OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Experiences of involuntary psychiatric admission decision-making: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of the perspectives of service users, informal carers, and professionals	29
Mental health professionals' feelings and attitudes towards coercion	23
Isolating residents including wandering residents in care and group homes: Medical ethics and English law in the context of Covid-19	19
The COVID-19 pandemic and the human rights of persons with mental and cognitive impairments subject to coercive powers in Australia	18
Effectiveness of a contact-based anti-stigma intervention for police officers	14
Under which conditions are changes in the treatment of people under involuntary commitment justified during the COVID-19 pandemic? An ethical evaluation of current developments in Germany	13
Historical, clinical and situational risk factors for post-discharge recidivism in forensic psychiatric patients – A Swedish registry study	12
Eyes wide open: A systematic review of the association between insomnia and aggression in forensic contexts	10
The empirical evidence base for the use of the HCR-20: A narrative review of study designs and transferability of results to clinical practice	10
Juror decision-making in cases of rape involving high functioning Autistic persons	9
The role of place, people and perception in law student well-being	9
The association between perceived coercion on admission and formal coercive practices in an inpatient psychiatric setting	9
A narrative review of international legislation regulating fitness to stand trial and criminal responsibility: Is there a perfect system?	8
Violence risk assessment for young adults receiving treatment for early psychosis	8
Suggestibility and confabulation among individuals with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: A review for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal interviewers	8
Measuring the impact of revised mental health legislation on human rights in Queensland, Australia	8
Measurement-based care in forensic psychiatry	7
Criminal responsibility evaluations: Benchmarking in different countries	7
Dignity: The elephant in the room in psychiatric inpatient care? A systematic review and thematic synthesis	7
Engaging vulnerable populations in drug treatment court: Six month outcomes from a co-occurring disorder wraparound intervention	7
Challenges for people with intellectual disabilities in law enforcement interactions in Ireland; thematic analysis informed by 1537 person-years' experience	7
Consumers' experiences of rights-based mental health laws: Lessons from Victoria, Australia	7
Perceived fairness as main determinant of patients' satisfaction with care during psychiatric hospitalisation: An observational study	7
Self-binding directives under the new Dutch Law on Compulsory Mental Health Care: An analysis of the legal framework and a proposal for reform	7
The decision-making process in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations	6

Can jurors be biased in their evaluation of third-party evidence within cases of rape?	6
The p factor, crime, and criminal justice: A criminological study of Caspi et al.'s general psychopathology general theory	6
Protective factors as uni- or bipolar factors and their incremental validity and accuracy in predicting general recidivism	5
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	5
Innovations in violence risk assessment: What aviation can teach us about assessing and managing risk for rare and serious outcomes	5
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview	5
The experience of people with psychosocial disabilities of living independently and being included in the community in war-affected settings: A review of the literature	5
Australian and New Zealand doctors' experiences of disciplinary notifications, investigations, proceedings and interventions relating to alleged mental health impairment: a qualitative analysis of int	5
Insights into involuntary hospital admission procedures for psychiatric patients: A 3-year retrospective analysis of police records	5
A register-based comparison study of Swedish patients in forensic psychiatric care 2010 and 2018	4
The dangers of using diagnoses outside of established psychiatric nosology in the courtroom: Analysis and discussion of current Swiss legal precedent from a medical perspective	4
Factors related to bias in forensic psychiatric assessments in criminal matters: A systematic review	4
Nigeria's mental health and substance abuse bill 2019: Analysis of its compliance with the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities	4
The role of cognitive functioning in predicting restoration among criminal defendants committed for inpatient restoration of competence to stand trial	4
Mental health, mental capacity, ethics, and the law in the context of COVID-19 (coronavirus)	4
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	4
Analysing criminal profiling validity: Underlying problems and future directions	4
Modeling the effects of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers: How knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions	4
The association between clinicians' initial judgments of feigning and outcomes on symptom validity measures among pretrial forensic psychiatric inpatients	4
Contact between victims and offenders in forensic mental health settings: An exploratory study	4
The efficacy of CBT based interventions to sexual offenders: A systematic review of the last decade literature	4
Does adolescent drug use belong on the antisocial spectrum? Mediating the drug–crime connection with cognitive impulsivity	4
Psychiatric morbidity among adolescents and youth involved with the juvenile justice system in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic scoping review of current studies and research gaps	4
The centrality of cognition and coping styles in driving aggressive responses	3
The association between objective necessity for involuntary treatment as measured during admission, legal admission status and clinical factors in an inpatient psychiatry setting	3
Patterns of victimization in Ghana's Senior Correctional Center: The experiences of juvenile offenders	3
A shifting paradigm? A scoping review of the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation in recent forensic research	3
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	3
Understanding the sleep-aggression relationship in a forensic mental health sample	3
Correlates and predictors of re-incarceration among Turkish adolescent male offenders: A single-center, cross-sectional study	3
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	3
The debate about physician assisted suicide and euthanasia in Ireland – Implications for psychiatry	3
Coercive interventions under the new Dutch mental health law: Towards a CRPD-compliant law?	3
Traumatic residue, mediated remembering and video evidence of sexual violence: A case study	3
A systematic mapping review identifying key features of restraint research in inpatient pediatric psychiatry: A human rights perspective	3
