OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Psychiatry Psychology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The harassment of parliamentarians and judicial officers: a South Australian perspective	35
A conceptual framework for internet child abuse material offenders: risk-relevant therapy based on assessed risk factors	16
Differential association theory, the Dark Triad of personality and the prediction of antisocial behaviour	15
Technical profiles of child sexual exploitation material offenders	12
Comparing the characteristics of firesetting and non-firesetting adults in a New Zealand un-apprehended community sample	10
Neurological soft signs and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics among patients with schizophrenia with and without a history of violence	8
Sentencing and placement of offenders with dementia: a significant contemporary challenge for the criminal justice system	8
The effect of response modality on witness statements when using the self-administered interview	8
How to judge emotions? Measuring moral emotions of lawyers in a retrospective situation	8
What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?	8
If you express it in the form of a negation, you can expect an effect similar to misinformation	8
Evaluating a community-informed training module for autism recognition in policing	7
Vicarious trauma in the judicial workplace: state liability for judicial psychiatric injury in Australia	7
Exploring family experiences of missing persons inquests through the eyes of professionals and the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence	7
Adults report positive perceptions of ground rule instructions in mock investigative interviews	6
Cartage killers: considering highway serial homicide as a novel offender typology	6
Association of aggressivity at adolescence and criminality to severe assault exposure among former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	6
Forensic interviews conducted with autistic adults in Japan: a review of the literature and directions for future research	6
Police-reported family violence: are there differences amongst South Asian Australians and Australian-born Australians?	6
A qualitative investigation of nurses’ knowledge and practice gaps, regarding confidentiality and risk-actuated public interest disclosure-related decision-making	6
Defendants with intellectual disability and autism spectrum conditions: the perspective of clinicians working across three jurisdictions	5
Toward children’s cognitive development from the perspective of neurolaw: implications ofRoper v Simmons	5
The influence of female victim sexual orientation on legal decision-making in a rape-case	5
A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion	5
Supporting people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) involved in the criminal justice system: justice and allied health professionals’ insights	5

The validity of the Violence Risk Scale (VRS) in a Portuguese sample of remand prisoners	4
Brothers in arms or making a murderer? Public opinion on joint criminal enterprise	4
The dose–effect relationship in PTSD: the South African Constitutional Court Case of AK v. Minister of Police (2022)	4
Psychosocial factors of risk and protection associated with juvenile cyberbullying victimization: results from an international multi-city study (International Self-Report Delinquency Study 3, ISRD3)	4
Ethical tensions in forensic psychological practice: experiences of New Zealand psychologists in an increasingly risk-averse legislative context	4
Creating profiles of juvenile offenders using functions of aggression and callous-unemotional traits: relations to crime type	4
Correction	4
The effects of immediate recall and subsequent retrieval strategy on eyewitness memory	4
Screening for borderline personality symptoms amongst adult offenders attending rehabilitation programmes	3
An inspector calls: trauma-informed regulation	3
Making addicts: critical reflections on agency and responsibility from lawyers and decision makers	3
Vicarious trauma among legal practitioners and judicial officers	3
The benefits and harms of inpatient involuntary psychiatric treatment: a scoping review	3
Increasing disclosures of older adult maltreatment: a review of best practices for interviewing older adult eyewitnesses and victims	3
The experiences of undergoing medico-legal assessments when seeking asylum in the UK: an interpretive phenomenological analysis	3
Adaptation of the Penal Attitudes Scale for use in Turkey	3
Harmful sexual behaviours against siblings in New Zealand: could assessment of the family environment guide therapeutic intervention?	3
Public awareness of legal decision-making capacity and planning instruments in dementia: implications for health care practitioners	3
Finding the balance between respecting autonomy and life-saving anorexia nervosa care: an Australian perspective	3
Organizational trust and work attitudes among Chinese prison officers	3
Understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing factors protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from justice system involvement	3
Judicial instructions on alibis: impact on mock jury decision-making	3
