Psychology Public Policy and Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology Public Policy and Law is 0. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Supplemental Material for Legal Perceptions of Forensic Mental Health Professionals’ Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations44
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Race on Assessor’s Ability to Differentiate Accurate and Inaccurate Witness Identifications: Areas of Vulnerability, Bias, and Discriminatory Outcomes16
A scoping review and meta-analyses of clinical override use in structured risk assessments: Clinical and training implications for field practice.15
Questioning child and adolescent sex abuse victims at trial: A gender-based investigation.14
Fighting an inner battle: The effects of deployment experiences on ex-military prison staff in England and Wales.14
The ability to infer witness accuracy from high-confidence lineup identifications is undermined by the appearance-change instruction and target appearance change.13
Adult male rape myths in England since 1994: A systemic mixed methods review.12
Psychiatric and legal issues surrounding the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: The importance of considering the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.12
Evaluating the adverse impact ratio and its associated uncertainty: A Bayesian approach.12
Cognition and incentives in plea decisions: Categorical differences in outcomes as the tipping point for innocent defendants.10
Supplemental Material for Do Black and White Innocent Mock Suspects Differ in How Forthcoming They Are Under the Strategic Use of Evidence Technique? First Findings and Their Theoretical and Practical10
Difficulties in attorneys’ before/after questions in child sexual abuse trials.9
Shifting school climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and other sexual and gender minority students: An impact analysis of Florida’s “don’t say gay” law.9
Wrongful conviction disadvantages exonerees in subsequent criminal trials.9
Tracking dynamic intervention needs as a vehicle for mitigating risk among juveniles with sex offenses.9
Proxy assessments and early pretrial release: Effects on criminal case and recidivism outcomes.8
Towards family preservation: A systematic jurisdiction analysis of prison visitation policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.8
The limited value of machine learning approach to improving predictive performance: The Ministry of Justice Case Assessment Tool.8
Psychological science from research to policy: Eyewitness identifications in Pennsylvania police agencies.7
Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument.7
Beyond a reasonable doubt: Ordinary people’s views of an extraordinary concept.6
Parental drug use as a form of potential child maltreatment in the United States: A review of state statutes.6
The role of perceived restorative justice understanding and sympathy in a brief restorative justice intervention in prison.6
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers (2025)5
Supplemental Material for Crossing the Line: A Comprehensive Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations in SORNA Statutes5
Judicial involvement in plea-bargaining.5
Risk communication practices in risk assessment tools: A systematic review across violent, sexual, or general offending.5
Do psychopathic persons lack empathy? An exploratory systematic review of empathy assessment and emotion recognition studies in psychopathy checklist samples.5
Supplemental Material for “Is It Hard to Remember?” Attorneys’ Questions About Children’s Memory in Child Sexual Abuse Trials5
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Intimate Partner Violence Screening Administration Formats in a Court-Affiliated Family Mediation Program5
Correctional officer turnover intentions and mental illness symptom: Testing the potential confounding effects of resilience.5
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder evidence in Canadian criminal cases: A case law review.5
Following up after Moore and Hall: A national survey of state legislation defining intellectual disability.5
What’s reasonable? An experimental test of the reasonable officer standard.4
Confidence lexicon: An evidence-based tool for communicating eyewitness confidence.4
Toward a multidimensional model of legitimacy: Validation of the Traffic Rules Perceived Legitimacy scale.4
Supplemental Material for Young People’s Likelihood of Intervention to Nonconsensual Touching in Nightlife Settings: Interactions of Gender, Relationship to the Bystander, and the Recipient’s Reaction4
Lay (mis)perceptions of suspect-identification accuracy from biased and unbiased lineups.4
Public perception on policies to address prenatal substance use: Recommendations regarding maternal criminal prosecution and child welfare.4
A critical discussion of youth Miranda waivers, racial inequity, and proposed policy reforms.4
A window of opportunity: Examining the potential impact of mandatory sexual assault kit (SAK) testing legislation on crime prevention.4
Defense attorney practices in referring clients for competence evaluations.4
Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.4
Recidivism and violations among sexually violent persons on supervised release.4
The risks and consequences of innocence in school discipline: Implications for policy and research.4
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of the 911 Considering Offender Probability in Statements Scale as a Deception Detection Method for 911 Calls4
Intellectual disability and adjudicative competence evaluations: A detailed review of an often-overlooked population.4
