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Correction Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-03-26
Published in Psychology, Crime & Law (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2024)
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The economic burden of posttraumatic stress disorder among Canadian lawyers: an exploratory study Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Marie-Jeanne Leonard, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis, Alain Brunet
Witnessing traumatic material is common for lawyers and can trigger symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This exploratory study aimed to assess the economic burden associated with prob...
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Laypeople’s interpretations of ‘high confidence’ Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Pia Pennekamp, Jamal K. Mansour
High confidence has been associated with high accuracy under certain conditions. Yet, how researchers operationalize ‘high confidence’ varies across publications and depends on who is asked. In thi...
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Tipsy, trashed, or totalled? Lay understanding of dose-specific alcohol intoxication and the criminal justice system Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Erica Martin, Celine van Golde, Alex M. T. Russell, Lauren A. Monds
This online survey study explored how Australian laypeople (N = 147) define alcohol intoxication using language, standard drinks, blood alcohol concentration (BAC), and symptoms. Participants used ...
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Perceived utility of community notification for sexually violent persons (SVP) on supervised release Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lakshmi Subramanian, Rachel E. Kahn, Gina Ambroziak, Samuel R. Vincent
Individuals committed under Sexually Violent Person (SVP) laws can be afforded conditional or supervised release (SR) in the community. SR placement is preceded by community notification. The objec...
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Exploring factors associated with chronic and serious offending in detained dual system youth Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Anna Moriarty, Nina Papalia, Benjamin Spivak, Mohammed M. Ali, Stefan Luebbers, Stephane Shepherd
Young people who have both child protection and youth justice contact have been termed ‘dual system youth’. Dual system youth have been found to engage in more frequent and serious offending than j...
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Perceptions of officer-involved shootings by police officers versus civilians Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Kathy Pezdek, Tyler Shapland, Jessica Barragan
In two preregistered experiments, we explore how perception and memory for a use-of-force incident differ between officers who participated in the incident live and civilians who later viewed a Bod...
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A typology of rural arsonists: characterising patterns of criminal behaviour Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Rita Ribeiro, Duarte Teles, Luís Proença, Iris Almeida, Cristina Soeiro
Rural arsonists are responsible for a significant part of fires that cause environmental and community damage. Despite its prevalence in several countries, few studies have examined the characteris...
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International researchers and child protection service workers beliefs about child sexual abuse disclosure and statement validity Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Charlotte A. Bücken, Ivan Mangiulli, Brenda Erens, Aniek Leistra, Henry Otgaar
How child victims of sexual abuse disclose their experiences is contested among experts. We surveyed international researchers (N = 199) and child protection service workers (N = 267) on their beli...
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Mental health in the courtroom: how victim mental health status impacts juror decision-making in a rape case Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Mary M. Levi, Jonathan M. Golding
The present study aimed to investigate the effect of victim mental illness on legal decision-making in a rape trial using a 3 (victim mental health status: schizophrenia, depression, no illness) x ...
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Life experiences and health factors linked to violent offending and repeated incarceration among males in Spain Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Eva Aizpurua, Tom J. Barry, Jorge J. Ricarte, Francisco Caravaca-Sánchez
Rates of repeated incarceration for violent crimes are a significant problem in most countries due to their human, social and economic impact. The current research aimed to detect targetable life, ...
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Workplace cyberbullying toward the Arab minority in Israel: gender differences in attitudes and attribution of blame Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Rotem Maor, Nir Rozmann
The current study examined gender differences among Israeli Jews in attitudes and attribution of blame regarding workplace cyberbullying directed against Israeli Arabs. Three hundred and nineteen J...
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‘It's all about the preparation’. Virtual reality courtroom for survivors of sexual violence: a case study Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Erla Katrín Jónsdóttir, Magdalena Konop, Hildur Fjóla Antonsdóttir, Hildur Skúladóttir, Paola Cardenas, Margrét Tórshamar Georgsdóttir, Malena Írisardóttir Þórisdóttir, Heiðdís B. Valdimarsdóttir, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Bryndís Björk Ásgeirsdóttir, Rannveig Sigurvinsdottir
This exploratory case study examined the effect of virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) for a survivor of sexual violence (SV) as a preparation for a court hearing. Five sessions of VRET were co...
