Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Behavioral Sciences & the Law 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force21
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Public Perceptions of Marital Rape: Does Level of Force Used Have an Impact?19
Human Experts and AI Models in Offender Risk Assessment: A Comparative Pilot Study Using the HCR‐20V314
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions14
Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes12
Forensic neuropsychological assessment12
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Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides10
Impact of Offender Schizophrenia Diagnosis on Public Perceptions of Crime and Punishment9
Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study8
An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights8
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Trauma Mitigating in Emerging Adult Sentencing? An Experimental Examination of the Influence of Homicide Defendants' Age and Biopsychosocial Factors on the Public's Punitiveness7
To tell or not to tell about bullying—New insights from the study on the perceptions of criminal sanctioning, anticipation of school punishment, agency, and trust toward school staff7
FASD and Intellectual Disability Equivalence: A Meta‐Analysis of Suggestibility During Forensic Interviews6
Admissibility of Prior Sexual History Evidence: Examining Its Impact on Mock‐Jurors’ Judgments When Gender and Race Are Considered6
Evaluating the HCR‐20V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China6
Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China6
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities6
Material Deprivation, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Social Relationships5
Optimized Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Manual Scoring Approaches5
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Prediction of violence: Part contagious disease, part unpredictable individual: Is a public health assessment approach an additional option and at what cost?5
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective5
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A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases5
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Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories5
The “Double Bind” of Gender‐Based Violence: Secondary Victimization in Courtroom Cross‐Examinations5
Correction to “Are Risk Assessment Tools More Accurate Than Unstructured Judgments in Predicting Violent, Any, and Sexual Offending? A Meta‐Analysis of Direct Comparison Studies.”5
Perceived Security, Confidence in the Police and Subjective Well‐Being in Hong Kong: Evidence from the World Values Survey4
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The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research4
On Second Thought: The Impact of Confessions, DNA, and Belief Perseverance on Students' Perceptions of Guilt and Interrogations4
Transparency, Punishment, and Judicial Behavior: Analyzing Criminal Sentencing Under China's Mass Publication Reform4
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism4
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A Status Update on U.S. Adult Mental Health Courts4
Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory4
Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex‐Working Rape Victims3
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Manual and Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Real and Forged Signatures—A Comparative Study and Forensic Implications3
Teacher–Student Relationship Quality as a Mediator in the Association of Parent–Child Communication With Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Substance Use: Evidence From the 2017/2018 HBSC Study3
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Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program3
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder3
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review3
The Forced‐To‐Penetrate Myth Acceptance Scale (FTP‐MAS): A New Attitudinal Tool for Assessing Myths That Surround Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence Against Men3
Irreversible Effects of Affiliation With Delinquent Peers on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Adolescents in Hong Kong: Moderating Effect of Student–Teacher Relationships3
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Stranger Rape or Impromptu Consensual Sex? Investigating Mock Juror Decision‐Making in a Genuine Contested Rape Trial3
Consent Myths and Norm Violation Responses: Reconceptualizing Rape Myth Theory in Sexual Assault Sentencing in China3
Public Estimations and Attitudes Towards the Insanity Plea in the United States: A Replication of Seminal Studies From the 1980's3
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts2
Before Arrest: The Effects of Rape Myths on Evidence Collection Decisions in Sexual Assault Investigations2
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons2
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Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions2
Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures2
The Transformation of Mohamed Atta: The Relevance of Personality in Radicalization2
“Sorting Things out”: A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies2
An Empirical Study of the Factors Influencing the Confession Behaviour of Criminal Suspects2
Using the Moral‐Situational‐Action Model of Extremist Violence (MSA‐EV) to Assess Fluctuating Levels of Risk in Women: The Relevance of Risk, Promotive, and Protective Factors2
Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions2
The Effect of Myth Education on Responses to Disclosures of Sexual Assault2
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model2
Anxiety and Aggression Among College Students With High‐Risk Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Role of Bullying Perpetration2
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment2
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐182
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies2
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations2
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Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations2
Strain, Social Bonds, Deviant Peers and Aggression Among Chinese Adolescents: An Empirical Test and Extension of General Strain Theory2
False Confessions: A Study Space Analysis2
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Childhood trauma as a mediator between attachment and recidivism risk: A study of Canadian offenders with mental disorders1
