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 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
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
Sensation seeking and its relationship with psychopathic traits, impulsivity and aggression: a validation of the Dutch Brief Sensation Seeking Scale (BSSS)	10
Extent and predictors of work-related distress in community correction officers: a systematic review	8
Burnout among lawyers: effects of workload, latitude and mediation via engagement and over-engagement	8
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
Judges’ experiences with mitigating jurors’ implicit biases	7
The truth about snitches: an archival analysis of informant testimony	6
A diary study of Australian lawyers working with traumatic material	6
Differences between Japanese and British participants in self-reported verbal strategies to appear convincing	6
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
Extending borders of knowledge: gendered pathways to prison in Thailand for international cross border drug trafficking	5
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
Using the stress–vulnerability model to better understand suicide in prison populations	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
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
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
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
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