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Cognitive and social-cognitive factors as mediators of aggression using structural equation modeling Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jonathan R. Cohn, David C. Cicero
Violence and aggression continue to be both public health and economic concerns. In an effort to better understand, predict, and prevent violence and aggression, a number of models have been propos...
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Stress begets distress: the association of job stress with psychological distress among prison police officers Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Mingchao Dong, Zhengzheng Ren, Yingwu Li, Qian Ye
In comparison to other professions, prison police officers encounter elevated levels of job-related stress and a greater prevalence of mental health problems. This study seeks to investigate how jo...
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Lying on misleading information: false confirmation leads to memory errors Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Fabiana Battista, Henry Otgaar, Ivan Mangiulli
Research on post-event misinformation demonstrated that being exposed to such information can undermine people’s memory for the original event. Similarly, studies on lying and memory showed that ly...
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The effectiveness of the offender personality disorder pathway: a propensity score-matched analysis Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 George Vamvakas, Manuela Jarrett, Barbara Barrett, Colin Campbell, Andrew Forrester, Julie Trebilcock, Julian Walker, Tim Weaver, Mizanur Khondoker, Paul Moran
Offenders with severe personality pathology are at significantly increased risk of serious and violent offending. In England and Wales, offenders who are likely to meet criteria for a diagnosis of ...
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How to measure lineup fairness: concurrent and predictive validity of lineup-fairness measures Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jungwon Lee, Jamal K. Mansour, Steven D. Penrod
The current study examined the concurrent and predictive validity of four families of lineup-fairness measures – mock-witness measures, perceptual ratings, face-similarity algorithms, and resultant...
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The impact of emotion on offender decision-making: advancing our understanding through virtual re-enactment Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Claire Nee
This article reviews approaches to the study of emotion in offender decision-making research. It then draws together theoretical models from psychology and neuroscience to propose an innovative met...
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‘Cool' or ‘hot' rational choices: an examination of traits and states in sexual crimes Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Amelie Pedneault, Eric Beauregard, Danielle A. Harris, Raymond A. Knight
We test Van Gelder and colleagues’ revision to rational choice theory by incorporating traits and states in sexual crime decision models. We studied the index sexual offenses of a sample of 871 mal...
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‘Violence is all he knew, and it seemed to work’: using the power threat meaning framework to explore prison officers’ understandings of violence in Irish prisons Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Orla Gallagher, Emma E. Regan, Gary O’ Reilly
In 2018 the Irish Prison Service (IPS) opened the National Violence Reduction Unit (NVRU), becoming home to all prisoners managed under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner (VDP) policy, who were repe...
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Aggressive behavior among Italian justice-involved juveniles: the impact of attachment, discipline, and moral disengagement Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Valeria Saladino, Andrea Fusco, Loriana Castellani, Danilo Calaresi, Valeria Verrastro
Our research investigates the influence of family attachment, perceived parental discipline, time spent with parents, and moral disengagement on aggressive behaviors among 234 justice-involved juve...
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The role of discrete emotional reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) testimony in mock juror decision-making Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Alma Patricia Olaguez, Joanna Peplak, Georgia Lundon, Jessica Zoe Klemfuss
Child sexual abuse (CSA) cases often involve graphic descriptions of abuse. Jurors may experience emotional reactions to this type of evidence, which may impact decision making. Two studies were co...
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Are intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and organisational identity always beneficial to the organisation? The different effects of black and grey corruption Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Jisu Jeong, Seunghui Han
This paper examines intrinsic and extrinsic motivation characteristics and analyses the differences between the two types of motivation on black and grey corruption. This study evaluated public off...
