Community Sanctions and Measures	8
Justifying leniency at a time of punitiveness: Federal clemency narratives in the United States	8
Solitary confinement as state harm: Reimagining sentencing in light of dynamic censure and state blame	8
Tommie Shelby, The Idea of Prison Abolition	8
David Churchill, Henry Yeomans and Iain Channing, Historical Criminology, Routledge Key Ideas in Criminology	7
‘Entrapped in a penal time capsule’: Extralegal discourses in sentence review of life prisoners in India	7
The obsolescence of detention: Versatility, expendability and plasticity in the field of immigration confinement	6
Talking punishment: How victim perceptions of punishment change when they communicate with offenders	6
Enemy parole	6
There is no place to go in “America's Finest City”: Basic sanitation deprivation is punishment in San Diego, California, USA	6
“Social workers by day and terrorists by night?” Wounded healers, restorative justice, and ex-prisoner reentry	6
Gauging the totality of criminal legal sanctions and punishment: Implications for research and policy on retribution and deterrence	5
Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 Ben Bethell, ‘Star Men’ in English Convict Prisons, 1879-1948 , Routledge: A	5

Ruptured alliances: Prosecutorial lobbying, victims’ interests and punishment policy in Illinois	5
Architecture, atmospheres, and the pains of unattainable affordances: Tracing prisoners’ lived experience in a ‘new-generation’ prison in Switzerland	5
Book review: War as Protection and Punishment: Armed international Intervention at the ‘End of History’ by Teresa Degenhardt DegenhardtTeresa, War as Protection and Puni	5
Between risk and race: Does diagnostic ambiguity fuel racial disparities under sexually violent predator laws?	5
Liam Martin, Halfway House: Prisoner Reentry and the Shadow of Carceral Care	5
Who cares?: The burdens of care borne by the loved ones of incarcerated men	4
Privatisation and accountability in Australian immigration detention: A case of state-corporate symbiosis	4
“A prison is no place for a pandemic”: Canadian prisoners’ collective action in the time of COVID-19	4
Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes and Diana Johns, Place, Race and Politics: The Anatomy of a Law and Order Crisis	4
Arresting movement: The history of German immigration detention beyond the camp	4
States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland	4
Penal-welfare systems in a (post)colonial world: The rise and disregard of alcohol and drug rehabilitation centers in South Africa	4
Coloniality, just war & carceral injustice in Brazil	4
Haven't they suffered enough? Time to exoneration following wrongful conviction of racially marginalized minority- vs. majority-group members	4
Theorizing a way out of reformist reforms: Gladue reports and penal abolition	4
A ‘crimmigrant ban’? Global mobility, urban (in)security and the changing dynamics of judicial practices	3
“The biggest thing you can rob is somebody's time”: Exploring how the carceral state bankrupts fathers through temporal debt	3
Franklin E Zimring, The Insidious Momentum of American Mass Incarceration	3
Life-sentenced prisoners, crime victims, and the multidialog of parole	3
Writing from the flesh: A response to my interlocutors	3
Joshua Dubler and Vincent W Lloyd, Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons	3
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants	3
Book Review: On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence by Nicole Bedera BederaNicoleOn the Wrong Side: How Univers	3
Penal Welfare or Penal Sovereignty? A Political Sociology of Recent Formalization of Chinese Community Corrections	3
The politics of rehabilitation within Chinese community corrections: The rise of an enabling and embedded state in a rapidly modernizing society	3
The risk–gang nexus in Sweden: Penal layering and the uneven topography of penal change	3
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	2
Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico	2
Paul Friedland, Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France	2
Something in the air: Toxic pollution in and around U.S. prisons	2
Zoha Waseem, Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing in Postcolonial Karachi	2
Groomers, gays, and gender ideology: Why the anti-LGBTQIA+ legislative backlash is a moral panic and why criminologists should care	2
Shaping the road to reentry: Organizational variation and narrative labor in the penal voluntary sector	2
Abolition compromised: How state-nonprofit funding dynamics undermine anti-carceral reform	2
Punishing people through property: Strategic task force inspections at the nexus of criminal and civil legal systems	2
Introduction: African penal histories in global perspective	2
Making sense of penal difference: Political cultures and comparative penology	2
Beyond punishment: Towards a framework of transformative accountability	2
Lost in translation: The principle of normalisation in prison policy in Norway and the Netherlands	2
Prosecutors as punishers: A case study of Trump-era practices	2
How punitive is pretrial? Measuring the relative pains of pretrial detention	2
Boyles A., You Can't Stop the Revolution: Community Disorder and Social Ties	2
A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners	2
Book Review: Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles by Gong, Neil GongNeil. Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: M	2