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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The harassment of parliamentarians and judicial officers: a South Australian perspective	31
A conceptual framework for internet child abuse material offenders: risk-relevant therapy based on assessed risk factors	14
Differential association theory, the Dark Triad of personality and the prediction of antisocial behaviour	13
Technical profiles of child sexual exploitation material offenders	12
The effect of response modality on witness statements when using the self-administered interview	8
If you express it in the form of a negation, you can expect an effect similar to misinformation	8
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
How to judge emotions? Measuring moral emotions of lawyers in a retrospective situation	8
Comparing the characteristics of firesetting and non-firesetting adults in a New Zealand un-apprehended community sample	8
Exploring family experiences of missing persons inquests through the eyes of professionals and the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence	7
Evaluating a community-informed training module for autism recognition in policing	7
What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?	7
Vicarious trauma in the judicial workplace: state liability for judicial psychiatric injury in Australia	6
Forensic interviews conducted with autistic adults in Japan: a review of the literature and directions for future research	6
Adults report positive perceptions of ground rule instructions in mock investigative interviews	6
Association of aggressivity at adolescence and criminality to severe assault exposure among former adolescent psychiatric inpatients	6
Police-reported family violence: are there differences amongst South Asian Australians and Australian-born Australians?	6
Cartage killers: considering highway serial homicide as a novel offender typology	5
Supporting people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) involved in the criminal justice system: justice and allied health professionals’ insights	5
A qualitative investigation of nurses’ knowledge and practice gaps, regarding confidentiality and risk-actuated public interest disclosure-related decision-making	5
Toward children’s cognitive development from the perspective of neurolaw: implications ofRoper v Simmons	5
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)	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

Correction	4
Creating profiles of juvenile offenders using functions of aggression and callous-unemotional traits: relations to crime type	4
The effects of immediate recall and subsequent retrieval strategy on eyewitness memory	4
The validity of the Violence Risk Scale (VRS) in a Portuguese sample of remand prisoners	4
The dose–effect relationship in PTSD: the South African Constitutional Court Case of AK v. Minister of Police (2022)	4
Defendants with intellectual disability and autism spectrum conditions: the perspective of clinicians working across three jurisdictions	4
Brothers in arms or making a murderer? Public opinion on joint criminal enterprise	4
The experiences of undergoing medico-legal assessments when seeking asylum in the UK: an interpretive phenomenological analysis	3
Judicial instructions on alibis: impact on mock jury decision-making	3
Harmful sexual behaviours against siblings in New Zealand: could assessment of the family environment guide therapeutic intervention?	3
From psychotherapy to legal practice: the use of clinical supervision by lawyers in England and Wales	3
Vicarious trauma among legal practitioners and judicial officers	3
The benefits and harms of inpatient involuntary psychiatric treatment: a scoping review	3
An inspector calls: trauma-informed regulation	3
Understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing factors protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from justice system involvement	3
Being a psychiatrist in the evaluation process of a gun license report: morally challenging experience – a qualitative study from Turkey	3
Organizational trust and work attitudes among Chinese prison officers	3
Increasing disclosures of older adult maltreatment: a review of best practices for interviewing older adult eyewitnesses and victims	3
Screening for borderline personality symptoms amongst adult offenders attending rehabilitation programmes	3
Adaptation of the Penal Attitudes Scale for use in Turkey	3
Making addicts: critical reflections on agency and responsibility from lawyers and decision makers	3
Finding the balance between respecting autonomy and life-saving anorexia nervosa care: an Australian perspective	3
Public awareness of legal decision-making capacity and planning instruments in dementia: implications for health care practitioners	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
Criminological profile of minors who have committed child-to-parent violence	2
Offence-specific scripts among juvenile deliberate firesetters: a possible explanation for fire proclivity	2
Callous but in control: the effect of emotion regulation on callous traits in a sample of New Zealand youth	2
Correction	2
The relationship between recall accuracy and the use of gestures according to age and word meaning structure	2
Examining policing interventions to promote ethnoracial equity in police–community relations: a systematic review	2
The contributory role of an autistic presentation to miscarriage of justice in a high-profile murder case in New Zealand	2
Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges: distinctiveness and two-year structural stability	2
Care pathways in forensic mental health services in New Zealand	2
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on forensic risk assessment	2
Sentencing and mental disorder: the evolution of the Verdins Principles, strategic interdisciplinary advocacy and evidence-based reform	2
The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis	2
The ability of adults with limited expressive language to engage in open-ended interviews about personal experiences	2
Persons with mental disorders and suicidality in crisis or high-risk situations involving police negotiation: a systematic review	2
Methamphetamine dependence in Australia–why is ‘ice’ (crystal meth) so addictive?	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
Light Triad traits of personality as moderators between the dark core of personality, psychopathy, and antisociality/criminality	2
Discriminative and predictive validity of risk assessment measures for women incarcerated for serious violent offences in Australia	2
Professionals’ perceptions of a multi-agency computerised data sharing system	2
What would a trauma-informed workplace ideally look like in legal aid? A qualitative perspective from lawyers	2