Does children’s fear matter? Evaluating children’s positions in Finnish court decisions on stalking1
Disaggregating the Monolith: Exploring Differences in Rape Myth Acceptance Among People With Varied LGBTQ+ Identities1
Political bias in interpreting social media for forensic purposes: An introductory editorial essay1
Forensic assessment of somatoform and functional neurological disorders1
Large Language Model (LLM) and Human Performance in Child Investigative Interviewing Question Formulation Tasks1
How online data informs forensic mental health evaluations of sexual behavior: An overview1
Satire Versus Illicit: Policy Issues Regarding the Creation of Deepfakes Using AI Technology1
Towards a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM): Implications for Youth Justice1
Bias in Sentencing Men for Sexual Offenses Against Minors: Male Victims Bring More Punitive Sentences Than Female Victims1
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Pareto in Prison1
Examiners' perceptions of forensic mental health assessments conducted via videoconferencing1
Transforensic psychiatry: Addressing inpatient aggression in the “gray zone” between general and forensic psychiatric care1
Transgender Individuals and the Law: Part II Introductory Essay1
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Retention of Training Effects in Police Officers Following Scalable AI Simulations of Child Sexual Abuse Interviews1
Survey of change‐of‐venue motions in appellate court transcripts of murder trials (2000–2020): Which factors make a difference?1
Risk, resilience, and recovery in forensic mental health: An integrated conceptual model1
Taking Fuel From the Fire: Regulating the Introduction of Rape Myth Infused and Irrelevant Evidence About Complainants in Rape Trials1
Forensic neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy1
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Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study1
An Exploration of Risk Factors for Further Police Contact Among Females Known for Online Child Sexual Exploitation Offenses1
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Alcohol, gender, and violence: Factors influencing blame for partner aggression1
Beyond Legal Rights: Understanding Mental Health and Autonomy in Criminal Self‐Representation1
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The development of legal rights for intersex persons: Part II: Advancement1
Equal Opportunity Disadvantage or Levels of Harm: Examining Differences in Collateral Consequences of the Sex Offender Registry by Race and Sexual Orientation1
Differences in Immediate and Delayed Suggestibility Among Children With Dyslexia and Controls0
Cyberbullying victimization and perpetration: The influence on cyberostracism and youth anxiety0
Superhomicide offenders: Nosology, empirical features, and linkages to sexual and multiple murder typologies0
Inter‐judicial differences in approaching technical violations: Examining the interaction of judge and compliance issue for domestic violence probationers0
Scholarly rumors: Citation analysis of vast misinformation regarding parental alienation theory0
How to get away with (sexual) murder? Unraveling cold cases in sexual homicide using a hybrid modeling probabilistic approach0
Sexual homicide offenders as repeat and nonrepeat offenders: An empirical study of sexual homicide cases in Mainland China0
Rituals of Harm: Castration and Genealogies of Sacred Wound Cultures in the Hijra Communities of India0
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Decoding Disbelief: Using Natural Language Processing's Sentiment Analysis to Assess 24 Years of Unfounded Rape Reports Narratives0
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Effect of Rape Myth Acceptance and Empathy Priming on Juror Decisions in a Mock Sexual Assault Trial0
Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation0
The forensic assessment of dissociation: Distinguishing real from the unreal0
Parental involvement in school and school victimization in Taiwan: The mediating role of quality of student‐teacher relationships0
Sleep disorders and criminal behavior0
Prevalence and associated factors of sexting among Taiwanese adolescents0
Mind the past: A systematic review on psychological autopsy0
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The Internet is a scary place: How does evidence source and examinee race or ethnicity influence determinations of threat?0
Transgender Individuals and the Law: Part I Introductory Essay0
Classifying Female Sexual Homicide Offenders: A Latent Class Analysis of Murder Arrestees in the U.S.0
Child and adolescent victims of sexual homicide in Chile between 1998 and 2021: A review of 27 cases and their autopsy reports0
Cross‐Cultural Differences in Beliefs About Lie Detection: A Comparison of Arab and Non‐Arab Australians0
From Bullying Victimization to Sexual Coercion Victimization: Do These Differ for Heterosexual and LGB Adolescents in the United States?0
Exploring Bankruptcy Attorneys' Experiences With Clients Exhibiting Suicidality: Challenges and Recommendations for Suicide Prevention0
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Trophy, souvenir, or simple theft? Taking items from the victim in sexual homicide0
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Artificial Intelligence and Identification of the Deceased: a Narrative Review With Implications in Forensic Science0
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Neuroethics and neurolaw in forensic neuropsychiatry: A guide for clinicians0
Life or death: A qualitative examination of mitigating and aggravating evidence presented in capital trials0
Extreme emotional disturbance: Legal frameworks and considerations for forensic evaluation0
Where to draw the line? The influence of prior relationship, perpetrator‐target sex and perpetrator motivation on the point at which behavior ‘crosses the line’ and becomes stalking0
Generative Artificial Intelligence in Violence Risk Assessment: Emerging Technology and the Ethics of the Inevitable0
A critical analysis of stalking theory and implications for research and practice0
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The history of forensic neuropsychiatry0
Evaluations of competence to stand trial are evolving amid a national “competency crisis”0
Poly‐bullying victimisation in Indonesia: Prevalence and factors related to children exposure to multiple bullying incidents, and its correlation to subjective well‐being0
Participation experiences of indirect victims of child sexual homicide in parole proceedings0
Serial sexual murder by juveniles and the role of sexual sadism: An international study0
