Legal and Criminological Psychology

Papers
(The median citation count of Legal and Criminological Psychology is 0. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effect of offender race/ethnicity on public opinion of appropriate criminal sentences36
Growth mindset results in reduced trait attribution and more rehabilitative judicial decisions in cases of juvenile delinquency33
Number of participants in multiple perpetrator sexual aggressions20
Consequences of child maltreatment victimisation in internalising and externalising mental health problems16
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Towards reflexivity in police practice and research13
On the use of receiver operating characteristic area under the curve in eyewitness memory research12
There is only one truth, the objective truth, in recovered memory cases9
Response to Marchetti et al.'s and Felstead & Patihis' comments on my paper on “alternative truths”9
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Does cognitive inflexibility predict violent extremist behaviour intentions? A registered direct replication report of Zmigrod et al., 20197
Relationship between psychopathic traits and moral sensitivity in a university student sample5
Childhood family and neighbourhood socio‐economic status, psychopathy, and adult criminal behaviour5
Predicting and projecting memory: Error and bias in metacognitive judgements underlying testimony evaluation5
Issue Information5
‘Rapport myopia’ in investigative interviews: Evidence from linguistic and subjective indicators of rapport5
Effect of growth trajectories in communication skills on juvenile recidivism5
Swedish police officers' strategies when interviewing suspects who decline to answer questions4
Two hits or two misses? A critical comment on a combined psychological and biological origin of dissociative amnesia and repressed memory4
Importance‐related fillers improve the classification accuracy of the response time concealed information test in a crime scenario4
Post‐relationship stalking and intimate partner abuse in a sample of Australian adolescents4
The Post Office Scandal in the United Kingdom: Mental health and social experiences of wrongly convicted and wrongly accused individuals4
The effect of episodic future thinking ability on subjective cue use when judging credibility3
Reply to Nachson3
British False Memory Society: Caseload and details by year (1993 onwards)3
Similar rates of denial in NICHD and control interviews with alleged child abuse victims in the Netherlands3
On the nature of acquiescence to police authority: A commentary on Hamm et al. (2022)3
Police officers' perceptions and experiences of promoting honesty in child victims and witnesses3
Susceptibility to violent extremism and cognitive rigidity: Registered replication, corroboration and open questions for criminological research and practice2
Issue Information2
Development of a scale measuring online sexual harassment: Examining gender differences and the emotional impact of sexual harassment victimization online2
Factors influencing recidivism among female inmates in drug‐related cases in Thailand: Self‐compassion, antisocial personality, guilt, and hope2
Alternative explanations for pro‐conviction judicial tendencies: A commentary on Berryessa et al. 20222
Interviewing witnesses in a second language: A comparison of interpreter‐assisted, unaided, and self‐administered interviews2
Exploring common ground in the repressed versus false memories debate2
Cyberbullying: Differentiating offenders criminal roles using a narrative‐based approach1
Does blatantly contradictory information reduce the misinformation effect? A Registered Report replication of Loftus (1979)1
Perceptions of intimate partner stalking and cyberstalking: Do perpetrator and victim gender and victims' responses to stalking influence perceptions of criminal behaviour and responsibility?1
Pushing past the plateau1
Reply to Otgaar et al.1
Multi‐study examination of criminal‐legal professionals' use of risk assessments in pretrial decision‐making1
The narrative language of youth offenders with callous and unemotional traits: A corpus analysis1
Issue Information1
The utility and limitations of the concentric diagram of legitimacy: Commentary on Hamm and Colleagues1
Applicability and validity of the reaction time‐based concealed information test in a prison sample1
Editorial acknowledgement1
Impact of justice‐related dispositions on support for cyber vigilantism: The mediating effect of perceived severity of transgression1
(Re)Organizing legitimacy theory1
Urgent issues and prospects in correctional rehabilitation practice and research1
The effectiveness of different model statement variants for eliciting information and cues to deceit1
Does cognitive inflexibility predict violent extremist behaviour intentions? A registered direct replication report of Zmigrod et al., 20191
Can highly arousing traumatic Experiences be repressed?1
From imposing cognitive load to exploiting different strategies: A reply to Brimbal et al. (2023)1
The weight of evidence regarding the nature of traumatic memories: A comment on Mazzoni et al.1
The perils of methods that detect lies 70% of the time: A reply to Ben‐Shakhar and Verschuere (2024)1
Stigmatising attitudes of probation, parole and custodial officers towards people with mental health issues: A systematic literature review and meta‐analysis1
Comment on Nachson: Alternative “truths” of repressed memories: Views of judges of the Israeli supreme court0
Constraining prosecutors and other advocates who become judges: A commentary on Berryessa et al. (2022)0
Investigating dual harm and misconduct in Northern Ireland: A 1‐year follow‐up0
Issue Information0
Repressed Memory and Dissociative Amnesia: The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon of Memory Loss0
Use of global trait cues helps to explain older adults’ decrements in detecting children’s lies0
Practice framework theorizing in correctional rehabilitation: Lessons from constitutive penology0
