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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Evidence‐based lifestyle medicine interventions to enhance the mental health of law enforcers in Hong Kong: A pilot randomized controlled trial18
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Conditional release and cannabis use: Concerns and challenges for community reintegration11
First Amendment knowledge and competence in United States residents11
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Preliminary examination of an insanity defense typology: Prevalence rates and correlates8
“Sorting Things out”: A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies8
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Inter‐judicial differences in approaching technical violations: Examining the interaction of judge and compliance issue for domestic violence probationers7
Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends7
Rational, emotional, or both? Subcomponents of psychopathy predict opposing moral decisions7
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Serial sexual murder by juveniles and the role of sexual sadism: An international study6
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy6
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Women and men of mafia between traditional cultural contexts and new social roles6
Implementation and evaluation of a juvenile mental health training for law enforcement in a medium‐sized jurisdiction5
Forensic neuropsychological assessment5
A 20‐year follow‐up survey of police officers' experience with Tarasoff warnings: How law enforcement reacts to clinicians' duty to protect5
The history of forensic neuropsychiatry4
Forensic neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy4
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions4
Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders4
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force3
Making sense of senseless murders: The who, what, when, and where?3
Toward a method for evaluating court actor influences on plea negotiations: A preliminary exploration of public defenders3
Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes3
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Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and Investigative interviewing: A systematic review highlighting clinical and legal implications and recommendations3
Adopted children who kill their adoptive parents: An examination through the lens of attachment theory3
Sex worker homicides and sexual homicides: A comparative study of offender, victim, and offense characteristics3
Electroencephalographic and morphometric abnormalities in psychopath offenders3
Pareto in Prison3
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Regulation of Sexual Behavior and Health in German Prisons and Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals2
Cessation of dangerousness status in Brasília, Brazil: An analysis of 144 reports from Federal District Medical Examiner's Office in the last 10 years2
Waiving goodbye to youth: Jurors perceive transferred juveniles differently from adults but render similar verdicts2
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Risk Perception and Risk Communication: Multi‐Actor Perspectives on Pretrial Decision‐Making2
Dealing with stalking cases in Lithuania: The role of public perceptions and legal response2
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From Reddit to manifestos: Forensic evaluation of incel online activity2
Risk, resilience, and recovery in forensic mental health: An integrated conceptual model2
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Traditional social learning predicts cyber deviance? Exploring the offending versatility thesis in social learning theory2
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts2
Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides2
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism2
Childhood trauma as a mediator between attachment and recidivism risk: A study of Canadian offenders with mental disorders2
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Perceptions of stalking in Mainland China: Behaviors, motives, and effective coping strategies2
The neurocognitive profiles of justice involved people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A systematic review2
Selfish parents, parenting practices, and psychopathic traits in children2
The imperfect fit: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as the basis to commit individuals involuntarily as sexually violent predators/persons1
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and youth firesetting: A call on criminal justice, emergency responder, and fire prevention specialists to become informed1
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The influence of changes in clinical factors on high‐security forensic custody dispositions1
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The Internet is a scary place: How does evidence source and examinee race or ethnicity influence determinations of threat?1
Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths1
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities1
Classifying Female Sexual Homicide Offenders: A Latent Class Analysis of Murder Arrestees in the U.S.1
Juveniles arrested for murder: A latent class analysis of male offenders1
Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China1
Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study1
Sleep disorders and criminal behavior1
The development of legal rights for intersex persons: Part II: Advancement1
An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights1
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder1
Survey of change‐of‐venue motions in appellate court transcripts of murder trials (2000–2020): Which factors make a difference?1
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review1
Mind the past: A systematic review on psychological autopsy1
The use of neurobiological evidence in sentencing mitigation1
Special issue: Sexual homicide and the lethal outcome in sexual crimes1
Exploring how attorneys address grooming in criminal trials of child sexual abuse1
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The forensic assessment of dissociation: Distinguishing real from the unreal1
Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program1
Understanding sexual homicide in Korea using machine learning algorithms1
