OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavioral Sciences & the Law is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force	24
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions	23
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Human Experts and AI Models in Offender Risk Assessment: A Comparative Pilot Study Using the HCR‐20V3	15
Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2	14
Public Perceptions of Marital Rape: Does Level of Force Used Have an Impact?	14
Forensic neuropsychological assessment	14
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Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes	12
Cognitive Decline on the Bench: A Text Analysis of the Opinions of Justice Stephen Field	11
Impact of Offender Schizophrenia Diagnosis on Public Perceptions of Crime and Punishment	11
Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides	10
Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study	9
Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China	8
Current State of Psychological Research on Intimate Partner Violence: Implications for Legal Proceedings	8
Admissibility of Prior Sexual History Evidence: Examining Its Impact on Mock‐Jurors’ Judgments When Gender and Race Are Considered	8
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities	8
Trauma Mitigating in Emerging Adult Sentencing? An Experimental Examination of the Influence of Homicide Defendants' Age and Biopsychosocial Factors on the Public's Punitiveness	7
Evaluating the HCR‐20^V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China	7
FASD and Intellectual Disability Equivalence: A Meta‐Analysis of Suggestibility During Forensic Interviews	7
An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights	7
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 staff	7
Fitness to Stand Trial in India: Demographic, Clinical, and Legal Profiles of Court‐Referred Defendants	7
The “Double Bind” of Gender‐Based Violence: Secondary Victimization in Courtroom Cross‐Examinations	6

A Latent Transition Analysis of Traditional Bullying and Cyberbullying Among Chinese Adolescents: Associations With Life Satisfaction and Depression	6
Moving Beyond “Malingering”: Reconceptualizing Feigned Symptoms as Motive‐Based Phenomena	6
Optimized Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Manual Scoring Approaches	6
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Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories	6
Material Deprivation, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Social Relationships	6
Prediction of violence: Part contagious disease, part unpredictable individual: Is a public health assessment approach an additional option and at what cost?	5
Correction to “Are Risk Assessment Tools More Accurate Than Unstructured Judgments in Predicting Violent, Any, and Sexual Offending? A Meta‐Analysis of Direct Comparison Studies.”	5
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Behavioral and Cognitive Equivalence Threshold: Foundations for the Practical Extension of Atkins and Roper	5
The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research	5
Perceived Security, Confidence in the Police and Subjective Well‐Being in Hong Kong: Evidence from the World Values Survey	5
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On Second Thought: The Impact of Confessions, DNA, and Belief Perseverance on Students' Perceptions of Guilt and Interrogations	5
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Transparency, Punishment, and Judicial Behavior: Analyzing Criminal Sentencing Under China's Mass Publication Reform	5
Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory	5
Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program	4
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism	4
Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex‐Working Rape Victims	4
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A Status Update on U.S. Adult Mental Health Courts	4
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Stranger Rape or Impromptu Consensual Sex? Investigating Mock Juror Decision‐Making in a Genuine Contested Rape Trial	4
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Irreversible Effects of Affiliation With Delinquent Peers on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Adolescents in Hong Kong: Moderating Effect of Student–Teacher Relationships	4
Front‐End Governance of Juvenile Cybercrime in China: Platform Accountability, Risk Mitigation, and Tri‐Partite Collaboration	4
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder	3
Strain, Social Bonds, Deviant Peers and Aggression Among Chinese Adolescents: An Empirical Test and Extension of General Strain Theory	3
Consent Myths and Norm Violation Responses: Reconceptualizing Rape Myth Theory in Sexual Assault Sentencing in China	3
Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations	3
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review	3
Public Estimations and Attitudes Towards the Insanity Plea in the United States: A Replication of Seminal Studies From the 1980's	3
Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures	3
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model	3
The Effect of Myth Education on Responses to Disclosures of Sexual Assault	3
Teacher–Student Relationship Quality as a Mediator in the Association of Parent–Child Communication With Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Substance Use: Evidence From the 2017/2018 HBSC Study	3
Manual and Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Real and Forged Signatures—A Comparative Study and Forensic Implications	3
The Forced‐To‐Penetrate Myth Acceptance Scale (FTP‐MAS): A New Attitudinal Tool for Assessing Myths That Surround Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence Against Men	3
False Confessions: A Study Space Analysis	3
Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions	3