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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and Investigative interviewing: A systematic review highlighting clinical and legal implications and recommendations15
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force13
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy11
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions11
Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes11
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Forensic neuropsychological assessment9
Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends9
Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study7
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities7
Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides7
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review7
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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 staff6
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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
An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights6
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and confabulation in psycholegal settings: A beginner’s guide for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal interviewers5
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective5
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Editorial: Cannabis and the law5
Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories4
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The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research4
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases4
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness4
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Perceived Security, Confidence in the Police and Subjective Well‐Being in Hong Kong: Evidence from the World Values Survey4
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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?4
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Evidence‐based lifestyle medicine interventions to enhance the mental health of law enforcers in Hong Kong: A pilot randomized controlled trial3
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits3
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Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths3
Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory3
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The neurocognitive profiles of justice involved people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A systematic review3
Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders3
A perspective review of cannabis use and sexual offenses3
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism3
Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program3
The imperfect fit: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as the basis to commit individuals involuntarily as sexually violent predators/persons2
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder2
Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures2
Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions2
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment2
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Juvenile homicide offenders: Why they were involved in serious crime2
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review2
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Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations2
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons2
International perspectives on psychopathy research: An introductory essay2
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts2
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐182
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model2
The influence of changes in clinical factors on high‐security forensic custody dispositions2
Why are individuals over age 60 still committed as sexually violent persons?2
Suicidal ideation in offenders convicted of child sexual exploitation material offences2
Imperfectly perfect: Examining psychosocial safety climate's influence on the physical and psychological impact of perfectionism in the practice of law2
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies2
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners2
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
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations2
Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions2
The Forced‐To‐Penetrate Myth Acceptance Scale (FTP‐MAS): A New Attitudinal Tool for Assessing Myths That Surround Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence Against Men2
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An Exploration of Risk Factors for Further Police Contact Among Females Known for Online Child Sexual Exploitation Offenses1
Selfish parents, parenting practices, and psychopathic traits in children1
Forensic assessment of somatoform and functional neurological disorders1
Survey of change‐of‐venue motions in appellate court transcripts of murder trials (2000–2020): Which factors make a difference?1
Poly‐bullying victimisation in Indonesia: Prevalence and factors related to children exposure to multiple bullying incidents, and its correlation to subjective well‐being1
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Alcohol, gender, and violence: Factors influencing blame for partner aggression1
Adopted children who kill their adoptive parents: An examination through the lens of attachment theory1
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Satire Versus Illicit: Policy Issues Regarding the Creation of Deepfakes Using AI Technology1
Rational, emotional, or both? Subcomponents of psychopathy predict opposing moral decisions1
Beyond Legal Rights: Understanding Mental Health and Autonomy in Criminal Self‐Representation1
Confluence of law enforcement, mental health, and race1
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How online data informs forensic mental health evaluations of sexual behavior: An overview1
