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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Experiences and psychological health among children exposed to online child sexual abuse – a mixed methods study of court verdicts	23
Growing up in single-parent families and the criminal involvement of adolescents: a systematic review	21
What can we remember after complex denials? The impact of different false denials on memory	21
Forensic interviewers’ experiences of interviewing children of different ages	15
Perceptions of victim and offender culpability in non-consensual distribution of intimate images	14
Predictors of recidivism following release from custody: a meta-analysis	14
Lessons from London: a contemporary examination of the factors affecting attrition among rape complaints	13
The predictive validity of youth violence risk assessment tools: a systematic review	13
Optimizing CBCA and RM research: recommendations for analyzing and reporting data on content cues to deception	11
The optimal application of empathy interventions to reduce antisocial behaviour and crime: a review of the literature	10
Cross-cultural reliability and rater bias in forensic risk assessment: a review of the literature	10
Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program	10
Public beliefs on the relationship between lying and memory	9
Body dismemberment in sexual homicide cases: lust murder or rational decision?	8
Memory and credibility perceptions of alcohol and other drug intoxicated witnesses and victims of crime	8
Do deliberate firesetters hold fire-related scripts and expertise? A quantitative investigation using fire service personnel as comparisons	8
Pathways to incarceration: an examination of childhood maltreatment and personality psychopathology in incarcerated adults	7
Applying classification methodology to high-consequence firesetting	7
Inconsistencies in complainant's accounts of child sexual abuse arising in their cross-examination	7
Alternative stories and the decision to prosecute: an applied approach against confirmation bias in criminal prosecution	7
Offence characteristics: a comparison of lone, duo, and 3+ perpetrator robbery offences	7
Activism and radicalism in adolescence: an empirical test on age-related differences	6
Personality and frustration predict aggression and anger following violent media	6
How much damage do serial homicide offenders wrought while the innocent rot in prison? A tabulation of preventable deaths as outcomes of sentinel events	6
Association between childhood adversity and criminal thinking: the role of attachment	6

Satisfaction with life and crime: testing the link	6
Legal psychologists as experts: guidelines for minimizing bias	6
Assessing the deterrent effect of symbolic guardianship through neighbourhood watch signs and police signs: a virtual reality study	6
Right place, wrong time: the limitations of mental reinstatement of context on alibi-elicitation	6
A survey of police officers encounters with sober, alcohol- and drug-intoxicated suspects in Sweden	6
Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists	6
Lost in translation: a quantitative and qualitative comparison of rape myth acceptance	6
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs	5
Essentialist thinking predicts culpability and punishment judgments	5
‘People don’t like you when you’re different’: exploring the prison experiences of autistic individuals	5
Examining the effect of case and trial factors on defense attorneys’ plea decision-making	5
Development and validation of a general legal moral disengagement scale	5
Changes in offender-rated working alliance in probation supervision as predictors of recidivism	5
The impact of extralegal factors on perceived credibility of child victims of sexual assault	5
A descriptive model of the offence process for animal abusers: evidence from a community sample	5
Can the triarchic model of psychopathy predict youth offender recidivism?	5
Credibility assessment in context: the influence of intergroup bias and the context of the crime	5
The use and efficacy of question type and an attentive interviewing style in adult rape interviews	5
Developmental perspectives on the behaviour of missing children: exploring changes from early childhood to adolescence	4
‘You can have a bit of my pain, see how it feels’ – understanding male prisoners who engage in dual harm behaviours	4
Detecting deception using comparable truth baselines	4
Misinformation – past, present, and future	4
Predictors of vulnerability and aggression in severe intimate partner violence	4
An analysis of child sexual grooming legislation in the United States	4
Procedural justice and legitimacy of the law in the criminal justice system: a longitudinal study among Dutch detainees	4
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction	4
Plea validity in circuit court: judicial colloquies in misdemeanor vs. felony charges	4
Validity of mock-witness measures for assessing lineup fairness	4
Lies divorced from context: evidence for Context Embedded Perception (CEP) as a feasible measure for deception detection	4
Evaluating and comparing profiles of burglaries developed using three statistical classification techniques: cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, and latent class analysis	4
JUST: a measure of jury system trustworthiness	4
Avatars with child sexual abuse (vs. no abuse) scenarios elicit different emotional reactions	4
Reinforced self-affirmation as a method of reducing the misinformation effect: Towards ecological validity	3
Testing the job demands-resources model in explaining life satisfaction of Nigerian correctional staff	3
Development and application of an offense severity index in the evaluation of treatment of individuals convicted of sexual crimes	3
Development and validation of the Good Lives Questionnaire	3
Reducing criminal record discrimination through banning the box: the importance of timing and explanation in the reveal of a drug conviction	3
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution	3
Success within a UK open prison and surviving the ‘pains of freedom’	3
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews	3
A comparison between Australian and US populations on attitudes to criminal behaviours	3
Racial fairness in violence risk instruments: a review of the literature	3
Executive functions, self-control and juvenile delinquency	3
Family negativity and delinquent behavior in adolescence: a predictive multivariate latent growth analysis	3
‘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 pandemic	3
Procedurally just organizational climates improve relations between corrections officers and incarcerated individuals	3
Examining the judgments of pedophiles in relation to a non-sexual offense	3
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	3
Confirming or resisting the ‘racist cop’ stereotype?: the importance of a police officer’s ‘guardian’ identity in moderating support for procedural justice	3
Feeling guilty: little effect on false confession rate	3

‘He seems odd’: the effects of risk-irrelevant information and actuarial risk estimates on mock jurors’ perceptions of sexual recidivism risk	3
An examination of the prevalence and characteristics of UK community males who hold a sexual interest in children using the revised interest in child molestation scale	3
Online groomer typology scheme	3