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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 staff1
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Trophy, souvenir, or simple theft? Taking items from the victim in sexual homicide1
Bias in Sentencing Men for Sexual Offenses Against Minors: Male Victims Bring More Punitive Sentences Than Female Victims1
From posts to protection: Ethical considerations regarding forensic psychiatrists and a duty to warn based on social media1
How good are inpatients at feigning Miranda abilities?: An investigation of the Miranda Quiz, Inventory of Legal Knowledge, and Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology1
Voluntary intoxication, homicide, and mens rea: Past, present, and future1
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Why are individuals over age 60 still committed as sexually violent persons?1
Rates and implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among released offenders with mental disorder in Canada1
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Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system0
Forensic neuropsychiatric evaluation of a personal injury case0
A jury of scientists: Formal education in biobehavioral sciences reduces the odds of punitive criminal sentencing0
Evolution of transgender rights in India: Better late than never0
Rural residents' emotions, beliefs, and sources that influenced those beliefs regarding sex offender policies, practice, and the efficacy of treatment0
Are risk assessment tools more accurate than unstructured judgments in predicting violent, any, and sexual offending? A meta‐analysis of direct comparison studies0
International perspectives on psychopathy research: An introductory essay0
Introductory essay to this issue: International perspectives on homicide and the law: Part III0
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The problem with assumptions: Revisiting “The dark figure of sexual recidivism”0
Transgender History, Part II: A Brief History of Medical and Surgical Gender‐Affirming Care0
Stranger Danger: Analyzing Offender Behaviors Based on Victim Approach Tactics in Sexual Homicide0
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits0
The defense of mental disorder and crimes against the person committed under the influence of cannabis: A Canadian perspective0
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Risk of What and Why? Disaggregating Pathways to Extremist Behaviours in Individuals Susceptible to Violent Extremism0
Examining the effect of prison time on landlords' willingness to rent to exonerees: A test of the stigma‐by‐association framework0
How receiving welfare assistance could be linked to children's bullying victimization: Exploring the potential pathways0
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Juvenile homicide offenders: Why they were involved in serious crime0
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment0
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review0
Superhomicide offenders: Nosology, empirical features, and linkages to sexual and multiple murder typologies0
Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions0
Parental involvement in school and school victimization in Taiwan: The mediating role of quality of student‐teacher relationships0
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and confabulation in psycholegal settings: A beginner’s guide for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal interviewers0
Political bias in interpreting social media for forensic purposes: An introductory editorial essay0
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Introduction to a Special Issue: Neuropsychiatry and the law0
The Forced‐To‐Penetrate Myth Acceptance Scale (FTP‐MAS): A New Attitudinal Tool for Assessing Myths That Surround Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence Against Men0
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 Factors0
Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry0
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners0
Murdering the person closest to you: Similarities and differences between intimate partner sexual homicide and non‐intimate partner sexual homicide0
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The duality of risk from threats: Are homicidal threats a novel determinant for suicide risk?0
Relations between peer influence, perceived costs versus benefits, and sexual offending among adolescents aware of sex offender registration risk0
Forensic assessment of somatoform and functional neurological disorders0
Ruling out feigned crime‐related amnesia? A response to Acklin (2022)0
Extreme emotional disturbance: Legal frameworks and considerations for forensic evaluation0
Wanting sex and willing to kill: Examining demographic and cognitive characteristics of violent “involuntary celibates”0
An introduction to international perspectives on homicide and the law: Part II0
“It wasn't me, check the cameras!” Suspects' apparent verifiable responses might not indicate innocence0
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐180
Psychiatric disorders among employment requiring firearms0
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Mental health criminal defenses in persons with neuropsychiatric disorders0
Jurors’ perceptions of transgender victims of sexual assault: A literature review of empirical research and policy review of judicial instructions0
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies0
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts0
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Diagnosing intellectual disability in people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A function of which diagnostic manual is used?0
Evaluations of competence to stand trial are evolving amid a national “competency crisis”0
False Confessions: An Integrative Review of the Phenomenon0
Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions0
Transforensic psychiatry: Addressing inpatient aggression in the “gray zone” between general and forensic psychiatric care0
DSM‐5‐TR diagnosis as a guide to suicide risk assessment0
How to get away with (sexual) murder? Unraveling cold cases in sexual homicide using a hybrid modeling probabilistic approach0
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Forensic psychiatric evaluation of 187 homicidal assailants with and without a schizophrenia spectrum disorder: Clinical, criminological and behavioral characteristics0
