OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 3. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	12
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions	12
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions	12
The p factor, crime, and criminal justice: A criminological study of Caspi et al.'s general psychopathology general theory	12
Editorial Board	12
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	10
Editorial Board	9
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	9
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	9
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	9
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	9
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	9
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	8
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion	7
A repertoire and critical review of international resources relevant to medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition	7
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry	7
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals	7
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	7
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	7
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	7
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder	6
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK	6
The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	6
Large language models and psychiatry	6
A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	6

Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?	6
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa	6
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and suggestibility: A survey of United States federal case law	6
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	5
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	5
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility	5
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	5
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay	5
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health	5
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	5
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	5
Editorial Board	5
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law	5
Restricted patients in New Zealand: A failed social experiment with a hybrid form of civil/forensic compulsory mental health treatment	4
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	4
Does adolescent drug use belong on the antisocial spectrum? Mediating the drug–crime connection with cognitive impulsivity	4
Editorial Board	4
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	4
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	4
Effects of psychological torture and cybertorture with emerging digital technologies under anti-torture legal obligations in China: A mixed methods research in risks and remedies	4
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law	4
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	4
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	4
Means of restraint in residential care when there is no acute danger. Time for the European committee on the prevention of torture to set the standard	4
The contribution of psychopathic traits and substance use in the prediction of recidivism of sexual offenders	4
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	4
Control in the community: A qualitative analysis of the experience of persons on conditional discharge in Hong Kong	4
Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study	4
Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking targets	4
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	4
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	3
Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis	3
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview	3
The use of coercive measures in a high security setting in Belgium: Prevalence and risk factors	3
Editorial Board	3
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work	3
Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens	3
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy	3
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts	3
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law	3
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore	3
Editorial Board	3
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges	3
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	3
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review	3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis	3
Editorial Board	3
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men	3
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	3
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	3

A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making	3
Editorial Board	3