| Principles of European prison law and policy: Penology and human rights D van Zyl Smit, S Snacken OUP Oxford, 2009 | 584 | 2009 |
| Life imprisonment: A global human rights analysis D van Zyl Smit, C Appleton | 152* | 2019 |
| Imprisonment today and tomorrow: International perspectives on prisoners' rights and prison conditions D van Zijl-Smit, F Dünkel Brill, 2021 | 130* | 2021 |
| European penology? T Daems, S Snacken, DZ Smit Hart Publishing, 2013 | 122 | 2013 |
| Taking Life Imprisonment Seriously? D van Zyl Smit Taking Life Imprisonment Seriously, 197-217, 2002 | 118 | 2002 |
| Release from prison: European policy and practice N Padfield, DVZ Smit, F Dünkel Taylor & Francis, 2010 | 111 | 2010 |
| Disproportionate sentences as human rights violations D van Zyl Smit, A Ashworth The Modern Law Review 67 (4), 541-560, 2004 | 104 | 2004 |
| Whole life sentences and the tide of European human rights jurisprudence: What is to be done? D Van Zyl Smit, P Weatherby, S Creighton Human Rights Law Review 14 (1), 59-84, 2014 | 94 | 2014 |
| Regulation of prison conditions D van Zyl Smit Crime and Justice 39 (1), 503-563, 2010 | 90 | 2010 |
| Prison labour: salvation or slavery?: international perspectives D van Zyl Smit, F Dünkel Routledge, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
| Outlawing irreducible life sentences: Europe on the brink D van Zyl Smit Fed. Sent'g Rep. 23, 39, 2010 | 74 | 2010 |
| South African prison law and practice DVZ Smit Butterworth, 1992 | 62 | 1992 |
| Principios de Derecho y Política penitenciaria europea D Van Zyl Smit, S Snacken Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Life imprisonment: Recent issues in national and international law D van Zyl Smit International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 29 (5), 405-421, 2006 | 56 | 2006 |
| International imprisonment DVZ Smit International & Comparative Law Quarterly 54 (2), 357-386, 2005 | 56 | 2005 |
| Criminological ideas and the South African transition D van Zyl Smit British Journal of Criminology 39 (2), 198-215, 1999 | 53 | 1999 |
| Humanising imprisonment: a European project? D van Zyl Smit European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 12 (2), 107-120, 2006 | 42 | 2006 |
| Handbook of basic principles and promising practices on alternatives to imprisonment DVZ Smit UN, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| Life Imprisonment and Human Rights D Van Zyl Smit, C Appleton | 39 | 2016 |
| ‘One cannot legislate kindness’: Ambiguities in European legal instruments on non-custodial sanctions D van Zyl Smit, S Snacken, D Hayes Punishment & Society 17 (1), 3-26, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
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