Shadd Maruna publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Shadd Maruna between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Shadd Maruna published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 6.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2004. 13 of the 200 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15

1997 2025

200 publications in total across all disciplines

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Shadd Maruna: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year	Publications
1997	1
1998	4
1999	1
2000	3
2001	7
2002	5
2003	7
2004	16
2005	4
2006	12
2007	15
2008	6
2009	13
2010	11
2011	10
2012	14
2013	5
2014	6
2015	8
2016	6
2017	8
2018	3
2019	3
2020	8
2021	3
2022	6
2023	2
2024	1
2025	12
Total	200

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Shadd Maruna publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shadd Maruna sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 178 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313	178
184–193	319
194–203	304
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Shadd Maruna D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shadd Maruna sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137	55
56	109
57	129
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Shadd Maruna is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Their research spans several subfields including clinical psychology, general health professions, law, and epidemiology.

Their work addresses topics such as criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry and sexual offending, homelessness and social issues, law in society and culture, crime, deviance, and social control, as well as HIV, drug use, and sexual risk.

Frequent publication venues for Maruna include:

CrimRxiv
Criminology
Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
Annual Review of Criminology
Crime and Justice

Some of Maruna's recent papers are:

"Where Is This Story Going? A Critical Analysis of the Emerging Field of Narrative Criminology" (2020), published in Annual Review of Criminology
"The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future of the Prison" (2022), published in Crime and Justice
"De la réhabilitation au désistement assisté: transcender le modèle médical1" (2020), published in Criminologie
"Redeeming desistance: From individual journeys to a social movement" (2025), published in Criminology
"Desistance, Social Justice and Lived Experience" (2022), published in Journal of Prisoners on Prisons

Among frequent co-authors are:

Katharina Maier
Rosemary Ricciardelli
Alison Liebling
Lesley McAra
Gillian McNaull

Maruna has also contributed to book publications, including work published by Oxford University Press, such as "The Oxford Handbook of Criminology" in 2023.

Best Publications

Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

Shadd Maruna

5614
Citations
What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research

Shadd Maruna;Heith Copes

883
Citations
The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime

Thomas P. LeBel;Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna;Shawn Bushway

748
Citations
A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions †

Shadd Maruna;Ruth E. Mann

734
Citations
Pygmalion in the reintegration process: Desistance from crime through the looking glass

Shadd Maruna;Thomas P. Lebel;Nick Mitchell;Michelle Naples

572
Citations
The anatomy of generativity.

Dan P. McAdams;Holly M. Hart;Shadd Maruna

509
Citations
Reentry as a Rite of Passage

Shadd Maruna

498
Citations
Amputation or Reconstruction? Notes on the Concept of “Knifing Off” and Desistance From Crime

Shadd Maruna;Kevin Roy

490
Citations
The Effects of Imprisonment

Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna

465
Citations
Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm

Tony Ward;Shadd Maruna

435
Citations
So 'Prison Works', Does It? The Criminal Careers of 130 Men Released from Prison under Home Secretary, Michael Howard

Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna

414
Citations
Ex-Offender Reintegration: Theory and Practice

Shadd Maruna

380
Citations
Why God Is Often Found Behind Bars: Prison Conversions and the Crisis of Self-Narrative

Shadd Maruna;Louise Wilson;Kathryn Curran

379
Citations
Desistance from crime: a theoretical reformulation

Shadd Maruna;Stephen Farrall

363
Citations
Once a Criminal, Always a Criminal?: ‘Redeemability’ and the Psychology of Punitive Public Attitudes

Shadd Maruna;Anna King

328
Citations
After crime and punishment : pathways to offender reintegration

Shadd Maruna

315
Citations
Welcome Home? Examining the Reentry Court Concept from a Strengths-Based Perspective

Shadd Maruna

302
Citations
How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance

F. McNeill;S. Farrall;C. Lightowler;S. Maruna

300
Citations
The kindness of prisoners: Strengths-based resettlement in theory and in action

Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna

287
Citations
An Exploration of Protective Factors Supporting Desistance From Sexual Offending

Michiel de Vries Robbé;Ruth E. Mann;Shadd Maruna;David Thornton

243
Citations
Is a conservative just a liberal who has been mugged?: Exploring the origins of punitive views

Anna King;Shadd Maruna

230
Citations
Public opinion and community penalties

Shadd Maruna;Anna King

220
Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna;Lesley McAra

111
Citations
Desistance from Crime: A Theoretical Reformulation

Shadd Maruna

29
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fergus McNeill University of Glasgow

Stephen Farrall University of Sheffield

Tony Ward Victoria University of Wellington

Alison Liebling University of Cambridge

Ruth E. Mann Government of the United Kingdom

Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh

Mike Hough Birkbeck, University of London

Gwen Robinson University of Sheffield

Shawn D. Bushway University at Albany, State University of New York

Heith Copes University of Alabama at Birmingham

External Links

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