| Habit (us), body techniques and body callusing: An ethnography of mixed martial arts DC Spencer Body & society 15 (4), 119-143, 2009 | 279 | 2009 |
| Ultimate fighting and embodiment: Violence, gender and mixed martial arts DC Spencer Routledge, 2013 | 228 | 2013 |
| Sex offender as homo sacer D Spencer Punishment & Society 11 (2), 219-240, 2009 | 186 | 2009 |
| Fighting scholars: Habitus and ethnographies of martial arts and combat sports RS García, DC Spencer Anthem Press, 2013 | 166 | 2013 |
| Narratives of despair and loss: Pain, injury and masculinity in the sport of mixed martial arts DC Spencer Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health 4 (1), 117-137, 2012 | 134 | 2012 |
| At risk of what? Possibilities over probabilities in the study of young lives KR Foster, D Spencer Journal of Youth Studies 14 (1), 125-143, 2011 | 125 | 2011 |
| Sensing violence: An ethnography of mixed martial arts DC Spencer Ethnography 15 (2), 232-254, 2014 | 119 | 2014 |
| ‘It's just a social thing’: Drug use, friendship and borderwork among marginalized young people K Foster, D Spencer International Journal of Drug Policy 24 (3), 223-230, 2013 | 98 | 2013 |
| Emotions matter: A relational approach to emotions A Hunt, K Walby, D Spencer University of Toronto Press, 2012 | 56 | 2012 |
| Online sexual violence, child pornography or something else entirely? Police responses to non-consensual intimate image sharing among youth A Dodge, DC Spencer Social & Legal Studies 27 (5), 636-657, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| “I think it’s re-victimizing victims almost every time”: Police perceptions of criminal justice responses to sexual violence D Spencer, A Dodge, R Ricciardelli, D Ballucci Critical criminology 26, 189-209, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| Exposing ‘sex’offenders: Precarity, abjection and violence in the Canadian federal prison system R Ricciardelli, D Spencer British Journal of Criminology 54 (3), 428-448, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Using a flexible diary method rigorously and sensitively with family carers R Herron, L Dansereau, M Wrathall, L Funk, D Spencer Qualitative health research 29 (7), 1004-1015, 2019 | 45 | 2019 |
| Three ecologies, transversality and victimization: the case of the British Petroleum oil spill DC Spencer, A Fitzgerald Crime, Law and Social Change 59, 209-223, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| “This isn’t your father’s police force”: Digital evidence in sexual assault investigations A Dodge, D Spencer, R Ricciardelli, D Ballucci Australian & New Zealand journal of criminology 52 (4), 499-515, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| From many masters to many students: YouTube, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and communities of practice DC Spencer Jomec Journal, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Seeing private security like a state D O'Connor, R Lippert, D Spencer, L Smylie Criminology & Criminal Justice 8 (2), 203-226, 2008 | 40 | 2008 |
| ‘They’re a very sick group of individuals’: Correctional officers, emotions, and sex offenders D Spencer, R Ricciardelli Theoretical Criminology 21 (3), 380-394, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Cultural criminology: An invitation… to what? D Spencer Critical Criminology 19 (3), 197-212, 2011 | 36 | 2011 |
| ‘Eating clean’for a violent body: Mixed martial arts, diet and masculinities DC Spencer Women's Studies International Forum 44, 247-254, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
