Psychology Crime & Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology Crime & 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Burglary Proclivity Scale: validation using a UK community sample29
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm24
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis22
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales21
Correction17
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes16
Your alibi better not be a-changin’: the effect of alibi change and interview strategy on perceptions of alibi witness’s credibility, suspect innocence, and interview quality12
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law12
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours10
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event10
Interviewing for asylum: how the motive for application shapes information needs10
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making10
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective9
Does love forgive all? The role of the romantic love narratives in the legitimization of intimate partner violence8
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system8
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform8
Offender insight into Australian stolen goods markets from 2002–2017: the DUMA survey as a 16-year window into property crime offenders’ target selections and disposal8
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies8
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland8
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior8
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study8
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape7
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect7
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health7
Juror decision-making concerning defendants with mental health conditions – a systematic review of experimental studies7
Advancing knowledge about offenders: personality assessment inventory profiles in Portuguese male inmates7
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth7
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs7
Psychometric properties of the Prison Adjustment Questionnaire (PAQ) amongst South African male incarcerated offenders7
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines7
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making6
Making sense of confidence: do laypeople perceive eyewitness confidence in similar ways?6
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions6
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis6
Evolution of risk factors during treatment in high-security forensic psychiatry: a multi-group latent growth curve study on different trajectories6
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism6
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?6
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police6
Statement of Retraction5
‘It’s largely the people you work with’ – understanding the work climate in small Australian prisons5
Using eyetracking technology to identify looking behaviors in child eyewitnesses5
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender5
‘I made it home and i’m flourishing’: qualitative interviews investigating post-traumatic growth among the Ohio innocence project’s freed clients & exonerees5
Truth in inconsistency? The potential of differential mnemonic consistency in deception detection5
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime5
‘How do we investigate two million murders?’ A systematic review of practices and problems in international criminal justice5
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies5
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites5
News as a form of post-event information: the effect of online media type and source credibility on eyewitness memory5
The developmental antecedents of child sexual abuse perpetration: an empirical framework using a developmental approach4
Home is where the start is: qualitatively exploring the role of accommodation in desistance, for people with sexual convictions living in the U.K.4
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study4
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia4
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?4
Let’s (not) talk about race: comparing mock jurors’ verdicts and deliberation content in a case of lethal police use of force with a White or Indigenous victim4
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations4
‘I’ve lived and bred violence my whole life’: understanding violence in the Irish Prison Service through the lens of the power threat meaning framework4
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case4
The relationship between borderline personality disorder symptoms and treatment adherence self-efficacy in substance use treatment among a court-mandated sample in the U.S.4
Invalid test performance and noncredible symptom report: performance and symptom validity tests in mentally disordered offenders within the criminal justice system4
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator4
The relationship between early maladaptive schemas and non-consensual condom removal in an Australian sample4
Prisoners with and without mental illness and community samples: detecting differences in aggression and psychopathic traits4
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments4
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats4
Occupational stigma and police-public online trust4
The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports4
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending4
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory4
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements4
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police4
Poor sleep, more aggression in male prisoners? The mediation role of negative emotion4
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony4
Misinformation – past, present, and future4
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews3
Two quick snapshots of the dark core of personality: D5 and D103
Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure3
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport3
Adding nuance to the role of juror anger and sadness at trial: moderating effects of juror gender and sympathy on verdicts in a battered woman case3
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically3
Moral obligation or dull compulsion in ethnic minority immigrants? Testing pathways to obeying the police via the mediating influence of identity threat3
The right patient on the right bed: historical risk profiles of two-year post-discharge recidivists, non-recidivists and long-stay patients at the start of forensic treatment3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime3
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia3
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks3
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials3
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review3
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people3
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy3
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions3
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees3
Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release2
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions2
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms2
How bad do you feel about it? The parallel mediation role of guilt and shame in promoting prisoners’ intention to change2
Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity2
Characterizing the criminal behavior and psychosocial features of female rural arsonists2
Pre-interview hypothesis generation: large language models (LLMs) show promise for child abuse investigations2
Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion2
Females who engage in online child sexual exploitation: a critical narrative review2
Experimental evidence on primacy effects in parole decisions2
Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups2
Managing investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects in the UK: do specialist interview managers (IM’s) understand vulnerability?2
A systematic review of interpersonal skills training for police investigative interviews2
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia2
