Psychology Crime & Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology Crime & Law 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment24
Correction21
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis20
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*19
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes18
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law14
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales13
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies12
Your alibi better not be a-changin’: the effect of alibi change and interview strategy on perceptions of alibi witness’s credibility, suspect innocence, and interview quality12
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making11
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology11
Interviewing for asylum: how the motive for application shapes information needs11
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event11
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study10
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours10
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective10
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system10
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform9
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland9
Juror decision-making concerning defendants with mental health conditions – a systematic review of experimental studies8
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior8
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth8
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health8
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines8
Offender insight into Australian stolen goods markets from 2002–2017: the DUMA survey as a 16-year window into property crime offenders’ target selections and disposal8
Does love forgive all? The role of the romantic love narratives in the legitimization of intimate partner violence8
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making7
Advancing knowledge about offenders: personality assessment inventory profiles in Portuguese male inmates7
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs7
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?7
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect7
Psychometric properties of the Prison Adjustment Questionnaire (PAQ) amongst South African male incarcerated offenders7
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police7
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape7
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis7
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism6
‘I made it home and i’m flourishing’: qualitative interviews investigating post-traumatic growth among the Ohio innocence project’s freed clients & exonerees6
‘It’s largely the people you work with’ – understanding the work climate in small Australian prisons6
Statement of Retraction6
Evolution of risk factors during treatment in high-security forensic psychiatry: a multi-group latent growth curve study on different trajectories6
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites6
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions6
‘How do we investigate two million murders?’ A systematic review of practices and problems in international criminal justice6
Making sense of confidence: do laypeople perceive eyewitness confidence in similar ways?6
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system6
‘I’ve lived and bred violence my whole life’: understanding violence in the Irish Prison Service through the lens of the power threat meaning framework5
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender5
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime5
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements5
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments5
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies5
Truth in inconsistency? The potential of differential mnemonic consistency in deception detection5
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations5
Prisoners with and without mental illness and community samples: detecting differences in aggression and psychopathic traits5
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats5
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony5
Poor sleep, more aggression in male prisoners? The mediation role of negative emotion5
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police5
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?5
Let’s (not) talk about race: comparing mock jurors’ verdicts and deliberation content in a case of lethal police use of force with a White or Indigenous victim5
The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports4
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia4
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy4
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory4
Two quick snapshots of the dark core of personality: D5 and D104
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review4
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia4
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials4
Invalid test performance and noncredible symptom report: performance and symptom validity tests in mentally disordered offenders within the criminal justice system4
The relationship between borderline personality disorder symptoms and treatment adherence self-efficacy in substance use treatment among a court-mandated sample in the U.S.4
Occupational stigma and police-public online trust4
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses4
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator4
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study4
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime4
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending4
Home is where the start is: qualitatively exploring the role of accommodation in desistance, for people with sexual convictions living in the U.K.4
Misinformation – past, present, and future4
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case4
The developmental antecedents of child sexual abuse perpetration: an empirical framework using a developmental approach4
