Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Behavioral Sciences & the Law is 0. 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.)
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The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension28
Why do child sexual abuse victims not tell anyone about their abuse? An exploration of factors that prevent and promote disclosure28
Wanting sex and willing to kill: Examining demographic and cognitive characteristics of violent “involuntary celibates”18
A critical analysis of stalking theory and implications for research and practice15
Introduction to this special issue: Underreporting of sexual abuse15
Understanding expert testimony on child sexual abuse denial after New Jersey v. J.L.G.: Ground truth, disclosure suspicion bias, and disclosure substantiation bias14
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of 187 homicidal assailants with and without a schizophrenia spectrum disorder: Clinical, criminological and behavioral characteristics11
Revenge filicide: An international perspective through 62 cases10
Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths9
Denial and minimization among sex offenders9
Simulating denial increases false memory rates for abuse unrelated information8
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy8
A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders8
From “below chance” to “a single error is one too many”: Evaluating various thresholds for invalid performance on two forced choice recognition tests7
Juvenile homicide offenders: Why they were involved in serious crime7
Analyzing the scientific foundation of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome: A reply to Lyon et al.7
Municipal regulation of cannabis and public health in Canada: A comparison of Alberta, Ontario, and Québec7
The lethality of non‐familial child abductions: Characteristics and outcomes of 565 incidents involving youth under the age of 18 years7
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review7
Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends7
Illuminating the dark figure of sexual recidivism7
Detecting children's true and false denials of wrongdoing: Effects of question type and base rate knowledge7
Sex worker homicides and sexual homicides: A comparative study of offender, victim, and offense characteristics7
Juveniles arrested for murder: A latent class analysis of male offenders6
Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations6
Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders5
Scholarly rumors: Citation analysis of vast misinformation regarding parental alienation theory5
Shifting probation culture and advancing juvenile probation reform through a community‐based, participatory action research‐informed training5
Risk–need–responsivity and its application in behavioral health settings: A feasibility study of a treatment planning support tool5
Taking “the boss” into the real world: Field interrater reliability of the Short‐Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version5
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents: A lifestyle‐routine activities theory approach5
Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system4
Risk–need–responsivity: Evaluating need‐to‐service matching with reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance4
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners4
A jury of scientists: Formal education in biobehavioral sciences reduces the odds of punitive criminal sentencing4
Understanding the needs of justice‐involved adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in an Indigenous community3
Imperfectly perfect: Examining psychosocial safety climate's influence on the physical and psychological impact of perfectionism in the practice of law3
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities3
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits3
Does children’s fear matter? Evaluating children’s positions in Finnish court decisions on stalking3
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and Investigative interviewing: A systematic review highlighting clinical and legal implications and recommendations3
Evaluations of competence to stand trial are evolving amid a national “competency crisis”3
Stability of psychopathy in a prospective longitudinal study: Results from the Cambridge Study in delinquent development3
Suicidal ideation in offenders convicted of child sexual exploitation material offences3
Toward a method for evaluating court actor influences on plea negotiations: A preliminary exploration of public defenders3
Typologies of Canadian young adults who drive after cannabis use: A two‐step cluster analysis2
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective2
Evaluating the HCR‐20V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China2
Rates and implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among released offenders with mental disorder in Canada2
Adopted children who kill their adoptive parents: An examination through the lens of attachment theory2
How to get away with (sexual) murder? Unraveling cold cases in sexual homicide using a hybrid modeling probabilistic approach2
Rural residents' emotions, beliefs, and sources that influenced those beliefs regarding sex offender policies, practice, and the efficacy of treatment2
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases2
Homicide and the Internet2
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness2
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder2
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts2
Dealing with stalking cases in Lithuania: The role of public perceptions and legal response2
Electroencephalographic and morphometric abnormalities in psychopath offenders2
Impact of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use, other substance use, and drug‐related offending among justice‐system‐involved youth2
Holistic representation in juvenile defense: An evaluation of a multidisciplinary children's defense team2
Diminished culpability in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)2
The duality of risk from threats: Are homicidal threats a novel determinant for suicide risk?2
Diagnosing intellectual disability in people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A function of which diagnostic manual is used?2
Jail‐based competency treatment comes of age: Multi‐site outcomes and challenges to the implementation of an evidence‐based forensic continuum2
