OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Journal of Criminology is 1. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	20
Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in the Netherlands using prior police contacts	20
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	20
AI-based behaviour analysis in prisons: A multidisciplinary assessment of an Austrian case study	16
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	16
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	15
Penal changes, crises, and the political economy of punishment: An introduction	15
Social attitudes towards sex work and its criminalization: An empirical study with a Spanish sample	13
The relation between parental substance abuse and the attitude towards violence of the child and the mediating role of self-control and parental involvement: A cross-national multilevel analysis	11
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	10
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	9
Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents	9
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	9
Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?	9
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	9
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	8
Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	8
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	8
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland	7
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation	7
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	7
From a single punch to weapon use: An event typology of public place violence	7
What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data	7
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	7
Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: The interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure	6

Punitive by negligence? The myths and reality of penal nationalism in the Czech Republic	6
Crossing borders: Does it matter? Differences between (near-)domestic and cross-border sex traffickers, their victims and modus operandi	6
Explaining youth aggression: A situational model of peer influence	5
Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden	5
The evolution of Nigerian cybercrime: Two case studies of UK-based offender networks	5
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	5
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	5
‘You’re trying to juggle everything’: Understanding the consequences of emotional labour for senior probation officers in England and Wales	5
Thank you to reviewers	5
Out of prison, out of crime? The complex interplay between the process of desistance and severe resource disadvantages in women‘s post-release lives	5
Explaining experiences of punishment and degradation in prisons: A comparative analysis of England & Wales and Norway	4
Hate crime offending among European youth: Prevalence and risk factors	4
Origin stories: Framing 25 years of Dutch political discourse on child sexual exploitation by tourists and travelers	4
The persistent countervailing consequences of urbanization: A longitudinal study of homicide rates	4
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	4
“Moving choice to center stage” in the relationship between the self and offending: Integrating symbolic interactionism and rational choice	4
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	4
Women trafficking networks: Structure and stages of women trafficking in five Dutch small-scale networks	4
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	4
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	4
Food and penal legitimacy in women's prisons	4
A critical perspective on the administrative approach to crime prevention: The case of labour trafficking	4
Remaining anonymous? The offline side of darknet drug vending	3
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA	3
What is of relevance to European criminology?	3
The involvement mechanisms of cybercrime: Explaining previous exposure of young people to money mule recruiters	3
Assessing and reporting leaking of violent intent: Influences of perpetrator and witness characteristics	3
‘You no have to treat me with your hate’: The needs and experiences of female foreign national prisoners in an Irish prison	3
Deviant peers: Does friendship stability condition the peer-delinquency link?	3
Old habits die hard: Assessing the validity of using homicide as an indicator of other violent crimes	3
Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns	3
Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders	3
War, martial law, and mobilisation: Exploring the characteristics of human smuggling at Ukraine’s borders in 2022–2023	3
Greenspace in prison improves well-being irrespective of prison/er characteristics, with particularly beneficial effects for younger and unsentenced prisoners, and in overcrowded prisons	3
Moral foundations in gender violence cases decided in Portuguese courts	3
The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization, and resistance to extremism	3
Assessment of a domestic violence telecare protection system from the victims’ perspective	2
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	2
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	2
Introduction to Now wider and deeper? A special collection of editorial reflections on the progress of European criminology	2
Assessing the role of COVID-19 stressors on perceptions of police misconduct in Bosnia and Herzegovina	2
A Thank You to Our Reviewers	2
Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory: What it is and how to move forward theoretically and empirically	2
Monitoring prisoners preparing for release: Who ‘fails’ in open prison conditions?	2
Explaining cheating in schools with Situational Action Theory: Within-estimations using a German school panel	2
Understanding violent extremism: Risk and protective factors in a jihadi male detainee population in the Netherlands	2
European Criminology needs European Data: The case for a pan-European crime and victimization survey	2
Acting crazy: A strategy on the streets of Copenhagen	2
Cocaine and the port: Utopias of security, urban relations, and displacement of policing efforts in the port of Piraeus	2
Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany	2

Criminal governance in a large European city: The case of gangs in London	1
How do we know what we know in criminology and criminal justice? The relevance of qualitative methodologies	1
Domestic abuse in later life: A secondary analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales	1
The rise of European criminology through European penal integration?	1
Community multiculturalism and immigrant crime	1
Interest in booter services and distributed denial of service attacks: Insight from Google search data	1
Attitudes towards the death penalty: An assessment of individual and country-level differences	1
The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation	1
Depression and repression: Global capitalism, economic crisis and penal politics in interwar Greece	1
What is European criminology actually about? Evolution from 2021 to 2023	1
What next for tests of the situational model of Situational Action Theory? Recommendations from a systematic review	1
How the COVID-19 pandemic hit crime in Barcelona: Analysis of variation in crime trends	1
Using criminal histories to empower victim–survivors of domestic abuse	1
Individual and environmental contributors to psychological distress during imprisonment	1
Human, institutional, political and technological factors involved in a public health approach to frauds against individuals	1
Non-consensual intimate image distribution: Nature, removal, and implications for the Online Safety Act	1
Does fear of migrant crime predict xenophobia: Evidence from three Russian cities	1
Urban routines, spatial occupancy, and their effects on outdoor crime in Barcelona	1
How unique are terrorist suspects? Investigating similarities and differences between terrorist suspects, their siblings, and other suspects	1
Inside the slippery world of glass eel trafficking: Lessons learned from Spain to prevent the illegal trade of European eels	1
European penology or European penologies?	1
Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms	1
The pandemic as a criminological experiment: Crime in the Netherlands during 12 months of COVID-19 measures	1
A thank you to our reviewers	1
Unraveling the Human Factor in Cybercrime: From fraudsters to victims, and emerging offender profiles to protective strategies	1
Ransomware crime through the lens of neutralisation theory	1
Inequality, welfare and punishment. Comparative notes between the Global North and South	1
Perpetrators of intimate partner violence and mandatory reporting laws: The perspectives and experiences of perpetrators who seek help voluntarily compared with those of victims of intimate partner vi	1
Differential updating and morality: Is the way offenders learn from police detection associated with their personal morals?	1
The SECI model and darknet markets: Knowledge creation in criminal organizations and communities of practice	1
Cross-country comparison analysis of individual and institutional factors of anomie and online offending	1