Introduction to a Special Issue: Neuropsychiatry and the law0
An overview of malingering and deception in neuropsychiatric cases0
From “below chance” to “a single error is one too many”: Evaluating various thresholds for invalid performance on two forced choice recognition tests0
Under‐Interpretation of Neuroimaging Data in Insanity Assessment: A Hidden Risk0
Unveiling Bias: The Impact of Male Rape Myths and Stereotypes on Juror Verdicts in Male‐on‐Male Rape Trials0
The Influence of Victim Blame Statements and Expert Testimony on Jury Decision Making During Cases of Sexual Assault0
Forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation of a personal injury case0
Love, Money, and Blame: Effects of Emotional and Economic Hardship on Judgments of Criminal Behavior0
Jurors’ perceptions of transgender victims of sexual assault: A literature review of empirical research and policy review of judicial instructions0
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How receiving welfare assistance could be linked to children's bullying victimization: Exploring the potential pathways0
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Relative Impact of Underreporting and Desistance on the Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism0
From Reddit to manifestos: Forensic evaluation of incel online activity0
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Beyond the Evidence: How Race, Chronological Age, and Developmental Age Shape Juror Verdicts in Sexual Assault Cases0
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents: A lifestyle‐routine activities theory approach0
Perceptions of stalking in Mainland China: Behaviors, motives, and effective coping strategies0
Regulation of Sexual Behavior and Health in German Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals0
From posts to protection: Ethical considerations regarding forensic psychiatrists and a duty to warn based on social media0
Advancing Detection Strategies for Feigned Mental Disorders Across the Decades0
Transgender History, Part II: A Brief History of Medical and Surgical Gender‐Affirming Care0
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Gender‐affirming surgeries for transgender and gender diverse individuals and associated health outcomes0
Mental health criminal defenses in persons with neuropsychiatric disorders0
Depathologization of trans* experience in ICD‐11: Suggestions for context‐sensitive psychotherapeutic work0
Ruling out feigned crime‐related amnesia? A response to Acklin (2022)0
Risk of What and Why? Disaggregating Pathways to Extremist Behaviours in Individuals Susceptible to Violent Extremism0
Adolescent Cyberviolence in South Korea: A Multi‐Year, National Population‐Based Study of Cyberviolence Prevalence (2017–2024)0
Stranger Danger: Analyzing Offender Behaviors Based on Victim Approach Tactics in Sexual Homicide0
Widening the net: Use of social media data in personal injury and disability evaluations0
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Inoculation in the Courtroom: The Effect of Judicial Direction Timing on Mock Juror Decisions in a Rape Trial0
A jury of scientists: Formal education in biobehavioral sciences reduces the odds of punitive criminal sentencing0
Should we be paying more attention to firearm threats in ex‐partner stalking cases?0
Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry0
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Are risk assessment tools more accurate than unstructured judgments in predicting violent, any, and sexual offending? A meta‐analysis of direct comparison studies0
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International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on School Violence and Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Cyber Deviance: An Introductory Essay0
False Confessions: An Integrative Review of the Phenomenon0
Evolution of transgender rights in India: Better late than never0
Structured instruments for insanity defense evaluations: Opportunities and limitations0
Understanding sexual homicide in Korea using machine learning algorithms0
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One Person, Two Identities: The Problem of Legal Gender Recognition of a Transgender Person in Europe0
Risk Perception and Risk Communication: Multi‐Actor Perspectives on Pretrial Decision‐Making0
“It wasn't me, check the cameras!” Suspects' apparent verifiable responses might not indicate innocence0
Special issue: Sexual homicide and the lethal outcome in sexual crimes0
Two Views of Invalid Response Set and Malingering Attributions in Forensic Assessment: Credibility and Non‐Credibility0
Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory0
Similarities and Differences in Trauma Bonding Among Young Adults in the U.S. and Kenya: Implications for Forensic Assessment0
Dealing with stalking cases in Lithuania: The role of public perceptions and legal response0
Waiving goodbye to youth: Jurors perceive transferred juveniles differently from adults but render similar verdicts0
Forensic Criminology: An Introductory Essay0
Judges at Risk: A Review of Homicides of U.S. Judges0
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Sex Trafficking Myth Reduction: Evaluating an Educational Approach to Reducing Victim Blaming and Increasing Victim Empathy0
Forensic assessment instruments: Their reliability and applicability to criminal forensic issues0
Relations between peer influence, perceived costs versus benefits, and sexual offending among adolescents aware of sex offender registration risk0
The use of neurobiological evidence in sentencing mitigation0
Exploring how attorneys address grooming in criminal trials of child sexual abuse0
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Comparing the Convenience, Data Quality, Generalizability, and Outcomes of Student‐ and MTurk‐Generated Data in an Experimental Vignette Rape Perception Study0
Murdering the person closest to you: Similarities and differences between intimate partner sexual homicide and non‐intimate partner sexual homicide0
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Introductory essay: International perspectives on stalking from a psycho‐criminological approach0
DSM‐5‐TR diagnosis as a guide to suicide risk assessment0
Examining the effect of prison time on landlords' willingness to rent to exonerees: A test of the stigma‐by‐association framework0
Forensic psychiatric issues in intellectual disability0
Cessation of dangerousness status in Brasília, Brazil: An analysis of 144 reports from Federal District Medical Examiner's Office in the last 10 years0
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