OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 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
Childhood risk factors for criminal career duration: Comparisons with prevalence, onset, frequency and recidivism	30
On the future of the individual longitudinal age‐crime curve	15
Self‐report versus clinician‐ratings in the assessment of aggression in violent offenders	12
The prevalence of mental illness and unmet needs of police custody detainees	10
Life on parole: The quality of experiences soon after release contributes to a conviction‐free re‐entry	10
When sexual offender treatment in prison‐based social‐therapeutic treatment is not completed: Relationship to risk factors and recidivism after release	8
Child sexual abuse and Covid‐19: Side effects of changed societies and positive lessons for prevention	8
A preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of dialectical behaviour therapy in a forensic psychiatric setting	8
Self‐reported and general practitioner recorded indicators of lifetime health up to age 48 according to offender type in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development	7
Alternatives to custodial remand for women in the criminal justice system: A multi‐sector approach	6
Post‐traumatic growth in prisoners and its association with the quality of staff–prisoner relationships	6
The relationship between psychological symptom ratings and crime in juvenile justice system involved young people	6
Women parolees’ mental health in the context of reintegration	6
Relational security: The impact of facility design on youth custodial staffs' practices and approaches	5
Persistent offenders and adolescence‐limited offenders: Differences in life‐courses	5
The mental health impact of parole on families of indeterminate‐sentenced prisoners in England and Wales	5
‘I'm always walking on eggshells, and there's no chance of me ever being free’: The mental health implications of Imprisonment for Public Protection in the community and post‐recall	5
Traumatic experiences among individuals with severe mental illnesses on probation	4
Mental health, welfare or justice: An introductory global overview of differences between countries in the scale and approach to secure placements of children and young people	4
Feasibility testing of a peer support programme for prisoners with common mental disorders and substance use	4
Personality traits and male vulnerability to commercial sexual exploitation victimisation	4
Why theoretical literacy is essential for forensic research and practice	4
Time to stop and smell the roses: On ‘rushing headlong’ into service delivery without really knowing what it is we are doing	4
Exploring substance use as rule‐violating behaviour during inpatient treatment of offender patients with schizophrenia	4
Assessing alexithymia in forensic settings: Psychometric properties of the 20‐item Toronto Alexithymia Scale among incarcerated adult offenders	4

How do childhood conduct problems, callousness and anxiety relate to later offending and adult mental disorder?	4
Criminal career duration: Predictability from self‐reports and official records	3
Disparities in use of disciplinary solitary confinement by mental health diagnosis, race, sexual orientation and sex: Results from a national survey in the United States of America	3
Post‐traumatic stress disorder and related factors among female victims of sexual assault required to attend a University Hospital in Turkey: A cross‐sectional cohort study	3
Telemedicine in prisons: A Crime in Mind perspective	3
Agreement over content of case formulation in offender personality disorder pathway prison services	3
Prisoners' understanding and experiences of parole	3
How do parole board members in England and Wales construct decisions about whether to release perpetrators of intimate partner violence from prison?	3
Economic evaluations of mental health interventions in criminal justice	2
Effects of mindfulness‐based interventions on psychological distress and mindfulness in incarcerated populations: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	2
Relationships between hope and mental health among women in prison	2
Identifying and predicting criminal career profiles from adolescence to age 39	2
Benefits and risks of conjugal visits in prison: A systematic literature review	2
Mistakes in interpersonal perceptions: Social cognition in aggressive forensic psychiatry patients	2
The role of depressive symptoms between neighbourhood disorder, criminal justice contact, and suicidal ideation: Integrating an ecological stress model with General Strain Theory	2
The nuanced relationship between adverse childhood experiences and recidivism risk scores among women leaving jail: A preliminary exploration	2
Is non‐completion of treatment related to security need?	2
Social, health and ethnicity correlates of complaints of excessive police force	2
Editorial: Disorderly street users of novel psychoactive substances: What might help?	2
Responding to neurodiversity in the courtroom: A brief evaluation of environmental accommodations to increase procedural fairness	2
Comparison of impulsivity, aggression and suicidality between prisoners in Nigeria who have committed homicide and those who have not	2
Homelessness and predictors of criminal reoffending: A retrospective cohort study	2
Ten outcome measures in forensic mental health: A survey of clinician views on comprehensiveness, ease of use and relevance	2
The mental health trajectories of male prisoners and their female (ex‐)partners from pre‐ to post‐release	2
Are Liaison and Diversion interventions in policing delivering the planned impact: A longitudinal evaluation in two constabularies?	2
Supporting young people's cognition and communication in the courtroom: A scoping review of current practices	2
Evaluation of a framework for safe and appropriate prescribing of psychoactive medications in a UK prison	2