How do correctional residents expect to do when returning to society? The relation between perceived autonomy in prison and self-reliance after release among Dutch incarcerated individuals2
Victims who falsely deny: memory impacts of false denials of a simulated domestic abuse narrative2
Towards clinically meaningful subtyping of youth with violent behavior: application of latent profile analysis to a risk-strengths based risk assessment model*2
Exploring the linkage between changes in detainees’ perceptions of procedural justice and changes in misconduct2
The ‘emotional defendant effect’: a systematic review of experimental studies2
Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: a test among Nigerian prison officers2
How is a sex offender treatment programme experienced? Deploying mixed methods evaluation through reflective diaries2
Technology and eyewitness memory: evaluating the efficacy of a novel digital cued recall tool2
Understanding vulnerabilities and ‘pathways’ in the commission of sexual offences by autistic individuals: perspectives from UK-based practitioners2
Perceived credibility of asylum claimants: the role of decision-maker affect and asylum seeker’s emotions2
‘Will there ever be a stage in anybody’s life where they’re not thinking about what I did?’: exploring the expectations of people convicted of sexual offences, regarding their release from medium and 2
Murder or manslaughter: the role of premeditation and associated behavioural characteristics2
‘I just felt like I had no voice’: courtroom experiences of female sexual violence survivors seeking justice2
Gender and sentencing in capital cases: Chinese criminal justice professionals’ perspectives2
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians2
Attitudes and beliefs of professionals within the English and Welsh criminal justice system towards people with mental health conditions: a systematic review2
Becoming informed lie-catchers: classical findings and recent developments in deception detection2
The interaction between a change in substance use/consequences and a change in moral agency as a mechanism for decreased criminal involvement in low-to-moderate and high-risk youth2
Fear from a distance: testing a new model of psychological distance and fear of crime2
Stigmatizing ‘evildoers’: how beliefs about evil and public stigma explain criminal justice policy preferences2
Fuelling an investigative mindset: the importance of pre-interview planning in police interviews with suspects2
‘Pure Science’ be damned: benefits of a case-to-lab research paradigm2
SCANning for truth. Scholars’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the use(fulness) of Scientific Content Analysis in detecting deception during police interviews2
Gender differences in public perceptions of the seriousness of offline and online sexual harassment2
Police officers’ perspectives on the secondary victimisation of rape and serious sexual assault victims2
The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy2
Assessing recidivism risk with criminal thinking and prior arrests: do risk factors accumulate or interact?1
Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia1
‘Violence is all he knew, and it seemed to work’: using the power threat meaning framework to explore prison officers’ understandings of violence in Irish prisons1
Perceptions of the potential transmission of the human immune-deficiency virus (HIV): legal decision-making in civil court1
Complications and consistency: investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements1
A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices1
Correction1
A multivariate examination of correctional population orientations toward the Prison Rape Elimination Act1
‘How would you define your sexuality?’ analyzing the questions asked in official asylum interviews with sexual minorities1
Examining the effects of evidence disclosure timing and strength on information inconsistencies and provision within investigative interviews1
Lay person’s and psychology officers’ beliefs about memory, investigative interviewing and deception detection: data from Malaysia1
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions1
Do common risk factors for violence generalize across ethnicity?1
The effects of witness mental illness and use of special measures in court on individual mock juror decision-making1
‘This incident happened when there were 10 people in the house?’ Exploring a framework to categorize defense attorneys’ plausibility questioning in CSA trials1
Understanding community attitudes toward miscarriages of justice: the role of social characteristics on perceptions of wrongfully convicted exonerees1
Appearances can be deceiving: how naturalistic changes to target appearance impact on lineup-based decision-making1
Avatars with child sexual abuse (vs. no abuse) scenarios elicit different emotional reactions1
Exploring Japanese public attitudes toward sexual offenders: a cultural examination using the ATS-211
Perceptions of crime severity and stigma toward family members grieving the loss of a person to incarceration1
The role of impulsivity and sensation seeking in associations between empathy and crime1
A real-world validation of the Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP)1
A European-wide survey of police officers’ beliefs and perceptions on suspect interviews1
Concerns and recommendations regarding the training of school administrators in interrogating students1
Risk and contextual factors associated with legal intervention injury and hospital outcomes among trauma patients in Pennsylvania1
Spillover of domains: testing the influence of work-family conflict on staff at a Southern U.S. prison1
Are intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and organisational identity always beneficial to the organisation? The different effects of black and grey corruption1
How to measure lineup fairness: concurrent and predictive validity of lineup-fairness measures1
A simulation study on the utility of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms-Second Edition (SIRS-2) in Taiwan Region adults1
‘She couldn’t leave them … the perpetrator had threatened to burn them alive’: domestic abuse helpline calls relating to companion animals during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Writing to death row inmates: pen-pals share their experience1
The effects of victim testimony order and judicial education on juror decision-making in trials for rape1
Mapping the theoretical pathways from police contact to criminal behavior: a scoping review1
Impact of base rate information on estimated risk of recidivism of sex offenders in Japan1
Factors influencing support for parole in Canada: beliefs about crime and people who commit crime are more important than demographics1
Motivational interviewing in criminal justice settings: a systematic literature review1
Finding clarity in gaslighting: a comprehensive model from victim-survivor and support service provider perspectives1
Brief multidimensional self-control scale: psychometric properties and cross-gender measurement invariance of the Portuguese version1
The intersection of defendant gender and racialisation in a case of child neglect1
A systematic mapping review of the literature examining pre-substantive rapport-building techniques in investigative interviews with children1
Verifiable information in truthful statements: do interview context and language proficiency matter?1
Introduction to the special issue on cross-cultural issues in psychology, crime and the law1
The role of mental illness in women’s pathways to crime living in a U.S.-México border region1
Suggestive questions reduce the accuracy of adults’ reports about one episode of a repeated event1
Aggressive behavior among Italian justice-involved juveniles: the impact of attachment, discipline, and moral disengagement1
Right-wing ideology fuels bias against sex trafficking victims: the mediating role of sexism1
Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: a quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime1
Legal psychologists as experts: guidelines for minimizing bias1
Evaluating a model program for improving law enforcement officers’ perceptions of and interactions with youth in a diverse urban setting1
The effect of question and response types on credibility assessments1
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