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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment22
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field21
Correction19
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales16
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes14
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*13
Memory and credibility perceptions of alcohol and other drug intoxicated witnesses and victims of crime12
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law11
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis11
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study10
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours10
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective10
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 quality10
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology9
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies9
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event9
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making8
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland8
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
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction7
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines7
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health7
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
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth7
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior7
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect6
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making6
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape6
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?6
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs6
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis6
Assessing the contribution of callous–unemotional traits and affective empathy to aggressive behaviour among teenagers hosted in a youth protection centre5
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism5
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender5
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies5
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony5
Statement of Retraction5
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system5
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions5
Decision importance and Black and Hispanic jurors’ judgments of outgroup and ingroup defendants in a trial simulation5
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations5
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police5
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution5
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
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime5
Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory4
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats4
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
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses4
The impact of multiple interviews on the accuracy and narrative coherence of children’s memories4
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
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police4
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements4
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments4
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case4
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator4
Misinformation – past, present, and future4
Predictors of recidivism following release from custody: a meta-analysis4
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?4
After a storm comes a calm: International expert decision-making process regarding abstract definitions of emotional cool-off periods in sexual homicide4
Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists4
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia4
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review4
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program3
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
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
Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure3
Studying sequential processes of criminal defendant decision-making using a choose-your-own-adventure research paradigm3
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews3
Home is where the start is: qualitatively exploring the role of accommodation in desistance, for people with sexual convictions living in the U.K.3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime3
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials3
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport3
Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face3
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions3
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks3
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending3
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory3
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia3
The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports3
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically3
Facial emotion recognition and the development of delinquency: the mediating role of social bonds and self-control3
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people3
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study3
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy3
Managing investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects in the UK: do specialist interview managers (IM’s) understand vulnerability?2
Do adolescent risk assessment tools capture self-reported reasons for desistance? An examination of the content validity of protective factors2
SCANning for truth. Scholars’ and practitioners’ perceptions on the use(fulness) of Scientific Content Analysis in detecting deception during police interviews2
Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity2
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States2
Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release2
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians2
Fuelling an investigative mindset: the importance of pre-interview planning in police interviews with suspects2
Right-wing ideology fuels bias against sex trafficking victims: the mediating role of sexism2
Do community females display a propensity towards sexual aggression? An empirical assessment of prevalence and psychological predictors2
Writing to death row inmates: pen-pals share their experience2
The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy2
‘This incident happened when there were 10 people in the house?’ Exploring a framework to categorize defense attorneys’ plausibility questioning in CSA trials2
Stigmatizing ‘evildoers’: how beliefs about evil and public stigma explain criminal justice policy preferences2
Legal psychologists as experts: guidelines for minimizing bias2
Fear from a distance: testing a new model of psychological distance and fear of crime2
The ‘emotional defendant effect’: a systematic review of experimental studies2
