Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Behavioral Sciences & the Law is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and Investigative interviewing: A systematic review highlighting clinical and legal implications and recommendations18
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force15
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Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes13
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions12
Forensic neuropsychological assessment11
Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends10
Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy10
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Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities8
Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study8
Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides8
An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights7
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
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Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China7
Evaluating the HCR‐20V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China6
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and confabulation in psycholegal settings: A beginner’s guide for criminal justice, forensic mental health, and legal interviewers6
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review6
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Editorial: Cannabis and the law5
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness5
The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research5
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective5
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Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories5
Prediction of violence: Part contagious disease, part unpredictable individual: Is a public health assessment approach an additional option and at what cost?5
Perceived Security, Confidence in the Police and Subjective Well‐Being in Hong Kong: Evidence from the World Values Survey5
A perspective review of cannabis use and sexual offenses4
Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory4
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism4
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases4
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits4
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Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders4
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Transparency, Punishment, and Judicial Behavior: Analyzing Criminal Sentencing Under China's Mass Publication Reform4
Evidence‐based lifestyle medicine interventions to enhance the mental health of law enforcers in Hong Kong: A pilot randomized controlled trial4
The neurocognitive profiles of justice involved people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A systematic review4
Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures3
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Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program3
The influence of changes in clinical factors on high‐security forensic custody dispositions3
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder3
Manual and Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Real and Forged Signatures—A Comparative Study and Forensic Implications3
Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths3
Why are individuals over age 60 still committed as sexually violent persons?3
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review3
Public Estimations and Attitudes Towards the Insanity Plea in the United States: A Replication of Seminal Studies From the 1980's3
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model3
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The imperfect fit: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as the basis to commit individuals involuntarily as sexually violent predators/persons3
The Forced‐To‐Penetrate Myth Acceptance Scale (FTP‐MAS): A New Attitudinal Tool for Assessing Myths That Surround Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence Against Men3
Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions3
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts2
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Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions2
Suicidal ideation in offenders convicted of child sexual exploitation material offences2
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Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment2
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners2
Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system2
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Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations2
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations2
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies2
Rational, emotional, or both? Subcomponents of psychopathy predict opposing moral decisions2
Forensic neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy2
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
Imperfectly perfect: Examining psychosocial safety climate's influence on the physical and psychological impact of perfectionism in the practice of law2
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐182
False Confessions: A Study Space Analysis2
International perspectives on psychopathy research: An introductory essay2
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons2
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The development of legal rights for intersex persons: Part II: Advancement1
Satire Versus Illicit: Policy Issues Regarding the Creation of Deepfakes Using AI Technology1
Risk, resilience, and recovery in forensic mental health: An integrated conceptual model1
An Exploration of Risk Factors for Further Police Contact Among Females Known for Online Child Sexual Exploitation Offenses1
Survey of change‐of‐venue motions in appellate court transcripts of murder trials (2000–2020): Which factors make a difference?1
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
Pareto in Prison1
Strengths and weaknesses of the psychology of criminal conduct: Implications for the conceptualisation, assessment and treatment of antisocial personality pattern1
Sleep disorders and criminal behavior1
Conditional release and cannabis use: Concerns and challenges for community reintegration1
How to get away with (sexual) murder? Unraveling cold cases in sexual homicide using a hybrid modeling probabilistic approach1
Transforensic psychiatry: Addressing inpatient aggression in the “gray zone” between general and forensic psychiatric care1
Beyond Legal Rights: Understanding Mental Health and Autonomy in Criminal Self‐Representation1
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts1
Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study1
Selfish parents, parenting practices, and psychopathic traits in children1
Political bias in interpreting social media for forensic purposes: An introductory editorial essay1
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Does children’s fear matter? Evaluating children’s positions in Finnish court decisions on stalking1
Electroencephalographic and morphometric abnormalities in psychopath offenders1
Understanding sexual homicide in Korea using machine learning algorithms1
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An overview of malingering and deception in neuropsychiatric cases1
Alcohol, gender, and violence: Factors influencing blame for partner aggression1
Examiners' perceptions of forensic mental health assessments conducted via videoconferencing1
Bias in Sentencing Men for Sexual Offenses Against Minors: Male Victims Bring More Punitive Sentences Than Female Victims1
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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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Forensic assessment of somatoform and functional neurological disorders1
“Sorting Things out”: A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies1
Childhood trauma as a mediator between attachment and recidivism risk: A study of Canadian offenders with mental disorders1
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Under‐Interpretation of Neuroimaging Data in Insanity Assessment: A Hidden Risk1
False Confessions: An Integrative Review of the Phenomenon1
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