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Evaluating a model program for improving law enforcement officers’ perceptions of and interactions with youth in a diverse urban setting Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Stephanie C. Burke, Jeanne McPhee, Nivedita Anjaria, Lena DeYoung, Amanda NeMoyer, Emily Perkins, Florinda Kina, Lea E. Parker, Keisha April, Rhonda McKitten, Naomi E. Goldstein
Negative and, at times, violent encounters between police and youth have received increasing attention in recent years, leading to calls for more targeted training of law enforcement. In Pennsylvan...
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What have we learned about cues to deception? A survey of expert opinions Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Timothy J. Luke, Erik Mac Giolla, Amina Memon, Sara Landström, Pär Anders Granhag, Saul Kassin
Researchers have accumulated a substantial body of empirical work studying observable behaviors that might distinguish truth tellers from liars – that is, cues to deception. We report a survey of N...
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Punitive consequences of being a minority male: an analysis exploring intersectionality, racial/ethnic threat, and sentencing outcomes Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Porche’ A.W. Okafor
Decades of sentencing research have demonstrated that there are disparities in sentencing outcomes based on race and ethnicity, sex, age, and racial/ethnic contexts, net of legally relevant factors...
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Spillover of domains: testing the influence of work-family conflict on staff at a Southern U.S. prison Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Stacy H. Haynes, Eric G. Lambert, David C. May, Linda D. Keena, Matthew C. Leone
Correctional staff are a valuable resource for prisons. Nevertheless, they work in a unique environment characterized by numerous stressors that may affect them at work and at home. The literature ...
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Police interviewers’ experiences of the Tactical Interview Model (TIM): an exploratory study of suspect interviewing in Norway Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Patrick Risan, Trond Myklebust, Ole Thomas Bjerknes, Gavin Oxburgh
The purpose of the study was to qualitatively explore how police investigators in Norway experience interviewing suspects. Specifically, we sought to investigate the relationship between theory (th...
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Exploring cultural differences in eyewitness accounts using a self-administered reporting technique Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Lorraine Hope, Feni Kontogianni, Joanne Rechdan, Lucy Tavitian-Emladjian, Noura Anwar Soubra, Dayana Mazen Abu Marak Brome, Violet Gibson, Nkansah Anakwah
In a globalised world, investigators often interact with witnesses from diverse cultural backgrounds. To date, there is a wealth of research on the use of evidence-based practices to facilitate rec...
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Before and after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor: citizen perceptions of a ‘Reasonable Officer’ Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Kimberley A. McClure, Dawn M. Sweet, Dominick J. Atkinson
The extent to which the American ‘Black criminal’ stereotype and nonverbal cues of aggression influences community perceptions of citizen-officer interactions was examined. In three experiments, us...
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Culture and credibility: the assessment of asylum seekers’ statements Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Gabi de Bruïne, Annelies Vredeveldt, Peter J. van Koppen
Asylum seekers typically have a different cultural background from the immigration officials interviewing and assessing their statements. Yet the role of culture in eliciting and evaluating asylum ...
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The effect of a presumption of guilt on police guilt judgments Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Yueran Yang, Stephanie Madon, Jean J. Cabell, Sarah A. Kruger, Max Guyll
Police conduct pre-interrogation interviews with suspects whom they presume might be guilty. This research tested whether a presumption of guilt causes police to misclassify innocent suspects as gu...
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How multiple interviews and interview framing influence the development and maintenance of rapport Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Lynn Weiher, Steven James Watson, Paul J. Taylor, Kirk Luther
Information obtained from investigative interviews is crucial for police to develop leads, advance investigations and make effective decisions. One well-endorsed approach for eliciting detailed and...
