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

Article	Citations
European Criminology needs European Data: The case for a pan-European crime and victimization survey	39
Bringing narrative victimology to transitional justice: Blame, victimhood and life stories of wrongful conviction	19
Social inequality in alternative sanctions: A register data study on all adolescent drug offenders in Norway 2005–2015	16
Does fear of migrant crime predict xenophobia: Evidence from three Russian cities	16
Interest in booter services and distributed denial of service attacks: Insight from Google search data	14
Thank you to reviewers	14
Deviant peers: Does friendship stability condition the peer-delinquency link?	14
Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in the Netherlands using prior police contacts	13
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	13
Proterrence, rule illegitimacy, and the ban on tobacco smoke in Amsterdam's coffeeshops	13
Assessment of a domestic violence telecare protection system from the victims’ perspective	13
Prison employment and its conflict with therapeutic and counselling programmes: The experiences of Czech prison personnel	11
The impact of fear on young people’s mobility	10
The association between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency in the context of Situational Action Theory: Crime propensity and criminogenic exposure as mediators in a sample of European youth?	10
Understanding violent extremism: Risk and protective factors in a jihadi male detainee population in the Netherlands	9
A Thank You to Our Reviewers	8
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	8
Community multiculturalism and immigrant crime	8
Gang members and extremists in Switzerland: Similarities and differences	8
Individual and environmental contributors to psychological distress during imprisonment	7
The role of deprivation and alcohol availability in shaping trends in violent crime	7
Assessing the role of COVID-19 stressors on perceptions of police misconduct in Bosnia and Herzegovina	7
Attitudes towards the death penalty: An assessment of individual and country-level differences	7
Examining experiential fear of crime using STUNDA: Findings from a smartphone-based experience methods study	7
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	7

Comparing the criminal careers of organized crime offenders in Italy and the Netherlands	6
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	6
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	6
High- or low-risk prisoner, high- or low-risk ex-offender? Assessing the predictive validity of the level of service/risk-need-responsivity (LS/RNR) instrument among different subgroups of Danish pris	6
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	6
Police communications and social media	6
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA	6
Cross-country comparison analysis of individual and institutional factors of anomie and online offending	6
Corporate offending in Dutch inland shipping: A trajectory analysis	5
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	5
The certainty–offending relationship as a function of a nation's free market cultural ethos	5
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	4
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: Building public confidence	4
Out of prison, out of crime? The complex interplay between the process of desistance and severe resource disadvantages in women‘s post-release lives	4
Ransomware crime through the lens of neutralisation theory	4
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	4
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	4
Greenspace in prison improves well-being irrespective of prison/er characteristics, with particularly beneficial effects for younger and unsentenced prisoners, and in overcrowded prisons	4
Preventing outlaw biker crime in the Netherlands or just changing the dark figure? Estimating the impact of the Dutch whole-of-government approach on outlaw biker crime using interrupted time series a	4
Experiences of fatherhood in prison: A thematic analysis of differences between fathers in a family approach programme and a comparison group	4
Penal changes, crises, and the political economy of punishment: An introduction	4
Punishment, political economy and crisis: Disciplining labour through state-corporate surveillance in the ‘neoliberal heartlands’	3
The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization, and resistance to extremism	3
Common knowledge? Awareness of national and international oversight bodies among incarcerated individuals in Spain	3
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	3
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	3
Same problems, different concepts and language: What happens when prison climate research goes on a journey?	3
The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation	3
Violence, worry and trust in the emergence of weapon-carrying	3
Culture and corruption: An experimental comparison of cultural patterns on the corruption propensity in Poland and Russia	3
Old habits die hard: Assessing the validity of using homicide as an indicator of other violent crimes	3
Sleep and delinquency: The context of self-control, social support, and sex differences among French adolescents	3
Moral foundations in gender violence cases decided in Portuguese courts	2
Severe versus less severe intimate partner violence: Aggressors and victims	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
A realist review on the police use of stop and search powers	2
Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns	2
Muslim narratives of desistance among Norwegian street criminals: Stories of reconciliation, purification and exclusion	2
Prison officer students’ perceptions of persons convicted of sexual crimes	2
Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents	2
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	2
The pandemic as a criminological experiment: Crime in the Netherlands during 12 months of COVID-19 measures	2
From structural time use to situational rule-breaking: Analysing adolescents’ time use and the person-setting interaction	2
Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample	2
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	2
“Moving choice to center stage” in the relationship between the self and offending: Integrating symbolic interactionism and rational choice	2
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	2
‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police	2
Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?	2

Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	1
Entangled in the technology-driven borderscape: Border crossers rendered to their digital self	1
Jihadist prisoners in Spain and the application of the high security prison regime	1
The persistent countervailing consequences of urbanization: A longitudinal study of homicide rates	1
Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms	1
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	1
Crime, justice and criminology in the Republic of Ireland	1
How the COVID-19 pandemic hit crime in Barcelona: Analysis of variation in crime trends	1
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	1
Inequality and penality: The hidden side of a complex relationship	1
Using criminal histories to empower victim–survivors of domestic abuse	1
Punitiveness of society and criminal policy in six Central European countries	1
Homicide clearance: Discretionary and non-discretionary factors	1
Attitudes towards violence against women among second-generation refugee, migrant and native Swiss adolescents in Zurich, Switzerland	1
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	1
Explaining fear of cybercrime: A focus on interpersonal and property cybercrime differences	1
The foraging perspective in criminology: A review of research literature	1
A meta-evaluative synthesis of the effects of custodial and community-based offender rehabilitation	1
A thank you to our reviewers	1
Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy	1
A critical perspective on the administrative approach to crime prevention: The case of labour trafficking	1
Procedural justice and language barriers in a Swiss penitentiary	1
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	1
Criminal governance in a large European city: The case of gangs in London	1
Contrasts in freedom: Comparing the experiences of imprisonment in open and closed prisons in England and Wales and Norway	1
Monitoring prisoners preparing for release: Who ‘fails’ in open prison conditions?	1