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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A scoping review and meta-analyses of clinical override use in structured risk assessments: Clinical and training implications for field practice.52
Supplemental Material for Legal Perceptions of Forensic Mental Health Professionals’ Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations30
Fighting an inner battle: The effects of deployment experiences on ex-military prison staff in England and Wales.28
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Race on Assessor’s Ability to Differentiate Accurate and Inaccurate Witness Identifications: Areas of Vulnerability, Bias, and Discriminatory Outcomes22
The ability to infer witness accuracy from high-confidence lineup identifications is undermined by the appearance-change instruction and target appearance change.21
The stigma of incarceration experience: A systematic review.18
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 Practical17
Adult male rape myths in England since 1994: A systemic mixed methods review.13
Cognition and incentives in plea decisions: Categorical differences in outcomes as the tipping point for innocent defendants.12
The impact of misdemeanor arrests on forensic mental health services: A state-wide review of Virginia competence to stand trial evaluations.11
Supplemental Material for Judicial Involvement in Plea-Bargaining11
Supplemental Material for Risk-Tinted Spectacles: What Influences Evaluator Decision Making in Sexually Violent Persons Examinations11
What you expect is not what you get: The antitherapeutic impact of sex offender community notification meetings on community members.11
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.10
Tracking dynamic intervention needs as a vehicle for mitigating risk among juveniles with sex offenses.10
Towards family preservation: A systematic jurisdiction analysis of prison visitation policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.10
Psychiatric and legal issues surrounding the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: The importance of considering the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.10
Proxy assessments and early pretrial release: Effects on criminal case and recidivism outcomes.9
A meta-analysis of lineup size effects on eyewitness identification.9
Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument.9
Evaluating the adverse impact ratio and its associated uncertainty: A Bayesian approach.9
Psychological science from research to policy: Eyewitness identifications in Pennsylvania police agencies.8
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers (2022)8
Remote forensic evaluations and treatment in the time of COVID-19: An international survey of psychologists and psychiatrists.8
Follow-up effects in a parent-training trial for mothers being released from incarceration and their children.7
Correctional officer turnover intentions and mental illness symptom: Testing the potential confounding effects of resilience.6
The limited value of machine learning approach to improving predictive performance: The Ministry of Justice Case Assessment Tool.6
Supplemental Material for Crossing the Line: A Comprehensive Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations in SORNA Statutes6
Parental drug use as a form of potential child maltreatment in the United States: A review of state statutes.6
Could precise and replicable manipulations of suspect-filler similarity optimize eyewitness identification performance?6
Trauma-informed forensic mental health assessment: Practical implications, ethical tensions, and alignment with therapeutic jurisprudence principles.6
The role of perceived restorative justice understanding and sympathy in a brief restorative justice intervention in prison.6
Supplemental Material for How Crime Severity Predicts Victim Willingness to Meet the Offender6
Supplemental Material for “Is It Hard to Remember?” Attorneys’ Questions About Children’s Memory in Child Sexual Abuse Trials5
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder evidence in Canadian criminal cases: A case law review.5
Supplemental Material for The Age of Redemption for Adolescents Who Were Adjudicated for Sexual Misconduct5
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Intimate Partner Violence Screening Administration Formats in a Court-Affiliated Family Mediation Program5
Following up after Moore and Hall: A national survey of state legislation defining intellectual disability.5
Do psychopathic persons lack empathy? An exploratory systematic review of empathy assessment and emotion recognition studies in psychopathy checklist samples.5
Recidivism and violations among sexually violent persons on supervised release.4
Toward a multidimensional model of legitimacy: Validation of the Traffic Rules Perceived Legitimacy scale.4
Public perception on policies to address prenatal substance use: Recommendations regarding maternal criminal prosecution and child welfare.4
Lay (mis)perceptions of suspect-identification accuracy from biased and unbiased lineups.4
Intellectual disability and adjudicative competence evaluations: A detailed review of an often-overlooked population.4
A critical discussion of youth Miranda waivers, racial inequity, and proposed policy reforms.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
Supplemental Material for Proxy Assessments and Early Pretrial Release: Effects on Criminal Case and Recidivism Outcomes4
A window of opportunity: Examining the potential impact of mandatory sexual assault kit (SAK) testing legislation on crime prevention.4
Judicial involvement in plea-bargaining.4
The age of redemption for adolescents who were adjudicated for sexual misconduct.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
Defense attorney practices in referring clients for competence evaluations.4
The influence of jailhouse informant testimony on jury deliberation.3
A preference for the proximate occurrence: Adults’ relative temporal judgments and interpretations of children’s judgments.3
What’s reasonable? An experimental test of the reasonable officer standard.3
Fair governance with humans and machines.3