The language of high‐stakes truths and lies: Linguistic analysis of true and deceptive statements made during sexual homicide interrogations0
Confirmation bias in simulated CSA interviews: How abuse assumption influences interviewing and decision‐making processes?0
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Comment on Otgaar et al. ‘The neuroscience of dissociative amnesia and repressed memory: Premature conclusions and unanswered questions’0
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The neuroscience of dissociative amnesia and repressed memory: Premature conclusions and unanswered questions0
Editorial Acknowledgement0
The delayed impact of informed versus blind interviewing on eyewitness memory0
Urgent issues and prospects on investigative interviews with children and adolescents0
Editorial acknowledgement0
Perceptions of probation officer procedural justice, low self‐control, and recidivism after release from prison0
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Examining illicit networks in laboratory experiments with a preliminary focus on communication0
Diversifying the bench: A commentary on Berryessa, Dror, and McCormack (2022)0
Does race matter? An examination of defendant race on legal decision making in the context of actuarial violence risk assessments0
Editorial acknowledgement0
Possible factors associated with increased risk for false memories but decreased convictions in the British False Memory Society data: A comment on Patihis and Felstead0
Issue Information0
(MIS)measuring cognitive load and arousal in deception: A multitrait–multimethod analysis0
Probing dual harm and non‐violent misconduct among imprisoned adult men in Northern Ireland0
Prosecuting from the bench? Examining sources ofpro‐prosecutionbias in judges0
On the benefits of sequencing case information to combat bias: A commentary on Oberlader and Verschuere (2025)0
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Growing pains of addressing cognitive bias in legal contexts: A commentary on Berryessa et al. (2022)0
Comment on Otgaar et al.: The neuroscience of dissociative amnesia and repressed memory: Premature conclusions and unanswered questions0
Exploring the relationships between criminal self‐efficacy factors and recidivism0
The impact of childhood adversity on female‐perpetrated intimate partner violence in young adulthood0
Reflections on British False Memory Society cases, middle ground, and inferring internal mental processes0
Damned if you don't: Public perceptions of polygraph testing and suspect willingness to be tested0
Some lie‐detection may actually be of forensic use: A comment on Brennen and Magnussen, Lie‐detection: What works0
Preregistered direct replication of the linguistic frame effect on perceived blame and financial liability0
Combined Anchoring: Prosecution and defense claims as sequential anchors in the courtroom0
Attitudes towards the penal system, ideology and dark traits0
Challenges and future directions in studying sequencing as a debiasing strategy in forensic psychological assessment: A commentary on Kukucka and Quigley‐McBride (2025)0
Online radicalization: Profile and risk analysis of individuals convicted of extremist offences0
Misinformation are people susceptible to blatant error?0
Memory distrust and suggestibility: A registered report0
Judges are people too: A commentary on Berryessa et al. (2022)0
Editorial to special issue on direct replications in legal and criminological psychology0
Advancing police use of force research and practice: urgent issues and prospects0
The Debate is still going on: A comment on “British False Memory Society: Caseload and Details by Year (1993 Onwards)” by Lawrence Patihis and Kevin Felstead0
Consistency amongst pairs: How consistent are child co‐witnesses with one another?0
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Alternative “truths” of repressed memories: Views of judges of the Israeli supreme court0
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Clarion call: A comment on Hamm et al.'s (2022) diagrammatic map for a future research agenda0
Issue Information0
Urgent issues and prospects at the intersection of culture, memory, and witness interviews: Exploring the challenges for research and practice0
Dissociative amnesia – A valid construct for repressed memories0
A comment on‚ Dissociative Amnesia: A Valid Construct for Repressed Memories by Hans J. Markowitsch and Angelica Staniloiu0
Does telling a story in reverse elicit cues to deceit? A replication and extension of Vrij, Leal, Mann and Fisher (2012)0
(In)credibly queer? Assessments of asylum claims based on sexual orientation0
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Bias is persistent: Sequencing case information does not protect against contextual bias in criminal risk assessment0
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Urgent issues and prospects in guilty plea research and practice0
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Comment on G. Mazzoni et al. ‘Taking the middle stance in the debate on the nature of traumatic memories’0
Preregistered direct replication of the linguistic frame effect on perceived blame and financial liability0
Taking the middle stance in the debate on the nature of traumatic memories0
Correction to “Susceptibility to violent extremism and cognitive rigidity: Registered replication, corroboration and open questions for criminological research and practice”Zmigrod, L. (2022). Suscept0
Interrogation questions to native and non‐native eyewitnesses: The role of witness credibility0
The adaptable law enforcement officer: Exploring adaptability in a covert police context0
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Using shared experiences to recruit committed human intelligence sources: Exploring the shared attention mechanism and the role of social connection0
Are traumatic memories at first extraordinarily bad and then extraordinarily good?0
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