Psychology Public Policy and Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology Public Policy and 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
COVID-19 and prison policies related to communication with family members.35
Statement of concerned experts on the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised in capital sentencing to assess risk for institutional violence.34
Are Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) psychopaths dangerous, untreatable, and without conscience? A systematic review of the empirical evidence.27
Reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in the assessment of risk for institutional violence: A cautionary note on DeMatteo et al. (2020).24
The stigma of incarceration experience: A systematic review.23
The adversarial mindset.21
Investigating the effect of emotional stress on adult memory for single and repeated events.18
Identity, legitimacy and cooperation with police: Comparing general-population and street-population samples from London.16
Releasing individuals from incarceration during COVID-19: Pandemic-related challenges and recommendations for promoting successful reentry.14
Observing rapport-based interpersonal techniques to gather information from victims.13
Allegations of family violence in court: How parental alienation affects judicial outcomes.12
Allegation rates and credibility assessment in forensic interviews of alleged child abuse victims: Comparing the revised and standard NICHD protocols.12
Intimate partner violence (IPV) and family dispute resolution: A randomized controlled trial comparing shuttle mediation, videoconferencing mediation, and litigation.11
Do structured risk assessments predict violent, any, and sexual offending better than unstructured judgment? An umbrella review.11
Forensic e-mental health: Review, research priorities, and policy directions.11
Making the case for videoconferencing and remote child custody evaluations (RCCEs): The empirical, ethical, and evidentiary arguments for accepting new technology.10
Static-99R: Strengths, limitations, predictive accuracy meta-analysis, and legal admissibility review.10
Adherence to the Revised NICHD Protocol recommendations for conducting repeated supportive interviews is associated with the likelihood that children will allege abuse.10
Assessment of bias in police lineups.9
Child victim empathy mediates the influence of jurors’ sexual abuse experiences on child sexual abuse case judgments: Meta-analyses.9
Evaluating effects on guilty and innocent suspects: An effect taxonomy of interrogation techniques.9
A test of three refresher modalities on child forensic interviewers’ posttraining performance.9
Tele-forensic interviewing to elicit children’s evidence—Benefits, risks, and practical considerations.8
Measuring youths’ perceptions of police: Evidence from the crossroads study.8
Remote forensic evaluations and treatment in the time of COVID-19: An international survey of psychologists and psychiatrists.8
Defining coercion: An application in interrogation and plea negotiation contexts.7
Empirical evidence from state legislators: How, when, and who uses research.7
Teaching child investigative interviewing skills: Long-term retention requires cumulative training.7
Trauma-informed forensic mental health assessment: Practical implications, ethical tensions, and alignment with therapeutic jurisprudence principles.7
Challenges of a “toolbox” approach to investigative interviewing: A critical analysis of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) Phased Interview Model.6
Psychosis and mass shootings: A systematic examination using publicly available data.6
Statutes governing juvenile competency to stand trial proceedings: An analysis of consistency with best practice recommendations.6
A meta-analysis of lineup size effects on eyewitness identification.6
Police interviewing behaviors and commercially sexually exploited adolescents’ reluctance.6
Court accommodations for persons with severe communication disabilities: A legal scoping review.6
Exoffender housing stigma and discrimination.6
Diversion as a pathway to improving service utilization among at-risk youth.5
The developmental reform in juvenile justice: Its progress and vulnerability.5
Politics or prejudice? Separating the influence of political affiliation and prejudicial attitudes in determining support for hate crime law.5
The rule out procedure: A signal-detection-informed approach to the collection of eyewitness identification evidence.5
Children who offend: Why are prevention and intervention efforts to reduce persistent criminality so seldom applied?5
Identification and incidence of child maltreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.5
Underestimating the unrepresented: Cognitive biases disadvantage pro se litigants in family law cases.5
Forensic evaluators’ opinions on the use of videoconferencing technology for competency to stand trial evaluations after the onset of COVID-19.5
The continuing unfairness of death qualification: Changing death penalty attitudes and capital jury selection.4
Flattening the curve in jails and prisons: Factors underlying support for COVID-19 mitigation policies.4
Eyewitness identification: The complex issue of suspect-filler similarity.4
The point of diminishing returns in juvenile probation: Probation requirements and risk of technical probation violations among first-time probation-involved youth.4
The influence of transition prompt wording on response informativeness and rapidity of disclosure in child forensic interviews.4
Using disclosure, common ground, and verification to build rapport and elicit information.4
Coherence-based reasoning and order effects in legal judgments.4
The impact of misdemeanor arrests on forensic mental health services: A state-wide review of Virginia competence to stand trial evaluations.4
The PCL–R and capital sentencing: A commentary on “Death is different” DeMatteo et al. (2020a).4
The association between hate crime laws that enumerate sexual orientation and adolescent suicide attempts.4
Evaluating the claim that high confidence implies high accuracy in eyewitness identification.4
