| Nordic exceptionalism revisited: Explaining the paradox of a Janus-faced penal regime V Barker Theoretical criminology 17 (1), 5-25, 2013 | 312 | 2013 |
| Nordic nationalism and penal order: Walling the welfare state V Barker Routledge, 2017 | 257 | 2017 |
| The politics of punishing: Building a state governance theory of American imprisonment variation V Barker Punishment & Society 8 (1), 5-32, 2006 | 168 | 2006 |
| Nordic vagabonds: The Roma and the logic of benevolent violence in the Swedish welfare state V Barker European Journal of Criminology 14 (1), 120-139, 2017 | 120 | 2017 |
| The politics of pain: A political institutionalist analysis of crime victims' moral protests V Barker Law & Society Review 41 (3), 619-664, 2007 | 118 | 2007 |
| Global mobility and penal order: Criminalizing migration, a view from Europe V Barker Sociology Compass 6 (2), 113-121, 2012 | 112 | 2012 |
| Crimmigration in Europe M Van der Woude, V Barker, J Van Der Leun European Journal of Criminology 14 (1), 3-6, 2017 | 104 | 2017 |
| Explaining the great American crime decline: a review of Blumstein and Wallman, Goldberger and Rosenfeld, and Zimring V Barker Law & Social Inquiry 35 (2), 489-516, 2010 | 104 | 2010 |
| Penal power at the border: Realigning state and nation V Barker Theoretical Criminology 21 (4), 441-457, 2017 | 103 | 2017 |
| Democracy and deportation: Why membership matters most V Barker The borders of punishment: Migration, citizenship, and social exclusion, 237-254, 2013 | 84 | 2013 |
| The politics of imprisonment V Barker New Yo, 2009 | 81 | 2009 |
| This is Denmark: Prison islands and the detention of immigrants V Barker, PS Smith The British Journal of Criminology 61 (6), 1540-1556, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
| Border protests: The role of civil society in transforming border control V Barker Rethinking Border Control for a Globalizing World, 155-174, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| The politics of imprisonment: How the democratic process shapes the way America punishes offenders B Vanessa New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009 | 22 | 2009 |
| Policing difference V Barker The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing. London: SAGE, 211-225, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| Prison and the public sphere: toward a democratic theory of penal order V Barker Why prison 125, 125, 2013 | 19 | 2013 |
| Decarceration: Political possibility, social sentiment, and structural reality V Barker Criminology & Pub. Pol'y 10, 283, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| On Bauman's moral duty 1: Population registries, REVA and eviction from the Nordic realm V Barker Punishing the Other, 184-207, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Beacons of tolerance dimmed?: Migration, criminalization, and inhospitality in welfare states K Franko, M van der Woude, V Barker Contested hospitalities in a time of migration, 55-75, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| Deliberating crime and punishment: A way out of get tough justice V Barker Criminology & Pub. Pol'y 5, 37, 2006 | 12 | 2006 |