Navigating reluctance in Dutch child forensic interviews: Interviewers tend to reject avoidant and denial statements regardless of NICHD protocol training.3
An ecodevelopmental framework for reconceptualizing youth probation outcomes.3
Supplemental Material for The Association Between Hate Crime Laws That Enumerate Sexual Orientation and Adolescent Suicide Attempts3
A comprehensive update and evaluation of state and federal statutes on competency to stand trial: Dusky, Jackson, Sell, and Olmstead considerations.3
Supplemental Material for Race-Based Jury Instructions: An Empirical Test of Recommendations From R. v. Barton (2019) and R. v. Chouhan (2021)3
The power of victim narrative: Eponymous legislation increases voter sympathy and support.3
A preference for the proximate occurrence: Adults’ relative temporal judgments and interpretations of children’s judgments.3
Deaf community experiences in the Canadian justice system.3
The effect of trauma education judicial instructions on decisions about complainant credibility in rape trials.3
Fair governance with humans and machines.3
The repeated-suspect effect and child eyewitnesses: Using the multiple independent lineups technique as a source of reflector variables.3
A statewide evaluation of jail-based mental health interventions.2
Four (and a half) preregistered failures to replicate the weapon focus effect in online samples.2
Caught in the middle: Accommodative dilemmas in police–community relations.2
Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.2
Nonconsensual sexual media sharing: Perceptions on legal and psychological outcomes.2
Working toward desistance: Canadian public attitudes and policy endorsement for the treatment, management, and prevention of sexual offending.2
Supplemental Material for Psychological Science From Research to Policy: Eyewitness Identifications in Pennsylvania Police Agencies2
Professionals experienced with Statement Validity Assessment focus on statement characteristics rather than the potential motive to lie.2
Evaluation of the 911 considering offender probability in statements scale as a deception detection method for 911 calls.2
Crossing the line: A comprehensive analysis of jurisdictional variations in sorna statutes.2
Judicial work and traumatic stress: Vilification, threats, and secondary trauma on the bench.2
How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.2
Changing the public’s crime control theater attitudes.2
Supplemental Material for Factors Contributing to the Delayed Submission of Competence to Stand Trial Reports and the Jail-Based Competency Crisis in Washington2
The influence of jailhouse informant testimony on jury deliberation.2
Supplemental Material for Charged Up and Anchored Down: A Test of Two Pathways to Judgmental and Decisional Anchoring Biases in Plea Negotiations1
The use of psychopathy assessments in Canadian case law: A quantitative and qualitative survey of court records from 1980 to 2023.1
Static-99R: Strengths, limitations, predictive accuracy meta-analysis, and legal admissibility review.1
Assessing the effect of eyewitness identification confidence assessment method on the confidence-accuracy relationship.1
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law: Reflecting on the past, charting the future.1
Race-based jury instructions: An empirical test of recommendations from R. v. Barton (2019) and R. v. Chouhan (2021).1
Measuring trans youths’ perceptions of police and police bias: Exploring the use of the perceptions of police scale.1
Equity depends on the definition: Examining the impact of segregation definitions on equity in school-based mental health.1
The Department of Veterans Affairs disability examination program for PTSD: Critical analysis and strategies for remediation.1
Supplemental Material for Do Psychopathic Persons Lack Empathy? An Exploratory Systematic Review of Empathy Assessment and Emotion Recognition Studies in Psychopathy Checklist Samples1
The science of human memory versus the federal rules of evidence.1
Estimated effect of fee repeal on family financial stress and juvenile probation outcomes.1
Supplemental Material for Confidence Lexicon: An Evidence-Based Tool for Communicating Eyewitness Confidence1
“People make mistakes” stakeholders and participants’ perceptions of the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of diversion and deferred prosecution programs.1
Legal perceptions of forensic mental health professionals’ competency to stand trial evaluations.1
Evaluating the effectiveness of a 5-day training on science-based methods of interrogation with U.S. federal, state, and local law enforcement investigators.1
Problem-solving Covid-19: A qualitative inquiry into how correctional officers and administrators have responded to the dynamic problems of the coronavirus pandemic.1
Does the use of risk assessment tools in criminal trials induce negative bias against defendants? The impact of Korean Offender Risk Assessment System–General and Psychopathy Checklist–revised on sent1
Employment discrimination faced by people wrongly convicted: Evidence from a national correspondence audit experiment.1
Supplemental Material for Four (and a Half) Preregistered Failures to Replicate the Weapon Focus Effect in Online Samples1
A first look at the reentry experiences of juvenile lifers released in Philadelphia.1
Children's underextended understanding of touch.1
Do Black and White innocent mock suspects differ in how forthcoming they are under the strategic use of evidence technique? First findings and their theoretical and practical implications.1
The association between hate crime laws that enumerate sexual orientation and adolescent suicide attempts.1
