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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment	22
Correction	19
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes	18
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field	17
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*	15
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis	12
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law	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
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies	11
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	11
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making	10
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours	10
Interviewing for asylum: how the motive for application shapes information needs	10
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event	10
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective	9
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland	9
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study	9
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform	8
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth	8
Juror decision-making concerning defendants with mental health conditions – a systematic review of experimental studies	8
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system	8
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior	8
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health	8
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology	8
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines	8

Does love forgive all? The role of the romantic love narratives in the legitimization of intimate partner violence	8
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape	7
Psychometric properties of the Prison Adjustment Questionnaire (PAQ) amongst South African male incarcerated offenders	7
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis	7
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury 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
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs	7
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect	7
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions	6
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism	6
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?	6
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police	6
Statement of Retraction	6
‘How do we investigate two million murders?’ A systematic review of practices and problems in international criminal justice	5
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime	5
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police	5
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?	5
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender	5
‘It’s largely the people you work with’ – understanding the work climate in small Australian prisons	5
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies	5
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations	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 victim	5
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony	5
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system	5
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites	5
‘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	5
Poor sleep, more aggression in male prisoners? The mediation role of negative emotion	5
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements	5
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution	5
Misinformation – past, present, and future	4
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case	4
The developmental antecedents of child sexual abuse perpetration: an empirical framework using a developmental approach	4
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending	4
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory	4
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study	4
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats	4
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses	4
Occupational stigma and police-public online trust	4
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
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator	4
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews	4
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments	4
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia	4
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
Invalid test performance and noncredible symptom report: performance and symptom validity tests in mentally disordered offenders within the criminal justice system	4
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy	4
The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports	4
SCANning for truth. Scholars’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the use(fulness) of Scientific Content Analysis in detecting deception during police interviews	3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime	3
Fuelling an investigative mindset: the importance of pre-interview planning in police interviews with suspects	3

Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure	3
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians	3
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport	3
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 individuals	3
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically	3
Murder or manslaughter: the role of premeditation and associated behavioural characteristics	3
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program	3
Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release	3
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people	3
Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups	3
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 treatment	3
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks	3
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia	3
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials	3
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms	3
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 case	3
Understanding vulnerabilities and ‘pathways’ in the commission of sexual offences by autistic individuals: perspectives from UK-based practitioners	3
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review	3
Females who engage in online child sexual exploitation: a critical narrative review	3
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia	3
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States	3
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions	3
‘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
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions	3
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees	3
Perspectives of juror-eligible adults: validation of the Juror Questionnaire of Values and Viewpoints (JQVV) for capital cases	3
Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face	3