Implementation of practices deemed trauma-informed in juvenile court	2
‘Lock them up and throw away the key’: an evaluation of the structure of punitive attitudes	2
What are the chances? – Validity assessment and the cumulative binomial distribution in the evaluation of fitness to stand trial	2
Testing the job demands – resources model to explain organizational trust among private prison staff	2

The perception of judges regarding compulsory admission of people with severe mental illness in Portugal: a qualitative study	2
Patient outcomes in an Australian low secure forensic psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit: a 10-year retrospective study	2
‘Any male victim?’ The legacy of conflating paedophilia and homosexuality and the differential seriousness of sexual abuse by victim gender	2
Testing the model of judicial stress using a COVID-era survey of U.S. federal court personnel	1
Investigating an education intervention for the assessment of decision-making capacity: a qualitative approach	1
Are legal professionals more knowledgeable about eyewitness testimony factors than the general public? A survey of judges, prosecutors, and laypeople	1
Challenges and ways forward for bi-cultural psychology and rehabilitation in New Zealand: perspectives from the coalface	1
Police perceptions of alibi accounts: the role of intergroup bias	1
Aboriginality and violence: gender and cultural differences on the Level of Service/Risk, Need, Responsivity (LS/RNR) and Violence Risk Scale (VRS)	1
The impact of voluntariness of apologies on victims’ responses in restorative justice: findings of a quantitative study	1
Death by hunger strike: suicide or not?	1
Suicidal behaviour in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young men under custodial youth justice supervision: understanding the role of adverse childhood experiences	1
Police officers’ perceptions of a training course designed to enhance open-ended questions with adult witnesses	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
Practitioners’ attitudes and approaches to assessing comorbid depression among patients seeking assisted dying in New Zealand	1
All mouth and trousers? Use of the Devil’s Advocate questioning protocol to determine authenticity of opinions about protester actions	1
The living experience of First Nations Peoples and Forensic Mental Health systems: listening to the deep stories behind the numbers	1
The effect of surgical masks on identification decisions from masked and unmasked lineups	1
A descriptive study of young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder referred to a Fixated Threat Assessment Centre	1
An exploration of the rape myths effect on the #MeToo movement acceptance in the UK	1
Bad parents? evaluating judgements of infant homicides	1
Towards a context-specific approach to understanding lawyers’ well-being: a synthesis review and future research agenda	1
Old enough to offend but not to buy a hamster: the argument for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility	1
The power of compassion: a judicial reflection on wellbeing and the court	1
Time-of-day effects on eyewitness reports in morning and evening types	1
Location, location, location: predictors and risk factors associated with adolescents referred for firesetting at home and away from home	1
Examining the effect of religiosity, moral disengagement, personal attribution, comprehension and proximity on juror decision making regarding insanity pleas	1
Attachment and the (mis)apprehension of Aboriginal children: epistemic violence in child welfare interventions	1
A Practice Guide for Preparing Mental Health Pre-sentence Reports in the South Australian Criminal Justice System	1
The perceived credibility of repeated-event witnesses depends upon their veracity	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
The effect of alibi consistency, presence of physical evidence and timing of disclosure on mock juror perceptions	1
An examination of criminal offenders with dementia in Australian courts	1
Executive function in individuals who are compliant and non-compliant with the conditions of a community-based sentence	1
Gender responsivity in the assessment and treatment of offenders	1
Decision-making capacity assessments in New Zealand and Australia: a systematised review	1
Book Review of Neurodisability and the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Responses,	1
On the salience of international human rights frameworks to forensic mental health services: bridging paradigms and enhancing care	1
Managing Human Sources: identification and management of motivation	1
Therapeutic prevention of child sexual abuse: the Stand Strong, Walk Tall framework and overview	1
Exploring offending characteristics of young people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Western Australia	1
How to determine the capacity of a person with depression who requests voluntary assisted dying	1
A cross-cultural mixed-methods approach to the conceptualisation of domestic violence in the United Kingdom and Peru	1
The effect of authority on eyewitness memory reports across cultures	1
Juror decision-making regarding a defendant diagnosed with borderline personality disorder	1
Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among lawyers in New Zealand	1
Special testimony of children and adolescents who are victims or witnesses of sexual crimes: the perspective of the professionals involved	1
Professionals’ perceptions of the Saskatoon Mental Health Strategy (MHS) Court: a qualitative analysis	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
Practicing ground rule instructions assists adults in reporting experienced events	1
The privilege and the pressure: judges’ and magistrates’ reflections on the sources and impacts of stress in judicial work	1
Deaths in mental health care in Australia: an analysis of coroners’ reports	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
Legal, mental health and psychosocial outcomes of the RePresent Games: a quasi-experimental study	1
Using item response theory modelling to understand criminal justice professionals’ perceptions of cross-examination in child sexual abuse trials	1
Exploring the health literacy of people in a high-secure forensic mental health facility using the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)	1
Cross-cultural applicability of the Inventory of Problems–29 (IOP–29): a pre-registered German replication of Akca, Tepedelen, et al. (2023)	1
Editorial Team changes: thanking you for your service!	1
Crime, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System in Africa: A Psycho-Criminological Perspective,	1
Judges looking into themselves: what makes a good judge?	1
Symbolic or realistic? The role of perceived threat in alibi credibility judgement	1