Selfish parents, parenting practices, and psychopathic traits in children2
Implementation and evaluation of a juvenile mental health training for law enforcement in a medium‐sized jurisdiction2
The problem with assumptions: Revisiting “The dark figure of sexual recidivism”2
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts2
Feasibility and acceptability of a brief suicide intervention for youth involved with the family court2
Trophy, souvenir, or simple theft? Taking items from the victim in sexual homicide1
Structured instruments for insanity defense evaluations: Opportunities and limitations1
The forensic assessment of dissociation: Distinguishing real from the unreal1
Child and adolescent victims of sexual homicide in Chile between 1998 and 2021: A review of 27 cases and their autopsy reports1
Linguistically complex recognition prompts in pre‐recorded cross‐examinations1
Superhomicide offenders: Nosology, empirical features, and linkages to sexual and multiple murder typologies1
Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides1
Extreme emotional disturbance: Legal frameworks and considerations for forensic evaluation1
Women and men of mafia between traditional cultural contexts and new social roles1
Should we be paying more attention to firearm threats in ex‐partner stalking cases?1
Rational, emotional, or both? Subcomponents of psychopathy predict opposing moral decisions1
Murdering the person closest to you: Similarities and differences between intimate partner sexual homicide and non‐intimate partner sexual homicide1
Forensic assessment instruments: Their reliability and applicability to criminal forensic issues1
Ruling out feigned crime‐related amnesia? A response to Acklin (2022)1
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and confabulation in psycholegal settings: A beginner’s guide for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal interviewers1
A perspective review of cannabis use and sexual offenses1
Voluntary intoxication, homicide, and mens rea: Past, present, and future1
Participation experiences of indirect victims of child sexual homicide in parole proceedings1
Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory1
Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study1
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force1
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐181
A 20‐year follow‐up survey of police officers' experience with Tarasoff warnings: How law enforcement reacts to clinicians' duty to protect1
Examining the effect of prison time on landlords' willingness to rent to exonerees: A test of the stigma‐by‐association framework1
First Amendment knowledge and competence in United States residents1
Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions1
Strengths and weaknesses of the psychology of criminal conduct: Implications for the conceptualisation, assessment and treatment of antisocial personality pattern1
Examiners' perceptions of forensic mental health assessments conducted via videoconferencing1
How good are inpatients at feigning Miranda abilities?: An investigation of the Miranda Quiz, Inventory of Legal Knowledge, and Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology1
The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research1
Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study1
Unfitness to stand trial and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: Understanding and responding to FASD within the criminal justice system in New Zealand1
The neurocognitive profiles of justice involved people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A systematic review1
Sexual homicide offenders as repeat and nonrepeat offenders: An empirical study of sexual homicide cases in Mainland China1
Making sense of senseless murders: The who, what, when, and where?1
Introduction to this Special Issue on implementing evidence‐based practices in forensic settings1
Serial sexual murder by juveniles and the role of sexual sadism: An international study1
Depathologization of trans* experience in ICD‐11: Suggestions for context‐sensitive psychotherapeutic work1
Evidence‐based lifestyle medicine interventions to enhance the mental health of law enforcers in Hong Kong: A pilot randomized controlled trial1
Evolution of transgender rights in India: Better late than never1
Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories1
The influence of changes in clinical factors on high‐security forensic custody dispositions1
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons0
Confluence of law enforcement, mental health, and race0
Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program0
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Widening the net: Use of social media data in personal injury and disability evaluations0
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Neuroethics and neurolaw in forensic neuropsychiatry: A guide for clinicians0
Waiving goodbye to youth: Jurors perceive transferred juveniles differently from adults but render similar verdicts0
An overview of malingering and deception in neuropsychiatric cases0
Editorial: Cannabis and the law0
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Life or death: A qualitative examination of mitigating and aggravating evidence presented in capital trials0
Where to draw the line? The influence of prior relationship, perpetrator‐target sex and perpetrator motivation on the point at which behavior ‘crosses the line’ and becomes stalking0
Jurors’ perceptions of transgender victims of sexual assault: A literature review of empirical research and policy review of judicial instructions0
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An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights0
“It wasn't me, check the cameras!” Suspects' apparent verifiable responses might not indicate innocence0
Mind the past: A systematic review on psychological autopsy0
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Childhood trauma as a mediator between attachment and recidivism risk: A study of Canadian offenders with mental disorders0
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations0
From posts to protection: Ethical considerations regarding forensic psychiatrists and a duty to warn based on social media0
Mental health criminal defenses in persons with neuropsychiatric disorders0
Survey of change‐of‐venue motions in appellate court transcripts of murder trials (2000–2020): Which factors make a difference?0