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Complications and consistency: investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Cody Porter, Ed Morrison, Alistair Harvey, Rachel Taylor
ABSTRACT The Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique encourages truth tellers to adopt a forthcoming verbal strategy and liars a withholding strategy. We investigated the effectiveness of this technique using a follow-up statement. We predicted that truth tellers in the AIM condition would provide more new and overall detail, with a higher proportion of complications, compared to control
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The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Thomas J. Nyman, Julia Korkman, James Michael Lampinen, Jan Antfolk, Pekka Santtila
ABSTRACT Distance, lighting, and facial masking negatively impact eyewitness identification accuracy. We investigated their combined effect on accuracy and how internal (e.g., eyes) versus external (e.g., hair) masking impacts accuracy. Using live targets witnessed by 1325 participants, we investigated the effects of distance (5m, 12.5m, 20m), lighting (optimal:300lx, suboptimal:2lx), facial masking
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Moral foundations and criminality: comparing community members to prisoners and violent/non-violent offenders Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Mateusz Blukacz, Maria Luisa Vecina, Peter K. Jonason
ABSTRACT Morality is built upon individualizing (i.e. care, fairness) and binding (i.e. loyalty, authority, and purity) moral foundations, which are the systems that help people to make moral decisions and behave accordingly. Past research has found that moral foundations are related to past unethical behaviors, but we are the first to test them among people in prison. Specifically, we investigated
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The untapped potential of lineups: using eyewitness memory to rule out innocent suspects Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Andrew M. Smith, Rebecca C. Ying, Nydia T. Ayala, Alexandria R. Goldstein
ABSTRACT Over the past 45 years, psychological scientists have invested a tremendous amount of effort into increasing the accuracy of suspect identifications from eyewitness lineup procedures. Those efforts have paid dividends, leading to the development of several practices that increase the accuracy of suspect identifications. Meanwhile, lineup rejections have largely been written off as lacking
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Childhood predictors of successful self-reported delinquents Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 David Farrington, Henriette Bergstrøm, Darrick Jolliffe
ABSTRACT The main aim of this research is to investigate the childhood predictors of successful self-reported delinquents, defined as those who were not convicted. In the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), 411 London males have been followed up from age 8 to age 61. Self-reported offending was measured for the whole sample for ages 10–14, 15–18, 27–32, and 42–47, for five crimes: burglary
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Appearances can be deceiving: how naturalistic changes to target appearance impact on lineup-based decision-making Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Dominic T. Jordan, Adrian J. Scott, Donald M. Thomson
ABSTRACT The present study examined the influence of appearance, procedure and position on identification decisions, post-decisional confidence ratings and estimates of discrimination and confidence-specific accuracy. Regarding appearance, the study examined the combined influence of three naturalistic changes that occur day-to-day (i.e. a reduction in cranial hair length, the removal of stubble, and
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Naming the threat: lay prototypes of organized crime in Italy and the US Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Giovanni A. Travaglino, Cristina d’Aniello, Maria Giuseppina Pacilli, Fabio I. M. Poppi
ABSTRACT Organized crime represents a pervasive global threat while posing unique challenges to law enforcement and policymakers. Yet, research about public understanding of this phenomenon remains limited. This research, comprising three studies conducted in Italy (Ntot = 477) and the United States (Ntot = 474), fills this crucial gap by investigating the lay prototypes of organized crime and advancing
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Comparing Indian and White men charged or convicted of sexual offences on the Static-99R and STABLE-2007* Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Simran Ahmed, L. Maaike Helmus
ABSTRACT Concerns have been raised regarding the cross-cultural validity of risk assessment scales. This study compared the risk and need profiles of Indian (South Asian) and White men charged or convicted of sexual offences. It also examined the predictive accuracy of Static-99R and STABLE-2007, and the constructs of sexual criminality, general criminality, and youthful stranger aggression for violent
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Prevalence and risk-factors for burnout, posttraumatic stress, and secondary traumatization among Danish prosecutors: findings from a pilot-study Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Maria Louison Vang, Nina Beck Hansen, Ask Elklit, Pernille Melander Thorsen, Rikke Høgsted, Jesper Pihl-Thingvad
