OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychiatry Psychology and Law is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A conceptual framework for internet child abuse material offenders: risk-relevant therapy based on assessed risk factors	20
Neurological soft signs and sociodemographic and clinical characteristics among patients with schizophrenia with and without a history of violence	20
If you express it in the form of a negation, you can expect an effect similar to misinformation	18
What matters to magistrates when considering diversion into mental health treatment?	15
Sentencing and placement of offenders with dementia: a significant contemporary challenge for the criminal justice system	14
How to judge emotions? Measuring moral emotions of lawyers in a retrospective situation	14
Laypersons’ beliefs and knowledge about human memory: do jurors require expert evidence about memory?	13
Evaluating a community-informed training module for autism recognition in policing	13
The harassment of parliamentarians and judicial officers: a South Australian perspective	12
The effect of response modality on witness statements when using the self-administered interview	10
Technical profiles of child sexual exploitation material offenders	8
Standard and simplified judicial instructions on alibis: the effects of confession and alibi evidence on believability	7
Comparing the characteristics of firesetting and non-firesetting adults in a New Zealand un-apprehended community sample	7
Differential association theory, the Dark Triad of personality and the prediction of antisocial behaviour	7
Behavioural changes and perceived criminal offending: an exploratory study of accounts from carers of people living with dementia	6
Police-reported family violence: are there differences amongst South Asian Australians and Australian-born Australians?	6
Adults report positive perceptions of ground rule instructions in mock investigative interviews	6
Forensic interviews conducted with autistic adults in Japan: a review of the literature and directions for future research	6
A qualitative exploration into staff perceptions of barriers faced by domestic abuse victims in engaging with the criminal justice system in Scotland	6
‘Drowning in the deep end’: factors which alleviate or exacerbate experiences of vicarious trauma in New Zealand Crown prosecutors	6
Vicarious trauma in the judicial workplace: state liability for judicial psychiatric injury in Australia	5
Supporting people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) involved in the criminal justice system: justice and allied health professionals’ insights	5
The impact of occupational factors on the mental health of US Army legal personnel	5
The influence of female victim sexual orientation on legal decision-making in a rape-case	5
Cartage killers: considering highway serial homicide as a novel offender typology	5

A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion	5
Measures of risk for violence and of aggression in a life history perspective linked to lethal violence among Swedish justice-involved women	5
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
Brothers in arms or making a murderer? Public opinion on joint criminal enterprise	4
Judicial instructions on alibis: impact on mock jury decision-making	4
An inspector calls: trauma-informed regulation	4
A scoping review of strangulation and hanging: determining suicide from concealed homicide in equivocal death cases	4
Creating profiles of juvenile offenders using functions of aggression and callous-unemotional traits: relations to crime type	4
Correction	4
The association between parental incarceration and children’s educational outcomes: a systematic review	4
A qualitative investigation of nurses’ knowledge and practice gaps, regarding confidentiality and risk-actuated public interest disclosure-related decision-making	4
Understanding the Social and Emotional Wellbeing factors protecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people from justice system involvement	4
Investigating the use of immediate cued recall to increase discriminability between truth-tellers and liars	4
Adaptation of the Penal Attitudes Scale for use in Turkey	4
Victim blaming on social media: how user comments impact perceptions	4
Exploring critical incidents and post-traumatic stress among UK prison officers	4
Ethical tensions in forensic psychological practice: experiences of New Zealand psychologists in an increasingly risk-averse legislative context	4
The experiences of undergoing medico-legal assessments when seeking asylum in the UK: an interpretive phenomenological analysis	4
Caregiver burden in forensic mental health settings: social impacts on caregivers of individuals with severe mental disorders	4
A descriptive study of individuals accepted by a Fixated Threat Assessment Centre	4
The benefits and harms of inpatient involuntary psychiatric treatment: a scoping review	3
Harmful sexual behaviours against siblings in New Zealand: could assessment of the family environment guide therapeutic intervention?	3
Staff attitudes to trauma-informed care for young people in NSW, Australia	3
Embedding theories of response modulation, low arousal, and the hot-cold framework within the Cognitive Affective Processing System meta-model to advance the understanding and assessment of psychopath	3
Organizational trust and work attitudes among Chinese prison officers	3
People with suicidality or self-harm frequently referred to a police mental health liaison service	3
Increasing disclosures of older adult maltreatment: a review of best practices for interviewing older adult eyewitnesses and victims	3
Implementation of practices deemed trauma-informed in juvenile court	3
Screening for borderline personality symptoms amongst adult offenders attending rehabilitation programmes	3