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people4
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews4
The right patient on the right bed: historical risk profiles of two-year post-discharge recidivists, non-recidivists and long-stay patients at the start of forensic treatment4
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions4
Fuelling an investigative mindset: the importance of pre-interview planning in police interviews with suspects3
How do correctional residents expect to do when returning to society? The relation between perceived autonomy in prison and self-reliance after release among Dutch incarcerated individuals3
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport3
Adding nuance to the role of juror anger and sadness at trial: moderating effects of juror gender and sympathy on verdicts in a battered woman case3
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia3
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions3
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically3
Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups3
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program3
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians3
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks3
‘I just felt like I had no voice’: courtroom experiences of female sexual violence survivors seeking justice3
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States3
‘Will there ever be a stage in anybody’s life where they’re not thinking about what I did?’: exploring the expectations of people convicted of sexual offences, regarding their release from medium and 3
Moral obligation or dull compulsion in ethnic minority immigrants? Testing pathways to obeying the police via the mediating influence of identity threat3
Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face3
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms3
Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure3
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees3
Exploring the linkage between changes in detainees’ perceptions of procedural justice and changes in misconduct2
Managing investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects in the UK: do specialist interview managers (IM’s) understand vulnerability?2
Stigmatizing ‘evildoers’: how beliefs about evil and public stigma explain criminal justice policy preferences2
Murder or manslaughter: the role of premeditation and associated behavioural characteristics2
Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion2
Victims who falsely deny: memory impacts of false denials of a simulated domestic abuse narrative2
Perspectives of juror-eligible adults: validation of the Juror Questionnaire of Values and Viewpoints (JQVV) for capital cases2
SCANning for truth. Scholars’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the use(fulness) of Scientific Content Analysis in detecting deception during police interviews2
Perceived credibility of asylum claimants: the role of decision-maker affect and asylum seeker’s emotions2
Do adolescent risk assessment tools capture self-reported reasons for desistance? An examination of the content validity of protective factors2
A simulation study on the utility of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms-Second Edition (SIRS-2) in Taiwan Region adults2
Towards clinically meaningful subtyping of youth with violent behavior: application of latent profile analysis to a risk-strengths based risk assessment model*2
The effects of victim testimony order and judicial education on juror decision-making in trials for rape2
The ‘emotional defendant effect’: a systematic review of experimental studies2
Clients who self-refer to a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC): a preliminary exploration of client and case characteristics2
Experimental evidence on primacy effects in parole decisions2
Becoming informed lie-catchers: classical findings and recent developments in deception detection2
Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: a test among Nigerian prison officers2
How is a sex offender treatment programme experienced? Deploying mixed methods evaluation through reflective diaries2
Females who engage in online child sexual exploitation: a critical narrative review2
Attitudes and beliefs of professionals within the English and Welsh criminal justice system towards people with mental health conditions: a systematic review2
‘Tell me about the time you remember the best’: the effect of a remember best prompt on adults’ reports of a repeated emotionally stressful event2
Technology and eyewitness memory: evaluating the efficacy of a novel digital cued recall tool2
Legal psychologists as experts: guidelines for minimizing bias2
‘This incident happened when there were 10 people in the house?’ Exploring a framework to categorize defense attorneys’ plausibility questioning in CSA trials2
Characterizing the criminal behavior and psychosocial features of female rural arsonists2
Gender differences in public perceptions of the seriousness of offline and online sexual harassment2
The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy2
Effect of implementing security measures on fear of crime2
Pre-interview hypothesis generation: large language models (LLMs) show promise for child abuse investigations2
Fear from a distance: testing a new model of psychological distance and fear of crime2
A systematic review of interpersonal skills training for police investigative interviews2
Understanding vulnerabilities and ‘pathways’ in the commission of sexual offences by autistic individuals: perspectives from UK-based practitioners2
Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release2
‘Pure Science’ be damned: benefits of a case-to-lab research paradigm2
Spillover of domains: testing the influence of work-family conflict on staff at a Southern U.S. prison2
The interaction between a change in substance use/consequences and a change in moral agency as a mechanism for decreased criminal involvement in low-to-moderate and high-risk youth2
Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity2
