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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment	20
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field	18
Evaluating borderline personality disorder traits in the context of an intimate partner violence intervention programme	16
Memory and credibility perceptions of alcohol and other drug intoxicated witnesses and victims of crime	15
Correction	13
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*	12
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales	12
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law	11
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes	10
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	10
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis	10
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system	9
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland	9
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies	9
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform	8
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event	8
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology	8
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study	8
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective	7
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior	7
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making	7
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	7
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours	7
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth	7
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect	6

An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines	6
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape	6
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health	6
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs	6
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making	6
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis	5
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions	5
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism	5
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police	5
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?	5
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction	5
Statement of Retraction	5
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system	4
Decision importance and Black and Hispanic jurors’ judgments of outgroup and ingroup defendants in a trial simulation	4
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 homicide	4
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies	4
Assessing the contribution of callous–unemotional traits and affective empathy to aggressive behaviour among teenagers hosted in a youth protection centre	4
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites	4
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime	4
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations	4
‘I’ve lived and bred violence my whole life’: understanding violence in the Irish Prison Service through the lens of the power threat meaning framework	4
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution	4
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender	4
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony	4
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police	4
The impact of multiple interviews on the accuracy and narrative coherence of children’s memories	3
Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists	3
Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory	3
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements	3
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study	3
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy	3
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory	3
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review	3
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 future	3
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case	3
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	3
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia	3
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews	3
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program	3
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 mediator	3
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments	3
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats	3
Predictors of recidivism following release from custody: a meta-analysis	3
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses	3
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending	3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime	3
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions	3