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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The dark figure of sexual offending: A replication and extension	28
Why do child sexual abuse victims not tell anyone about their abuse? An exploration of factors that prevent and promote disclosure	28
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 practice	15
Introduction to this special issue: Underreporting of sexual abuse	15
Understanding expert testimony on child sexual abuse denial after New Jersey v. J.L.G.: Ground truth, disclosure suspicion bias, and disclosure substantiation bias	14
Forensic psychiatric evaluation of 187 homicidal assailants with and without a schizophrenia spectrum disorder: Clinical, criminological and behavioral characteristics	11
Revenge filicide: An international perspective through 62 cases	10
Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths	9
Denial and minimization among sex offenders	9
Simulating denial increases false memory rates for abuse unrelated information	8
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy	8
A heuristic study of the similarities and differences in offender characteristics across potential and successful serial sexual homicide offenders	8
From “below chance” to “a single error is one too many”: Evaluating various thresholds for invalid performance on two forced choice recognition tests	7
Juvenile homicide offenders: Why they were involved in serious crime	7
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 Québec	7
The lethality of non‐familial child abductions: Characteristics and outcomes of 565 incidents involving youth under the age of 18 years	7
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review	7
Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends	7
Illuminating the dark figure of sexual recidivism	7
Detecting children's true and false denials of wrongdoing: Effects of question type and base rate knowledge	7
Sex worker homicides and sexual homicides: A comparative study of offender, victim, and offense characteristics	7
Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations	6
Juveniles arrested for murder: A latent class analysis of male offenders	6

Scholarly rumors: Citation analysis of vast misinformation regarding parental alienation theory	5
Shifting probation culture and advancing juvenile probation reform through a community‐based, participatory action research‐informed training	5
Risk–need–responsivity and its application in behavioral health settings: A feasibility study of a treatment planning support tool	5
Taking “the boss” into the real world: Field interrater reliability of the Short‐Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version	5
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents: A lifestyle‐routine activities theory approach	5
Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders	5
Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system	4
Risk–need–responsivity: Evaluating need‐to‐service matching with reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance	4
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners	4
A jury of scientists: Formal education in biobehavioral sciences reduces the odds of punitive criminal sentencing	4
Understanding the needs of justice‐involved adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in an Indigenous community	3
Imperfectly perfect: Examining psychosocial safety climate's influence on the physical and psychological impact of perfectionism in the practice of law	3
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities	3
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits	3
Does children’s fear matter? Evaluating children’s positions in Finnish court decisions on stalking	3
Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and Investigative interviewing: A systematic review highlighting clinical and legal implications and recommendations	3
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 development	3
Suicidal ideation in offenders convicted of child sexual exploitation material offences	3
Toward a method for evaluating court actor influences on plea negotiations: A preliminary exploration of public defenders	3
Evaluating the HCR‐20^V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China	2
Rates and implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among released offenders with mental disorder in Canada	2
Adopted children who kill their adoptive parents: An examination through the lens of attachment theory	2
How to get away with (sexual) murder? Unraveling cold cases in sexual homicide using a hybrid modeling probabilistic approach	2
Rural residents' emotions, beliefs, and sources that influenced those beliefs regarding sex offender policies, practice, and the efficacy of treatment	2
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases	2
Homicide and the Internet	2
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness	2
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder	2
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts	2
Dealing with stalking cases in Lithuania: The role of public perceptions and legal response	2
Electroencephalographic and morphometric abnormalities in psychopath offenders	2
Impact of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use, other substance use, and drug‐related offending among justice‐system‐involved youth	2
Holistic representation in juvenile defense: An evaluation of a multidisciplinary children's defense team	2
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 continuum	2
Selfish parents, parenting practices, and psychopathic traits in children	2
Implementation and evaluation of a juvenile mental health training for law enforcement in a medium‐sized jurisdiction	2
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 contexts	2
Feasibility and acceptability of a brief suicide intervention for youth involved with the family court	2
Typologies of Canadian young adults who drive after cannabis use: A two‐step cluster analysis	2
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective	2