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

Article	Citations
God moves in mysterious ways: Faith units and their influence on prison governance in Argentina and Sweden	18
Assessing the predictive validity of a risk assessment instrument for repeat victimization in the Netherlands using prior police contacts	17
AI-based behaviour analysis in prisons: A multidisciplinary assessment of an Austrian case study	15
Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention	15
Structure, positions and mechanisms: A case study of two Dutch Salafi-Jihadi networks	14
The role of deprivation and alcohol availability in shaping trends in violent crime	14
Determinants of public support for vigilantism in pre-war and wartime Ukraine	13
Penal changes, crises, and the political economy of punishment: An introduction	13
The Gozi group: A criminal firm in cyberspace?	12
Severe violent victimization and labour market exclusion: The significance of the victim–offender overlap	11
The role and meaning of sport and physical activity in the participation and harmony model of a prison	11
The psychological impact of cybercrime victimization: The importance of personal and circumstantial factors	9
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	9
Social attitudes towards sex work and its criminalization: An empirical study with a Spanish sample	8
Faithful and fearful: Does religion promote or reduce fear of crime in Germany?	7
Radicalizing spaces: Neighbourhood effects on susceptibility to radicalization	7
Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?	7
Moderating online child sexual abuse material (CSAM): Does self-regulation work, or is greater state regulation needed?	7
Victimization experience does matter: Testing the effect of different types of victimization on fear of crime among adolescents	7
Modus operandi of persons convicted of a sexual offense from victims’ perspectives in a Turkish sample	7
The exceptional story of life imprisonment in Norway: From abolition to indefinite preventive detention	7
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
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

What is a ‘good enough’ prison? An empirical analysis of key thresholds using prison moral quality data	6
Crime propensity and lifestyle risk: The interplay of personal morality and self-control ability in determining the significance of criminogenic exposure	6
Thank you to reviewers	5
European legislators’ attitudes toward childhood sexuality from the perspective of age of consent legislation	5
‘You’re trying to juggle everything’: Understanding the consequences of emotional labour for senior probation officers in England and Wales	5
The evolution of Nigerian cybercrime: Two case studies of UK-based offender networks	5
Explaining youth aggression: A situational model of peer influence	5
Never bring a knife to a gunfight? Lethality of weapon use in Dutch homicides	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	4
The showability of policing: How police officers’ use of videos in organizational contexts reproduces police culture	4
“Moving choice to center stage” in the relationship between the self and offending: Integrating symbolic interactionism and rational choice	4
New patterns in residential burglary: The method of deadbolt lock picking	4
The risk and protective factors for entering organized crime groups and their association with different entering mechanisms: A systematic review using ASReview	4
Exceptionalism for most, excess for others: The legal foundation of a bifurcated criminal justice system in Denmark	4
The criminalisation and exploitation of irregular Chinese migrant workers in the United Kingdom	4
Hate crime offending among European youth: Prevalence and risk factors	4
Two of a kind? A comparative multicohort study of juvenile violence in Finland and Sweden	4
Origin stories: Framing 25 years of Dutch political discourse on child sexual exploitation by tourists and travelers	3
Explaining experiences of punishment and degradation in prisons: A comparative analysis of England & Wales and Norway	3
Assessing and reporting leaking of violent intent: Influences of perpetrator and witness characteristics	3
Parole as resentencing: Exploring the punitive accounts of parole decision-making through the comparative case study of Israel	3
‘You no have to treat me with your hate’: The needs and experiences of female foreign national prisoners in an Irish prison	3
Prison officer students’ perceptions of persons convicted of sexual crimes	3
The persistent countervailing consequences of urbanization: A longitudinal study of homicide rates	3
A critical perspective on the administrative approach to crime prevention: The case of labour trafficking	3
Receiving visits in prison and aggressive and contraband misconduct among Dutch prisoners	3
Deviant peers: Does friendship stability condition the peer-delinquency link?	3
Migrations in times of economic crisis: Reflections on labour, inequality and imprisonment in Italy	3
Cleaning mafia cash: An empirical analysis of the money laundering behaviour of 2800 Italian criminals	3
A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of corruption and homicide in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries through the lens of the institutional anomie theory	3
Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders	3
Women trafficking networks: Structure and stages of women trafficking in five Dutch small-scale networks	3
Simple indicators of crime and police: How big data can be used to reveal temporal patterns	2
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA	2
The street-jihadi spectrum: Marginality, radicalization, and resistance to extremism	2
The involvement mechanisms of cybercrime: Explaining previous exposure of young people to money mule recruiters	2
Homicide drop in seven European countries: General or specific across countries and crime types?	2
Explaining cheating in schools with Situational Action Theory: Within-estimations using a German school panel	2
Assessment of a domestic violence telecare protection system from the victims’ perspective	2
Social inequality in alternative sanctions: A register data study on all adolescent drug offenders in Norway 2005–2015	2
War, martial law, and mobilisation: Exploring the characteristics of human smuggling at Ukraine’s borders in 2022–2023	2
Old habits die hard: Assessing the validity of using homicide as an indicator of other violent crimes	2
Cocaine and the port: Utopias of security, urban relations, and displacement of policing efforts in the port of Piraeus	2
Revisiting the tautology problem in rational choice theory: What it is and how to move forward theoretically and empirically	2
Criminogenic and harm-enabling features of social media platforms: The case of sharenting practices	2
Monitoring prisoners preparing for release: Who ‘fails’ in open prison conditions?	2
Bringing narrative victimology to transitional justice: Blame, victimhood and life stories of wrongful conviction	2
Greenspace in prison improves well-being irrespective of prison/er characteristics, with particularly beneficial effects for younger and unsentenced prisoners, and in overcrowded prisons	2
Moral foundations in gender violence cases decided in Portuguese courts	2
Acting crazy: A strategy on the streets of Copenhagen	2