From psychotherapy to legal practice: the use of clinical supervision by lawyers in England and Wales	3
Being a psychiatrist in the evaluation process of a gun license report: morally challenging experience – a qualitative study from Turkey	3
The role of experimenter familiarity in children’s eyewitness identification	3
Dementia training for lawyers: results from a pilot evaluation study and implications for building dementia capability in the legal profession	2
Editorial Team changes: thanking you for your service!	2
The contributory role of an autistic presentation to miscarriage of justice in a high-profile murder case in New Zealand	2
Light Triad traits of personality as moderators between the dark core of personality, psychopathy, and antisociality/criminality	2
Care pathways in forensic mental health services in New Zealand	2
Professionals’ perceptions of a multi-agency computerised data sharing system	2
Offence-specific scripts among juvenile deliberate firesetters: a possible explanation for fire proclivity	2
Psychological factors of offender decision-making in body disposal: Further considerations to apply to a ‘Winthrop’ model	2
Implementation of practices deemed trauma-informed in juvenile court	2
Testing the job demands – resources model to explain organizational trust among private prison staff	2
Discriminative and predictive validity of risk assessment measures for women incarcerated for serious violent offences in Australia	2
Adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours in New Zealand: could assessment of personality-based classifications help guide therapeutic interventions?	2
Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation: A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians	2
Patient outcomes in an Australian low secure forensic psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit: a 10-year retrospective study	2
The relationship between recall accuracy and the use of gestures according to age and word meaning structure	2
Sentencing and mental disorder: the evolution of the Verdins Principles, strategic interdisciplinary advocacy and evidence-based reform	2
Criminological profile of minors who have committed child-to-parent violence	2
The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis	2
‘Lock them up and throw away the key’: an evaluation of the structure of punitive attitudes	2
Examining policing interventions to promote ethnoracial equity in police–community relations: a systematic review	2
Callous but in control: the effect of emotion regulation on callous traits in a sample of New Zealand youth	2
Police perceptions of alibi accounts: the role of intergroup bias	2
Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges: distinctiveness and two-year structural stability	2
Examining the effect of religiosity, moral disengagement, personal attribution, comprehension and proximity on juror decision making regarding insanity pleas	2
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on forensic risk assessment	2

‘Any male victim?’ The legacy of conflating paedophilia and homosexuality and the differential seriousness of sexual abuse by victim gender	2
Persons with mental disorders and suicidality in crisis or high-risk situations involving police negotiation: a systematic review	2
What would a trauma-informed workplace ideally look like in legal aid? A qualitative perspective from lawyers	2
Methamphetamine dependence in Australia–why is ‘ice’ (crystal meth) so addictive?	2
Correction	2
What are the chances? – Validity assessment and the cumulative binomial distribution in the evaluation of fitness to stand trial	2
Exploring the health literacy of people in a high-secure forensic mental health facility using the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)	1
The privilege and the pressure: judges’ and magistrates’ reflections on the sources and impacts of stress in judicial work	1
Exploring offending characteristics of young people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia	1
The criminogenic profile of violent female offenders incarcerated in Western Australian prisons as per the Level of Service/Risk, Need, Responsivity (LS/RNR) and Violence Risk Scale (VRS)	1
Single versus multiple firesetting: an examination of demographic, behavioural and psychological factors	1
Gender responsivity in the assessment and treatment of offenders	1
Attachment and the (mis)apprehension of Aboriginal children: epistemic violence in child welfare interventions	1
Work demands, self-care, and mental health in lawyers	1
Challenges and ways forward for bi-cultural psychology and rehabilitation in New Zealand: perspectives from the coalface	1
Executive function in individuals who are compliant and non-compliant with the conditions of a community-based sentence	1
Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons , by Anita Mackay, Canberra: ANU Press, November 2020, 368pp,	1
Special testimony of children and adolescents who are victims or witnesses of sexual crimes: the perspective of the professionals involved	1
The perceived credibility of repeated-event witnesses depends upon their veracity	1
Aboriginality and violence: gender and cultural differences on the Level of Service/Risk, Need, Responsivity (LS/RNR) and Violence Risk Scale (VRS)	1
