Psychology Public Policy and Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology Public Policy and Law is 1. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for Legal Perceptions of Forensic Mental Health Professionals’ Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations41
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Race on Assessor’s Ability to Differentiate Accurate and Inaccurate Witness Identifications: Areas of Vulnerability, Bias, and Discriminatory Outcomes26
The ability to infer witness accuracy from high-confidence lineup identifications is undermined by the appearance-change instruction and target appearance change.26
Fighting an inner battle: The effects of deployment experiences on ex-military prison staff in England and Wales.16
A scoping review and meta-analyses of clinical override use in structured risk assessments: Clinical and training implications for field practice.16
Adult male rape myths in England since 1994: A systemic mixed methods review.15
Psychiatric and legal issues surrounding the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: The importance of considering the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.15
Evaluating the adverse impact ratio and its associated uncertainty: A Bayesian approach.14
Supplemental Material for Do Black and White Innocent Mock Suspects Differ in How Forthcoming They Are Under the Strategic Use of Evidence Technique? First Findings and Their Theoretical and Practical13
Wrongful conviction disadvantages exonerees in subsequent criminal trials.12
Tracking dynamic intervention needs as a vehicle for mitigating risk among juveniles with sex offenses.12
Cognition and incentives in plea decisions: Categorical differences in outcomes as the tipping point for innocent defendants.12
Shifting school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and other sexual and gender minority students: An impact analysis of Florida’s “don’t say gay” law.12
The limited value of machine learning approach to improving predictive performance: The Ministry of Justice Case Assessment Tool.10
Proxy assessments and early pretrial release: Effects on criminal case and recidivism outcomes.10
Towards family preservation: A systematic jurisdiction analysis of prison visitation policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.10
Psychological science from research to policy: Eyewitness identifications in Pennsylvania police agencies.9
Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument.9
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers (2025)8
Trauma-informed forensic mental health assessment: Practical implications, ethical tensions, and alignment with therapeutic jurisprudence principles.8
Beyond a reasonable doubt: Ordinary people’s views of an extraordinary concept.8
Parental drug use as a form of potential child maltreatment in the United States: A review of state statutes.8
The role of perceived restorative justice understanding and sympathy in a brief restorative justice intervention in prison.8
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Intimate Partner Violence Screening Administration Formats in a Court-Affiliated Family Mediation Program7
Supplemental Material for How Crime Severity Predicts Victim Willingness to Meet the Offender7
Supplemental Material for Crossing the Line: A Comprehensive Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations in SORNA Statutes7
Correctional officer turnover intentions and mental illness symptom: Testing the potential confounding effects of resilience.7
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder evidence in Canadian criminal cases: A case law review.6
Following up after Moore and Hall: A national survey of state legislation defining intellectual disability.6
Supplemental Material for “Is It Hard to Remember?” Attorneys’ Questions About Children’s Memory in Child Sexual Abuse Trials5
Recidivism and violations among sexually violent persons on supervised release.5
The age of redemption for adolescents who were adjudicated for sexual misconduct.5
The risks and consequences of innocence in school discipline: Implications for policy and research.5
Do psychopathic persons lack empathy? An exploratory systematic review of empathy assessment and emotion recognition studies in psychopathy checklist samples.5
A critical discussion of youth Miranda waivers, racial inequity, and proposed policy reforms.5
A window of opportunity: Examining the potential impact of mandatory sexual assault kit (SAK) testing legislation on crime prevention.5
Judicial involvement in plea-bargaining.5
Confidence lexicon: An evidence-based tool for communicating eyewitness confidence.5
Toward a multidimensional model of legitimacy: Validation of the Traffic Rules Perceived Legitimacy scale.5
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of the 911 Considering Offender Probability in Statements Scale as a Deception Detection Method for 911 Calls5
What’s reasonable? An experimental test of the reasonable officer standard.4
Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.4
Public perception on policies to address prenatal substance use: Recommendations regarding maternal criminal prosecution and child welfare.4
The effect of trauma education judicial instructions on decisions about complainant credibility in rape trials.4
A comprehensive update and evaluation of state and federal statutes on competency to stand trial: Dusky, Jackson, Sell, and Olmstead considerations.4
Supplemental Material for Race-Based Jury Instructions: An Empirical Test of Recommendations From R. v. Barton (2019) and R. v. Chouhan (2021)4
Defense attorney practices in referring clients for competence evaluations.4
An ecodevelopmental framework for reconceptualizing youth probation outcomes.4
Navigating reluctance in Dutch child forensic interviews: Interviewers tend to reject avoidant and denial statements regardless of NICHD protocol training.4
Supplemental Material for Young People’s Likelihood of Intervention to Nonconsensual Touching in Nightlife Settings: Interactions of Gender, Relationship to the Bystander, and the Recipient’s Reaction4
