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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How researchers can make verbal lie detection more attractive for practitioners	25
Corporate law and corporate psychopaths	15
Adult memory for specific instances of a repeated event: a preliminary review	14
Reframe the Behaviour: Evaluation of a training intervention to increase capacity in managing detained youth with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and neurodevelopmental impairments	14
Prevalence and predictors of secondary trauma in the legal profession: a systematic review	14
Trauma-informed sentencing of serious violent offenders: an exploration of judicial dispositions with a gendered perspective	11
‘Please tell me all you remember’: a comparison between British and Arab interviewees’ free narrative performance and its implications for lie detection	10
White-collar crime: a neglected area in forensic psychiatry?	10
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	9
Dysfunctional personality, Dark Triad and moral disengagement in incarcerated offenders: implications for recidivism and violence	9
Extent and predictors of work-related distress in community correction officers: a systematic review	8
Where stress presides: predictors and correlates of stress among Australian judges and magistrates	7
Credibility assessments of alibi accounts: the role of cultural intergroup bias	7
Burnout among lawyers: effects of workload, latitude and mediation via engagement and over-engagement	7
Judges’ experiences with mitigating jurors’ implicit biases	6
The truth about snitches: an archival analysis of informant testimony	6
Differences between Japanese and British participants in self-reported verbal strategies to appear convincing	6
A diary study of Australian lawyers working with traumatic material	6
Social and emotional wellbeing among Indigenous Australian correctional officers	6
Judges’ emotion: an application of the emotion regulation process model	5
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
Actor–observer asymmetry in perceptions of parole board release decisions	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

Verdict spotting: investigating the effects of juror bias, evidence anchors and verdict system in jurors	5
Clusters of nonverbal behavior differentiate truths and lies about future malicious intent in checkpoint screening interviews	5
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
Defendants with intellectual disability and autism spectrum conditions: the perspective of clinicians working across three jurisdictions	4
Using the stress–vulnerability model to better understand suicide in prison populations	4
Old enough to offend but not to buy a hamster: the argument for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility	4
At the heart of sentencing: exploring whether more compassionate delivery of sentencing remarks increases public concern for people who offend	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
Exploring the connection between work–family conflict and job burnout among Nigerian correctional staff	4
Executive function in individuals who are compliant and non-compliant with the conditions of a community-based sentence	4
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
A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion	3
Identifying and responding to young people with cognitive disability and neurodiversity in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand youth justice systems	3
Law and order effects: on cognitive dissonance and belief perseverance	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
Juror perceptions of the stereotypical violent crime defendant	3
Children of ISIS: considerations regarding trauma, treatment and risk	3
Prison mental health in-reach teams in Aotearoa New Zealand: A national survey	3
Reframing criminal profiling: a guide for integrated practice	3
Gender differences in stalking, threats and online abuse reported by Victorian politicians	3
Neurocognitive functioning among people accessing an addiction neuropsychology clinic with and without a history of offending behaviour	3
The impact of voluntariness of apologies on victims’ responses in restorative justice: findings of a quantitative study	3
Perceptions of familiar and unfamiliar ear- and eyewitnesses	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
Towards a context-specific approach to understanding lawyers’ well-being: a synthesis review and future research agenda	2
The effects of immediate recall and subsequent retrieval strategy on eyewitness memory	2
Eliciting an offence narrative: what types of questions do forensic mental health practitioners ask?	2
All mouth and trousers? Use of the Devil’s Advocate questioning protocol to determine authenticity of opinions about protester actions	2
Sentencing and mental disorder: the evolution of the Verdins Principles, strategic interdisciplinary advocacy and evidence-based reform	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
What does the public think about sex offender registers? Findings from a national Australian study	2
Who gets diverted into treatment? a study of defendants with psychosis	2
An investigation into the association between cannibalism and serial killers	2
Critical review of the use of the Rorschach in European courts	2
Association of aggressivity at adolescence and criminality to severe assault exposure among former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	2
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)	2
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
Child pornography possession/receipt offenders: developing a forensic profile	2
Aboriginality and violence: gender and cultural differences on the Level of Service/Risk, Need, Responsivity (LS/RNR) and Violence Risk Scale (VRS)	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
A comparison of older and younger offenders with delusional jealousy	1
Exploring family experiences of missing persons inquests through the eyes of professionals and the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence	1
A practical approach to sexual abuse allegations: Netherlands Expert Committee for Equivocal Sexual Abuse Allegations	1
The harassment of parliamentarians and judicial officers: a South Australian perspective	1
Care pathways in forensic mental health services in New Zealand	1
The prevalence of mental illness in young people in custody over time: a comparison of three surveys in New South Wales	1
Understanding the dark side of personality in sex offenders considering the level of sexual violence	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
Trust in the jury system: a comparison of Australian and U.S. samples	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
‘Material likely to harm or disturb them’: testing the alignment between film and game classification decisions and psychological research evidence	1
Adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours in New Zealand: could assessment of personality-based classifications help guide therapeutic interventions?	1
The full spectrum of clinical stages of psychosis among mentally ill prisoners in New South Wales (NSW), Australia	1
Does ending night-confinement reduce use of seclusion and prevalence of violence in a forensic psychiatric hospital? A retrospective observational study	1
They might all be marauders	1
Comparison of the sociodemographic, clinical and offense-related data of delusional disorder patients with and without a criminal history	1
The effect on judgment of attributing religious affiliation to a terrorist suspect	1
Forensic mental health in Kuwait: filling the gaps	1
Is all prejudice created equal? The role of modern and aversive racism in mock juror decisions	1
The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis	1
The dispositional need for cognitive closure indirectly predicts mock jurors’ sentencing decisions through right-wing authoritarianism	1
Gender responsivity in the assessment and treatment of offenders	1
Assessment of self-report response bias in high functioning autistic people	1
Forensic interviews conducted with autistic adults in Japan: a review of the literature and directions for future research	1
Assessing alibi believability: the alibi story, presence of physical evidence and timing of disclosure	1
Court-ordered assessments and routine access to confidential health information: findings from a regional forensic mental health service	1
The perceived credibility of repeated-event witnesses depends upon their veracity	1
The contributory role of an autistic presentation to miscarriage of justice in a high-profile murder case in New Zealand	1
Autistic adults and their experiences with police personnel: a qualitative inquiry	1
Too stressed to de-stress? The experience of work stress and recovery among attorneys during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Bad parents? evaluating judgements of infant homicides	1
Patient outcomes in an Australian low secure forensic psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit: a 10-year retrospective study	1
Criminal responsibility and human capacity: why impaired mental functioning affects moral culpability	1
Death by hunger strike: suicide or not?	1
What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?	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
Searching for the unexpected – understanding information-seeking behaviours of people new to prison visits	1
The effect of alibi consistency, presence of physical evidence and timing of disclosure on mock juror perceptions	1
Vicarious trauma among legal practitioners and judicial officers	1
Victims of sexual offences: aspects impacting on participation, cooperation and engagement with the interview process	1
Addressing the challenges of remorse in the criminal justice system	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
When punishment goals moderate and mediate the effect of clinical reports on the recidivism risk on prison sentences	1
‘Anyone who commits such a cruel crime, must be criminally irresponsible’: context effects in forensic psychological assessment	1
Examining the effect of religiosity, moral disengagement, personal attribution, comprehension and proximity on juror decision making regarding insanity pleas	1
The experiences of young witnesses and caregivers in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Sexual Violence Pilot Courts	1