Supplemental Material for Factors Contributing to the Delayed Submission of Competence to Stand Trial Reports and the Jail-Based Competency Crisis in Washington3
Do exonerees face housing discrimination? An email-based field experiment and content analysis.3
The effect of trauma education judicial instructions on decisions about complainant credibility in rape trials.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
Evaluation of the 911 considering offender probability in statements scale as a deception detection method for 911 calls.3
Perceived legitimacy of antipandemic measures: Findings from west and East Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia at the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.3
Supplemental Material for Guiding Jurors’ Damage Award Decisions: Experimental Investigations of Approaches Based on Theory and Practice3
Deaf community experiences in the Canadian justice system.3
Caught in the middle: Accommodative dilemmas in police–community relations.2
Changing the public’s crime control theater attitudes.2
Working toward desistance: Canadian public attitudes and policy endorsement for the treatment, management, and prevention of sexual offending.2
The public’s perception of crime control theater laws: It’s complicated.2
Judicial work and traumatic stress: Vilification, threats, and secondary trauma on the bench.2
The influence of gender and other extralegal factors on student loan bankruptcy decisions.2
Jackson-based restorability to competence to stand trial: Critical analysis and recommendations.2
Identity, legitimacy and cooperation with police: Comparing general-population and street-population samples from London.2
Crossing the line: A comprehensive analysis of jurisdictional variations in sorna statutes.2
Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.2
Four (and a half) preregistered failures to replicate the weapon focus effect in online samples.2
Forensic evaluators’ opinions on the use of videoconferencing technology for competency to stand trial evaluations after the onset of COVID-19.2
The Department of Veterans Affairs disability examination program for PTSD: Critical analysis and strategies for remediation.2
Supplemental Material for Children's Underextended Understanding of Touch2
Nonconsensual sexual media sharing: Perceptions on legal and psychological outcomes.2
A statewide evaluation of jail-based mental health interventions.2
How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.2
Supplemental Material for Psychological Science From Research to Policy: Eyewitness Identifications in Pennsylvania Police Agencies2
Risk-tinted spectacles: What influences evaluator decision making in sexually violent persons examinations.2
Supplemental Material for Do Psychopathic Persons Lack Empathy? An Exploratory Systematic Review of Empathy Assessment and Emotion Recognition Studies in Psychopathy Checklist Samples2
Supplemental Material for Politics or Prejudice? Separating the Influence of Political Affiliation and Prejudicial Attitudes in Determining Support for Hate Crime Law2
Measuring trans youths’ perceptions of police and police bias: Exploring the use of the perceptions of police scale.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
Supplemental Material for Charged Up and Anchored Down: A Test of Two Pathways to Judgmental and Decisional Anchoring Biases in Plea Negotiations1
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law adopts further open science practices and refreshes its commitment to generalizable empirical research.1
Children's underextended understanding of touch.1
How ideology shapes legal concepts: The case of public order.1
How U.S. jurisdictions address competence evaluation and restoration for defendants facing only misdemeanor or low-level charges.1
Supplemental Material for Teaching Child Investigative Interviewing Skills: Long-Term Retention Requires Cumulative Training1
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
Estimated effect of fee repeal on family financial stress and juvenile probation outcomes.1
Evaluating the claim that high confidence implies high accuracy in eyewitness identification.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
To proceed or not proceed: Conducting sanity evaluations of incompetent defendants.1
The association between hate crime laws that enumerate sexual orientation and adolescent suicide attempts.1
Legal perceptions of forensic mental health professionals’ competency to stand trial evaluations.1
Supplemental Material for Are They Synonyms? A Review of the Use of the Terms Innocence, Miscarriages of Justice, Wrongful Conviction, and Exoneration1
Supplemental Material for Measuring Youths’ Perceptions of Police: Evidence From the Crossroads Study1
Proximity-based evidence disclosure: Providing an operational purpose for disclosing evidence in investigative interviews.1
A first look at the reentry experiences of juvenile lifers released in Philadelphia.1
Assessing the effect of eyewitness identification confidence assessment method on the confidence-accuracy relationship.1
Court accommodations for persons with severe communication disabilities: A legal scoping review.1
Supplemental Material for Cognition and Incentives in Plea Decisions: Categorical Differences in Outcomes as the Tipping Point for Innocent Defendants1
Static-99R: Strengths, limitations, predictive accuracy meta-analysis, and legal admissibility review.1
“People make mistakes” stakeholders and participants’ perceptions of the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of diversion and deferred prosecution programs.1
The critical case file approach: A novel tool for critically analyzing mixed-method data as exemplified in a juvenile legal setting.1
The Miranda waiver literature: A systematic review and meta-analysis.1
A longitudinal examination of stepping up, stepping out with incarcerated men in restrictive housing: An expansion of the 2021 pilot.1
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law: Reflecting on the past, charting the future.1
Equity depends on the definition: Examining the impact of segregation definitions on equity in school-based mental health.1
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