Open up and let us in: An introduction to the special issue on emerging issues in correctional policy, research, and practice.0
The impact of race on predictors of parents’ advice to children regarding Miranda waivers.0
Navigating juvenile diversion: A qualitative analysis of U.S. state, district, and territory policy.0
Mock jurors’ personal connection to sexual assault victimization relates to propensity to convict in a representative community sample.0
The utility of direct questions about actions with the hands in child forensic interviews.0
Exploring the utility of the YLS/CMI for Australian youth in custody according to child protection history.0
Justice via chat? How litigants’ preferences and attorneys’ recommendations influence the choice to use online dispute resolution.0
Parent advice to children during interrogations: Do crime severity and perceptions of consequences matter?0
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Viewing Social Media Images on Eyewitness Identification0
How public registries obscure sexual recidivism risk: Evidence from state administrative data.0
Do reasons for migration impact the elements of asylum applications? An investigation of participants in the 2018 “migrant caravan”.0
“Is it hard to remember?” attorneys’ questions about children’s memory in child sexual abuse trials.0
What do legal professionals know about false confessions? A survey with defense attorneys, public prosecutors, and criminal judges.0
Criminogenic risk factors among immigrants in the U.S.–México border region.0
Supplemental Material for Testing a New Procedure to Administer Lineups to Witnesses in the Field to Eliminate Law Enforcement’s Reliance on the Use of Highly Suggestive Showups0
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers (2023)0
The prosecution of sexual assault cases with forensic DNA evidence: Survivors’ testimony experiences.0
Pathways to preferences for collaborative conflict resolution: Disputants’ process goals drive preferences.0
The impact of race on assessor’s ability to differentiate accurate and inaccurate witness identifications: Areas of vulnerability, bias, and discriminatory outcomes.0
Supplemental Material for Employment Discrimination Faced by People Wrongly Convicted: Evidence From a National Correspondence Audit Experiment0
Defining gaslighting in intimate partner violence: Insights from victim survivors and support service providers.0
Supplemental Material for Are They Synonyms? A Review of the Use of the Terms Innocence, Miscarriages of Justice, Wrongful Conviction, and Exoneration0
Testing a new procedure to administer lineups to witnesses in the field to eliminate law enforcement’s reliance on the use of highly suggestive showups.0
A longitudinal examination of stepping up, stepping out with incarcerated men in restrictive housing: An expansion of the 2021 pilot.0
Supplemental Material for Defining Gaslighting in Intimate Partner Violence: Insights From Victim Survivors and Support Service Providers0
Supplemental Material for Cultural Differences in Jury Deliberations and Jury Decision Making Between South Korea and the United States0
An experimental manipulation of rapport and moral minimization within a criminal interview.0
The critical case file approach: A novel tool for critically analyzing mixed-method data as exemplified in a juvenile legal setting.0
Factors contributing to the delayed submission of competence to stand trial reports and the jail-based competency crisis in Washington.0
Supplemental Material for Wrongful Conviction Disadvantages Exonerees in Subsequent Criminal Trials0
Linguistic cues and deception: A replication study of 911 homicide calls.0
Supplemental Material for Recidivism and Violations Among Sexually Violent Persons on Supervised Release0
The impact of viewing social media images on eyewitness identification.0
Supplemental Material for Public Perception on Policies to Address Prenatal Substance use: Recommendations Regarding Maternal Criminal Prosecution and Child Welfare0
Evaluating the joinder effect among multiple complainants in criminal court.0
The defense lawyer’s plea recommendation: Disentangling the influences of perceived guilt and probability of conviction.0
Associations between the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion and youth violent offense charges and adjudications from 2008 to 2018.0
Evaluation of intimate partner violence screening administration formats in a court-affiliated family mediation program.0
Supplemental Material for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Evidence in Canadian Criminal Cases: A Case Law Review0
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu: Thanks for the memories!0
Current investigator practices and beliefs on interviewing trafficked minors.0
Tell the truth? Identifying common sources and types of advice juvenile defendants receive when pleading guilty to their first offense.0
Crowd reactions to the police use of force at the 2017 Phoenix Trump rally.0
How sleep disruption impacts the evidentiary value of statements and confessions: Toward evidence-based standards.0
The Exoneree Health and Life Experiences (ExHaLE) study: Trauma exposure and mental health among wrongly convicted individuals.0
Long-term arrest and school outcomes of the Philadelphia Police School Diversion Program.0
Young people’s likelihood of intervention to nonconsensual touching in nightlife settings: Interactions of gender, relationship to the bystander, and the recipient’s reaction.0
The protective effects of prior military service on burnout in criminal justice professions: A multiagency comparison.0
Supplemental Material for Adult Male Rape Myths in England Since 1994: A Systemic Mixed Methods Review0
