Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Papers
(The TQCC of Behavioral Sciences & the Law is 2. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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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
Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes13
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Does Machiavellianism meaningfully differ from psychopathy? It depends11
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions11
Forensic neuropsychological assessment10
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Fearless but anxious? A systematic review on the utility of fear and anxiety levels to classify subtypes of psychopathy9
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
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Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities7
Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China7
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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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
Editorial: Cannabis and the law5
Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories5
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What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective5
Prediction of violence: Part contagious disease, part unpredictable individual: Is a public health assessment approach an additional option and at what cost?5
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review5
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness5
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The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research4
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
Perceived Security, Confidence in the Police and Subjective Well‐Being in Hong Kong: Evidence from the World Values Survey4
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Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory4
DAT1 polymorphism associated with poor decision‐making in males with antisocial personality disorder and high psychopathic traits4
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases4
A perspective review of cannabis use and sexual offenses4
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The Forced‐To‐Penetrate Myth Acceptance Scale (FTP‐MAS): A New Attitudinal Tool for Assessing Myths That Surround Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence Against Men3
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder3
The neurocognitive profiles of justice involved people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: A systematic review3
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The imperfect fit: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder as the basis to commit individuals involuntarily as sexually violent predators/persons3
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
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
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Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures3
The influence of changes in clinical factors on high‐security forensic custody dispositions3
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Fight, flight, and free will: The effect of trauma informed psychoeducation on perceived culpability and punishment for juvenile and adult offenders3
Exploring the neural correlates of (altered) moral cognition in psychopaths3
Why are individuals over age 60 still committed as sexually violent persons?3
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Manual and Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Real and Forged Signatures—A Comparative Study and Forensic Implications2
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model2
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations2
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Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system2
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies2
Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions2
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐182
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
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts2
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
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons2
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International perspectives on psychopathy research: An introductory essay2
Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions2
Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations2
Evaluating the validity of brief prototype‐based informant ratings of triarchic psychopathy traits in prisoners2
Rational, emotional, or both? Subcomponents of psychopathy predict opposing moral decisions2
Pareto in Prison2
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment2
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