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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Supplemental Material for Legal Perceptions of Forensic Mental Health Professionals’ Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations55
The stigma of incarceration experience: A systematic review.35
The ability to infer witness accuracy from high-confidence lineup identifications is undermined by the appearance-change instruction and target appearance change.29
A scoping review and meta-analyses of clinical override use in structured risk assessments: Clinical and training implications for field practice.24
Fighting an inner battle: The effects of deployment experiences on ex-military prison staff in England and Wales.21
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Race on Assessor’s Ability to Differentiate Accurate and Inaccurate Witness Identifications: Areas of Vulnerability, Bias, and Discriminatory Outcomes21
Supplemental Material for Risk-Tinted Spectacles: What Influences Evaluator Decision Making in Sexually Violent Persons Examinations19
Tracking dynamic intervention needs as a vehicle for mitigating risk among juveniles with sex offenses.13
Towards family preservation: A systematic jurisdiction analysis of prison visitation policies during the COVID-19 pandemic.13
Psychiatric and legal issues surrounding the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: The importance of considering the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder.13
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 Practical12
Evaluating the adverse impact ratio and its associated uncertainty: A Bayesian approach.12
The impact of misdemeanor arrests on forensic mental health services: A state-wide review of Virginia competence to stand trial evaluations.12
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
Adult male rape myths in England since 1994: A systemic mixed methods review.10
Wrongful conviction disadvantages exonerees in subsequent criminal trials.10
Proxy assessments and early pretrial release: Effects on criminal case and recidivism outcomes.9
Cognition and incentives in plea decisions: Categorical differences in outcomes as the tipping point for innocent defendants.9
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers (2022)8
Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument.7
The role of perceived restorative justice understanding and sympathy in a brief restorative justice intervention in prison.7
Psychological science from research to policy: Eyewitness identifications in Pennsylvania police agencies.7
Correctional officer turnover intentions and mental illness symptom: Testing the potential confounding effects of resilience.7
Could precise and replicable manipulations of suspect-filler similarity optimize eyewitness identification performance?7
The limited value of machine learning approach to improving predictive performance: The Ministry of Justice Case Assessment Tool.7
Parental drug use as a form of potential child maltreatment in the United States: A review of state statutes.7
Supplemental Material for How Crime Severity Predicts Victim Willingness to Meet the Offender6
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers (2025)6
Supplemental Material for Crossing the Line: A Comprehensive Analysis of Jurisdictional Variations in SORNA Statutes6
Trauma-informed forensic mental health assessment: Practical implications, ethical tensions, and alignment with therapeutic jurisprudence principles.6
Supplemental Material for The Age of Redemption for Adolescents Who Were Adjudicated for Sexual Misconduct6
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Intimate Partner Violence Screening Administration Formats in a Court-Affiliated Family Mediation Program6
Following up after Moore and Hall: A national survey of state legislation defining intellectual disability.5
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder evidence in Canadian criminal cases: A case law review.5
Supplemental Material for “Is It Hard to Remember?” Attorneys’ Questions About Children’s Memory in Child Sexual Abuse Trials5
Recidivism and violations among sexually violent persons on supervised release.5
Judicial involvement in plea-bargaining.5
Do psychopathic persons lack empathy? An exploratory systematic review of empathy assessment and emotion recognition studies in psychopathy checklist samples.5
A critical discussion of youth Miranda waivers, racial inequity, and proposed policy reforms.5
Toward a multidimensional model of legitimacy: Validation of the Traffic Rules Perceived Legitimacy scale.4
Supplemental Material for Proxy Assessments and Early Pretrial Release: Effects on Criminal Case and Recidivism Outcomes4
The effect of trauma education judicial instructions on decisions about complainant credibility in rape trials.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
Supplemental Material for The Association Between Hate Crime Laws That Enumerate Sexual Orientation and Adolescent Suicide Attempts4
The age of redemption for adolescents who were adjudicated for sexual misconduct.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 Young People’s Likelihood of Intervention to Nonconsensual Touching in Nightlife Settings: Interactions of Gender, Relationship to the Bystander, and the Recipient’s Reaction4
What’s reasonable? An experimental test of the reasonable officer standard.4
Supplemental Material for Guiding Jurors’ Damage Award Decisions: Experimental Investigations of Approaches Based on Theory and Practice4
Public perception on policies to address prenatal substance use: Recommendations regarding maternal criminal prosecution and child welfare.4
A window of opportunity: Examining the potential impact of mandatory sexual assault kit (SAK) testing legislation on crime prevention.4
The risks and consequences of innocence in school discipline: Implications for policy and research.4
Intellectual disability and adjudicative competence evaluations: A detailed review of an often-overlooked population.4
