OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Psychiatry Psychology 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners	25
Prevalence and predictors of secondary trauma in the legal profession: a systematic review	16
Adult memory for specific instances of a repeated event: a preliminary review	15
Dysfunctional personality, Dark Triad and moral disengagement in incarcerated offenders: implications for recidivism and violence	13
Trauma-informed sentencing of serious violent offenders: an exploration of judicial dispositions with a gendered perspective	11
Sensation seeking and its relationship with psychopathic traits, impulsivity and aggression: a validation of the Dutch Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS)	10
Sexual homicide in Australia and New Zealand: a description of offenders, offences and victims	10
White-collar crime: a neglected area in forensic psychiatry?	10
Burnout among lawyers: effects of workload, latitude and mediation via engagement and over-engagement	8
Extent and predictors of work-related distress in community correction officers: a systematic review	8
Judges’ experiences with mitigating jurors’ implicit biases	7
Social and emotional wellbeing among Indigenous Australian correctional officers	7
Credibility assessments of alibi accounts: the role of cultural intergroup bias	7
Where stress presides: predictors and correlates of stress among Australian judges and magistrates	7
Differences between Japanese and British participants in self-reported verbal strategies to appear convincing	6
The truth about snitches: an archival analysis of informant testimony	6
A diary study of Australian lawyers working with traumatic material	6
Extending borders of knowledge: gendered pathways to prison in Thailand for international cross border drug trafficking	5
Factors influencing the perceived credibility of children alleging physical abuse	5
Old enough to offend but not to buy a hamster: the argument for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility	5
Actor–observer asymmetry in perceptions of parole board release decisions	5
Clusters of nonverbal behavior differentiate truths and lies about future malicious intent in checkpoint screening interviews	5
Verdict spotting: investigating the effects of juror bias, evidence anchors and verdict system in jurors	5
Exploring the connection between work–family conflict and job burnout among Nigerian correctional staff	5
Inside the shadows: a survey of UK human source intelligence (HUMINT) practitioners, examining their considerations when handling a covert human intelligence source (CHIS)	5

Judges’ emotion: an application of the emotion regulation process model	5
At the heart of sentencing: exploring whether more compassionate delivery of sentencing remarks increases public concern for people who offend	5
Using the stress–vulnerability model to better understand suicide in prison populations	4
Reframing criminal profiling: a guide for integrated practice	4
Criminological profile of minors who have committed child-to-parent violence	4
Psychological factors predicting self-reported and observed aggression in male forensic psychiatric inpatients	4
Exploring offending characteristics of young people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia	4
Defendants with intellectual disability and autism spectrum conditions: the perspective of clinicians working across three jurisdictions	4
Children of ISIS: considerations regarding trauma, treatment and risk	4
Juror decision-making regarding a defendant diagnosed with borderline personality disorder	4
Norwegian judges’ knowledge of factors affecting eyewitness testimony: a 12-year follow-up	4
Juror perceptions of the stereotypical violent crime defendant	4
Executive function in individuals who are compliant and non-compliant with the conditions of a community-based sentence	4
The effects of immediate recall and subsequent retrieval strategy on eyewitness memory	3
Gender differences in stalking, threats and online abuse reported by Victorian politicians	3
Victims of sexual offences: aspects impacting on participation, cooperation and engagement with the interview process	3
Identifying and responding to young people with cognitive disability and neurodiversity in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand youth justice systems	3
The impact of voluntariness of apologies on victims’ responses in restorative justice: findings of a quantitative study	3
Investigating the role of psychopathic personality traits, gender and ethnicity in rape myth acceptance	3
Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges: distinctiveness and two-year structural stability	3
The characteristics of older homicide offenders: a systematic review	3
Eliciting an offence narrative: what types of questions do forensic mental health practitioners ask?	3
Neurocognitive functioning among people accessing an addiction neuropsychology clinic with and without a history of offending behaviour	3
Understanding the dark side of personality in sex offenders considering the level of sexual violence	3
The use of substances in sexual offending in a United States sample	3
The impact of recall timing on the preservation of eyewitness memory	3
Psychometric properties of the Polish version of two screening tests for gambling disorders: the Problem Gambling Severity Index and Lie/Bet Questionnaire	3
A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion	3
The criminogenic profile of violent female offenders incarcerated in Western Australian prisons as per the Level of Service/Risk, Need, Responsivity (LS/RNR) and Violence Risk Scale (VRS)	3
Law and order effects: on cognitive dissonance and belief perseverance	3
Child pornography possession/receipt offenders: developing a forensic profile	3
Prison mental health in-reach teams in Aotearoa New Zealand: A national survey	3
Public awareness of legal decision-making capacity and planning instruments in dementia: implications for health care practitioners	2
Attachment and the (mis)apprehension of Aboriginal children: epistemic violence in child welfare interventions	2
Who gets diverted into treatment? a study of defendants with psychosis	2
A model for mental health advance directives in the new Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Act	2
Toward children’s cognitive development from the perspective of neurolaw: implications ofRoper v Simmons	2
Association of aggressivity at adolescence and criminality to severe assault exposure among former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	2
The use of nonverbal communication when assessing witness credibility: a view from the bench	2
Making addicts: critical reflections on agency and responsibility from lawyers and decision makers	2
