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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Intuitive anger in the context of crime and punishment	22
Correction	21
Understanding the ‘walk of shame’: exploring the experiences of individuals with sexual convictions who have been recalled from open conditions in England and Wales	20
Mindsets of criminality: predicting punitive and rehabilitative attitudes	16
A systematic review of offender mental health stigma: commonality, psychometric measures and differential diagnosis	16
Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm*	15
Memory and credibility perceptions of alcohol and other drug intoxicated witnesses and victims of crime	13
White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law	10
‘Eye contact, but not too much … don’t stare into my soul’ understanding interviewee beliefs around rapport experiences and behaviours	10
Patterns in the use of best practices for eyewitness identifications in the field	10
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
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 video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective	9
INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study	9
The impact of trauma-awareness session on police officers’ trauma-informed attitudes in Scotland	9
Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system	8
‘Tell me what just happened’: the effect of immediate recall on adult memory for instances of a repeated event	8
Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform	8
Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies	8
Interviewing for asylum: how the motive for application shapes information needs	7
The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior	7
The influence of event order on the narratives jurors construct and tell in cases of rape	7
The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making	7
Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth	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
An analysis of the effect of social norms on payment of speeding fines	7
The disappearing trial: how social scientists can help save the jury from extinction	7
Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis	6
Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police	6
The effect of victim intoxication and crime type on mock jury decision-making	6
Manifestation of sadism in sexual homicide: a criminological contribution	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
Statement of Retraction	6
Penitence congruity effect: even murderers are seen as less immoral when expressing guilt and deontological beliefs	6
A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies	5
Using a reassessment framework to determine critical case management needs: DRAOR improves on LS/RNR’s predictive discrimination of short-term recidivism	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
Victim-survivors’ perceptions of a cognitive interview protocol for sexual offence investigations	5
After a storm comes a calm: International expert decision-making process regarding abstract definitions of emotional cool-off periods in sexual homicide	5
When bad things happen to rotten people: indifference to incidental harms in the criminal justice system	5
Decision importance and Black and Hispanic jurors’ judgments of outgroup and ingroup defendants in a trial simulation	5
Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender	5
Battling bias: can two implicit bias remedies reduce juror racial bias?	5
The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites	5
Shaping attitudes toward wrongfully convicted individuals: an examination of brief video interventions	5
Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime	5
Juror perceptions of incentivized informant testimony	5
A double standard in evaluating implicit threats	5
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
The effect of contributing cause for wrongful conviction on trait ascriptions and hypothetical hiring judgments	4
Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case	4
The impact of multiple interviews on the accuracy and narrative coherence of children’s memories	4
The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study	4
Consumers’ response to mass market scam solicitations: profiling scams and responses	4
Co-offending and police notification: the differential reporting of young groups to the police	4
Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia	4
Untangling the relationship between child maltreatment and criminal behavior: executive functioning as mediator	4
The dynamics of criminal contagion: a text-mining analysis of offense reports	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
Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements	4
Predictors of recidivism following release from custody: a meta-analysis	4
Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists	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
The promotive relationship between personality and self-reported offending	4
Misinformation – past, present, and future	4
Developing and evaluating a training programme in legal psychology for Finnish asylum officials	3
Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime	3
Police interviewers’ interviewing experiences with suspects: the interpersonal process of evidence disclosure	3
A framework for testing theories of criminal decision-making using VR scenarios and process tracing and its application to situational action theory	3
Studying sequential processes of criminal defendant decision-making using a choose-your-own-adventure research paradigm	3
Attitudes towards terrorist rehabilitation programs: psychological mediating and moderating mechanisms	3
Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees	3
Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face	3

Dropout among perpetrators of intimate partner violence attending an intervention program	3
Culture, trauma, and memory in investigative interviews	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
Validity of the LSI-R:SV, LS/RNR and VRS risk assessment instruments in a sample of male serious violent offenders in Australia	3
Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks	3
Victim impact statement and lay judges’ decision making: exploring cross-cultural and individual differences in East Asia	3
Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians	3
Facial emotion recognition and the development of delinquency: the mediating role of social bonds and self-control	3
Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review	3
How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport	3
Serious violence in the Irish Prison Service: exploring the experiences of prison officers and prisoners under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner policy	3
Mental health screens used in U.S. corrections settings: evidence of fairness with Black and Latinx people	3
Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions	3
Practice makes perfect: effects of mere rehearsal on lay judgments of confessions	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
Psychopathy as a predisposition to lie hedonistically	3