Lay (mis)perceptions of suspect-identification accuracy from biased and unbiased lineups.4
Defense attorney practices in referring clients for competence evaluations.4
A preference for the proximate occurrence: Adults’ relative temporal judgments and interpretations of children’s judgments.3
The influence of jailhouse informant testimony on jury deliberation.3
Crossing the line: A comprehensive analysis of jurisdictional variations in sorna statutes.3
A comprehensive update and evaluation of state and federal statutes on competency to stand trial: Dusky, Jackson, Sell, and Olmstead considerations.3
Deaf community experiences in the Canadian justice system.3
Identity, legitimacy and cooperation with police: Comparing general-population and street-population samples from London.3
Evaluation of the 911 considering offender probability in statements scale as a deception detection method for 911 calls.3
Do exonerees face housing discrimination? An email-based field experiment and content analysis.3
Supplemental Material for Factors Contributing to the Delayed Submission of Competence to Stand Trial Reports and the Jail-Based Competency Crisis in Washington3
Nonconsensual sexual media sharing: Perceptions on legal and psychological outcomes.3
Fair governance with humans and machines.3
Working toward desistance: Canadian public attitudes and policy endorsement for the treatment, management, and prevention of sexual offending.2
Changing the public’s crime control theater attitudes.2
Judicial work and traumatic stress: Vilification, threats, and secondary trauma on the bench.2
The use of psychopathy assessments in Canadian case law: A quantitative and qualitative survey of court records from 1980 to 2023.2
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 Charged Up and Anchored Down: A Test of Two Pathways to Judgmental and Decisional Anchoring Biases in Plea Negotiations2
Caught in the middle: Accommodative dilemmas in police–community relations.2
Four (and a half) preregistered failures to replicate the weapon focus effect in online samples.2
Supplemental Material for Psychological Science From Research to Policy: Eyewitness Identifications in Pennsylvania Police Agencies2
Supplemental Material for Children's Underextended Understanding of Touch2
Risk-tinted spectacles: What influences evaluator decision making in sexually violent persons examinations.2
The Department of Veterans Affairs disability examination program for PTSD: Critical analysis and strategies for remediation.2
Supplemental Material for Politics or Prejudice? Separating the Influence of Political Affiliation and Prejudicial Attitudes in Determining Support for Hate Crime Law2
A statewide evaluation of jail-based mental health interventions.2
Pathways toward driver disqualification and implications for road safety policy and practice.2
How crime severity predicts victim willingness to meet the offender.2
The influence of gender and other extralegal factors on student loan bankruptcy decisions.2
Forensic evaluators’ opinions on the use of videoconferencing technology for competency to stand trial evaluations after the onset of COVID-19.2
Static-99R: Strengths, limitations, predictive accuracy meta-analysis, and legal admissibility review.2
A longitudinal examination of stepping up, stepping out with incarcerated men in restrictive housing: An expansion of the 2021 pilot.1
A first look at the reentry experiences of juvenile lifers released in Philadelphia.1
Supplemental Material for Are They Synonyms? A Review of the Use of the Terms Innocence, Miscarriages of Justice, Wrongful Conviction, and Exoneration1
Measuring trans youths’ perceptions of police and police bias: Exploring the use of the perceptions of police scale.1
“People make mistakes” stakeholders and participants’ perceptions of the acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of diversion and deferred prosecution programs.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
Equity depends on the definition: Examining the impact of segregation definitions on equity in school-based mental health.1
The association between hate crime laws that enumerate sexual orientation and adolescent suicide attempts.1
Children's underextended understanding of touch.1
Perceptions of legal system legitimacy among family members of individuals incarcerated for sex offenses.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
Proximity-based evidence disclosure: Providing an operational purpose for disclosing evidence in investigative interviews.1
Legal perceptions of forensic mental health professionals’ competency to stand trial evaluations.1
Estimated effect of fee repeal on family financial stress and juvenile probation outcomes.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
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law: Reflecting on the past, charting the future.1
Open up and let us in: An introduction to the special issue on emerging issues in correctional policy, research, and practice.1
The critical case file approach: A novel tool for critically analyzing mixed-method data as exemplified in a juvenile legal setting.1
Getting traction on positive youth justice: Prosocial identity as a promising target for intervention.1
Supplemental Material for Four (and a Half) Preregistered Failures to Replicate the Weapon Focus Effect in Online Samples1
Supplemental Material for Teaching Child Investigative Interviewing Skills: Long-Term Retention Requires Cumulative Training1
Assessing the effect of eyewitness identification confidence assessment method on the confidence-accuracy relationship.1
Evaluating the claim that high confidence implies high accuracy in eyewitness identification.1
To proceed or not proceed: Conducting sanity evaluations of incompetent defendants.1
The Miranda waiver literature: A systematic review and meta-analysis.1
Cultural differences in jury deliberations and jury decision making between South Korea and the United States.1
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