Are women of all age groups equally affected by the shadow of sexual assault? Evidence from Germany	2
Understanding violent extremism: Risk and protective factors in a jihadi male detainee population in the Netherlands	2
Information sharing in community policing in Europe: Building public confidence	1
Community multiculturalism and self-reported immigrant crime: Testing three theoretical mechanisms	1
Differential updating and morality: Is the way offenders learn from police detection associated with their personal morals?	1
Non-consensual intimate image distribution: Nature, removal, and implications for the Online Safety Act	1
How unique are terrorist suspects? Investigating similarities and differences between terrorist suspects, their siblings, and other suspects	1
Human, institutional, political and technological factors involved in a public health approach to frauds against individuals	1
Ransomware crime through the lens of neutralisation theory	1
A Thank You to Our Reviewers	1
Assessing the role of COVID-19 stressors on perceptions of police misconduct in Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
‘Strikingly and stubbornly high’: Investigating the paradox of public confidence in the Irish police	1
Urban routines, spatial occupancy, and their effects on outdoor crime in Barcelona	1
Inequality, welfare and punishment. Comparative notes between the Global North and South	1
Depression and repression: Global capitalism, economic crisis and penal politics in interwar Greece	1
Inside the slippery world of glass eel trafficking: Lessons learned from Spain to prevent the illegal trade of European eels	1
Criminal governance in a large European city: The case of gangs in London	1
The spatial and temporal development of British prisons from 1901 to the present: The role of de-industrialisation	1
A thank you to our reviewers	1
Does fear of migrant crime predict xenophobia: Evidence from three Russian cities	1
Using criminal histories to empower victim–survivors of domestic abuse	1
Interest in booter services and distributed denial of service attacks: Insight from Google search data	1
How the COVID-19 pandemic hit crime in Barcelona: Analysis of variation in crime trends	1
Unraveling the Human Factor in Cybercrime: From fraudsters to victims, and emerging offender profiles to protective strategies	1
What next for tests of the situational model of Situational Action Theory? Recommendations from a systematic review	1
The SECI model and darknet markets: Knowledge creation in criminal organizations and communities of practice	1
The pandemic as a criminological experiment: Crime in the Netherlands during 12 months of COVID-19 measures	1
Cross-country comparison analysis of individual and institutional factors of anomie and online offending	1
European Criminology needs European Data: The case for a pan-European crime and victimization survey	1