OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology Crime & Law is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment	20
Correction	18
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales	17
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes	15
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*	14
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field	11
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law	11
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 quality	10
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis	10
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours	10
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study	9
Emotional, cognitive and behavioral self-regulation in forensic psychiatric patients: changes over time and associations with childhood trauma, identity and personality pathology	9
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making	9
Interviewing for asylum: how the motive for application shapes information needs	9
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system	9
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event	8
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies	8
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland	8
The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective	8
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform	8
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making	7
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth	7
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior	7
Does love forgive all? The role of the romantic love narratives in the legitimization of intimate partner violence	7
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines	7

Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health	7
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 disposal	7
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape	6
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction	6
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs	6
Is the appearance change instruction ever helpful for eyewitness identifications?	6
Understanding criminal decision-making: links between honesty-humility, perceived risk and negative affect	6
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis	6
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism	5
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police	5
‘It’s largely the people you work with’ – understanding the work climate in small Australian prisons	5
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies	5
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution	5
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system	5
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender	5
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites	5
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime	5
Statement of Retraction	5
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions	5
Decision importance and Black and Hispanic jurors’ judgments of outgroup and ingroup defendants in a trial simulation	5
‘I’ve lived and bred violence my whole life’: understanding violence in the Irish Prison Service through the lens of the power threat meaning framework	5
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats	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 victim	4
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?	4
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia	4
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory	4
The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports	4
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study	4
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments	4
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony	4
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations	4
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case	4
Misinformation – past, present, and future	4
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 impact of multiple interviews on the accuracy and narrative coherence of children’s memories	4
Poor sleep, more aggression in male prisoners? The mediation role of negative emotion	4
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police	4
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements	4
The developmental antecedents of child sexual abuse perpetration: an empirical framework using a developmental approach	4
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator	4
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews	4
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy	4
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
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses	4
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials	3
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review	3
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia	3
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program	3
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks	3
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people	3

‘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
Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release	3
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions	3
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians	3
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport	3
Studying sequential processes of criminal defendant decision-making using a choose-your-own-adventure research paradigm	3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime	3
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 treatment	3
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically	3
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States	3
Fuelling an investigative mindset: the importance of pre-interview planning in police interviews with suspects	3
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees	3
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions	3
Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure	3
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending	3
Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face	3
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 case	3
Swedish prison officers’ perceptions of management and support: key predictors and subgroups	3
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia	3
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms	3