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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment22
Correction19
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes18
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field17
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*15
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis12
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law12
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales12
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies11
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 quality11
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making10
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours10
Interviewing for asylum: how the motive for application shapes information needs10
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event10
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective9
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland9
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study9
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology8
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines8
Does love forgive all? The role of the romantic love narratives in the legitimization of intimate partner violence8
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform8
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth8
Juror decision-making concerning defendants with mental health conditions – a systematic review of experimental studies8
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system8
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior8
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health8
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs7
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect7
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape7
Psychometric properties of the Prison Adjustment Questionnaire (PAQ) amongst South African male incarcerated offenders7
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis7
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making7
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 disposal7
Statement of Retraction6
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions6
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
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution5
‘How do we investigate two million murders?’ A systematic review of practices and problems in international criminal justice5
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime5
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police5
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?5
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender5
‘It’s largely the people you work with’ – understanding the work climate in small Australian prisons5
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies5
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations5
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 victim5
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony5
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system5
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites5
‘I’ve lived and bred violence my whole life’: understanding violence in the Irish Prison Service through the lens of the power threat meaning framework5
Poor sleep, more aggression in male prisoners? The mediation role of negative emotion5
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements5
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia4
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
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy4
The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports4
Misinformation – past, present, and future4
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case4
The developmental antecedents of child sexual abuse perpetration: an empirical framework using a developmental approach4
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
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study4
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats4
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses4
Occupational stigma and police-public online trust4
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
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator4
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews4
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments4
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically3
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program3
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions3
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people3
Perspectives of juror-eligible adults: validation of the Juror Questionnaire of Values and Viewpoints (JQVV) for capital cases3
SCANning for truth. Scholars’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the use(fulness) of Scientific Content Analysis in detecting deception during police interviews3
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
Fuelling an investigative mindset: the importance of pre-interview planning in police interviews with suspects3
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians3
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials3
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
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review3
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 individuals3
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia3
Murder or manslaughter: the role of premeditation and associated behavioural characteristics3
Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release3
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions3
Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups3
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks3
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees3
Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face3
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime3
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms3
Understanding vulnerabilities and ‘pathways’ in the commission of sexual offences by autistic individuals: perspectives from UK-based practitioners3
Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure3
Females who engage in online child sexual exploitation: a critical narrative review3
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport3
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States3
‘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 3
Exploring the linkage between changes in detainees’ perceptions of procedural justice and changes in misconduct2
The effects of victim testimony order and judicial education on juror decision-making in trials for rape2
Characterizing the criminal behavior and psychosocial features of female rural arsonists2
The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy2
Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: a test among Nigerian prison officers2
Managing investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects in the UK: do specialist interview managers (IM’s) understand vulnerability?2
How is a sex offender treatment programme experienced? Deploying mixed methods evaluation through reflective diaries2
Experimental evidence on primacy effects in parole decisions2
‘This incident happened when there were 10 people in the house?’ Exploring a framework to categorize defense attorneys’ plausibility questioning in CSA trials2
Writing to death row inmates: pen-pals share their experience2