Development and application of an offense severity index in the evaluation of treatment of individuals convicted of sexual crimes1
Writing to death row inmates: pen-pals share their experience1
A systematic mapping review of the literature examining pre-substantive rapport-building techniques in investigative interviews with children1
‘She couldn’t leave them … the perpetrator had threatened to burn them alive’: domestic abuse helpline calls relating to companion animals during the COVID-19 pandemic1
The effects of witness mental illness and use of special measures in court on individual mock juror decision-making1
Convergent and predictive validity of the Sexual Violence Risk-20 and risk for sexual violence protocol with older sexual offenders1
Lying on misleading information: false confirmation leads to memory errors1
The role of impulsivity and sensation seeking in associations between empathy and crime1
‘I would never’: defending, explaining, and denying suspect allegations of sexual offence during internal affairs interrogations1
Suggestive questions reduce the accuracy of adults’ reports about one episode of a repeated event1
Workplace cyberbullying toward the Arab minority in Israel: gender differences in attitudes and attribution of blame1
Brief multidimensional self-control scale: psychometric properties and cross-gender measurement invariance of the Portuguese version1
Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia1
The shift-of-strategy (SoS) approach: using evidence strategically to influence suspects’ counter-interrogation strategies1
‘The witness is lying!’: the impact of a defendant countering a jailhouse informant’s testimony1
Introduction to the special issue on cross-cultural issues in psychology, crime and the law1
Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: a quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime1
The role of mental illness in women’s pathways to crime living in a U.S.-México border region1
Finding clarity in gaslighting: a comprehensive model from victim-survivor and support service provider perspectives1
‘Violence is all he knew, and it seemed to work’: using the power threat meaning framework to explore prison officers’ understandings of violence in Irish prisons1
Lay person’s and psychology officers’ beliefs about memory, investigative interviewing and deception detection: data from Malaysia1
Are intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and organisational identity always beneficial to the organisation? The different effects of black and grey corruption1
Witness/victim interviewing: a survey of real-world investigators’ training and practices1
Procedural justice and legitimacy of the law in the criminal justice system: a longitudinal study among Dutch detainees1
‘How would you define your sexuality?’ analyzing the questions asked in official asylum interviews with sexual minorities1
Prediction of reoffending in people released from prison in Norway: external validation of the OxRec risk assessment tool1
Impact of base rate information on estimated risk of recidivism of sex offenders in Japan1
Appearances can be deceiving: how naturalistic changes to target appearance impact on lineup-based decision-making1
Technology on trial: facilitative and prejudicial effects of computer-generated animations on jurors’ legal judgments1
Mapping the theoretical pathways from police contact to criminal behavior: a scoping review1
Assessing recidivism risk with criminal thinking and prior arrests: do risk factors accumulate or interact?1
A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices1
Avatars with child sexual abuse (vs. no abuse) scenarios elicit different emotional reactions1
How to measure lineup fairness: concurrent and predictive validity of lineup-fairness measures1
Perceptions of crime severity and stigma toward family members grieving the loss of a person to incarceration1
Risk and contextual factors associated with legal intervention injury and hospital outcomes among trauma patients in Pennsylvania1
Risk profiles in a Spanish sample of juvenile offenders: implications for risk assessment and management1
Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines1
The intersection of defendant gender and racialisation in a case of child neglect1
Do common risk factors for violence generalize across ethnicity?1
Evaluating a model program for improving law enforcement officers’ perceptions of and interactions with youth in a diverse urban setting1
Verifiable information in truthful statements: do interview context and language proficiency matter?1
Examining the effects of evidence disclosure timing and strength on information inconsistencies and provision within investigative interviews1
Racial identity as a moderator of same-race bias among Hispanic mock-jurors1
How incels who carried out violence use neutralization techniques to justify and sanitize their actions: an exploratory study1
The effect of question and response types on credibility assessments1
An optimal trauma-informed pathway for PTSD, complex PTSD and other mental health and psychosocial impacts of trauma in prisons: an expert consensus statement1
Concerns and recommendations regarding the training of school administrators in interrogating students1
Why should we punish and how? The role of moral intuitions and personal worldviews for punitiveness and sentencing preferences1
Aggressive behavior among Italian justice-involved juveniles: the impact of attachment, discipline, and moral disengagement1
Burnout and empathy in mental health professionals working in correctional settings, community settings, and with sex offenders1
Understanding community attitudes toward miscarriages of justice: the role of social characteristics on perceptions of wrongfully convicted exonerees1
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions1
A multivariate examination of correctional population orientations toward the Prison Rape Elimination Act1
Complications and consistency: investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements1
Right-wing ideology fuels bias against sex trafficking victims: the mediating role of sexism1
Correction1
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