A preference for the proximate occurrence: Adults’ relative temporal judgments and interpretations of children’s judgments.4
Intellectual disability and adjudicative competence evaluations: A detailed review of an often-overlooked population.4
Lay (mis)perceptions of suspect-identification accuracy from biased and unbiased lineups.4
The power of victim narrative: Eponymous legislation increases voter sympathy and support.4
Supplemental Material for The Association Between Hate Crime Laws That Enumerate Sexual Orientation and Adolescent Suicide Attempts4
The repeated-suspect effect and child eyewitnesses: Using the multiple independent lineups technique as a source of reflector variables.4
Deaf community experiences in the Canadian justice system.3
The influence of jailhouse informant testimony on jury deliberation.3
Changing the public’s crime control theater attitudes.3
Supplemental Material for Factors Contributing to the Delayed Submission of Competence to Stand Trial Reports and the Jail-Based Competency Crisis in Washington3
Nonconsensual sexual media sharing: Perceptions on legal and psychological outcomes.3
A statewide evaluation of jail-based mental health interventions.3
Fair governance with humans and machines.3
Evaluation of the 911 considering offender probability in statements scale as a deception detection method for 911 calls.3
Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.3
Crossing the line: A comprehensive analysis of jurisdictional variations in sorna statutes.3
The science of human memory versus the federal rules of evidence.2
The association between hate crime laws that enumerate sexual orientation and adolescent suicide attempts.2
Working toward desistance: Canadian public attitudes and policy endorsement for the treatment, management, and prevention of sexual offending.2
Professionals experienced with Statement Validity Assessment focus on statement characteristics rather than the potential motive to lie.2
The use of psychopathy assessments in Canadian case law: A quantitative and qualitative survey of court records from 1980 to 2023.2
Supplemental Material for Charged Up and Anchored Down: A Test of Two Pathways to Judgmental and Decisional Anchoring Biases in Plea Negotiations2
Employment discrimination faced by people wrongly convicted: Evidence from a national correspondence audit experiment.2
Supplemental Material for Do Psychopathic Persons Lack Empathy? An Exploratory Systematic Review of Empathy Assessment and Emotion Recognition Studies in Psychopathy Checklist Samples2
Risk-tinted spectacles: What influences evaluator decision making in sexually violent persons examinations.2
Supplemental Material for Psychological Science From Research to Policy: Eyewitness Identifications in Pennsylvania Police Agencies2
Judicial work and traumatic stress: Vilification, threats, and secondary trauma on the bench.2
Caught in the middle: Accommodative dilemmas in police–community relations.2
Problem-solving Covid-19: A qualitative inquiry into how correctional officers and administrators have responded to the dynamic problems of the coronavirus pandemic.2
Equity depends on the definition: Examining the impact of segregation definitions on equity in school-based mental health.2
Four (and a half) preregistered failures to replicate the weapon focus effect in online samples.2
How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.2
The Department of Veterans Affairs disability examination program for PTSD: Critical analysis and strategies for remediation.2
Static-99R: Strengths, limitations, predictive accuracy meta-analysis, and legal admissibility review.2
Proximity-based evidence disclosure: Providing an operational purpose for disclosing evidence in investigative interviews.1
Supplemental Material for Are They Synonyms? A Review of the Use of the Terms Innocence, Miscarriages of Justice, Wrongful Conviction, and Exoneration1
A longitudinal examination of stepping up, stepping out with incarcerated men in restrictive housing: An expansion of the 2021 pilot.1
The critical case file approach: A novel tool for critically analyzing mixed-method data as exemplified in a juvenile legal setting.1
The Miranda waiver literature: A systematic review and meta-analysis.1
Do Black and White innocent mock suspects differ in how forthcoming they are under the strategic use of evidence technique? First findings and their theoretical and practical implications.1
Assessing the effect of eyewitness identification confidence assessment method on the confidence-accuracy relationship.1
Measuring trans youths’ perceptions of police and police bias: Exploring the use of the perceptions of police scale.1
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law: Reflecting on the past, charting the future.1
How ideology shapes legal concepts: The case of public order.1
How U.S. jurisdictions address competence evaluation and restoration for defendants facing only misdemeanor or low-level charges.1
Children's underextended understanding of touch.1
Legal perceptions of forensic mental health professionals’ competency to stand trial evaluations.1
Estimated effect of fee repeal on family financial stress and juvenile probation outcomes.1
Supplemental Material for Four (and a Half) Preregistered Failures to Replicate the Weapon Focus Effect in Online Samples1
Supplemental Material for Family Violence Risk Screening and Case Management Pathways in the Australian Family Courts: A Cluster-Controlled Comparison1
Supplemental Material for Confidence Lexicon: An Evidence-Based Tool for Communicating Eyewitness Confidence1
A first look at the reentry experiences of juvenile lifers released in Philadelphia.1
“People make mistakes” stakeholders and participants’ perceptions of the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of diversion and deferred prosecution programs.1
Evaluating the effectiveness of a 5-day training on science-based methods of interrogation with U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement investigators.1
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