OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology Crime & Law is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment	24
Correction	21
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis	20
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*	19
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes	18
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law	14
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales	13
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	12
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies	12
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology	11
Interviewing for asylum: how the motive for application shapes information needs	11
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event	11
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making	11
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours	10
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective	10
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system	10
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study	10
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland	9
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform	9
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	8
Does love forgive all? The role of the romantic love narratives in the legitimization of intimate partner violence	8
Juror decision-making concerning defendants with mental health conditions – a systematic review of experimental studies	8
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior	8
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth	8
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health	8

An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines	8
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect	7
Psychometric properties of the Prison Adjustment Questionnaire (PAQ) amongst South African male incarcerated offenders	7
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police	7
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape	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
Advancing knowledge about offenders: personality assessment inventory profiles in Portuguese male inmates	7
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs	7
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?	7
Statement of Retraction	6
Evolution of risk factors during treatment in high-security forensic psychiatry: a multi-group latent growth curve study on different trajectories	6
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites	6
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions	6
‘How do we investigate two million murders?’ A systematic review of practices and problems in international criminal justice	6
Making sense of confidence: do laypeople perceive eyewitness confidence in similar ways?	6
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system	6
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism	6
‘I made it home and i’m flourishing’: qualitative interviews investigating post-traumatic growth among the Ohio innocence project’s freed clients & exonerees	6
‘It’s largely the people you work with’ – understanding the work climate in small Australian prisons	6
Prisoners with and without mental illness and community samples: detecting differences in aggression and psychopathic traits	5
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats	5
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony	5
Poor sleep, more aggression in male prisoners? The mediation role of negative emotion	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
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
‘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
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender	5
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime	5
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements	5
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments	5
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies	5
Truth in inconsistency? The potential of differential mnemonic consistency in deception detection	5
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations	5
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
Occupational stigma and police-public online trust	4
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses	4
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator	4
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study	4
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime	4
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending	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
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
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people	4
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews	4
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	4
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions	4

The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports	4
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia	4
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy	4
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory	4
Two quick snapshots of the dark core of personality: D5 and D10	4
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review	4
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia	4
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials	4
Invalid test performance and noncredible symptom report: performance and symptom validity tests in mentally disordered offenders within the criminal justice system	4