OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Criminology is 4. 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