The nature of police shootings in New Zealand: A comparison of mental health and non-mental health events	3
The rights to legal capacity, personal freedom, and safety during psychiatric hospitalizations at a general hospital	3
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health Law in the State of Qatar	3
The association between discontinuation of community treatment orders and outcomes in the 12-months following discharge from residential mental health rehabilitation	3
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law	3
The psychopathic dimension in women of mafia	2
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	2
An empirical study of actions on custodianship in Hungary	2
The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015: Interrogating the guiding principles for a person with dementia	2
Identifying factors associated with criminal responsibility by analyzing court trial verdicts	2
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the psychosocial rehabilitation of forensic psychiatric patients in Austria	2
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa	2
Research findings on Greek forensic patients found not guilty by reason of insanity. A juxtaposition of patients who committed a criminal offense during their first psychotic episode with those who di	2
Medicalisation and participation in legal capacity determinations in Chile	2
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	2

Suicide in psychiatry and medical liability: A case series	2
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	2
The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	2
Mental health review board under the Mental Health Care Act (2017), India: A critique and learning from review boards of other nations	2
Means of restraint in residential care when there is no acute danger. Time for the European committee on the prevention of torture to set the standard	2
Individual factors associated with recidivism among mental health court program clients	2
The contribution of psychopathic traits and substance use in the prediction of recidivism of sexual offenders	2
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	2
The RECAPACITA project: Description of the clinical, neuropsychological and functional profile of a sample of people with severe mental disorder and legal capacity modification in Spain	2
Patients are changing – The ripple effects of changing the law and creating new forensic beds in Belgium	2
Association between perceived coercion and perceived level of information in involuntarily admitted patients: Results from a multicenter observational study in Switzerland	2
On a long, narrow road: The mental health law in Turkey	1
SIDMA as a criterion for psychiatric compulsion: An analysis of compulsory treatment orders in Scotland	1
Best interests, benefit, will and preference: The influence of international human rights and external actors on decision-making frameworks in the United Kingdom and Ireland	1
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and suggestibility: A survey of United States federal case law	1
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	1
The effects of forensic mental health reports on decisions about guilt in the Netherlands: An experimental approach	1
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work	1
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	1
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law	1
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men	1
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?	1
Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of law enforcement involvement among treatment-seeking adult males with opioid use disorder	1
Restricted patients in New Zealand: A failed social experiment with a hybrid form of civil/forensic compulsory mental health treatment	1
Prospective study of mental health court and life satisfaction	1
A special type of homicide-suicide: A retrospective study of the characteristics of extended suicide	1
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	1
Rational capacity and criminal responsibility in the USA	1
Autonomy and consent assessment for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). A retrospective study of medical records	1
Utilising survey data and qualitative information to inform a logic model to support older people in custody with common mental and physical health problems: Addressing the physical and mental health	1
Implications for mental health workforce strategy, professional training and supervision of more widespread adoption of the multi-professional Responsible Clinician role: Results of a qualitative inqu	1
Cognition in older offenders in North Rhine-Westphalia: A comparison of prisoners and patients in forensic psychiatry hospitals	1
An antisocial alchemy: Psychopathic traits as a moderator of the different forms and functions of aggression in delinquency and conduct disorder among youth	1
Psychometric properties of the Parma Scale for the treatment evaluation of offenders with mental disorder: A new instrument for routine outcome monitoring in forensic psychiatric settings	1
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	1
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	1
Therapeutic jurisprudence and the desistance paradigm: Theoretical and practical convergences for social reintegration	1
Arrest and emergency medical services events among participants from one of the first mental health courts	1
Comparing mental health and mental capacity law data across borders: Challenges and opportunities	1
New technology, psychiatry, and the law: Panic, prudence, possibility	1
Latent profiles and psychosocial correlates of persistent self-injury among incarcerated adults	1
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	1
The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people	1
Stakeholders’ perspective on mental health laws in Pakistan: A mixed method study	1
A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	1
Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking targets	1
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	1
International law and mental health evaluations at Guantanamo: Is medical repatriation a solution for most detainees?	1
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions	1
A descriptive analysis of sentencing decisions by the Canadian criminal justice system of people with intellectual disabilities convicted with sexual offences	1
Psychosis and conduct disorder in Greek forensic patients found not guilty by reason of insanity: Differences between patients with and those without a history of conduct disorder in childhood or adol	1
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	1
Textual strategies of forensic psychiatrists. A corpus-based analysis of how the language of psychiatry is reconciled with the language of law in polish forensic psychiatric opinions	1
Assessment of suicide probability and related factors in male incarcerated adolescents; a sample of reformatory center in Turkey	1
Efficiency of psychological interventions in the prevention of suicidal behavior and self-injury in penitentiary population: A systematic review	1
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	1