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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The harassment of parliamentarians and judicial officers: a South Australian perspective	37
Neurological soft signs and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics among patients with schizophrenia with and without a history of violence	17
Exploring family experiences of missing persons inquests through the eyes of professionals and the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence	16
If you express it in the form of a negation, you can expect an effect similar to misinformation	16
What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?	15
The effect of response modality on witness statements when using the self-administered interview	14
Evaluating a community-informed training module for autism recognition in policing	13
Comparing the characteristics of firesetting and non-firesetting adults in a New Zealand un-apprehended community sample	12
Differential association theory, the Dark Triad of personality and the prediction of antisocial behaviour	12
Sentencing and placement of offenders with dementia: a significant contemporary challenge for the criminal justice system	11
A conceptual framework for internet child abuse material offenders: risk-relevant therapy based on assessed risk factors	9
How to judge emotions? Measuring moral emotions of lawyers in a retrospective situation	9
Police-reported family violence: are there differences amongst South Asian Australians and Australian-born Australians?	7
Adults report positive perceptions of ground rule instructions in mock investigative interviews	7
Technical profiles of child sexual exploitation material offenders	7
Cartage killers: considering highway serial homicide as a novel offender typology	7
Forensic interviews conducted with autistic adults in Japan: a review of the literature and directions for future research	6
Vicarious trauma in the judicial workplace: state liability for judicial psychiatric injury in Australia	6
Behavioural changes and perceived criminal offending: an exploratory study of accounts from carers of people living with dementia	6
Association of aggressivity at adolescence and criminality to severe assault exposure among former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	6
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)	5
The influence of female victim sexual orientation on legal decision-making in a rape-case	5
Toward children’s cognitive development from the perspective of neurolaw: implications ofRoper v Simmons	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

A qualitative investigation of nurses’ knowledge and practice gaps, regarding confidentiality and risk-actuated public interest disclosure-related decision-making	5
The validity of the Violence Risk Scale (VRS) in a Portuguese sample of remand prisoners	4
The dose–effect relationship in PTSD: the South African Constitutional Court Case of AK v. Minister of Police (2022)	4
Creating profiles of juvenile offenders using functions of aggression and callous-unemotional traits: relations to crime type	4
Victim blaming on social media: how user comments impact perceptions	4
Brothers in arms or making a murderer? Public opinion on joint criminal enterprise	4
Ethical tensions in forensic psychological practice: experiences of New Zealand psychologists in an increasingly risk-averse legislative context	4
The experiences of undergoing medico-legal assessments when seeking asylum in the UK: an interpretive phenomenological analysis	4
Caregiver burden in forensic mental health settings: social impacts on caregivers of individuals with severe mental disorders	4
Correction	4
The association between parental incarceration and children’s educational outcomes: a systematic review	4
A scoping review of strangulation and hanging: determining suicide from concealed homicide in equivocal death cases	4
Organizational trust and work attitudes among Chinese prison officers	3
From miscuing to misuse: why restraint and seclusion have no place in rights-based education	3
Implementation of practices deemed trauma-informed in juvenile court	3
The benefits and harms of inpatient involuntary psychiatric treatment: a scoping review	3
Public awareness of legal decision-making capacity and planning instruments in dementia: implications for health care practitioners	3
Understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing factors protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from justice system involvement	3
Finding the balance between respecting autonomy and life-saving anorexia nervosa care: an Australian perspective	3
Adaptation of the Penal Attitudes Scale for use in Turkey	3
Increasing disclosures of older adult maltreatment: a review of best practices for interviewing older adult eyewitnesses and victims	3
Making addicts: critical reflections on agency and responsibility from lawyers and decision makers	3
From psychotherapy to legal practice: the use of clinical supervision by lawyers in England and Wales	3
Judges’ views on making decisions in family law cases that feature a parent with a mental illness	3
Harmful sexual behaviours against siblings in New Zealand: could assessment of the family environment guide therapeutic intervention?	3
An inspector calls: trauma-informed regulation	3
Judicial instructions on alibis: impact on mock jury decision-making	3
Vicarious trauma among legal practitioners and judicial officers	3
Correction	3
Psychological factors of offender decision-making in body disposal: Further considerations to apply to a ‘Winthrop’ model	3
‘Lock them up and throw away the key’: an evaluation of the structure of punitive attitudes	3
Being a psychiatrist in the evaluation process of a gun license report: morally challenging experience – a qualitative study from Turkey	3
Screening for borderline personality symptoms amongst adult offenders attending rehabilitation programmes	3
Investigating the use of immediate cued recall to increase discriminability between truth-tellers and liars	3
What are the chances? – Validity assessment and the cumulative binomial distribution in the evaluation of fitness to stand trial	2
What would a trauma-informed workplace ideally look like in legal aid? A qualitative perspective from lawyers	2
Contemporaneous notes and juror decision-making: Do reminiscence and expert testimony play a role?	2
Symbolic or realistic? The role of perceived threat in alibi credibility judgement	2
Police perceptions of alibi accounts: the role of intergroup bias	2
The perception of judges regarding compulsory admission of people with severe mental illness in Portugal: a qualitative study	2
The contributory role of an autistic presentation to miscarriage of justice in a high-profile murder case in New Zealand	2
Professionals’ perceptions of the Saskatoon Mental Health Strategy (MHS) Court: a qualitative analysis	2
Testing the job demands – resources model to explain organizational trust among private prison staff	2
Offence-specific scripts among juvenile deliberate firesetters: a possible explanation for fire proclivity	2
The relationship between recall accuracy and the use of gestures according to age and word meaning structure	2
Persons with mental disorders and suicidality in crisis or high-risk situations involving police negotiation: a systematic review	2
Methamphetamine dependence in Australia–why is ‘ice’ (crystal meth) so addictive?	2
Care pathways in forensic mental health services in New Zealand	2
Patient outcomes in an Australian low secure forensic psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit: a 10-year retrospective study	2
The power of compassion: a judicial reflection on wellbeing and the court	2

Editorial Team changes: thanking you for your service!	2
Corrections officers’ working relationships in prison and their effect on officers’ perceived safety	2
Adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours in New Zealand: could assessment of personality-based classifications help guide therapeutic interventions?	2
Discriminative and predictive validity of risk assessment measures for women incarcerated for serious violent offences in Australia	2
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on forensic risk assessment	2
The role of experimenter familiarity in children’s eyewitness identification	2
Dementia training for lawyers: results from a pilot evaluation study and implications for building dementia capability in the legal profession	2
The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis	2
‘Any male victim?’ The legacy of conflating paedophilia and homosexuality and the differential seriousness of sexual abuse by victim gender	2
Callous but in control: the effect of emotion regulation on callous traits in a sample of New Zealand youth	2
This is what happened . . . I think?: Indicators of uncertainty when witnesses recall a single or repeated event	2
Examining the effect of religiosity, moral disengagement, personal attribution, comprehension and proximity on juror decision making regarding insanity pleas	2
Psychiatric hospitalisation; transitioning from consenting to involuntarily admitting–re-conceptualisation and a procedural framework	2
Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges: distinctiveness and two-year structural stability	2
Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation: A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians	2
Light Triad traits of personality as moderators between the dark core of personality, psychopathy, and antisociality/criminality	2
Examining policing interventions to promote ethnoracial equity in police–community relations: a systematic review	2
Current state of ‘lost in the mall’: implications for expert witness testimony on the reliability of childhood memories	2