How to keep unreproducible neuroimaging evidence out of court: A case study in fMRI and psychopathy.0
Supplemental Material for The Utility of Direct Questions About Actions With the Hands in Child Forensic Interviews0
What youth want: Youths’ perceptions of incentives in juvenile probation.0
Recidivism characteristics of individuals discharged or dismissed from civil commitments as sexually violent persons in Wisconsin.0
Supplemental Material for Risk Communication Practices in Risk Assessment Tools: A Systematic Review Across Violent, Sexual, or General Offending0
The Miranda waiver literature: A systematic review and meta-analysis.0
Supplemental Material for Navigating Juvenile Diversion: A Qualitative Analysis of U.S. State, District, and Territory Policy0
Reporting potentially irrelevant information—Defendant race/ethnicity, criminal history, and substance use—in competence to stand trial reports: A statewide study.0
Equivocal findings in forensic evaluations.0
Supplemental Material for Family Violence Risk Screening and Case Management Pathways in the Australian Family Courts: A Cluster-Controlled Comparison0
Naïve realism and visual evidence: Theory, research, and legal applications.0
In their own words: Verbalizations of real eyewitnesses during identification lineups.0
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers (2024)0
Why showing evaluators videorecorded lineup procedures is an ineffective remedy for administrator suggestion.0
Supplemental Material for Why Showing Evaluators Videorecorded Lineup Procedures Is an Ineffective Remedy for Administrator Suggestion0
Validity concerns of the Considering Offender Probability Statements Scale in 911 homicide call analysis: An empirical study.0
Cultural differences in jury deliberations and jury decision making between South Korea and the United States.0
Exploring forensic interviewers’ wait time practices with child witnesses.0
Politics or prejudice? Separating the influence of political affiliation and prejudicial attitudes in determining support for hate crime law.0
Perceptions of legal system legitimacy among family members of individuals incarcerated for sex offenses.0
Risk assessment and provisional discharge: Predictive utility of the HCR-20.0
Ethical considerations of competency restoration: The risk of decompensation in correctional settings.0
A qualitative study of transgender and gender-diverse individuals’ experiences with incarceration and criminalization in Canada.0
Supplemental Material for Finding Justice? Recommendations Beyond Prosecution in 500 Cases of Child Sexual Abuse0
Alternative punishments: How laypeople and judges impose alternative noncarceral sanctions.0
Plea understanding and decision making in youth and young adults: A scoping review of legal practices, risk factors, and current gaps.0
Charged up and anchored down: A test of two pathways to judgmental and decisional anchoring biases in plea negotiations.0
How U.S. jurisdictions address competence evaluation and restoration for defendants facing only misdemeanor or low-level charges.0
Supplemental Material for Recidivism Characteristics of Individuals Discharged or Dismissed From Civil Commitments as Sexually Violent Persons in Wisconsin0
Supplemental Material for Power Asymmetry and Early Intervention in Divorce0
Are they synonyms? A review of the use of the terms innocence, miscarriages of justice, wrongful conviction, and exoneration.0
Organizational exclusion amplified: Evidence of double jeopardy hypothesis in hiring bias against Indigenous men with criminal records.0
Forensic evaluators’ considerations of contextual information sources in competence to stand trial cases.0
Family violence risk screening and case management pathways in the Australian family courts: A cluster-controlled comparison.0
Incorporating emotion into cue-based political judgment modeling.0
Increasing the disclosure of information from suspects in investigative interviews through brief training in the shift-of-strategy approach.0
The rule out procedure: A signal-detection-informed approach to the collection of eyewitness identification evidence.0
Proximity-based evidence disclosure: Providing an operational purpose for disclosing evidence in investigative interviews.0
Finding justice? Recommendations beyond prosecution in 500 cases of child sexual abuse.0
How ideology shapes legal concepts: The case of public order.0
Can local TV news affect parents’ perceptions of parenting and child development research? Evidence from the positive parenting newsfeed project.0
Supplemental Material for Plea Understanding and Decision Making in Youth and Young Adults: A Scoping Review of Legal Practices, Risk Factors, and Current Gaps0
Recommendations for the use of telepsychology in psychology-law practice and research: A statement by American Psychology-Law Society (APA Division 41).0
Witnesses and their testimony: A model of credibility, reliability, and the factual truth.0
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness and Efficacy of a Culturally Adapted Training Program for Child Interviewers in Chile0
Supplemental Material for How to Keep Unreproducible Neuroimaging Evidence Out of Court: A Case Study in fMRI and Psychopathy0
Monitoring a correctional suicide prevention program: The roles of implementation and intermediate outcomes.0
Getting traction on positive youth justice: Prosocial identity as a promising target for intervention.0
Effectiveness and efficacy of a culturally adapted training program for child interviewers in Chile.0
Power asymmetry and early intervention in divorce.0
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