Evaluating selection for sexually violent predator (SVP) commitment: A comparison of those committed, not committed, and nearly committed.4
The Exoneree Health and Life Experiences (ExHaLE) study: Trauma exposure and mental health among wrongly convicted individuals.3
What’s reasonable? An experimental test of the reasonable officer standard.3
Revisiting the Walpole Prison Solitary Confinement Study (WPSCS): A content analysis of the studies citing Grassian (1983).3
Forensic assessment in the time of COVID-19: The Colorado experience in developing videoconferencing for evaluating adjudicative competency.3
Recidivism and violations among sexually violent persons on supervised release.3
What drives a jury’s deliberation? The influence of pretrial publicity and jury composition on deliberation slant and content.3
Could precise and replicable manipulations of suspect-filler similarity optimize eyewitness identification performance?3
Follow the money: Racial crime stereotypes and willingness to fund crime control policies.3
The Department of Veterans Affairs disability examination program for PTSD: Critical analysis and strategies for remediation.3
The public’s perception of crime control theater laws: It’s complicated.3
Parental incarceration and the mental health of youth in the justice system: The moderating role of neighborhood disorder.3
False admissions of guilt associated with wrongful convictions undermine people’s perceptions of exonerees.3
Assessing the effect of eyewitness identification confidence assessment method on the confidence-accuracy relationship.3
Enhancing innocent suspects’ memories for corroborating alibi evidence.3
Intimate partner violence and family dispute resolution: 1-year follow-up findings from a randomized controlled trial comparing shuttle mediation, videoconferencing mediation, and litigation.3
The effects of variations in confession evidence and need for cognition on jurors’ decisions.3
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law adopts further open science practices and refreshes its commitment to generalizable empirical research.2
Condition comprehension predicts compliance for adolescents under probation supervision.2
Parents’ interrogation knowledge and situational decision-making in hypothetical juvenile interrogations.2
The effect of trauma education judicial instructions on decisions about complainant credibility in rape trials.2
Can local TV news affect parents’ perceptions of parenting and child development research? Evidence from the positive parenting newsfeed project.2
Caught in the middle: Accommodative dilemmas in police–community relations.2
Judicial involvement in plea-bargaining.2
Connecting mental health court participants with services: Process, challenges, and recommendations.2
Changing the public’s crime control theater attitudes.2
Do exonerees face housing discrimination? An email-based field experiment and content analysis.2
Tracking dynamic intervention needs as a vehicle for mitigating risk among juveniles with sex offenses.2
The age of redemption for adolescents who were adjudicated for sexual misconduct.2
The ability to infer witness accuracy from high-confidence lineup identifications is undermined by the appearance-change instruction and target appearance change.2
Evaluators’ experiences with combined competence to proceed and mental state evaluations.2
Testing two retrieval strategies to enhance eyewitness memory: Category and location clustering recall.2
Death is different: Reply to Olver et al. (2020).2
Follow-up effects in a parent-training trial for mothers being released from incarceration and their children.2
Juveniles in the interrogation room: Defense attorneys as a protective factor.2
The defense lawyer’s plea recommendation: Disentangling the influences of perceived guilt and probability of conviction.2
Jackson-based restorability to competence to stand trial: Critical analysis and recommendations.2
Charged up and anchored down: A test of two pathways to judgmental and decisional anchoring biases in plea negotiations.1
What are judges’ views of risk assessments, and how do tools affect adolescent dispositions?1
Towards family preservation: A systematic jurisdiction analysis of prison visitation policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.1
A window of opportunity: Examining the potential impact of mandatory sexual assault kit (SAK) testing legislation on crime prevention.1
Judicial work and traumatic stress: Vilification, threats, and secondary trauma on the bench.1
Children's underextended understanding of touch.1
Guiding jurors’ damage award decisions: Experimental investigations of approaches based on theory and practice.1
A data-driven classification of outcome behaviors in those who cause concern to British public figures.1
To proceed or not proceed: Conducting sanity evaluations of incompetent defendants.1
What you expect is not what you get: The antitherapeutic impact of sex offender community notification meetings on community members.1
National opinions on death penalty punishment for the Boston Marathon bomber before versus after sentencing.1
Monitoring a correctional suicide prevention program: The roles of implementation and intermediate outcomes.1
Juror perceptions of opposing expert forensic psychologists: Preexisting attitudes, confirmation bias, and belief perseverance.1
Current investigator practices and beliefs on interviewing trafficked minors.1
Proxy assessments and early pretrial release: Effects on criminal case and recidivism outcomes.1
Supplemental Material for Police Interviewing Behaviors and Commercially Sexually Exploited Adolescents’ Reluctance1
Cognition and incentives in plea decisions: Categorical differences in outcomes as the tipping point for innocent defendants.1
Exploring the utility of the YLS/CMI for Australian youth in custody according to child protection history.1
A first look at the reentry experiences of juvenile lifers released in Philadelphia.1
An experimental manipulation of rapport and moral minimization within a criminal interview.1
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