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D-Index
55
Citations
13687
World Ranking
2006
National Ranking
359

Stephen Farrall 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 Stephen Farrall sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 234 publications — 75th percentile

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

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Stephen Farrall 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 Stephen Farrall sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

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

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Overview

Stephen Farrall is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions in the areas of sociology and political science, political science and international relations, as well as intersecting fields such as general health professions, finance, and social psychology.

The main topics of Farrall's work include crime patterns and interventions, criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime, illicit activities, and governance, homelessness and social issues, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, political and economic history of the UK and US, and social policy and reform studies.

Farrall has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • "Politics, Social and Economic Change, and Crime: Exploring the Impact of Contextual Effects on Offending Trajectories" (2020) published in Politics & Society
  • "Worrying times: the fear of crime and nostalgia" (2021) published in Current Issues in Criminal Justice

Other notable recent papers in the broader research network include:

  • "Assisted Desistance in Formal Settings: A Scoping Review" (2020) published in The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  • "The Effect of Lighting on Crime Counts" (2021) published in Energies
  • "Desistance: A Utopian Perspective" (2021) published in The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice

Farrall frequently collaborates with several coauthors, among whom are Emily Gray, Phil Jones, Marie-Pierre Villeneuve, Isabelle F.-Dufour, and Steve Fotios, with the highest collaboration count being with Emily Gray.

The main publication venues for Farrall's work include:

  • The British Journal of Criminology
  • The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
  • Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • British Politics
  • European Journal of Criminology

In addition to articles, Farrall has contributed to academic books, including the work published by Springer International Publishing titled "Building Complex Temporal Explanations of Crime" (2021).

Best Publications

  • Rethinking What Works With Offenders

    Stephen Farrall

  • Understanding desistance from crime

    Stephen Farrall

  • QUESTIONING THE MEASUREMENT OF THE ‘FEAR OF CRIME’: Findings from a Major Methodological Study

    Stephen Farrall;Jon Bannister;Jason Ditton;Elizabeth A. Gilchrist

  • Social Order and the Fear of Crime in Contemporary Times

    Stephen D. Farrall;Jonathan Jackson;Emily Gray

  • Gender, socially desirable responding and the fear of crime: Are women really more anxious about crime?

    Robbie M. Sutton;Stephen D. Farrall

  • Structuration, human development and desistance from crime

    Stephen Farrall;Benjamin Bowling

  • Rethinking What Works with Offenders: Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime

    Stephen Farrall

  • Social structures and desistance from crime

    Stephen Farrall;Anthony Bottoms;Joanna Shapland

  • Desistance from crime: a theoretical reformulation

    Shadd Maruna;Stephen Farrall

  • Social capital and offender reintegration: making probation desistance focused

    Stephen Farrall

  • WOMEN AND THE ‘FEAR OF CRIME’Challenging the Accepted Stereotype

    Elizabeth A. Gilchrist;Jon Bannister;Jason Ditton;Stephen Farrall

  • Reassessing the Fear of Crime

    Emily Gray;Jonathan Jackson;Stephen Farrall

  • FEELINGS AND FUNCTIONS IN THE FEAR OF CRIME Applying a New Approach to Victimisation Insecurity

    Emily Gray;Jonathan Jackson;Stephen Farrall

  • Criminal careers, desistance and subjectivity: interpreting men?s narratives of change

    David Gadd;Stephen Farrall

  • How and why people stop offending: discovering desistance

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

  • The Moral Economy of Everyday Crime Markets, Consumers and Citizens

    Susanne Karstedt;Stephen Farrall

  • Social Psychology and the Fear of Crime

    Stephen Farrall;Jon Bannister;Jason Ditton;Elizabeth Gilchrist

  • Criminal Careers in Transition: The Social Context of Desistance from Crime

    Stephen Farrall;Ben Hunter;Gilly Sharpe;Adam Calverley

  • Afraid or Angry? Recalibrating the ‘fear’ of Crime

    Jason Ditton;Jon Bannister;Elizabeth Gilchrist;Stephen Farrall

  • The fear of crime

    Jason Ditton;Stephen Farrall

  • Thatcher’s Children, Blair’s Babies, Political Socialization and Trickle-down Value Change: An Age, Period and Cohort Analysis

    Maria Teresa Grasso;Stephen Farrall;Emily Gray;Colin Hay

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Hay
Colin Hay Sciences Po
Jonathan Jackson
Jonathan Jackson London School of Economics and Political Science
Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
Shadd Maruna
Shadd Maruna Queen's University Belfast
Fergus McNeill
Fergus McNeill University of Glasgow
Mike Hough
Mike Hough Birkbeck, University of London
Richard Sparks
Richard Sparks University of Edinburgh
Gwen Robinson
Gwen Robinson University of Sheffield
Maria T. Grasso
Maria T. Grasso Queen Mary University of London
Anthony Bottoms
Anthony Bottoms University of Cambridge

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