OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Behavioral Sciences & the Law 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Using algorithms to address trade‐offs inherent in predicting recidivism	32
The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension	21
Why do child sexual abuse victims not tell anyone about their abuse? An exploration of factors that prevent and promote disclosure	17
Wanting sex and willing to kill: Examining demographic and cognitive characteristics of violent “involuntary celibates”	13
A critical analysis of stalking theory and implications for research and practice	10
The effects of essentialist thinking toward biosocial risk factors for criminality and types of offending on lay punishment support	10
Introduction to this special issue: Underreporting of sexual abuse	10
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of 187 homicidal assailants with and without a schizophrenia spectrum disorder: Clinical, criminological and behavioral characteristics	9
Denial and minimization among sex offenders	9
An examination of the effects of mental disorders as mitigating factors on capital sentencing outcomes	8
Understanding expert testimony on child sexual abuse denial after New Jersey v. J.L.G.: Ground truth, disclosure suspicion bias, and disclosure substantiation bias	8
Alibi believability: Corroborative evidence and contextual factors	7
Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends	7
Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths	7
A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders	7
Applicability of two violence risk assessment tools in a psychiatric prison hospital population	7
Juvenile homicide offenders: Why they were involved in serious crime	6
Revenge filicide: An international perspective through 62 cases	6
Comparison of outcome in men and women after treatment in psychiatric security hospitals in Germany	6
Simulating denial increases false memory rates for abuse unrelated information	6
Sex worker homicides and sexual homicides: A comparative study of offender, victim, and offense characteristics	6
The lethality of non‐familial child abductions: Characteristics and outcomes of 565 incidents involving youth under the age of 18 years	5
Detecting children's true and false denials of wrongdoing: Effects of question type and base rate knowledge	5
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy	5
Advances in juvenile adjudicative competence: A 10‐year update	5

The compelling case for low‐violence‐risk preclusion in American prison policy	5
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review	5
Analyzing the scientific foundation of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome: A reply to Lyon et al.	5
Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders	5
Illuminating the dark figure of sexual recidivism	5
Taking “the boss” into the real world: Field interrater reliability of the Short‐Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version	5
Cognitive‐affective drivers of fixation in threat assessment	5
Shifting probation culture and advancing juvenile probation reform through a community‐based, participatory action research‐informed training	5
Examining jurors' ability to meet the constitutional requirement of narrowing in capital sentencing	4
Lost in translation: “Risks,” “needs,” and “evidence” in implementing the First Step Act	4
Risk–need–responsivity and its application in behavioral health settings: A feasibility study of a treatment planning support tool	4
Judicial gatekeeping on scientific validity with risk assessment tools	4
Municipal regulation of cannabis and public health in Canada: A comparison of Alberta, Ontario, and Québec	4
Juveniles arrested for murder: A latent class analysis of male offenders	4
From “below chance” to “a single error is one too many”: Evaluating various thresholds for invalid performance on two forced choice recognition tests	3
Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations	3
Making sense of risk	3
A jury of scientists: Formal education in biobehavioral sciences reduces the odds of punitive criminal sentencing	3
Stability of psychopathy in a prospective longitudinal study: Results from the Cambridge Study in delinquent development	3
Risk assessment savvy: The imperative of appreciating accuracy and outcome	3
Risk–need–responsivity: Evaluating need‐to‐service matching with reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance	3
Use of penile plethysmography in the court: A review of practices in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States	3
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits	3
Actuarial risk assessment at sentencing: Potential consequences for mass incarceration and legitimacy	3
Open risk assessment	3
Toward a method for evaluating court actor influences on plea negotiations: A preliminary exploration of public defenders	3
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents: A lifestyle‐routine activities theory approach	3
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts	2
The duality of risk from threats: Are homicidal threats a novel determinant for suicide risk?	2
An exploratory examination of intellectual disability and mental illness associated with alleged false confessions	2
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective	2
Selfish parents, parenting practices, and psychopathic traits in children	2
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and Investigative interviewing: A systematic review highlighting clinical and legal implications and recommendations	2
Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system	2
Scholarly rumors: Citation analysis of vast misinformation regarding parental alienation theory	2
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness	2
Jail‐based competency treatment comes of age: Multi‐site outcomes and challenges to the implementation of an evidence‐based forensic continuum	2
Rising inpatient numbers in forensic security hospitals of German federal state of Baden‐Württemberg: Background and explanatory approaches	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on implementing Post‐Conviction Risk Assessment	2
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners	2
Homicide and the Internet	2
Imperfectly perfect: Examining psychosocial safety climate's influence on the physical and psychological impact of perfectionism in the practice of law	2
Diagnosing intellectual disability in people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A function of which diagnostic manual is used?	2
Dealing with stalking cases in Lithuania: The role of public perceptions and legal response	2
Adopted children who kill their adoptive parents: An examination through the lens of attachment theory	2
Electroencephalographic and morphometric abnormalities in psychopath offenders	2
Linguistically complex recognition prompts in pre‐recorded cross‐examinations	1
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force	1
A 20‐year follow‐up survey of police officers' experience with Tarasoff warnings: How law enforcement reacts to clinicians' duty to protect	1
Impact of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use, other substance use, and drug‐related offending among justice‐system‐involved youth	1

Rural residents' emotions, beliefs, and sources that influenced those beliefs regarding sex offender policies, practice, and the efficacy of treatment	1
A perspective review of cannabis use and sexual offenses	1
Diminished culpability in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)	1
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases	1
The forensic assessment of dissociation: Distinguishing real from the unreal	1
Examiners' perceptions of forensic mental health assessments conducted via videoconferencing	1
Introduction to this Special Issue: International perspectives on criminal sex	1
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder	1
The neurocognitive profiles of justice involved people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A systematic review	1
Short‐term clinical risk assessment and management: Comparing the Brockville Risk Checklist and Hamilton Anatomy of Risk Management	1
A retrospective study on risk assessment and management of forensic psychiatric inpatients in Hong Kong	1
First Amendment knowledge and competence in United States residents	1
Structured instruments for insanity defense evaluations: Opportunities and limitations	1
Hospital treatment of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity	1
Understanding the needs of justice‐involved adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in an Indigenous community	1
Unfitness to stand trial and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: Understanding and responding to FASD within the criminal justice system in New Zealand	1
Extreme emotional disturbance: Legal frameworks and considerations for forensic evaluation	1
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 interviewers	1
Strengths and weaknesses of the psychology of criminal conduct: Implications for the conceptualisation, assessment and treatment of antisocial personality pattern	1
Voluntary intoxication, homicide, and mens rea: Past, present, and future	1
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts	1
Serial sexual murder by juveniles and the role of sexual sadism: An international study	1
Women and men of mafia between traditional cultural contexts and new social roles	1
Evaluations of competence to stand trial are evolving amid a national “competency crisis”	1
Holistic representation in juvenile defense: An evaluation of a multidisciplinary children's defense team	1
The problem with assumptions: Revisiting “The dark figure of sexual recidivism”	1
Should we be paying more attention to firearm threats in ex‐partner stalking cases?	1
Feasibility and acceptability of a brief suicide intervention for youth involved with the family court	1
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities	1
Suicidal ideation in offenders convicted of child sexual exploitation material offences	1
How good are inpatients at feigning Miranda abilities?: An investigation of the Miranda Quiz, Inventory of Legal Knowledge, and Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology	1
Does children’s fear matter? Evaluating children’s positions in Finnish court decisions on stalking	1
The question of sanity restoration in jail	1