OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 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
Self‐report versus clinician‐ratings in the assessment of aggression in violent offenders	13
The prevalence of mental illness and unmet needs of police custody detainees	12
Life on parole: The quality of experiences soon after release contributes to a conviction‐free re‐entry	11
Child sexual abuse and Covid‐19: Side effects of changed societies and positive lessons for prevention	10
When sexual offender treatment in prison‐based social‐therapeutic treatment is not completed: Relationship to risk factors and recidivism after release	9
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
Women parolees’ mental health in the context of reintegration	7
Homelessness and predictors of criminal reoffending: A retrospective cohort study	6
‘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	6
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	6
Relational security: The impact of facility design on youth custodial staffs' practices and approaches	6
Feasibility testing of a peer support programme for prisoners with common mental disorders and substance use	5
Social, health and ethnicity correlates of complaints of excessive police force	5
Relationships between hope and mental health among women in prison	5
The mental health impact of parole on families of indeterminate‐sentenced prisoners in England and Wales	5
Personality traits and male vulnerability to commercial sexual exploitation victimisation	5
Traumatic experiences among individuals with severe mental illnesses on probation	5
Prisoners' understanding and experiences of parole	5
Cost‐benefit analyses of developmental crime prevention programmes	5
Responding to neurodiversity in the courtroom: A brief evaluation of environmental accommodations to increase procedural fairness	4
Assessing alexithymia in forensic settings: Psychometric properties of the 20‐item Toronto Alexithymia Scale among incarcerated adult offenders	4
Supporting young people's cognition and communication in the courtroom: A scoping review of current practices	4
Exploring substance use as rule‐violating behaviour during inpatient treatment of offender patients with schizophrenia	4
Conducting prison‐based research during the COVID‐19 pandemic and the value of involving people with lived experience	4
How do childhood conduct problems, callousness and anxiety relate to later offending and adult mental disorder?	4

Economic evaluations of mental health interventions in criminal justice	4
How do parole board members in England and Wales construct decisions about whether to release perpetrators of intimate partner violence from prison?	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
Effects of mindfulness‐based interventions on psychological distress and mindfulness in incarcerated populations: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	3
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	3
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	3
External locus of control and cognitive ability independently distinguish men in prison from community living non‐offending men	3
Psychopathology and history of mental healthcare among male detainees transferred to a facility for managing otherwise uncontrollable in‐prison violence: An exploratory study	3
Ten outcome measures in forensic mental health: A survey of clinician views on comprehensiveness, ease of use and relevance	3
The contributing factors to suicide in Italian prisons: An 11‐year analysis (2010–2020)	3
A systematic review of literature on homicide followed by suicide and mental state of perpetrators	3
Mental health in immigration detention: A comparison of foreign national ex‐prisoners and other detainees	3
Is non‐completion of treatment related to security need?	3
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
The role of depressive symptoms between neighbourhood disorder, criminal justice contact, and suicidal ideation: Integrating an ecological stress model with General Strain Theory	2
Difference between forensic patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in Italy and other European countries: Results of the EU‐VIORMED project	2
Mental illness‐related stigma among probation officers	2
Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Looking back, looking around, looking to the future	2
Validating the Essen Climate Evaluation Schema modified for people with learning disabilities in a low‐risk secure forensic setting	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
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	2
The mental health trajectories of male prisoners and their female (ex‐)partners from pre‐ to post‐release	2
Child sexual exploitation material offenders, one‐size‐fits‐all for? Exploring tailored clinical dimensions based on cognitive and behavioural criminogenic factors	2
Exploration of adverse patterns of placement of young people in secure care: The unwanted child?	2
Prevalence of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder in adult prisoners: An updated meta‐analysis	2
Examining the interplay of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms and trait anger as contributing factors to institutional misconduct among justice‐involved adolescents	2
Evaluation of a framework for safe and appropriate prescribing of psychoactive medications in a UK prison	2
Misuse of prescribed psychotropic medication and drug crime offending: A follow‐up case‐control study of former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	2
The all‐Wales forensic adolescent consultation and treatment service (FACTS): A 5‐year referral cohort study	2
A comparison of the role of aggression in the association between hostile interpretation bias and antisocial personality features between young offenders and university students	2
Evidence for the ecological validity of the Brief Jail Mental Health Screen: Positive predictive value among remanded men and women	2
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	2
An examination of associations between sexual assault and health problems, depression or suicidal ideation in a large nationally representative cohort of male and female 20–30‐year‐olds	2
The importance of cost‐benefit analysis of crime reduction programmes	2