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Strengths and weaknesses of the psychology of criminal conduct: Implications for the conceptualisation, assessment and treatment of antisocial personality pattern1
“Sorting Things out”: A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies1
Pareto in Prison1
Transforensic psychiatry: Addressing inpatient aggression in the “gray zone” between general and forensic psychiatric care1
The development of legal rights for intersex persons: Part II: Advancement1
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Risk, resilience, and recovery in forensic mental health: An integrated conceptual model1
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts1
Political bias in interpreting social media for forensic purposes: An introductory editorial essay1
Bias in Sentencing Men for Sexual Offenses Against Minors: Male Victims Bring More Punitive Sentences Than Female Victims1
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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
Sex worker homicides and sexual homicides: A comparative study of offender, victim, and offense characteristics1
Forensic neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy1
Examiners' perceptions of forensic mental health assessments conducted via videoconferencing1
Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system1
Impact of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use, other substance use, and drug‐related offending among justice‐system‐involved youth0
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Transgender History, Part II: A Brief History of Medical and Surgical Gender‐Affirming Care0
Dealing with stalking cases in Lithuania: The role of public perceptions and legal response0
How receiving welfare assistance could be linked to children's bullying victimization: Exploring the potential pathways0
Electroencephalographic and morphometric abnormalities in psychopath offenders0
“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
Ruling out feigned crime‐related amnesia? A response to Acklin (2022)0
Sleep disorders and criminal behavior0
From “below chance” to “a single error is one too many”: Evaluating various thresholds for invalid performance on two forced choice recognition tests0
From Reddit to manifestos: Forensic evaluation of incel online activity0
Implementation and evaluation of a juvenile mental health training for law enforcement in a medium‐sized jurisdiction0
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From posts to protection: Ethical considerations regarding forensic psychiatrists and a duty to warn based on social media0
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents: A lifestyle‐routine activities theory approach0
Inter‐judicial differences in approaching technical violations: Examining the interaction of judge and compliance issue for domestic violence probationers0
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Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry0
Cessation of dangerousness status in Brasília, Brazil: An analysis of 144 reports from Federal District Medical Examiner's Office in the last 10 years0
Classifying Female Sexual Homicide Offenders: A Latent Class Analysis of Murder Arrestees in the U.S.0
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and youth firesetting: A call on criminal justice, emergency responder, and fire prevention specialists to become informed0
Neuroethics and neurolaw in forensic neuropsychiatry: A guide for clinicians0
Risk of What and Why? Disaggregating Pathways to Extremist Behaviours in Individuals Susceptible to Violent Extremism0
Diagnosing intellectual disability in people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A function of which diagnostic manual is used?0
Losing the lottery of life: Examining intuitions of desert toward the socially and genetically “unlucky” in criminal punishment contexts0
Introductory essay: International perspectives on stalking from a psycho‐criminological approach0
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Forensic psychiatric issues in intellectual disability0
The problem with assumptions: Revisiting “The dark figure of sexual recidivism”0
Simulating denial increases false memory rates for abuse unrelated information0
Evolution of transgender rights in India: Better late than never0
Rituals of Harm: Castration and Genealogies of Sacred Wound Cultures in the Hijra Communities of India0
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Widening the net: Use of social media data in personal injury and disability evaluations0
Rural residents' emotions, beliefs, and sources that influenced those beliefs regarding sex offender policies, practice, and the efficacy of treatment0
False Confessions: An Integrative Review of the Phenomenon0
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Life or death: A qualitative examination of mitigating and aggravating evidence presented in capital trials0
Parental involvement in school and school victimization in Taiwan: The mediating role of quality of student‐teacher relationships0
Conditional release and cannabis use: Concerns and challenges for community reintegration0
Diminished culpability in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)0
Understanding the needs of justice‐involved adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in an Indigenous community0
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Understanding sexual homicide in Korea using machine learning algorithms0
Participation experiences of indirect victims of child sexual homicide in parole proceedings0
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Typologies of Canadian young adults who drive after cannabis use: A two‐step cluster analysis0
The duality of risk from threats: Are homicidal threats a novel determinant for suicide risk?0
Evaluations of competence to stand trial are evolving amid a national “competency crisis”0
Serial sexual murder by juveniles and the role of sexual sadism: An international study0
Child and adolescent victims of sexual homicide in Chile between 1998 and 2021: A review of 27 cases and their autopsy reports0
Are risk assessment tools more accurate than unstructured judgments in predicting violent, any, and sexual offending? A meta‐analysis of direct comparison studies0