Mental health in the judiciary: proposals for structural psychological support in the Spanish judicial system	3
Finding the balance between respecting autonomy and life-saving anorexia nervosa care: an Australian perspective	3
From miscuing to misuse: why restraint and seclusion have no place in rights-based education	3
Psychological factors of offender decision-making in body disposal: Further considerations to apply to a ‘Winthrop’ model	3
The role of experimenter familiarity in children’s eyewitness identification	3
Methamphetamine dependence in Australia–why is ‘ice’ (crystal meth) so addictive?	3
From psychotherapy to legal practice: the use of clinical supervision by lawyers in England and Wales	3
Making addicts: critical reflections on agency and responsibility from lawyers and decision makers	3
Judges’ views on making decisions in family law cases that feature a parent with a mental illness	3
Being a psychiatrist in the evaluation process of a gun license report: morally challenging experience – a qualitative study from Turkey	3
Vicarious trauma among legal practitioners and judicial officers	3
Correction	3
‘Lock them up and throw away the key’: an evaluation of the structure of punitive attitudes	3
Persons with mental disorders and suicidality in crisis or high-risk situations involving police negotiation: a systematic review	2
Testing the model of judicial stress using a COVID-era survey of U.S. federal court personnel	2
Discriminative and predictive validity of risk assessment measures for women incarcerated for serious violent offences in Australia	2
Psychiatric hospitalisation; transitioning from consenting to involuntarily admitting–re-conceptualisation and a procedural framework	2
Professionals’ perceptions of the Saskatoon Mental Health Strategy (MHS) Court: a qualitative analysis	2
Adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours in New Zealand: could assessment of personality-based classifications help guide therapeutic interventions?	2
The first systematic review of treatment characteristics and recidivism outcomes for Indigenous people who have sexually offended	2

To admit or not admit: the utility of structured decision-making tools in forensic mental health services in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation: A Medicolegal Handbook for Lawyers and Clinicians	2
The relationship between recall accuracy and the use of gestures according to age and word meaning structure	2
How to determine the capacity of a person with depression who requests voluntary assisted dying	2
What are the chances? – Validity assessment and the cumulative binomial distribution in the evaluation of fitness to stand trial	2
Mental health locus of origin, locus of control of behaviour, and stigma towards criminal justice-involved persons with mental health problems	2
Offence-specific scripts among juvenile deliberate firesetters: a possible explanation for fire proclivity	2
The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis	2
Knowledge, attitudes and practices towards fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among lawyers in New Zealand	2
The Inventory of Problems is sensitive and specific to experimentally induced malingering: a study in a Spanish-speaking Cuban sample	2
Editorial Team changes: thanking you for your service!	2
The perception of judges regarding compulsory admission of people with severe mental illness in Portugal: a qualitative study	2
This is what happened . . . I think?: Indicators of uncertainty when witnesses recall a single or repeated event	2
Contemporaneous notes and juror decision-making: Do reminiscence and expert testimony play a role?	2
Testing the job demands – resources model to explain organizational trust among private prison staff	2
A case series of forensic psychiatric inpatients who regained their fitness to plead	2
Dementia training for lawyers: results from a pilot evaluation study and implications for building dementia capability in the legal profession	2
The power of compassion: a judicial reflection on wellbeing and the court	2
Callous but in control: the effect of emotion regulation on callous traits in a sample of New Zealand youth	2
Current state of ‘lost in the mall’: implications for expert witness testimony on the reliability of childhood memories	2
Are legal professionals more knowledgeable about eyewitness testimony factors than the general public? A survey of judges, prosecutors, and laypeople	2
Light Triad traits of personality as moderators between the dark core of personality, psychopathy, and antisociality/criminality	2
Symbolic or realistic? The role of perceived threat in alibi credibility judgement	2
Police perceptions of alibi accounts: the role of intergroup bias	2
The contributory role of an autistic presentation to miscarriage of justice in a high-profile murder case in New Zealand	2
Mock juror decision-making and the intersectionality of race and gender in a case of intimate partner violence	2
‘Any male victim?’ The legacy of conflating paedophilia and homosexuality and the differential seriousness of sexual abuse by victim gender	2
Corrections officers’ working relationships in prison and their effect on officers’ perceived safety	2
Examining policing interventions to promote ethnoracial equity in police–community relations: a systematic review	2
Distinct group, distinct traits? A comparison of risk factors across cybercrime offenders, traditional offenders and non-offenders	2
What would a trauma-informed workplace ideally look like in legal aid? A qualitative perspective from lawyers	2
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives on forensic risk assessment	2
The negative effects on the patient population of Oregon State Hospital of the Enforcement Integration mandate, U.S. Department of Justice	2