ABSTRACT International research has documented that prosecutors and lawyers are at increased risk of reporting symptoms of internalizing mental health disorders. Much existing research is based on small convenience samples and no studies have hitherto been conducted among Danish prosecutors. EU estimates indicate that Denmark reports among the highest number of legal cases while simultaneously figuring
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The use of alternative scenarios in assessing the reliability of victims’ statements Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Nurul Arbiyah, Henry Otgaar, Melanie Sauerland, Eric Rassin, Enide Maegherman, Harald Merckelbach
ABSTRACT The use of alternative scenarios has been advocated as a method to mitigate bias when evaluating the reliability of testimonies. In two experiments, undergraduate students acted as expert witnesses when reading an alleged child sexual abuse case file and evaluated the reliability of the statements. In the first experiment, a subgroup of participants were encouraged to think about alternative
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Organizational trust and correctional staff job stress: a test among Nigerian prison officers Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Oko Elechi, Eric Lambert, Smart Otu, Daniel Hall, Jessica Warner, Morris Jenkins, Jennifer Lanterman
ABSTRACT An abundance of research indicates that organizational variables influence organizational success. Perception of organizational trust is one such variable; however, the literature examining this variable is sparse, and internationally focused research on organizational trust even more so. At a time when public safety and employee wellness are priorities in the correctional environment, a clearer
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Perceived deservingness of procedurally (un)just treatment: experimental evidence of minority perceptions of vicarious police-citizen interactions Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Harley Williamson, Kristina Murphy
ABSTRACT How police and citizens behave during encounters can influence public perceptions of the deservingness of treatment citizens receive from police. Yet perceiving another citizen as deserving of police treatment may be explained by other factors. This study tests if minority observers’ identity with police and identity with the citizen in the encounter conditions how they judge that citizen’s
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‘I’ve lived and bred violence my whole life’: understanding violence in the Irish Prison Service through the lens of the power threat meaning framework Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Orla Gallagher, Emma E. Regan, Gary O’Reilly
ABSTRACT In 2018 the Irish Prison Service (IPS) opened the National Violence Reduction Unit (NVRU), which became home to a small amount of prisoners managed under the Violently Disruptive Prisoner (VDP) policy, who were repeatedly engaged in very serious violence in prison. The NVRU shifted practice under the VDP policy to a joint operational-psychological approach, with the aim of understanding the
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Victim selection in Korean sexual crimes: a latent class analysis Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Jaekyung Ahn, Jeongsook Yoon, Yimoon Choi
ABSTRACT This study utilized latent class analysis to investigate the typology of Korean Sexual Crimes, using Rossmo's (2000 Rossmo, D. K. (2000). Geographic profiling. CRC Press. [Google Scholar]) classification and related scholarly works. To achieve this, information from the Pre-Request Investigation for a Prosecutor, which impacts the determination of probation for sexual offenders, was utilized
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Risk and contextual factors associated with legal intervention injury and hospital outcomes among trauma patients in Pennsylvania Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Zhenyu Z. Zhang, Samantha M. Vervoordt, Frank G. Hillary
ABSTRACT Police violence has been described as an ongoing public health issue with profound impacts on individuals and communities. We leveraged a state-wide trauma registry to identify patients injured through legal intervention between 1989 and 2019 to examine individual characteristics associated with injuries, contextual factors during legal intervention, and clinical outcomes of injury to capture
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The effect of individual differences in episodic future thought on perceived credibility Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Felicity O’Connell, Chantelle Carter, Paul Taylor, Zarah Vernham, Lara Warmelink
ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe four studies that explore how individual differences in Episodic Future Thought (EFT) affect the ability to be perceived as credible, both when telling the truth and when lying. In Study 1a, we measured participants EFT ability and asked them to give a truthful and deceptive statement about their intentions. It was found that statements provided by individuals with
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The role of video background cues in the virtual court: a psychological perspective Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Bethany R. Muir, Eryn J. Newman, Meredith Rossner
ABSTRACT Remote appearances for courtroom proceedings have become common practice in recent years. When a court participant appears remotely, they introduce new and often tangential cues as part of their video background. We have seen varying (and at times, controversial) background cues across virtual court members, with scholars and legal professionals noting the potential effects these cues may
