| The detention of asylum seekers in the UK: Representing risk, managing the dangerous MS Malloch, E Stanley Punishment & Society 7 (1), 53-71, 2005 | 235 | 2005 |
| Evaluating the truth and reconciliation commission E Stanley The Journal of Modern African Studies 39 (3), 525-546, 2001 | 163 | 2001 |
| Torture, truth and justice: The case of Timor-Leste E Stanley Routledge, 2008 | 145 | 2008 |
| The road to hell: State violence against children in postwar New Zealand E Stanley Auckland University Press, 2016 | 89 | 2016 |
| Truth commissions and the recognition of state crime E Stanley British Journal of Criminology 45 (4), 582-597, 2005 | 60 | 2005 |
| State crime and resistance E Stanley, J McCulloch Routledge, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| From care to custody: Trajectories of children in post-war New Zealand E Stanley Youth justice 17 (1), 57-72, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Torture, silence and recognition E Stanley Current Issues in Criminal Justice 16, 2004 | 41 | 2004 |
| Expanding crimmigration: The detention and deportation of New Zealanders from Australia E Stanley Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Towards a criminology for human rights E Stanley Expanding the criminological imagination, 168-97, 2007 | 39* | 2007 |
| The political economy of transitional justice in Timor-Leste E Stanley Transitional Justice from Below, 2008 | 29 | 2008 |
| What next? The aftermath of organised truth telling E Stanley Race & class 44 (1), 1-15, 2002 | 29 | 2002 |
| Managing ignorance about Māori imprisonment E Stanley, R Mihaere Ignorance, power and harm: Agnotology and the criminological imagination …, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
| From vulnerability to risk: Consolidating state interventions towards Māori children and young people in New Zealand E Stanley, S Monod De Froideville Critical Social Policy, 0261018319895203, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Resistance to state crime E Stanley, J McCulloch State Crime and Resistance., 1-13, 2012 | 21 | 2012 |
| Human rights and prisons: A review to the Human Rights Commission E Stanley Human Rights Commission, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| Pandemic policing: Preparing a new pathway for Māori? E Stanley, T Bradley Crime, Media, Culture 17 (1), 53-58, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Private prisons and the management of scandal O Boyle, E Stanley Crime, Media, Culture, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Responding to State Institutional Violence E Stanley British Journal of Criminology 55 (6), 1149-1167, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Torture and terror E Stanley The Critical Criminology Companion, 158-168, 2012 | 13* | 2012 |
