OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force	20
Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes	18
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Human Experts and AI Models in Offender Risk Assessment: A Comparative Pilot Study Using the HCR‐20V3	12
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions	12
Forensic neuropsychological assessment	12
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Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides	11
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Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study	9
Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China	8
An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights	8
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Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities	7
Issue Information	7
Editorial: Cannabis and the law	6
The endocannabinoid system in borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder: A scoping review	6
Admissibility of Prior Sexual History Evidence: Examining Its Impact on Mock‐Jurors’ Judgments When Gender and Race Are Considered	6
Evaluating the HCR‐20^V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China	6
Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories	6
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 staff	6
Prediction of violence: Part contagious disease, part unpredictable individual: Is a public health assessment approach an additional option and at what cost?	5
A conjunctive analysis of false accusations, official misconduct, and race in violent and sexual exonerations cases	5
The nature and extent of youth sextortion: Legal implications and directions for future research	5
Civil juror compensation and judgments of police use of force at the intersection of race and mental illness	5

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Perceived Security, Confidence in the Police and Subjective Well‐Being in Hong Kong: Evidence from the World Values Survey	5
Issue Information	5
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective	5
Issue Information	5
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
The “Double Bind” of Gender‐Based Violence: Secondary Victimization in Courtroom Cross‐Examinations	5
A perspective review of cannabis use and sexual offenses	4
Transparency, Punishment, and Judicial Behavior: Analyzing Criminal Sentencing Under China's Mass Publication Reform	4
The effects of a defendant's childhood physical abuse on lay support for sentencing: The moderating role of essentialism	4
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Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory	4
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Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex‐Working Rape Victims	4
Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program	4
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Issue Information	4
Evidence‐based lifestyle medicine interventions to enhance the mental health of law enforcers in Hong Kong: A pilot randomized controlled trial	4
Irreversible Effects of Affiliation With Delinquent Peers on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Adolescents in Hong Kong: Moderating Effect of Student–Teacher Relationships	4
Stranger Rape or Impromptu Consensual Sex? Investigating Mock Juror Decision‐Making in a Genuine Contested Rape Trial	3
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder	3
Manual and Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Real and Forged Signatures—A Comparative Study and Forensic Implications	3
Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures	3
Why are individuals over age 60 still committed as sexually violent persons?	3
The Forced‐To‐Penetrate Myth Acceptance Scale (FTP‐MAS): A New Attitudinal Tool for Assessing Myths That Surround Female Perpetrated Sexual Violence Against Men	3
The influence of changes in clinical factors on high‐security forensic custody dispositions	3
Public Estimations and Attitudes Towards the Insanity Plea in the United States: A Replication of Seminal Studies From the 1980's	3
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review	3
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Consent Myths and Norm Violation Responses: Reconceptualizing Rape Myth Theory in Sexual Assault Sentencing in China	3
Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system	2
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Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions	2
Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions	2
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐18	2
Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts	2
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 Factors	2
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies	2
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Issue Information	2
Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations	2
Suicidal ideation in offenders convicted of child sexual exploitation material offences	2
False Confessions: A Study Space Analysis	2
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations	2
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons	2
An Empirical Study of the Factors Influencing the Confession Behaviour of Criminal Suspects	2
Issue Information	2
The Effect of Myth Education on Responses to Disclosures of Sexual Assault	2
Patterns of teachers' responses to school bullying and their associations with training, self‐efficacy, and age: A moderated mediation model	2

The Transformation of Mohamed Atta: The Relevance of Personality in Radicalization	2
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment	2