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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment20
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field18
Evaluating borderline personality disorder traits in the context of an intimate partner violence intervention programme16
Memory and credibility perceptions of alcohol and other drug intoxicated witnesses and victims of crime15
Correction13
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales12
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*12
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law11
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 quality10
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis10
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes10
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland9
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies9
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system9
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology8
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study8
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform8
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event8
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior7
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making7
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 disposal7
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours7
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth7
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective7
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect6
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines6
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape6
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health6
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs6
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making6
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis5
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions5
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism5
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police5
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?5
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction5
Statement of Retraction5
Assessing the contribution of callous–unemotional traits and affective empathy to aggressive behaviour among teenagers hosted in a youth protection centre4
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites4
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime4
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations4
‘I’ve lived and bred violence my whole life’: understanding violence in the Irish Prison Service through the lens of the power threat meaning framework4
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution4
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender4
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony4
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police4
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system4
Decision importance and Black and Hispanic jurors’ judgments of outgroup and ingroup defendants in a trial simulation4
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?4
After a storm comes a calm: International expert decision-making process regarding abstract definitions of emotional cool-off periods in sexual homicide4
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies4
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements3
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study3
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy3
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory3
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review3
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.3
Misinformation – past, present, and future3
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case3
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 victim3
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia3
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews3
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program3
Home is where the start is: qualitatively exploring the role of accommodation in desistance, for people with sexual convictions living in the U.K.3
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator3
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments3
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats3
Predictors of recidivism following release from custody: a meta-analysis3
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses3
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime3
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions3
The impact of multiple interviews on the accuracy and narrative coherence of children’s memories3
Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists3
Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory3
Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release2
Perspectives of juror-eligible adults: validation of the Juror Questionnaire of Values and Viewpoints (JQVV) for capital cases2
Do adolescent risk assessment tools capture self-reported reasons for desistance? An examination of the content validity of protective factors2
Effect of implementing security measures on fear of crime2
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States2
Testing the job demands-resources model in explaining life satisfaction of Nigerian correctional staff2
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 case2
Fear from a distance: testing a new model of psychological distance and fear of crime2
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms2
SCANning for truth. Scholars’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the use(fulness) of Scientific Content Analysis in detecting deception during police interviews2
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials2
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 treatment2
Studying sequential processes of criminal defendant decision-making using a choose-your-own-adventure research paradigm2
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees2
COVID-19 and the courtroom: how social and cognitive psychological processes might affect trials during a pandemic2
Technology and eyewitness memory: evaluating the efficacy of a novel digital cued recall tool2
Clients who self-refer to a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC): a preliminary exploration of client and case characteristics2
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians2
The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy2
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia2
Managing investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects in the UK: do specialist interview managers (IM’s) understand vulnerability?2
Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face2
Murder or manslaughter: the role of premeditation and associated behavioural characteristics2
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks2
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people2
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia2
Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups2
The effects of victim testimony order and judicial education on juror decision-making in trials for rape2
Fuelling an investigative mindset: the importance of pre-interview planning in police interviews with suspects2
Towards clinically meaningful subtyping of youth with violent behavior: application of latent profile analysis to a risk-strengths based risk assessment model*2
Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion2
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically2
Stigmatizing ‘evildoers’: how beliefs about evil and public stigma explain criminal justice policy preferences2
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions2
‘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
Facial emotion recognition and the development of delinquency: the mediating role of social bonds and self-control2
Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: a test among Nigerian prison officers2
Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure2
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport2
Do common risk factors for violence generalize across ethnicity?1
Survival, self-sufficiency, and repair: reentry strategies and resources for wrongfully convicted people1
Examining the effects of evidence disclosure timing and strength on information inconsistencies and provision within investigative interviews1
Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia1
Comparing boys and girls in juvenile detention in Portugal: differences in psychopathic traits, criminal behaviors, and one-year recidivism1
The shift-of-strategy (SoS) approach: using evidence strategically to influence suspects’ counter-interrogation strategies1
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 youth1
Mapping the theoretical pathways from police contact to criminal behavior: a scoping review1
Legal psychologists as experts: guidelines for minimizing bias1
Are intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and organisational identity always beneficial to the organisation? The different effects of black and grey corruption1
Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity1
The ‘emotional defendant effect’: a systematic review of experimental studies1
Introduction to the special issue on cross-cultural issues in psychology, crime and the law1
Development and application of an offense severity index in the evaluation of treatment of individuals convicted of sexual crimes1
‘The witness is lying!’: the impact of a defendant countering a jailhouse informant’s testimony1
The role of mental illness in women’s pathways to crime living in a U.S.-México border region1
Perceptions of crime severity and stigma toward family members grieving the loss of a person to incarceration1
Right-wing ideology fuels bias against sex trafficking victims: the mediating role of sexism1
Evaluating a model program for improving law enforcement officers’ perceptions of and interactions with youth in a diverse urban setting1
How to measure lineup fairness: concurrent and predictive validity of lineup-fairness measures1
Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: a quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime1
Risk and contextual factors associated with legal intervention injury and hospital outcomes among trauma patients in Pennsylvania1
Suggestive questions reduce the accuracy of adults’ reports about one episode of a repeated event1
Eyewitnesses who engage in immediate recall are not perceived as more credible1
Examining dynamic risk and strength profiles for Indigenous and non-Indigenous young adults1
Exploring the linkage between changes in detainees’ perceptions of procedural justice and changes in misconduct1
Appearances can be deceiving: how naturalistic changes to target appearance impact on lineup-based decision-making1
Development of the FORUM: a new patient and clinician reported outcome measure for forensic mental health services1
Witness/victim interviewing: a survey of real-world investigators’ training and practices1
‘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
Are sad children more believable? A systematic review of the relationship between emotional demeanour of child victims and juror credibility judgements1
The intersection of defendant gender and racialisation in a case of child neglect1
Writing to death row inmates: pen-pals share their experience1
Risk profiles in a Spanish sample of juvenile offenders: implications for risk assessment and management1
A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices1
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions1
Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines1
Concerns and recommendations regarding the training of school administrators in interrogating students1
Spillover of domains: testing the influence of work-family conflict on staff at a Southern U.S. prison1
The effects of witness mental illness and use of special measures in court on individual mock juror decision-making1
A simulation study on the utility of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms-Second Edition (SIRS-2) in Taiwan Region adults1
Brief multidimensional self-control scale: psychometric properties and cross-gender measurement invariance of the Portuguese version1
‘This incident happened when there were 10 people in the house?’ Exploring a framework to categorize defense attorneys’ plausibility questioning in CSA trials1
Understanding community attitudes toward miscarriages of justice: the role of social characteristics on perceptions of wrongfully convicted exonerees1
Intergenerational transmission of personality disorder: general or disorder-specific?1
Do community females display a propensity towards sexual aggression? An empirical assessment of prevalence and psychological predictors1
Aggressive behavior among Italian justice-involved juveniles: the impact of attachment, discipline, and moral disengagement1
Complications and consistency: investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements1
Lay person’s and psychology officers’ beliefs about memory, investigative interviewing and deception detection: data from Malaysia1
‘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
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