Murder or manslaughter: the role of premeditation and associated behavioural characteristics2
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
Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups2
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms2
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions2
Technology and eyewitness memory: evaluating the efficacy of a novel digital cued recall tool2
The role of mental illness in women’s pathways to crime living in a U.S.-México border region2
Towards clinically meaningful subtyping of youth with violent behavior: application of latent profile analysis to a risk-strengths based risk assessment model*2
Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines2
Effect of implementing security measures on fear of crime2
Eyewitnesses who engage in immediate recall are not perceived as more credible2
‘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
Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: a test among Nigerian prison officers2
Perspectives of juror-eligible adults: validation of the Juror Questionnaire of Values and Viewpoints (JQVV) for capital cases2
Intergenerational transmission of personality disorder: general or disorder-specific?2
COVID-19 and the courtroom: how social and cognitive psychological processes might affect trials during a pandemic2
Gender differences in public perceptions of the seriousness of offline and online sexual harassment2
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia2
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees2
Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion2
A simulation study on the utility of the Structured Interview of Reported Symptoms-Second Edition (SIRS-2) in Taiwan Region adults2
The effects of victim testimony order and judicial education on juror decision-making in trials for rape2
Lay person’s and psychology officers’ beliefs about memory, investigative interviewing and deception detection: data from Malaysia2
Exploring the linkage between changes in detainees’ perceptions of procedural justice and changes in misconduct2
Clients who self-refer to a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC): a preliminary exploration of client and case characteristics2
Development of the FORUM: a new patient and clinician reported outcome measure for forensic mental health services2
Evaluating a model program for improving law enforcement officers’ perceptions of and interactions with youth in a diverse urban setting1
Are intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and organisational identity always beneficial to the organisation? The different effects of black and grey corruption1
Appearances can be deceiving: how naturalistic changes to target appearance impact on lineup-based decision-making1
Convergent and predictive validity of the Sexual Violence Risk-20 and risk for sexual violence protocol with older sexual offenders1
Technology on trial: facilitative and prejudicial effects of computer-generated animations on jurors’ legal judgments1
Can a communication assessment provide a reliable indication of a child’s communication at interview?1
Concerns and recommendations regarding the training of school administrators in interrogating students1
Assessing recidivism risk with criminal thinking and prior arrests: do risk factors accumulate or interact?1
‘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
Perceptions of crime severity and stigma toward family members grieving the loss of a person to incarceration1
Examining dynamic risk and strength profiles for Indigenous and non-Indigenous young adults1
‘The witness is lying!’: the impact of a defendant countering a jailhouse informant’s testimony1
How to measure lineup fairness: concurrent and predictive validity of lineup-fairness measures1
‘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
The shift-of-strategy (SoS) approach: using evidence strategically to influence suspects’ counter-interrogation strategies1
Do common risk factors for violence generalize across ethnicity?1
A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices1
Risk profiles in a Spanish sample of juvenile offenders: implications for risk assessment and management1
Racial identity as a moderator of same-race bias among Hispanic mock-jurors1
Juror perceptions of excited utterance hearsay testimony in an adult sexual assault case1
Aggressive behavior among Italian justice-involved juveniles: the impact of attachment, discipline, and moral disengagement1
Impact of base rate information on estimated risk of recidivism of sex offenders in Japan1
Brief multidimensional self-control scale: psychometric properties and cross-gender measurement invariance of the Portuguese version1
Survival, self-sufficiency, and repair: reentry strategies and resources for wrongfully convicted people1
Mapping the theoretical pathways from police contact to criminal behavior: a scoping review1
Complications and consistency: investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements1
Witness/victim interviewing: a survey of real-world investigators’ training and practices1
The intersection of defendant gender and racialisation in a case of child neglect1
Risk and contextual factors associated with legal intervention injury and hospital outcomes among trauma patients in Pennsylvania1
Are sad children more believable? A systematic review of the relationship between emotional demeanour of child victims and juror credibility judgements1
Introduction to the special issue on cross-cultural issues in psychology, crime and the law1
Spillover of domains: testing the influence of work-family conflict on staff at a Southern U.S. prison1
What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions1
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
An optimal trauma-informed pathway for PTSD, complex PTSD and other mental health and psychosocial impacts of trauma in prisons: an expert consensus statement1
Suggestive questions reduce the accuracy of adults’ reports about one episode of a repeated event1
Why should we punish and how? The role of moral intuitions and personal worldviews for punitiveness and sentencing preferences1
Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: a quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime1
Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia1
The effects of witness mental illness and use of special measures in court on individual mock juror decision-making1
Correction1
Understanding community attitudes toward miscarriages of justice: the role of social characteristics on perceptions of wrongfully convicted exonerees1
Avatars with child sexual abuse (vs. no abuse) scenarios elicit different emotional reactions1
Examining the effects of evidence disclosure timing and strength on information inconsistencies and provision within investigative interviews1
Development and application of an offense severity index in the evaluation of treatment of individuals convicted of sexual crimes1
Comparing boys and girls in juvenile detention in Portugal: differences in psychopathic traits, criminal behaviors, and one-year recidivism1
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