OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychiatry Psychology and Law is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The harassment of parliamentarians and judicial officers: a South Australian perspective	35
A conceptual framework for internet child abuse material offenders: risk-relevant therapy based on assessed risk factors	16
Differential association theory, the Dark Triad of personality and the prediction of antisocial behaviour	15
Technical profiles of child sexual exploitation material offenders	12
Comparing the characteristics of firesetting and non-firesetting adults in a New Zealand un-apprehended community sample	10
Neurological soft signs and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics among patients with schizophrenia with and without a history of violence	8
Sentencing and placement of offenders with dementia: a significant contemporary challenge for the criminal justice system	8
The effect of response modality on witness statements when using the self-administered interview	8
How to judge emotions? Measuring moral emotions of lawyers in a retrospective situation	8
What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?	8
If you express it in the form of a negation, you can expect an effect similar to misinformation	8
Evaluating a community-informed training module for autism recognition in policing	7
Vicarious trauma in the judicial workplace: state liability for judicial psychiatric injury in Australia	7
Exploring family experiences of missing persons inquests through the eyes of professionals and the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence	7
Adults report positive perceptions of ground rule instructions in mock investigative interviews	6
Cartage killers: considering highway serial homicide as a novel offender typology	6
Association of aggressivity at adolescence and criminality to severe assault exposure among former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	6
Forensic interviews conducted with autistic adults in Japan: a review of the literature and directions for future research	6
Police-reported family violence: are there differences amongst South Asian Australians and Australian-born Australians?	6
A qualitative investigation of nurses’ knowledge and practice gaps, regarding confidentiality and risk-actuated public interest disclosure-related decision-making	6
Defendants with intellectual disability and autism spectrum conditions: the perspective of clinicians working across three jurisdictions	5
Toward children’s cognitive development from the perspective of neurolaw: implications ofRoper v Simmons	5
The influence of female victim sexual orientation on legal decision-making in a rape-case	5
A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion	5
Supporting people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) involved in the criminal justice system: justice and allied health professionals’ insights	5

The dose–effect relationship in PTSD: the South African Constitutional Court Case of AK v. Minister of Police (2022)	4
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)	4
Ethical tensions in forensic psychological practice: experiences of New Zealand psychologists in an increasingly risk-averse legislative context	4
Creating profiles of juvenile offenders using functions of aggression and callous-unemotional traits: relations to crime type	4
Correction	4
The effects of immediate recall and subsequent retrieval strategy on eyewitness memory	4
The validity of the Violence Risk Scale (VRS) in a Portuguese sample of remand prisoners	4
Brothers in arms or making a murderer? Public opinion on joint criminal enterprise	4
Screening for borderline personality symptoms amongst adult offenders attending rehabilitation programmes	3
An inspector calls: trauma-informed regulation	3
Making addicts: critical reflections on agency and responsibility from lawyers and decision makers	3
Vicarious trauma among legal practitioners and judicial officers	3
The benefits and harms of inpatient involuntary psychiatric treatment: a scoping review	3
Increasing disclosures of older adult maltreatment: a review of best practices for interviewing older adult eyewitnesses and victims	3
The experiences of undergoing medico-legal assessments when seeking asylum in the UK: an interpretive phenomenological analysis	3
Adaptation of the Penal Attitudes Scale for use in Turkey	3
Harmful sexual behaviours against siblings in New Zealand: could assessment of the family environment guide therapeutic intervention?	3
Public awareness of legal decision-making capacity and planning instruments in dementia: implications for health care practitioners	3
Finding the balance between respecting autonomy and life-saving anorexia nervosa care: an Australian perspective	3
Organizational trust and work attitudes among Chinese prison officers	3
Understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing factors protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from justice system involvement	3
Judicial instructions on alibis: impact on mock jury decision-making	3
From psychotherapy to legal practice: the use of clinical supervision by lawyers in England and Wales	3
Being a psychiatrist in the evaluation process of a gun license report: morally challenging experience – a qualitative study from Turkey	3
The role of experimenter familiarity in children’s eyewitness identification	3
The contributory role of an autistic presentation to miscarriage of justice in a high-profile murder case in New Zealand	2
Light Triad traits of personality as moderators between the dark core of personality, psychopathy, and antisociality/criminality	2
Care pathways in forensic mental health services in New Zealand	2
Professionals’ perceptions of a multi-agency computerised data sharing system	2
Offence-specific scripts among juvenile deliberate firesetters: a possible explanation for fire proclivity	2
Psychological factors of offender decision-making in body disposal: Further considerations to apply to a ‘Winthrop’ model	2
Implementation of practices deemed trauma-informed in juvenile court	2
Testing the job demands – resources model to explain organizational trust among private prison staff	2
Discriminative and predictive validity of risk assessment measures for women incarcerated for serious violent offences in Australia	2
Adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours in New Zealand: could assessment of personality-based classifications help guide therapeutic interventions?	2
Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation: A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians	2
Patient outcomes in an Australian low secure forensic psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit: a 10-year retrospective study	2
The relationship between recall accuracy and the use of gestures according to age and word meaning structure	2
Sentencing and mental disorder: the evolution of the Verdins Principles, strategic interdisciplinary advocacy and evidence-based reform	2
Criminological profile of minors who have committed child-to-parent violence	2
The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis	2
‘Lock them up and throw away the key’: an evaluation of the structure of punitive attitudes	2
Examining policing interventions to promote ethnoracial equity in police–community relations: a systematic review	2
Callous but in control: the effect of emotion regulation on callous traits in a sample of New Zealand youth	2
Police perceptions of alibi accounts: the role of intergroup bias	2
Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges: distinctiveness and two-year structural stability	2
Examining the effect of religiosity, moral disengagement, personal attribution, comprehension and proximity on juror decision making regarding insanity pleas	2
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on forensic risk assessment	2
‘Any male victim?’ The legacy of conflating paedophilia and homosexuality and the differential seriousness of sexual abuse by victim gender	2
Persons with mental disorders and suicidality in crisis or high-risk situations involving police negotiation: a systematic review	2

What would a trauma-informed workplace ideally look like in legal aid? A qualitative perspective from lawyers	2
Methamphetamine dependence in Australia–why is ‘ice’ (crystal meth) so addictive?	2
Correction	2
What are the chances? – Validity assessment and the cumulative binomial distribution in the evaluation of fitness to stand trial	2
Dementia training for lawyers: results from a pilot evaluation study and implications for building dementia capability in the legal profession	2
Editorial Team changes: thanking you for your service!	2