OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology Crime & Law is 3. 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
What can we remember after complex denials? The impact of different false denials on memory	26
Lessons from London: a contemporary examination of the factors affecting attrition among rape complaints	17
Predictors of recidivism following release from custody: a meta-analysis	17
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program	15
The optimal application of empathy interventions to reduce antisocial behaviour and crime: a review of the literature	13
Body dismemberment in sexual homicide cases: lust murder or rational decision?	11
Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory	10
Assessing the deterrent effect of symbolic guardianship through neighbourhood watch signs and police signs: a virtual reality study	9
Lost in translation: a quantitative and qualitative comparison of rape myth acceptance	9
Activism and radicalism in adolescence: an empirical test on age-related differences	9
Memory and credibility perceptions of alcohol and other drug intoxicated witnesses and victims of crime	9
Legal psychologists as experts: guidelines for minimizing bias	8
Alternative stories and the decision to prosecute: an applied approach against confirmation bias in criminal prosecution	8
Procedural justice and legitimacy of the law in the criminal justice system: a longitudinal study among Dutch detainees	8
The use and efficacy of question type and an attentive interviewing style in adult rape interviews	7
Satisfaction with life and crime: testing the link	7
‘You can have a bit of my pain, see how it feels’ – understanding male prisoners who engage in dual harm behaviours	7
Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists	7
Personality and frustration predict aggression and anger following violent media	7
A survey of police officers encounters with sober, alcohol- and drug-intoxicated suspects in Sweden	6
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews	6
Association between childhood adversity and criminal thinking: the role of attachment	6
Exploring the linkage between changes in detainees’ perceptions of procedural justice and changes in misconduct	6
Credibility assessment in context: the influence of intergroup bias and the context of the crime	6
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution	6

Essentialist thinking predicts culpability and punishment judgments	6
The shift-of-strategy (SoS) approach: using evidence strategically to influence suspects’ counter-interrogation strategies	5
Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines	5
Avatars with child sexual abuse (vs. no abuse) scenarios elicit different emotional reactions	5
Development and validation of the Good Lives Questionnaire	5
Development and validation of a general legal moral disengagement scale	5
Plea validity in circuit court: judicial colloquies in misdemeanor vs. felony charges	5
Reducing criminal record discrimination through banning the box: the importance of timing and explanation in the reveal of a drug conviction	5
An examination of the prevalence and characteristics of UK community males who hold a sexual interest in children using the revised interest in child molestation scale	5
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs	5
A comparison between Australian and US populations on attitudes to criminal behaviours	5
High eyewitness confidence is always compelling: that’s a problem	5
Commonalities in false guilty plea cases	4
Success within a UK open prison and surviving the ‘pains of freedom’	4
Confirming or resisting the ‘racist cop’ stereotype?: the importance of a police officer’s ‘guardian’ identity in moderating support for procedural justice	4
Testing the job demands-resources model in explaining life satisfaction of Nigerian correctional staff	4
‘He seems odd’: the effects of risk-irrelevant information and actuarial risk estimates on mock jurors’ perceptions of sexual recidivism risk	4
Secondary traumatization in criminal justice professions: a literature review	4
Procedurally just organizational climates improve relations between corrections officers and incarcerated individuals	4
How potential jurors evaluate eyewitness confidence and decision time statements across identification procedures and for different eyewitness decisions	4
Evaluating and comparing profiles of burglaries developed using three statistical classification techniques: cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, and latent class analysis	4
Development and application of an offense severity index in the evaluation of treatment of individuals convicted of sexual crimes	4
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland	4
‘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	4
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States	4
Lies divorced from context: evidence for Context Embedded Perception (CEP) as a feasible measure for deception detection	4
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction	4
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 disposal	4
Racial fairness in violence risk instruments: a review of the literature	4
Misinformation – past, present, and future	4
Validity of mock-witness measures for assessing lineup fairness	4
‘It’s ok if you were in for robbery or murder, but sex offending, that’s a no no’: a qualitative analysis of the experiences of 12 men with sexual convictions seeking employment	4
Effect of pretrial publicity via social media, mock juror sex, and rape myth acceptance on juror decisions in a mock sexual assault trial	3
Facial emotion recognition and the development of delinquency: the mediating role of social bonds and self-control	3
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people	3
Memory of people from missing person posters: the number of posters seen, the number of times they are seen, and the passage of time matter	3
Studying sequential processes of criminal defendant decision-making using a choose-your-own-adventure research paradigm	3
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology	3
Executive functions, self-control and juvenile delinquency	3
Naming the threat: lay prototypes of organized crime in Italy and the US	3
Aggressive behavior among Italian justice-involved juveniles: the impact of attachment, discipline, and moral disengagement	3
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making	3
Online groomer typology scheme	3
Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity	3
Increasing client motivation ratings across violence rehabilitation are promising predictors of reduced post-custody recidivism	3
Evaluating the impact of ‘rehabilitative adjudications’ in four English prisons	3
Firesetting, cognitive impulsivity, and the antisocial spectrum	3
‘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 pandemic	3
Mitigating bullying–delinquency risk with parental support and knowledge: testing a three-way interaction	3
A framework for post-conviction traumatic stress: preliminary findings from a focus group of men under community supervision for sex offences	3

Guided by the rape schema: the influence of event order on how jurors evaluate the victim’s testimony in cases of rape	3
Are sad children more believable? A systematic review of the relationship between emotional demeanour of child victims and juror credibility judgements	3
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law	3