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55
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20176
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351

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.

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44 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.

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.

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

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

  • What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research

    Shadd Maruna;Heith Copes

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

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

  • A fundamental attribution error? Rethinking cognitive distortions †

    Shadd Maruna;Ruth E. Mann

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

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

  • The anatomy of generativity.

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

  • Reentry as a Rite of Passage

    Shadd Maruna

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

    Shadd Maruna;Kevin Roy

  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna

  • Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm

    Tony Ward;Shadd Maruna

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

    Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna

  • Ex-Offender Reintegration: Theory and Practice

    Shadd Maruna

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

    Shadd Maruna;Louise Wilson;Kathryn Curran

  • Desistance from crime: a theoretical reformulation

    Shadd Maruna;Stephen Farrall

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

    Shadd Maruna;Anna King

  • After crime and punishment : pathways to offender reintegration

    Shadd Maruna

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

    Shadd Maruna

  • How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance

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

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

    Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna

  • An Exploration of Protective Factors Supporting Desistance From Sexual Offending

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

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

    Anna King;Shadd Maruna

  • Public opinion and community penalties

    Shadd Maruna;Anna King

  • The Oxford Handbook of Criminology

    Alison Liebling;Shadd Maruna;Lesley McAra

  • Desistance from Crime: A Theoretical Reformulation

    Shadd Maruna

Frequent Co-Authors

Fergus McNeill
Fergus McNeill University of Glasgow
Stephen Farrall
Stephen Farrall University of Sheffield
Tony Ward
Tony Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Alison Liebling
Alison Liebling University of Cambridge
Ruth E. Mann
Ruth E. Mann Government of the United Kingdom
Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh
Mike Hough
Mike Hough Birkbeck, University of London
Gwen Robinson
Gwen Robinson University of Sheffield
Shawn D. Bushway
Shawn D. Bushway University at Albany, State University of New York
Heith Copes
Heith Copes University of Alabama at Birmingham

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