The Internet is a scary place: How does evidence source and examinee race or ethnicity influence determinations of threat?0
Prevalence and associated factors of sexting among Taiwanese adolescents0
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Regulation of Sexual Behavior and Health in German Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals0
The defense of mental disorder and crimes against the person committed under the influence of cannabis: A Canadian perspective0
Juveniles arrested for murder: A latent class analysis of male offenders0
Rates and implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among released offenders with mental disorder in Canada0
DSM‐5‐TR diagnosis as a guide to suicide risk assessment0
Extreme emotional disturbance: Legal frameworks and considerations for forensic evaluation0
The use of neurobiological evidence in sentencing mitigation0
The forensic assessment of dissociation: Distinguishing real from the unreal0
Gender‐affirming surgeries for transgender and gender diverse individuals and associated health outcomes0
Depathologization of trans* experience in ICD‐11: Suggestions for context‐sensitive psychotherapeutic work0
Mental health criminal defenses in persons with neuropsychiatric disorders0
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Examining the effect of prison time on landlords' willingness to rent to exonerees: A test of the stigma‐by‐association framework0
Stability of psychopathy in a prospective longitudinal study: Results from the Cambridge Study in delinquent development0
Similarities and Differences in Trauma Bonding Among Young Adults in the U.S. and Kenya: Implications for Forensic Assessment0
Scholarly rumors: Citation analysis of vast misinformation regarding parental alienation theory0
Introductory essay to this issue: International perspectives on homicide and the law: Part III0
Psychiatric disorders among employment requiring firearms0
An overview of malingering and deception in neuropsychiatric cases0
Jurors’ perceptions of transgender victims of sexual assault: A literature review of empirical research and policy review of judicial instructions0
A jury of scientists: Formal education in biobehavioral sciences reduces the odds of punitive criminal sentencing0
One Person, Two Identities: The Problem of Legal Gender Recognition of a Transgender Person in Europe0
Preliminary examination of an insanity defense typology: Prevalence rates and correlates0
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The history of forensic neuropsychiatry0
International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on School Violence and Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Cyber Deviance: An Introductory Essay0
Women and men of mafia between traditional cultural contexts and new social roles0
Superhomicide offenders: Nosology, empirical features, and linkages to sexual and multiple murder typologies0
Perceptions of stalking in Mainland China: Behaviors, motives, and effective coping strategies0
Forensic assessment instruments: Their reliability and applicability to criminal forensic issues0
Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory0
Sexual homicide offenders as repeat and nonrepeat offenders: An empirical study of sexual homicide cases in Mainland China0
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Should we be paying more attention to firearm threats in ex‐partner stalking cases?0
Exploring how attorneys address grooming in criminal trials of child sexual abuse0
Relative Impact of Underreporting and Desistance on the Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism0
A 20‐year follow‐up survey of police officers' experience with Tarasoff warnings: How law enforcement reacts to clinicians' duty to protect0
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Unfitness to stand trial and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: Understanding and responding to FASD within the criminal justice system in New Zealand0
Beyond the Evidence: How Race, Chronological Age, and Developmental Age Shape Juror Verdicts in Sexual Assault Cases0
Artificial Intelligence and Identification of the Deceased: a Narrative Review With Implications in Forensic Science0
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Waiving goodbye to youth: Jurors perceive transferred juveniles differently from adults but render similar verdicts0
Cyberbullying victimization and perpetration: The influence on cyberostracism and youth anxiety0
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
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Risk Perception and Risk Communication: Multi‐Actor Perspectives on Pretrial Decision‐Making0
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Trophy, souvenir, or simple theft? Taking items from the victim in sexual homicide0
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A critical analysis of stalking theory and implications for research and practice0
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Stranger Danger: Analyzing Offender Behaviors Based on Victim Approach Tactics in Sexual Homicide0
Mind the past: A systematic review on psychological autopsy0
Murdering the person closest to you: Similarities and differences between intimate partner sexual homicide and non‐intimate partner sexual homicide0
Relations between peer influence, perceived costs versus benefits, and sexual offending among adolescents aware of sex offender registration risk0
Introduction to a Special Issue: Neuropsychiatry and the law0
Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study0
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Structured instruments for insanity defense evaluations: Opportunities and limitations0
Forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation of a personal injury case0
How to get away with (sexual) murder? Unraveling cold cases in sexual homicide using a hybrid modeling probabilistic approach0
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Municipal regulation of cannabis and public health in Canada: A comparison of Alberta, Ontario, and Québec0
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