OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioral Sciences & the Law is 2. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Using algorithms to address trade‐offs inherent in predicting recidivism	33
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	19
Wanting sex and willing to kill: Examining demographic and cognitive characteristics of violent “involuntary celibates”	14
Introduction to this special issue: Underreporting of sexual abuse	11
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
Denial and minimization among sex offenders	9
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of 187 homicidal assailants with and without a schizophrenia spectrum disorder: Clinical, criminological and behavioral characteristics	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
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy	7
A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders	7
Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths	7
Applicability of two violence risk assessment tools in a psychiatric prison hospital population	7
Simulating denial increases false memory rates for abuse unrelated information	7
Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends	7
Revenge filicide: An international perspective through 62 cases	7
Juvenile homicide offenders: Why they were involved in serious crime	6
Sex worker homicides and sexual homicides: A comparative study of offender, victim, and offense characteristics	6
Juveniles arrested for murder: A latent class analysis of male offenders	6
Comparison of outcome in men and women after treatment in psychiatric security hospitals in Germany	6
Risk–need–responsivity and its application in behavioral health settings: A feasibility study of a treatment planning support tool	5
Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations	5

The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review	5
Shifting probation culture and advancing juvenile probation reform through a community‐based, participatory action research‐informed training	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
Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders	5
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
Analyzing the scientific foundation of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome: A reply to Lyon et al.	5
Advances in juvenile adjudicative competence: A 10‐year update	5
From “below chance” to “a single error is one too many”: Evaluating various thresholds for invalid performance on two forced choice recognition tests	4
Municipal regulation of cannabis and public health in Canada: A comparison of Alberta, Ontario, and Québec	4
Judicial gatekeeping on scientific validity with risk assessment tools	4
Examining jurors' ability to meet the constitutional requirement of narrowing in capital sentencing	4
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
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and Investigative interviewing: A systematic review highlighting clinical and legal implications and recommendations	3
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits	3
Risk–need–responsivity: Evaluating need‐to‐service matching with reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance	3
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents: A lifestyle‐routine activities theory approach	3
Toward a method for evaluating court actor influences on plea negotiations: A preliminary exploration of public defenders	3
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts	2
Holistic representation in juvenile defense: An evaluation of a multidisciplinary children's defense team	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
Dealing with stalking cases in Lithuania: The role of public perceptions and legal response	2
Rising inpatient numbers in forensic security hospitals of German federal state of Baden‐Württemberg: Background and explanatory approaches	2
Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system	2
Diminished culpability in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)	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
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities	2
Selfish parents, parenting practices, and psychopathic traits in children	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
Jail‐based competency treatment comes of age: Multi‐site outcomes and challenges to the implementation of an evidence‐based forensic continuum	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