| Habit (us), body techniques and body callusing: An ethnography of mixed martial arts DC Spencer Body & society 15 (4), 119-143, 2009 | 291 | 2009 |
| Ultimate fighting and embodiment: Violence, gender and mixed martial arts DC Spencer Routledge, 2013 | 237 | 2013 |
| Sex offender as homo sacer D Spencer Punishment & Society 11 (2), 219-240, 2009 | 191 | 2009 |
| Fighting scholars: Habitus and ethnographies of martial arts and combat sports RS García, DC Spencer Anthem Press, 2013 | 171 | 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 | 147 | 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 | 128 | 2011 |
| Sensing violence: An ethnography of mixed martial arts DC Spencer Ethnography 15 (2), 232-254, 2014 | 125 | 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 | 106 | 2013 |
| 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 | 61 | 2018 |
| Emotions matter: A relational approach to emotions D Spencer, K Walby, A Hunt University of Toronto Press, 2012 | 59 | 2012 |
| “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 | 56 | 2018 |
| 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 | 55 | 2019 |
| 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 | 49 | 2014 |
| “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 | 47 | 2019 |
| From many masters to many students: YouTube, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and communities of practice DC Spencer Jomec Journal, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| 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 | 45 | 2013 |
| “Society wants to see a true victim”: Police interpretations of victims of sexual violence R Ricciardelli, DC Spencer, A Dodge Feminist criminology 16 (2), 216-235, 2021 | 40 | 2021 |
| Militarization of police: a comparison of police paramilitary units in Canadian and the United States K Cyr, R Ricciardelli, D Spencer International journal of police science & management 22 (2), 137-147, 2020 | 40 | 2020 |
| 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 |
| Responding the “wrong way”: The emotion work of caring for a family member with dementia RV Herron, LM Funk, D Spencer The Gerontologist 59 (5), e470-e478, 2019 | 38 | 2019 |