Poly‐bullying victimisation in Indonesia: Prevalence and factors related to children exposure to multiple bullying incidents, and its correlation to subjective well‐being0
Victim selection patterns of community‐residing child molesters identified by a nationwide youth‐serving organization0
Alcohol, gender, and violence: Factors influencing blame for partner aggression0
Forensic neuropsychological assessment0
Political bias in interpreting social media for forensic purposes: An introductory editorial essay0
The imperfect fit: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as the basis to commit individuals involuntarily as sexually violent predators/persons0
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International perspectives on psychopathy research: An introductory essay0
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Are risk assessment tools more accurate than unstructured judgments in predicting violent, any, and sexual offending? A meta‐analysis of direct comparison studies0
Understanding sexual homicide in Korea using machine learning algorithms0
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Parental involvement in school and school victimization in Taiwan: The mediating role of quality of student‐teacher relationships0
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Sleep disorders and criminal behavior0
Conditional release and cannabis use: Concerns and challenges for community reintegration0
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Forensic psychiatric issues in intellectual disability0
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Perceptions of stalking in Mainland China: Behaviors, motives, and effective coping strategies0
Forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation of a personal injury case0
Losing the lottery of life: Examining intuitions of desert toward the socially and genetically “unlucky” in criminal punishment contexts0
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Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment0
Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China0
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Special issue: Sexual homicide and the lethal outcome in sexual crimes0
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review0
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model0
Risk, resilience, and recovery in forensic mental health: An integrated conceptual model0
Introductory essay: International perspectives on stalking from a psycho‐criminological approach0
An introduction to international perspectives on homicide and the law: Part II0
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Introduction to a Special Issue: Neuropsychiatry and the law0
The use of neurobiological evidence in sentencing mitigation0
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Relations between peer influence, perceived costs versus benefits, and sexual offending among adolescents aware of sex offender registration risk0
The history of forensic neuropsychiatry0
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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and youth firesetting: A call on criminal justice, emergency responder, and fire prevention specialists to become informed0
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Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions0
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How online data informs forensic mental health evaluations of sexual behavior: An overview0
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Inter‐judicial differences in approaching technical violations: Examining the interaction of judge and compliance issue for domestic violence probationers0
Prevalence and associated factors of sexting among Taiwanese adolescents0
Introductory essay to this issue: International perspectives on homicide and the law: Part III0
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Preliminary examination of an insanity defense typology: Prevalence rates and correlates0
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies0
Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry0
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Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory0
The defense of mental disorder and crimes against the person committed under the influence of cannabis: A Canadian perspective0
Prediction of violence: Part contagious disease, part unpredictable individual: Is a public health assessment approach an additional option and at what cost?0
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Psychiatric disorders among employment requiring firearms0
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Cessation of dangerousness status in Brasília, Brazil: An analysis of 144 reports from Federal District Medical Examiner's Office in the last 10 years0
How receiving welfare assistance could be linked to children's bullying victimization: Exploring the potential pathways0
To tell or not to tell about bullying—New insights from the study on the perceptions of criminal sanctioning, anticipation of school punishment, agency, and trust toward school staff0
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Cyberbullying victimization and perpetration: The influence on cyberostracism and youth anxiety0
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Welcome to Charles Dike, M.D., Co‐Editor of Behavioral Sciences and the Law0
From Reddit to manifestos: Forensic evaluation of incel online activity0
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The Internet is a scary place: How does evidence source and examinee race or ethnicity influence determinations of threat?0
DSM‐5‐TR diagnosis as a guide to suicide risk assessment0
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Gender‐affirming surgeries for transgender and gender diverse individuals and associated health outcomes0
Exploring how attorneys address grooming in criminal trials of child sexual abuse0
Transforensic psychiatry: Addressing inpatient aggression in the “gray zone” between general and forensic psychiatric care0
Forensic neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy0
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Why are individuals over age 60 still committed as sexually violent persons?0
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Forensic assessment of somatoform and functional neurological disorders0
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The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism0
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