Structured instruments for insanity defense evaluations: Opportunities and limitations0
Editorial: Cannabis and the law0
Depathologization of trans* experience in ICD‐11: Suggestions for context‐sensitive psychotherapeutic work0
Cyber‐harassment victimization of Portuguese adolescents: A lifestyle‐routine activities theory approach0
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
Participation experiences of indirect victims of child sexual homicide in parole proceedings0
Does children’s fear matter? Evaluating children’s positions in Finnish court decisions on stalking0
Prevalence and associated factors of sexting among Taiwanese adolescents0
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Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study0
Forensic psychiatric issues in intellectual disability0
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Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures0
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Municipal regulation of cannabis and public health in Canada: A comparison of Alberta, Ontario, and Québec0
Beyond Legal Rights: Understanding Mental Health and Autonomy in Criminal Self‐Representation0
Imperfectly perfect: Examining psychosocial safety climate's influence on the physical and psychological impact of perfectionism in the practice of law0
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
Strengths and weaknesses of the psychology of criminal conduct: Implications for the conceptualisation, assessment and treatment of antisocial personality pattern0
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Should we be paying more attention to firearm threats in ex‐partner stalking cases?0
Similarities and Differences in Trauma Bonding Among Young Adults in the U.S. and Kenya: Implications for Forensic Assessment0
Alcohol, gender, and violence: Factors influencing blame for partner aggression0
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What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective0
Scholarly rumors: Citation analysis of vast misinformation regarding parental alienation theory0
Impact of recreational cannabis legalization on cannabis use, other substance use, and drug‐related offending among justice‐system‐involved youth0
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The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research0
Prediction of violence: Part contagious disease, part unpredictable individual: Is a public health assessment approach an additional option and at what cost?0
Relative Impact of Underreporting and Desistance on the Dark Figure of Sexual Recidivism0
An overview of malingering and deception in neuropsychiatric cases0
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model0
Widening the net: Use of social media data in personal injury and disability evaluations0
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Homicide and the Internet0
Suicidal ideation in offenders convicted of child sexual exploitation material offences0
Confluence of law enforcement, mental health, and race0
Understanding the needs of justice‐involved adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in an Indigenous community0
Sexual homicide offenders as repeat and nonrepeat offenders: An empirical study of sexual homicide cases in Mainland China0
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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
Forensic assessment instruments: Their reliability and applicability to criminal forensic issues0
Introductory essay: International perspectives on stalking from a psycho‐criminological approach0
An Exploration of Risk Factors for Further Police Contact Among Females Known for Online Child Sexual Exploitation Offenses0
Cyberbullying victimization and perpetration: The influence on cyberostracism and youth anxiety0
A perspective review of cannabis use and sexual offenses0
Losing the lottery of life: Examining intuitions of desert toward the socially and genetically “unlucky” in criminal punishment contexts0
Typologies of Canadian young adults who drive after cannabis use: A two‐step cluster analysis0
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Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations0
From “below chance” to “a single error is one too many”: Evaluating various thresholds for invalid performance on two forced choice recognition tests0
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness0
One Person, Two Identities: The Problem of Legal Gender Recognition of a Transgender Person in Europe0
Evaluating the HCR‐20V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China0
Artificial Intelligence and Identification of the Deceased: a Narrative Review With Implications in Forensic Science0
Diminished culpability in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)0
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations0
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Gender‐affirming surgeries for transgender and gender diverse individuals and associated health outcomes0
A critical analysis of stalking theory and implications for research and practice0
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons0
Examiners' perceptions of forensic mental health assessments conducted via videoconferencing0
Simulating denial increases false memory rates for abuse unrelated information0
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International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on School Violence and Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Cyber Deviance: An Introductory Essay0
Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories0
How online data informs forensic mental health evaluations of sexual behavior: An overview0
Poly‐bullying victimisation in Indonesia: Prevalence and factors related to children exposure to multiple bullying incidents, and its correlation to subjective well‐being0
Stability of psychopathy in a prospective longitudinal study: Results from the Cambridge Study in delinquent development0
Welcome to Charles Dike, M.D., Co‐Editor of Behavioral Sciences and the Law0
Child and adolescent victims of sexual homicide in Chile between 1998 and 2021: A review of 27 cases and their autopsy reports0
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases0
Rituals of Harm: Castration and Genealogies of Sacred Wound Cultures in the Hijra Communities of India0
Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory0
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