Decision-making capacity assessments in New Zealand and Australia: a systematised review	1
The perception of judges regarding compulsory admission of people with severe mental illness in Portugal: a qualitative study	1
A descriptive study of young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder referred to a Fixated Threat Assessment Centre	1
Bad parents? evaluating judgements of infant homicides	1
Symbolic or realistic? The role of perceived threat in alibi credibility judgement	1
Therapeutic prevention of child sexual abuse: the Stand Strong, Walk Tall framework and overview	1
Time-of-day effects on eyewitness reports in morning and evening types	1
Professionals’ perceptions of the Saskatoon Mental Health Strategy (MHS) Court: a qualitative analysis	1
Towards a context-specific approach to understanding lawyers’ well-being: a synthesis review and future research agenda	1
Suicidal behaviour in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young men under custodial youth justice supervision: understanding the role of adverse childhood experiences	1
A cross-cultural mixed-methods approach to the conceptualisation of domestic violence in the United Kingdom and Peru	1
Identifying and responding to young people with cognitive disability and neurodiversity in Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand youth justice systems	1
Coping, adjustment, perceived social support, and age as predictors of depressed mood among male maximum-security incarcerated offenders	1
Book Review of Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses,	1
Location, location, location: predictors and risk factors associated with adolescents referred for firesetting at home and away from home	1
The effect of alibi consistency, presence of physical evidence and timing of disclosure on mock juror perceptions	1
Crime, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System in Africa: A Psycho-Criminological Perspective,	1
Practitioners’ attitudes and approaches to assessing comorbid depression among patients seeking assisted dying in New Zealand	1
A Practice Guide for Preparing Mental Health Pre-sentence Reports in the South Australian Criminal Justice System	1
Using item response theory modelling to understand criminal justice professionals’ perceptions of cross-examination in child sexual abuse trials	1
Legal, mental health and psychosocial outcomes of the RePresent Games: a quasi-experimental study	1
Cross-cultural applicability of the Inventory of Problems–29 (IOP–29): a pre-registered German replication of Akca, Tepedelen, et al. (2023)	1
Managing Human Sources: identification and management of motivation	1
Investigating an education intervention for the assessment of decision-making capacity: a qualitative approach	1
Psychiatric hospitalisation; transitioning from consenting to involuntarily admitting–re-conceptualisation and a procedural framework	1
The power of compassion: a judicial reflection on wellbeing and the court	1
Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among lawyers in New Zealand	1
Death by hunger strike: suicide or not?	1
Police officers’ perceptions of a training course designed to enhance open-ended questions with adult witnesses	1
An examination of criminal offenders with dementia in Australian courts	1
Advancement in the medicolegal requirement for testamentary capacity assessment in older adults: the dilemmas in Hong Kong	1
The effect of surgical masks on identification decisions from masked and unmasked lineups	1
Exploring the relationship between happiness, courage, and justice in lawyers’ perspectives: a qualitative study	1
The effect of authority on eyewitness memory reports across cultures	1
Deaths in mental health care in Australia: an analysis of coroners’ reports	1
All mouth and trousers? Use of the Devil’s Advocate questioning protocol to determine authenticity of opinions about protester actions	1
Judges looking into themselves: what makes a good judge?	1
The living experience of First Nations Peoples and Forensic Mental Health systems: listening to the deep stories behind the numbers	1
Practicing ground rule instructions assists adults in reporting experienced events	1
On the salience of international human rights frameworks to forensic mental health services: bridging paradigms and enhancing care	1
The impact of voluntariness of apologies on victims’ responses in restorative justice: findings of a quantitative study	1
An exploration of the rape myths effect on the #MeToo movement acceptance in the UK	1
Inventory of Problems–29 (IOP-29) and Inventory of Problems–Memory (IOP-M) failure rates in patients with severe psychosis with and without criminal convictions	1
Old enough to offend but not to buy a hamster: the argument for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility	1
How to determine the capacity of a person with depression who requests voluntary assisted dying	1
Testing the model of judicial stress using a COVID-era survey of U.S. federal court personnel	1
Are legal professionals more knowledgeable about eyewitness testimony factors than the general public? A survey of judges, prosecutors, and laypeople	1