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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions	20
Editorial Board	17
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	16
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	13
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	12
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	12
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	12
Towards a consensus on training for advance care planning in mental health: Results from a Delphi study	11
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	11
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	10
Editorial Board	10
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	9
Bottlenecks in the Belgian forensic care system: A qualitative study on residual patients	9
Blurred boundaries: Community treatment orders as instruments of racial surveillance	9
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion	9
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	9
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	9
Suicidal ideation amongst incarcerated populations: An examination of contributing factors amongst male inmates in Southwest Nigeria	8
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	8
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	8
A repertoire and critical review of international resources relevant to medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition	8
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry	8
A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	7
Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?	7
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay	6

The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	6
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK	6
Editorial Board	6
Large language models and psychiatry	6
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa	6
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder	6
Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the admission experience survey in individuals with mental illness	6
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health	5
Developmental factors in forensic assessments of children over the minimum age of criminal responsibility: A study of forensic reports in Norway 2013–2024	5
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility	5
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	5
Best Interests decision-making processes in learning disability services in Northern Ireland	5
Restraint in health and social care settings	5
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	5
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	5
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	5
“Gut feeling and subtle signals”: Norwegian police officers' strategies for identifying cognitive disabilities in suspects during the initial stages of the legal process	5
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	5
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law	5
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	4
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	4
Between expertise and judgment: Discordance between forensic psychiatric reports and judicial decisions in Brazilian litigation	4
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	4
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	4
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	4
Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study	4
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	4
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	4
An integrative review exploring decision-making processes in forensic psychopathology investigations	4
Insight, the law and psychiatry: Going round in circles or playing nice?	4
Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with jail entry after a mental health crisis	4
Involuntary patients awareness of their entitlement to appeal an admission and existence of the mental health review board in South Africa	4
Addressing the false dichotomy between autonomy and preservation of life: Clinical, legal, and ethical considerations in severe and longstanding anorexia nervosa	4
Attitudes and ethical beliefs of Russian psychiatrists towards the use of coercive treatment practices	4
Effects of psychological torture and cybertorture with emerging digital technologies under anti-torture legal obligations in China: A mixed methods research in risks and remedies	4
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	3
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges	3
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis	3
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens	3
Prescription patterns of benzodiazepines and Z-drugs in Berlin prisons	3
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men	3
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	3
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	3
A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making	3
Editorial Board	3
“It just felt like a rubber stamp”: Family experiences of mental health review board hearings in Ontario, Canada	3

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	3
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	3
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore	3
Informal coercion towards discharge: The entanglement of formal and informal coercion in social resource introduction	3
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law	3
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts	3
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review	3
The Dutch Compulsory Care Act: Possible effects on emergency involuntary admissions, treatment, and length of stay	2
Risk factors for involuntary admission in a Romanian patient sample	2
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act	2
Is assisted dying a treatment?	2
Decision-making by and for adults with impaired capacity: The potential of the Dutch levenstestament	2
Can coercion in psychiatry be justified? A theoretical adversarial collaboration approach	2
Restricted patients and detention in the community: The human rights implications of supervised discharge under the Mental Health Bill 2025	2
Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives	2
Forensic psychiatry assessment and human rights in Ukraine: response to Butenko et al's paper ‘Forensic psychiatry misuse in proceedings of administrative offenses’ (2023)Type of submission	2
Using the interRAI brief mental health screener to identify persons with mental disorders having repeat contact with police	2
No man's land: Troubling the borders of mental health and capacity law	2
Editorial Board	2
Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers	2
Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis	2
Juror decision making: Does juror stigma, mental health literacy, or the description of a defendant's mental health status, impact decision-making in a mock criminal trial?	2
Editorial Board	2
Adult safeguarding legislation: Navigating the borderlands between mental capacity, mental health and social care law and practice	2
The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people	2
Decision-making capacity law developments in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention	2
Abolition: Is this the only pathway to upholding human rights and ensuring epistemic justice in psychiatry? A key informant qualitative study	2
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law	2
Coercive measures in disability and mental health care services: Mechanical restraints from a bioethical and legal perspective in Spain	2
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview	2
Forensic mental health research: The potential of Danish national registers	2
Stakeholder experiences with compulsory treatment at home: A focus-group study	2
Legal consciousness of psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals: Awareness and satisfaction	2
Analysing risk factors for involuntary admission from an intersectional perspective: A latent class analysis	2
Mental health-related limitations and political leadership in Germany: A multidisciplinary analysis of legal, psychiatric, and ethical frameworks	1
Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Overview of forensic outpatients on the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act in Japan	1
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: In response to Ramos et al.	1
The rights to legal capacity, personal freedom, and safety during psychiatric hospitalizations at a general hospital	1
Editorial Board	1
The importation model mediated: New evidence for security threat group in the prediction of prison misconduct	1
“Everyone means well but the one person who's really going to go to bat” - experiences and perspectives of substitute decision makers in caring for their loved ones with serious mental illness	1
Validity and reliability of Mexican version of MacArthur competence assessment tool for treatment decision (MacCAT-T) in patients with schizophrenia	1
Recidivism among forensic psychiatric patients undergoing outpatient treatment for mental health disorders – A meta-analysis	1
The Mental Health Bill 2024 in the Republic of Ireland: Potential implications for adults with intellectual disabilities	1
Informed consent for capacity assessment	1
Editorial Board	1
Replacing the medical member of the first-tier Tribunal (Mental health) with a clinical member for tribunal applications and references made under the Mental Health Act 1983 (England and Wales)	1
Factors influencing decision-making capacity assessments in involuntary care and treatment in Norway: A qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives	1
Rational capacity and criminal responsibility in the USA	1
The influence of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on the European court of human rights in the area of mental health law: Divergence and unexplored potential	1
Community reentry: Racial/ethnic differences in unmet needs among adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder	1
Criminal legal system contact in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD): Experiences and support needs	1
Cognition in older offenders in North Rhine-Westphalia: A comparison of prisoners and patients in forensic psychiatry hospitals	1
Editorial Board	1
A systematic mapping review identifying key features of restraint research in inpatient pediatric psychiatry: A human rights perspective	1
Quality of life after involuntary psychiatric admission	1
The reform of Irish mental health law: Aligning with human rights obligations?	1
Editorial Board	1
The validity of the BDHI translated into Papiamento in pre-trial defendants in Curaçao	1
Assertive community treatment as an alternative to incarceration for American pretrial detainees	1
Criminal recidivism of patients in Swedish forensic psychiatry: A register-based comparison study	1
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?	1
Editorial Board	1
Distinctive and common risk factors contributing to violent offending in patients with schizophrenia compared to people without a mental illness	1
Australian and New Zealand doctors' experiences of disciplinary notifications, investigations, proceedings and interventions relating to alleged mental health impairment: a qualitative analysis of int	1
Corrigendum to ‘The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people’ [International Journ	1
Experts' decision-making processes in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations: A case vignette study	1
Stigma management during reintegration of older incarcerated adults with mental health issues: A qualitative analysis	1
Elusive cases in forensic psychiatry? Exploring subgroups of schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients in Germany	1
RECAPACITA project: Comparing neuropsychological profiles in people with severe mental disorders, with and without capacity modification	1
A shifting paradigm? A scoping review of the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation in recent forensic research	1
Recent research involving consent, alcohol intoxication, and memory: Implications for expert testimony in sexual assault cases	1
Latent profiles and psychosocial correlates of persistent self-injury among incarcerated adults	1
Psychiatric evaluations for adolescent offenders with delinquency in Taiwan	1