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An initial validation of a new measure of client change in a correctional sample Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Sonya A. McLaren, Ralph C. Serin, Caleb D. Lloyd, Mackenzie D. Dunham
Ideally, when an individual enters the Criminal Justice System there is the goal and expectation that they will, over time and through intervention, change from the individual who perpetrated the c...
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An optimal trauma-informed pathway for PTSD, complex PTSD and other mental health and psychosocial impacts of trauma in prisons: an expert consensus statement Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Clare Crole-Rees, Jack Tomlin, Natasha Kalebic, Sarah Argent, Claudia Berrington, Edward Chaplin, Jason Davies, Matthew Hoskins, Lucie James, Manuela Jarrett, Oliver John, Lewis Jones, Radha Kothari, Imogen Kretzschmar, Deirdre MacManus, Michael Martin, Iain McKinnon, Gwen O'Connor, Madeline Petrillo, Marie Phillips, Rob Poole, Isidora Popovic, Alexander Simpson, Pamela Taylor, Sarah Wigham, Andrew
People in prisons have high levels of trauma exposure throughout their lives. Presentations are often complex, with a high prevalence of PTSD and CPTSD and other mental health comorbidities. Prison...
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Mock jurors’ evaluations of eyewitness identification evidence based on appearance change and associated instructions Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Robert F. Lockamyeir, Curt A. Carlson
It is common for a perpetrator’s appearance to change between committing the crime and later appearing in an identification procedure. The present study investigated how such appearance change (AC)...
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Defense attorney perspectives about juvenile interrogations: SROs, parents, and the adolescent defendant Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Talley Bettens, Hayley M. D. Cleary
Adolescent suspects’ developmental immaturity renders them more susceptible than adults to unreliable and involuntary confessions. Defense attorneys can mitigate youths’ interrogation-related vulne...
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A double standard in evaluating implicit threats Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Madison Hynes, Tianshuang Han, Brent Snook, Laura Fallon
The perceived acceptability of implicit threats, as a function of messenger type, was examined. Across two experiments, participants (79 undergraduates and 160 community members) read a news articl...
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Cultural context and sentencing: content analysis of sentencing remarks for Indigenous defendants of domestic violence in the Northern Territory, Australia Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Karen Heenan, Christine E.W. Bond, Krystal Lockwood
The focal concerns perspective was developed to understand differential sentencing outcomes for minority defendants in the United States. Although the focal concerns perspective dominates empirical...
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The interaction between a change in substance use/consequences and a change in moral agency as a mechanism for decreased criminal involvement in low-to-moderate and high-risk youth Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Glenn D. Walters
The purpose of this study was to determine whether a turning point (change in substance use and substance-related problems) and a cognitive variable (a change in moral agency) interacted to predict...
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Right-wing ideology fuels bias against sex trafficking victims: the mediating role of sexism Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Dara Mojtahedi, Kay Lynn Stevens, Adam Austin
The authors examined the relationship between right-wing beliefs and problematic attitudes towards victims of sex trafficking (ST). Study one used a cross-sectional survey (N = 444) to study the re...
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Moral norms and risk perceptions toward driving under the influence of recreational versus medical cannabis among Israeli young adults Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Hagit Bonny-Noach, Vered Ne’eman-Haviv
Many studies have compared individuals who use cannabis for recreational versus medical purposes, but little is known about the moral norms and risk perceptions toward recreational versus medical c...
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Why should we punish and how? The role of moral intuitions and personal worldviews for punitiveness and sentencing preferences Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Øyvind Jørgensen, Artur Nilsson
This research investigated the role of moral foundations and broader worldviews in judgments about why and how criminal offenders should be punished. In Study 1, Swedish law students (N = 103) and ...
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Typologies of sexually motivated abductions: a latent class analysis Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Noelle Warkentin, Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin
To date, sexually motivated abductions have not received as much attention from researchers in comparison to the acts of abduction and sexual assault alone. Further, the majority of research that i...
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INSIGHT intervention for individuals who sexually offended against children: preliminary results of a randomized pilot study Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Marta Sousa, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, Andreia de Castro-Rodrigues
This study examined the preliminary results of a 25-session individual intervention program designed for individuals who sexually offended against children (ISOCs) in Portugal, whether in prison or...
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Attitudes toward incarceration, neuronormalization and psychological treatment for violent offenders Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Thomas F. Denson, Mary-Ann Griffiths, Lachlan Smith
Incarceration is a popular method of dealing with violent offenders. However, incarceration does not rehabilitate many violent offenders and often increases recidivism, which suggests a need for di...
