OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology Crime & 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*	17
Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory	17
The State of Florida v. Kelvin Lee Coleman Jr.: the implications of neuroscience in the courtroom through a case study	15
Statement of Retraction: The verdict is in: how did they decide? Using drivers' self-reported data to understand officers' decision making during traffic stop encounters	13
Is the taint argument real? Public perceptions of juries that include felon-jurors	10
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police	9
SCANning for truth. Scholars’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the use(fulness) of Scientific Content Analysis in detecting deception during police interviews	9
Perspectives of juror-eligible adults: validation of the Juror Questionnaire of Values and Viewpoints (JQVV) for capital cases	9
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 victim	8
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis	8
COVID-19 and the courtroom: how social and cognitive psychological processes might affect trials during a pandemic	8
Eyewitness testimony in native and second languages	7
After a storm comes a calm: International expert decision-making process regarding abstract definitions of emotional cool-off periods in sexual homicide	7
‘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 prisons	7
Memory and credibility perceptions of alcohol and other drug intoxicated witnesses and victims of crime	6
‘Cool' or ‘hot' rational choices: an examination of traits and states in sexual crimes	6
Evaluating the impact of ‘rehabilitative adjudications’ in four English prisons	6
Managing investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects in the UK: do specialist interview managers (IM’s) understand vulnerability?	6
Reducing criminal record discrimination through banning the box: the importance of timing and explanation in the reveal of a drug conviction	6
Vehicular heatstroke: how do extralegal factors influence perceptions of blame, responsibility, forgiveness and punishment?	6
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?	5
Lost in translation: a quantitative and qualitative comparison of rape myth acceptance	5
‘The witness is lying!’: the impact of a defendant countering a jailhouse informant’s testimony	5
Survival, self-sufficiency, and repair: reentry strategies and resources for wrongfully convicted people	5
Does debt increase risk? A mixed methods approach to studying the potential underlying risk factors in the relationship between debt and crime	5

Alternative stories and the decision to prosecute: an applied approach against confirmation bias in criminal prosecution	5
‘Tell me about the time you remember the best’: the effect of a remember best prompt on adults’ reports of a repeated emotionally stressful event	5
Fear from a distance: testing a new model of psychological distance and fear of crime	5
Predictors of recidivism following release from custody: a meta-analysis	5
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements	5
Perceptions of crime severity and stigma toward family members grieving the loss of a person to incarceration	4
Evaluating borderline personality disorder traits in the context of an intimate partner violence intervention programme	4
Executive functions, self-control and juvenile delinquency	4
High eyewitness confidence is always compelling: that’s a problem	4
The intersection of defendant gender and racialisation in a case of child neglect	4
Murder or manslaughter: the role of premeditation and associated behavioural characteristics	4
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats	4
Risk profiles in a Spanish sample of juvenile offenders: implications for risk assessment and management	4
‘He seems odd’: the effects of risk-irrelevant information and actuarial risk estimates on mock jurors’ perceptions of sexual recidivism risk	4
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field	4
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales	4
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment	4
Moral foundations and criminality: comparing community members to prisoners and violent/non-violent offenders	4
Justice and strain-based conflict among Chinese prison staff	4
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law	4
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony	4
Complications and consistency: investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements	4
Objection, your Honour: examining the questioning practices of Canadian judges	3
Misinformation – past, present, and future	3
Stigmatizing ‘evildoers’: how beliefs about evil and public stigma explain criminal justice policy preferences	3
Perceived justice, negative emotions and delinquency in Chinese high schools and vocational schools	3
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform	3
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia	3
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes	3
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making	3
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system	3
With theater, you have to be ready for anything: university response, expert testimony, and sample influence jurors’ decisions and counterfactual endorsement in a crime control theater case	3
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses	3
Legal cynicism, but not depression, mediates the link between adverse environmental factors and youth’s political violence support	3
Effect of implementing security measures on fear of crime	3
Violence and stigma: a qualitative exploration of judicial perceptions of defendants with psychiatric disorders	3
Credibility assessment in context: the influence of intergroup bias and the context of the crime	3
The Burglary Cognitive Distortions Scale: its association with burglary proclivity and other key variables	3
Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists	3
Towards clinically meaningful subtyping of youth with violent behavior: application of latent profile analysis to a risk-strengths based risk assessment model*	3
The impact of emotion on offender decision-making: advancing our understanding through virtual re-enactment	3
Correction	3
Development and application of an offense severity index in the evaluation of treatment of individuals convicted of sexual crimes	2
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event	2
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study	2
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies	2
Intergenerational transmission of personality disorder: general or disorder-specific?	2
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology	2
Juror perceptions of excited utterance hearsay testimony in an adult sexual assault case	2
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study	2

Do adolescent risk assessment tools capture self-reported reasons for desistance? An examination of the content validity of protective factors	2
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland	2
Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: a test among Nigerian prison officers	2
Racial fairness in violence risk instruments: a review of the literature	2
Assessing the deterrent effect of symbolic guardianship through neighbourhood watch signs and police signs: a virtual reality study	2
Confirming or resisting the ‘racist cop’ stereotype?: the importance of a police officer’s ‘guardian’ identity in moderating support for procedural justice	2
Perceptions of campaign donors and their impact on judgments of judicial fairness	2
Keep it simple: Concise instructions may help jurors devalue eyewitness courtroom confidence when evaluating suspect guilt	2
Do road offenders constitute a unique clinical and sociodemographic profile? The relationship between crime and road safety	2
Childhood predictors of successful self-reported delinquents	2
Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia	2
Workplace cyberbullying toward the Arab minority in Israel: gender differences in attitudes and attribution of blame	2
Plea validity in circuit court: judicial colloquies in misdemeanor vs. felony charges	2
Impact of base rate information on estimated risk of recidivism of sex offenders in Japan	2
A comparison between Australian and US populations on attitudes to criminal behaviours	2
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy	2
Increasing client motivation ratings across violence rehabilitation are promising predictors of reduced post-custody recidivism	2
Why should we punish and how? The role of moral intuitions and personal worldviews for punitiveness and sentencing preferences	2
Predictive validity of the structured assessment of violence risk in youth (SAVRY) on the recidivism of juvenile offenders: a systematic review	2
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective	2
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 quality	2
The use of alternative scenarios in assessing the reliability of victims’ statements	2
Are sad children more believable? A systematic review of the relationship between emotional demeanour of child victims and juror credibility judgements	2
Clients who self-refer to a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC): a preliminary exploration of client and case characteristics	2
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health	2
Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion	2
Prevalence and risk-factors for burnout, posttraumatic stress, and secondary traumatization among Danish prosecutors: findings from a pilot-study	2
Testing the job demands-resources model in explaining life satisfaction of Nigerian correctional staff	2
Laypersons’ misconceptions as a barrier to understanding plea bargaining’s innocence problem	2
The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy	2
Assessing recidivism risk with criminal thinking and prior arrests: do risk factors accumulate or interact?	2
Technology and eyewitness memory: evaluating the efficacy of a novel digital cued recall tool	2
Avatars with child sexual abuse (vs. no abuse) scenarios elicit different emotional reactions	2
Life experiences and health factors linked to violent offending and repeated incarceration among males in Spain	2
Can a communication assessment provide a reliable indication of a child’s communication at interview?	2
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case	2
The impact of multiple interviews on the accuracy and narrative coherence of children’s memories	2