Input from the frontlines: parole and probation officers’ perceptions of policies directed at those convicted of sexual offenses	2
Aboriginality and violence: gender and cultural differences on the Level of Service/Risk, Need, Responsivity (LS/RNR) and Violence Risk Scale (VRS)	2
All mouth and trousers? Use of the Devil’s Advocate questioning protocol to determine authenticity of opinions about protester actions	2
Perceptions of familiar and unfamiliar ear- and eyewitnesses	2
Special considerations to the assessment of fitness to stand trial in Australia	2
Patient profiles in high-security forensic psychiatry in Flanders	2
Fixated and grievance-fuelled persons: considerations on the dangers of gaps, silos and disconnects	2
Towards a context-specific approach to understanding lawyers’ well-being: a synthesis review and future research agenda	2
An investigation into the association between cannibalism and serial killers	2
Critical review of the use of the Rorschach in European courts	2

Sentencing and mental disorder: the evolution of the Verdins Principles, strategic interdisciplinary advocacy and evidence-based reform	2
Examining the effect of religiosity, moral disengagement, personal attribution, comprehension and proximity on juror decision making regarding insanity pleas	1
Does ending night-confinement reduce use of seclusion and prevalence of violence in a forensic psychiatric hospital? A retrospective observational study	1
Autistic adults and their experiences with police personnel: a qualitative inquiry	1
Methamphetamine dependence in Australia–why is ‘ice’ (crystal meth) so addictive?	1
Too stressed to de-stress? The experience of work stress and recovery among attorneys during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The dispositional need for cognitive closure indirectly predicts mock jurors’ sentencing decisions through right-wing authoritarianism	1
They might all be marauders	1
Care pathways in forensic mental health services in New Zealand	1
You don’t know: knowledge as supportive alibi evidence	1
Interpreting R v Presser : a clinician’s guide to contemporary Australian fitness to stand trial case law	1
Gender responsivity in the assessment and treatment of offenders	1
Trust in the jury system: a comparison of Australian and U.S. samples	1
The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis	1
‘Anyone who commits such a cruel crime, must be criminally irresponsible’: context effects in forensic psychological assessment	1
Persons with mental disorders and suicidality in crisis or high-risk situations involving police negotiation: a systematic review	1
Family violence experts in the criminal court: the need to fill the void	1
Bad parents? evaluating judgements of infant homicides	1
Assessing fitness for trial in a Children’s Court	1
Exploring family experiences of missing persons inquests through the eyes of professionals and the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence	1
Adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours in New Zealand: could assessment of personality-based classifications help guide therapeutic interventions?	1
Criminal responsibility and human capacity: why impaired mental functioning affects moral culpability	1
The experiences of young witnesses and caregivers in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Sexual Violence Pilot Courts	1
Forensic mental health in Kuwait: filling the gaps	1
Patient outcomes in an Australian low secure forensic psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit: a 10-year retrospective study	1
The full spectrum of clinical stages of psychosis among mentally ill prisoners in New South Wales (NSW), Australia	1
Psychosocial factors of risk and protection associated with juvenile cyberbullying victimization: results from an international multi-city study (International Self-Report Delinquency Study 3, ISRD3)	1
Time-of-day effects on eyewitness reports in morning and evening types	1
Is all prejudice created equal? The role of modern and aversive racism in mock juror decisions	1
Assessment of self-report response bias in high functioning autistic people	1
Contact with mental health services in the 12-month period before offending in a cohort of forensic order patients	1
Decision-making capacity assessments in New Zealand and Australia: a systematised review	1
The effects of judicial supervision on recidivism of offenders in Australia and New Zealand: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Vicarious trauma among legal practitioners and judicial officers	1
Legal, mental health and psychosocial outcomes of the RePresent Games: a quasi-experimental study	1
Young female offenders and the New Zealand Youth Justice System: the need for a gender-specific response	1
The effect of alibi consistency, presence of physical evidence and timing of disclosure on mock juror perceptions	1
The contributory role of an autistic presentation to miscarriage of justice in a high-profile murder case in New Zealand	1
Comparison of the sociodemographic, clinical and offense-related data of delusional disorder patients with and without a criminal history	1
Human rights and the social determinants of mental health: fostering interdisciplinary research collaboration	1
The harassment of parliamentarians and judicial officers: a South Australian perspective	1
Death by hunger strike: suicide or not?	1
What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?	1
A practical approach to sexual abuse allegations: Netherlands Expert Committee for Equivocal Sexual Abuse Allegations	1
A comparison of older and younger offenders with delusional jealousy	1
The prevalence of mental illness in young people in custody over time: a comparison of three surveys in New South Wales	1
Assessing alibi believability: the alibi story, presence of physical evidence and timing of disclosure	1
Offence-specific scripts among juvenile deliberate firesetters: a possible explanation for fire proclivity	1
Addressing the challenges of remorse in the criminal justice system	1
Searching for the unexpected – understanding information-seeking behaviours of people new to prison visits	1
The perceived credibility of repeated-event witnesses depends upon their veracity	1
Forensic interviews conducted with autistic adults in Japan: a review of the literature and directions for future research	1
‘Material likely to harm or disturb them’: testing the alignment between film and game classification decisions and psychological research evidence	1
When punishment goals moderate and mediate the effect of clinical reports on the recidivism risk on prison sentences	1
Adaptation of the Penal Attitudes Scale for use in Turkey	1
Development of the atypical sexual interests (self-report) scale: the dimensional structure of paraphilia	1