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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“Decoding MH”—A de‐stigmatization campaign in the Hong Kong Police Force	21
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Public Perceptions of Marital Rape: Does Level of Force Used Have an Impact?	19
Human Experts and AI Models in Offender Risk Assessment: A Comparative Pilot Study Using the HCR‐20V3	14
The Development of Legal Rights for Intersex Persons: Part I: The Diversity of Intersex Conditions	14
Forensic neuropsychological assessment	12
Surgical Treatment of Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Individuals and Health Outcomes	12
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Counting the days: Exploring the post‐mortem interval factors in sexual homicides	10
Impact of Offender Schizophrenia Diagnosis on Public Perceptions of Crime and Punishment	9
An exploration of primary school teachers' perspectives on children's rights	8
Unveiling the shadows: Investigating the interplay of stalking and sexual homicide—A case study	8
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Trauma Mitigating in Emerging Adult Sentencing? An Experimental Examination of the Influence of Homicide Defendants' Age and Biopsychosocial Factors on the Public's Punitiveness	7
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	7
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Evaluating the HCR‐20^V3violence risk assessment measure with mentally disordered offenders and civil psychiatric patients in China	6
Physical exercise, social relationships, and bullying perpetration among school adolescents in China	6
Falling through the cracks: Failing to identify compromised Miranda abilities for defendants with limited cognitive capacities	6
FASD and Intellectual Disability Equivalence: A Meta‐Analysis of Suggestibility During Forensic Interviews	6
Admissibility of Prior Sexual History Evidence: Examining Its Impact on Mock‐Jurors’ Judgments When Gender and Race Are Considered	6
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Identifying victim types in sexual homicide: A latent class analysis using interactional victimology theories	5
The “Double Bind” of Gender‐Based Violence: Secondary Victimization in Courtroom Cross‐Examinations	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
Material Deprivation, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Social Relationships	5
Optimized Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Manual Scoring Approaches	5
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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?	5
What do you see? Understanding perceptions of police use of force videos as a function of the camera perspective	5
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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	4
On Second Thought: The Impact of Confessions, DNA, and Belief Perseverance on Students' Perceptions of Guilt and Interrogations	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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A Status Update on U.S. Adult Mental Health Courts	4
Self‐relevance enhances susceptibility to false memory	4
Perceived Security, Confidence in the Police and Subjective Well‐Being in Hong Kong: Evidence from the World Values Survey	4
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Therapeutic and risk relevance of psychopathy and general criminal attitude change in an institutional sexual offense treatment program	3
Exploring the nature and prevalence of targeted violence perpetrated by persons found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder	3
Forensic psychological procedures in cases of technology‐facilitated sexual abuse among adolescents: A scoping review	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
Irreversible Effects of Affiliation With Delinquent Peers on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Adolescents in Hong Kong: Moderating Effect of Student–Teacher Relationships	3
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Stranger Rape or Impromptu Consensual Sex? Investigating Mock Juror Decision‐Making in a Genuine Contested Rape Trial	3
Consent Myths and Norm Violation Responses: Reconceptualizing Rape Myth Theory in Sexual Assault Sentencing in China	3
Public Estimations and Attitudes Towards the Insanity Plea in the United States: A Replication of Seminal Studies From the 1980's	3
Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex‐Working Rape Victims	3
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Manual and Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Real and Forged Signatures—A Comparative Study and Forensic Implications	3
Teacher–Student Relationship Quality as a Mediator in the Association of Parent–Child Communication With Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Substance Use: Evidence From the 2017/2018 HBSC Study	3
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Post break‐up stalking: Police‐officers' perceptions	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
Anxiety and Aggression Among College Students With High‐Risk Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Role of Bullying Perpetration	2
Introduction to special issue on advances in forensic mental health assessment	2
Violence risk assessment of Sovereign Citizens: An exploratory examination of the HCR‐20 Version 3 and the TRAP‐18	2
Neurobiological evidence and criminal competencies	2
Introduction to special issue on social media for forensic mental evaluations	2
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Victim reactions to being stalked: Examining the effects of perceived offender characteristics and motivations	2
Strain, Social Bonds, Deviant Peers and Aggression Among Chinese Adolescents: An Empirical Test and Extension of General Strain Theory	2
False Confessions: A Study Space Analysis	2
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Assessing symptom exaggeration of psychopathology in incarcerated individuals and mentally ill offenders within forensic contexts	2
Before Arrest: The Effects of Rape Myths on Evidence Collection Decisions in Sexual Assault Investigations	2
A quantitative survey of correctional mental health professionals on current healthcare and treatment practices for transgender incarcerated persons	2
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Effects of medicalization on case outcomes in transgender employment discrimination court decisions	2
Transgender History, Part I: An Anthropology of Gender‐Nonconformity Across Ages and Cultures	2
The Transformation of Mohamed Atta: The Relevance of Personality in Radicalization	2
“Sorting Things out”: A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies	2
An Empirical Study of the Factors Influencing the Confession Behaviour of Criminal Suspects	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