External locus of control and cognitive ability independently distinguish men in prison from community living non‐offending men	2
Mental illness‐related stigma among probation officers	2
Mental health in immigration detention: A comparison of foreign national ex‐prisoners and other detainees	2
Association between the discontinuation of substance use inpatient treatment and the risk of committing a crime leading to imprisonment: A Finnish registry‐based 5‐year follow‐up	2
Dementia in UK prisons: Failings and solutions?	2
The importance of cost‐benefit analysis of crime reduction programmes	2
A comparison of trajectories of offending among people with psychotic disorders, other mental disorders and no mental disorders: Evidence from a whole‐of‐population birth cohort study	2
Psychologically informed practice (PIP) within the offender personality disorder pathway: Towards establishing an evidence base for approved premises	2
Acceptability and feasibility of using avatar‐based virtual world software as an adjunct to clinical interventions, training, and reflective practice in a medium secure setting: A qualitative intervie	2
Relationships between substance use disorders, ‘severe mental illness’ and re‐arrest in a county detention facility: A 4‐year follow‐up cohort study	1
A comparison of men and women referred to provincial correctional mental health services in Ontario, Canada	1
Alexithymia in nonviolent offenders	1
Social influence and delinquency: The role of criminal thinking	1
The science of psychopathy and some strategies for moving forward	1
Conducting prison‐based research during the COVID‐19 pandemic and the value of involving people with lived experience	1
Psychological screening service for men newly admitted to an Italian prison: Preliminary clinical outcome analysis after 1 year of clinical activity	1
Uses of video recorded interviews in court by clinical expert witnesses	1
Reforming psychosocial and mental health pathways for young people following initial encounters with police	1
A randomised controlled trial of a cognitive behaviourally informed intervention for changing violent sexual attitudes among adult sexual offenders in prison	1
Using theory and data in forensic research and practice	1
Anxiety as a differentiating variable in emotional recognition in juvenile offenders with high callous‐unemotional traits	1
Cost‐benefit analyses of developmental crime prevention programmes	1
Endocrine markers of puberty timing and antisocial behaviour in girls and boys	1

Delays in transferring patients from prisons to secure psychiatric hospitals: An international systematic review	1
Exploration of adverse patterns of placement of young people in secure care: The unwanted child?	1
Association between relational trauma and empathy among male offenders in China	1
Validating the Essen Climate Evaluation Schema modified for people with learning disabilities in a low‐risk secure forensic setting	1
Adverse childhood experiences are important but not the only risk to child development: Revisiting a full risk/resilience matrix	1
Professionalising release management for mentally disordered perpetrators: Benefits in terms of recidivism rates—Results from a study within the Austrian prison system	1
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Difference between forensic patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in Italy and other European countries: Results of the EU‐VIORMED project	1
The impact of anger and self‐concealment on post‐traumatic stress and psychiatric comorbid symptoms in Chinese prisoners: A longitudinal study	1
Misplaced enthusiasm with neglect of Human Rights ‐ Beneficence is not enough	1
A systematic review of literature on homicide followed by suicide and mental state of perpetrators	1
Triarchic psychopathic traits versus self‐control: Comparing associations with youth antisocial outcomes	1
Evidence for the ecological validity of the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen: Positive predictive value among remanded men and women	1
Rolf Loeber’s Research and Life‐Course Persistent Offenders	1
Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Looking back, looking around, looking to the future	1
The mediating role of externalising and healthy schema modes in the relationship between early maladaptive schemata and overt behaviours in adolescent boys with offending behaviours, and a comparison	1
FACTS‐The Forensic Adolescent Consultation and Treatment Service–an all Wales mental health service for children and adolescents with the most complex and challenging behavioural problems. Can we meet	1
Advance care planning ahead of life‐altering clinical deterioration in secure settings: Do not wait until a crisis	1
Substance use disorders among adults during imprisonment in a medium security prison: Prevalence and risk indicators	1
Misuse of prescribed psychotropic medication and drug crime offending: A follow‐up case‐control study of former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	1
Longer than prison? A comparison of length of stay in a medium security hospital and prison for perpetrators of violent crimes other than homicide or attempted homicide	1
Examining the link between facial affect recognition and violent offending: A comparison between web‐recruited volunteers with histories of violent and non‐violent offending	1
Towards more accurate classification of risk of arrest among offenders on community supervision: An application of machine learning versus logistic regression	1
The healthcare plight of offenders in the community	1
The proactive–reactive classification of intimate partner violence offenders: A multi‐method approach to classification	1
Intergenerational continuity of crime: A comparison between children of discordant siblings	1
Indefinite detention or supervision for public protection when a life sentence is not available: Pathway outcomes among prisoners in one region	1