| Human trafficking: A global perspective L Shelley Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 1000* | 2010 |
| Crime and modernization: The impact of industrialization and urbanization on crime LI Shelley Southern Illinois University Press, 1981 | 523 | 1981 |
| Transnational organized crime: an imminent threat to the nation-state? LI Shelley Journal of international affairs, 463-489, 1995 | 391 | 1995 |
| Policing Soviet society: The evolution of state control L Shelley Routledge, 2005 | 300 | 2005 |
| Dirty entanglements: Corruption, crime, and terrorism LI Shelley Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 270 | 2014 |
| Methods and motives: Exploring links between transnational organized crime and international terrorism LI Shelley, JT Picarelli Trends in Organized Crime 9 (2), 52-67, 2005 | 257 | 2005 |
| Methods not motives: Implications of the convergence of international organized crime and terrorism LI Shelley, JT Picarelli Police Practice and Research 3 (4), 305-318, 2002 | 238 | 2002 |
| The unholy trinity: transnational crime, corruption, and terrorism L Shelley Brown J. World Aff. 11, 101, 2004 | 198 | 2004 |
| Illicit Wildlife Trade, Wet Markets, and COVID‐19: Preventing Future Pandemics AA Aguirre, R Catherina, H Frye, L Shelley World Medical & Health Policy, 2020 | 186 | 2020 |
| Trafficking in women: The business model approach L Shelley Brown J. World Aff. 10, 119, 2003 | 176 | 2003 |
| Human smuggling and trafficking into Europe L Shelley A Comparative Perspective. Washington DC: Migration Policy Institute.(2014 …, 2014 | 139 | 2014 |
| 6 Human trafficking as a form of transnational crime L Shelley Human trafficking, 128-149, 2013 | 133 | 2013 |
| Post-Soviet organized crime: problem and response LI Shelley Eur. J. on Crim. Pol'y & Rsch. 3, 7, 1995 | 117 | 1995 |
| Corruption and organized crime in Mexico in the post-PRI transition L Shelley Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 17 (3), 213-231, 2001 | 116 | 2001 |
| The nexus of organized crime and terrorism: Two case studies in cigarette smuggling LI Shelley, SA Melzer International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 32 (1), 43-63, 2008 | 111 | 2008 |
| Identifying, counting and categorizing transnational criminal organizations L Shelley Transnational organized crime 5 (1), 1-18, 1999 | 111 | 1999 |
| Transnational organized crime: the new authoritarianism LI Shelley The illicit global economy and state power, 25-51, 1999 | 97 | 1999 |
| Dark commerce: How a new illicit economy is threatening our future LI Shelley Princeton University Press, 2018 | 92 | 2018 |
| The relationship of drug and human trafficking: A global perspective L Shelley European journal on criminal policy and research 18 (3), 241-253, 2012 | 89 | 2012 |
| The nexus of organized international criminals and terrorism LI Shelley Int'l Annals Criminology 40, 85, 2002 | 74 | 2002 |