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The intersection of defendant gender and racialisation in a case of child neglect Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Araby Roberts, Evelyn Maeder
ABSTRACT This study investigated the effects of defendant gender (man/woman) and racialisation (Indigenous/White) on Canadian mock jurors’ verdicts in a case of parent-perpetrated child neglect. The potential intensified negative consequences against Indigenous women, produced by the intersectionality of gender and racialisation, were of particular interest. Four hundred and one participants read a
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Development of a modern prejudice toward juveniles scale (MPJS) and its psychometric properties Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Tomoya Mukai, Yuki Yuyama, Yuma Matsuki, Eiichiro Watamura
ABSTRACT The treatment of juvenile offenders remains a problem of broad interest in many societies. The current study aimed to develop and validate a Modern Prejudice toward Juveniles Scale (MPJS) and examine its psychometric properties, including its relationships with preferences in juvenile criminal policy. Study 1 (N = 266) investigated the factor structure of item candidates when respondents were
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Queer criminology Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Cameo J. V. Brown
Published in Psychology, Crime & Law (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Hiding in plain sight: identifying partner stalking in intimate partner violence episodes reported to New Zealand Police Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Jordan Tomkins, Lisa Tompson, Devon L. L. Polaschek
ABSTRACT In relationships characterised by current or previous intimate partner violence (IPV), partner stalking is a commonly occurring phenomenon. In this study, we examined police-recorded partner stalking in IPV episode reports across 1150 cases to (a) consider the overlap between IPV and partner stalking, and the relevance of the aggressor and victim’s relationship phase to defining partner stalking;
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Perceptions of crime severity and stigma toward family members grieving the loss of a person to incarceration Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Elisabeth McLean, Tyler N. Livingston, Sean M. Mitchell, Jonathan Singer
ABSTRACT Family members of incarcerated persons may experience grief related to the incarceration. We examined laypeople’s perceptions of family members grieving the loss of an individual to incarceration. Participants (N = 1095) were randomized to read vignettes that varied by grief trajectory (prolonged vs. resilient), race (Black vs. White vs. Latine), and crime type (violent vs. non-violent). Participants
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Misinformation – past, present, and future Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Elizabeth F. Loftus, J. Zoe Klemfuss
ABSTRACT Decades of research have provided clear support for the misinformation effect. Exposure to misinformation after an event takes place puts memory accuracy at risk. Experts have long warned of the dangers of this phenomenon in legal contexts (e.g. for eyewitness memory) and new concerns about misinformation and its pervasiveness have arisen in recent years in the context of ‘fake news’. We need
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Let’s (not) talk about race: comparing mock jurors’ verdicts and deliberation content in a case of lethal police use of force with a White or Indigenous victim Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
ABSTRACT Several lethal police use of force (UoF) encounters have recently occurred across North America, sparking public debate about officer accountability. This project investigated what jurors discuss during deliberations in simulated trials involving UoF and evaluated whether the race of the victim affects individual verdicts and deliberation content. Canadian jury-eligible participants (N = 78)
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Law-abiding versus criminal identity and self-efficacy: a quantitative approach to unravel psychological factors supporting desistance from crime Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Verena A. Oberlader, Rainer Banse, Susanne Beier, Alexander F. Schmidt
ABSTRACT Previous studies suggest that the process of becoming desistant from crime is accompanied by a shift from criminal to law-abiding identity and by the development of self-efficacy for law-abiding behavior. Utilizing self-report measures and an Implicit Association Test we predicted that a) a stronger law-abiding relative to criminal identity and a stronger/weaker self-efficacy for law-abiding/criminal
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Addressing racial bias in parole decisions: A pre-registered study of the Five-Level Risk and Needs System of risk communication Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.752) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Charlotte Aelick, Julie Blais, Kelly M. Babchishin
ABSTRACT Indigenous peoples are disproportionately influenced by biases in risk assessment and risk communication. The Five-Level Risk and Needs System (5-levels) is a risk communication strategy that adds standardized definitions to risk categories and incorporates evidence-based recommendations for rehabilitation. The current pre-registered study examined the ability of the 5-levels to mitigate biases