| Prisons and the Problem of Order R Sparks, A Bottoms, W Hay Clarendon Press, 1996 | 1268 | 1996 |
| Public criminology? I Loader, R Sparks Routledge, 2013 | 717 | 2013 |
| Television and the drama of crime: Moral tales and the place of crime in public life. R Sparks Open University Press, 1992 | 637 | 1992 |
| Criminology, social theory and the challenge of our times D Garland, R Sparks Brit. J. Criminology 40, 189, 2000 | 509 | 2000 |
| Crime and social change in middle England: Questions of order in an English town E Girling, I Loader, R Sparks Routledge, 2005 | 471 | 2005 |
| Legitimacy and order in prisons JR Sparks, AE Bottoms British Journal of Sociology, 45-62, 1995 | 461 | 1995 |
| Criminal justice and political cultures T Newburn, R Sparks Criminal Justice and Political Cultures, 1-15, 2012 | 271* | 2012 |
| Contemporary landscapes of crime, order and control: Governance, risk and globalization I Loader, R Sparks The Oxford handbook of criminology 3, 83-106, 2002 | 271 | 2002 |
| Crime, risk and insecurity: Law and order in everyday life and political discourse T Hope, R Sparks Routledge, 2012 | 241* | 2012 |
| Can prisons be legitimate-penal politics, privitization, and the timeliness of an old idea R Sparks Brit. J. Criminology 34, 14, 1994 | 229 | 1994 |
| Fear and everyday urban lives R Sparks, E Girling, I Loader Urban studies 38 (5-6), 885-898, 2001 | 215 | 2001 |
| Is there life after imprisonment? How elderly men talk about imprisonment and release E Crawley, R Sparks Criminology & Criminal Justice 6 (1), 63-82, 2006 | 210 | 2006 |
| Degrees of estrangement: The cultural theory of risk and comparative penology R Sparks The Institutional Dynamics of Culture, Volumes I and II, 1096-1113, 2018 | 169 | 2018 |
| Reason and unreason in left realism: some problems in the constitution of the fear of crime R Sparks Issues in realist criminology, 17, 1991 | 169 | 1991 |
| Hidden injuries? Researching the experiences of older men in English prisons E Crawley, R Sparks The Howard journal of criminal justice 44 (4), 345-356, 2005 | 145 | 2005 |
| Criminology and social theory D Garland, R Sparks Oxford University Press, USA, 2000 | 141 | 2000 |
| The SAGE handbook of punishment and society R Sparks, J Simon SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012 | 140 | 2012 |
| MASCULINITY AND HEROISM IN THE HOLLYWOOD ‘BLOCKBUSTER’ The Culture Industry and Contemporary Images of Crime and Law Enforcement R Sparks The British Journal of Criminology 36 (3), 348-360, 1996 | 134 | 1996 |
| For an historical sociology of crime policy in England and Wales since 1968 I Loader, R Sparks Managing Modernity, 5-32, 2013 | 127 | 2013 |
| Older men in prison: Survival, coping and identity E Crawley, R Sparks The effects of imprisonment, 343-365, 2013 | 124 | 2013 |
Ian LoaderProfessor of Criminology, University of OxfordVerified email at crim.ox.ac.uk