The role of mental illness in women’s pathways to crime living in a U.S.-México border region2
Spillover of domains: testing the influence of work-family conflict on staff at a Southern U.S. prison2
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
Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion2
Pre-interview hypothesis generation: large language models (LLMs) show promise for child abuse investigations2
Clients who self-refer to a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC): a preliminary exploration of client and case characteristics2
Fear from a distance: testing a new model of psychological distance and fear of crime2
Gender differences in public perceptions of the seriousness of offline and online sexual harassment2
The ‘emotional defendant effect’: a systematic review of experimental studies2
Do community females display a propensity towards sexual aggression? An empirical assessment of prevalence and psychological predictors2
A simulation study on the utility of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms-Second Edition (SIRS-2) in Taiwan Region adults2
Do adolescent risk assessment tools capture self-reported reasons for desistance? An examination of the content validity of protective factors2
Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity2
Towards clinically meaningful subtyping of youth with violent behavior: application of latent profile analysis to a risk-strengths based risk assessment model*2
Technology and eyewitness memory: evaluating the efficacy of a novel digital cued recall tool2
‘Pure Science’ be damned: benefits of a case-to-lab research paradigm2
Effect of implementing security measures on fear of crime2
‘Tell me about the time you remember the best’: the effect of a remember best prompt on adults’ reports of a repeated emotionally stressful event2
Stigmatizing ‘evildoers’: how beliefs about evil and public stigma explain criminal justice policy preferences2
Legal psychologists as experts: guidelines for minimizing bias2
Lay person’s and psychology officers’ beliefs about memory, investigative interviewing and deception detection: data from Malaysia2
Concerns and recommendations regarding the training of school administrators in interrogating students1
‘The witness is lying!’: the impact of a defendant countering a jailhouse informant’s testimony1
Witness/victim interviewing: a survey of real-world investigators’ training and practices1
Risk profiles in a Spanish sample of juvenile offenders: implications for risk assessment and management1
A multivariate examination of correctional population orientations toward the Prison Rape Elimination Act1
Risk and contextual factors associated with legal intervention injury and hospital outcomes among trauma patients in Pennsylvania1
Complications and consistency: investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements1
Do common risk factors for violence generalize across ethnicity?1
‘How would you define your sexuality?’ analyzing the questions asked in official asylum interviews with sexual minorities1
Burnout and empathy in mental health professionals working in correctional settings, community settings, and with sex offenders1
The effectiveness of the offender personality disorder pathway: a propensity score-matched analysis1
Workplace cyberbullying toward the Arab minority in Israel: gender differences in attitudes and attribution of blame1
The effects of witness mental illness and use of special measures in court on individual mock juror decision-making1
Juror perceptions of excited utterance hearsay testimony in an adult sexual assault case1
The role of impulsivity and sensation seeking in associations between empathy and crime1
An optimal trauma-informed pathway for PTSD, complex PTSD and other mental health and psychosocial impacts of trauma in prisons: an expert consensus statement1
Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: a quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime1
Evaluating a model program for improving law enforcement officers’ perceptions of and interactions with youth in a diverse urban setting1
Comparing boys and girls in juvenile detention in Portugal: differences in psychopathic traits, criminal behaviors, and one-year recidivism1
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
Aggressive behavior among Italian justice-involved juveniles: the impact of attachment, discipline, and moral disengagement1
Perceptions of crime severity and stigma toward family members grieving the loss of a person to incarceration1
Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines1
‘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
Mapping the theoretical pathways from police contact to criminal behavior: a scoping review1
Suggestive questions reduce the accuracy of adults’ reports about one episode of a repeated event1
How incels who carried out violence use neutralization techniques to justify and sanitize their actions: an exploratory study1
‘I would never’: defending, explaining, and denying suspect allegations of sexual offence during internal affairs interrogations1
Impact of base rate information on estimated risk of recidivism of sex offenders in Japan1
Examining dynamic risk and strength profiles for Indigenous and non-Indigenous young adults1
Assessing recidivism risk with criminal thinking and prior arrests: do risk factors accumulate or interact?1
Brief multidimensional self-control scale: psychometric properties and cross-gender measurement invariance of the Portuguese version1
Development and application of an offense severity index in the evaluation of treatment of individuals convicted of sexual crimes1
The shift-of-strategy (SoS) approach: using evidence strategically to influence suspects’ counter-interrogation strategies1
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions1
Introduction to the special issue on cross-cultural issues in psychology, crime and the law1
‘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
How to measure lineup fairness: concurrent and predictive validity of lineup-fairness measures1
Understanding community attitudes toward miscarriages of justice: the role of social characteristics on perceptions of wrongfully convicted exonerees1
Correction1
Right-wing ideology fuels bias against sex trafficking victims: the mediating role of sexism1
A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices1
Are intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and organisational identity always beneficial to the organisation? The different effects of black and grey corruption1
Lying on misleading information: false confirmation leads to memory errors1
Why should we punish and how? The role of moral intuitions and personal worldviews for punitiveness and sentencing preferences1
Examining the effects of evidence disclosure timing and strength on information inconsistencies and provision within investigative interviews1
Technology on trial: facilitative and prejudicial effects of computer-generated animations on jurors’ legal judgments1
The effect of question and response types on credibility assessments1
Avatars with child sexual abuse (vs. no abuse) scenarios elicit different emotional reactions1
Appearances can be deceiving: how naturalistic changes to target appearance impact on lineup-based decision-making1
Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia1
Verifiable information in truthful statements: do interview context and language proficiency matter?1
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