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Facilitating sensitive disclosures by building rapport: the sensitive topic paradigm* Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Quintan Crough, Cassandre Dion Larivière, Funmilola Ogunseye, Joseph Eastwood
Investigative interviews are critical to both the investigative process and its subsequent outcome. It is not uncommon, however, for interviewees to be reluctant to disclose all that they can remem...
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Examining the effects of evidence disclosure timing and strength on information inconsistencies and provision within investigative interviews Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Sam Polman, Kirk Luther, Hannah de Almeida, Janina Eggers, Steven James Watson
Late disclosure of evidence within investigative interviews with guilty suspects has been shown to increase statement-evidence and within-statement inconsistencies, which are indicators of deceptio...
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Beyond 50%: providing contextual and coaching information substantially improves adults’ ability to detect children’s lies Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Alison M. O’Connor, Thomas D. Lyon, Georgia Ellery, Angela D. Evans
The present research examined how contextual/coaching information and interview format influenced adults’ ability to detect children’s lies. Participants viewed a series of child interview videos w...
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Remaining silent during investigative interviews: a perspective of prisoners convicted for a serious crime Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Melanie Sauerland, Miet Vanderhallen
The right to remain silent is a fundamental procedural safeguard for people accused of a criminal offense. Practitioners draw conclusions from the fact that a defendant makes use of the right to si...
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Standardized risk levels for violent recidivism risk assessed with the HCR-20: an exploration Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Maaike van Dooren, Wineke J. Smid, Katarzyna Uzieblo, Marije Keulen-de Vos, Vivienne de Vogel, Robert Lehmann, Joscha Hausam
Risk assessment plays an important role in forensic mental health care. The way the conclusions of those risk assessments are communicated varies considerably across instruments. In an effort to ma...
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Judicial decision-making in the era of pretrial reform Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Chelsea M. A. Foudray, Evan M. Lowder
Decisions at the pretrial stage have been shown to affect later case processing decisions, increasing the risk of incarceration to prison and resulting in longer sentences. Traditionally, pretrial ...
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Lay person’s and psychology officers’ beliefs about memory, investigative interviewing and deception detection: data from Malaysia Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Kai Li Chung, Kok Wei Tan, I Ling Ding
It is very typical for people to think that the understanding of psychological phenomena is a matter of common sense. In many parts of the world, the general public and even some professional group...
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Assessing risk among women who perpetrate intimate partner abuse Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Julia Nazarewicz, Michael D. Trood, Troy E. McEwan, Susanne Strand, Stefan Luebbers, Benjamin L. Spivak
This paper presents a prospective evaluation of the predictive validity of three risk assessment instruments in a sample of Australian women identified by police as intimate partner abuse (IPA) per...
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Active guardianship in urban public places: place attachment and social cohesion Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Renee Zahnow
Everyday users of public places are vital crime guardians because they are often present when formal security is absent. In this study, we use survey data from 940 Australian residents to examine t...
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Stigmatizing ‘evildoers’: how beliefs about evil and public stigma explain criminal justice policy preferences Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Jason R. Silver, Luzi Shi, Audrey Hickert
Characterizations of offenders as ‘evil’ appear in popular entertainment, political rhetoric, and scholarship and may be rooted in widely endorsed cultural narratives. Integrating psychological and...
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Examining perceptions of blame and homophobia: the impact of sexual orientation on non-consensual intimate image dissemination Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Mally Shechory Bitton, Liza Zvi, Nitzan Shamir-Peled
Our aim was to investigate whether blame attribution toward same-sex victims compared to heterosexual victims of NCII and offense severity evaluation were associated with homophobic attitudes. Two-...
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Introduction to the special issue on cross-cultural issues in psychology, crime and the law Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Stephane Shepherd
Published in Psychology, Crime & Law (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The biasing nature of gang evidence: inducing memory errors for evidence of past criminal behavior Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 M. L. Eisen, A. Olaguez, R. C. Ying, Gabriela Cedré, M. K. Cunius, A. Dianat, J. M. Jones
Two experiments were conducted to examine the effects of introducing gang evidence on jurors’ memory of the evidence and decision-making. In Experiment 1, 234 participants viewed a staged trial. Th...
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A survey of US police on-the-scene and station witness interviews and recording practices Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Andrea C. F. Wolfs, Amy Hyman Gregory, Deborah Goldfarb, Nadja Schreiber Compo
The current study sought to contribute to the literature on U.S. police officers’ knowledge and use of empirically-informed interviewing recommendations by aiming to replicate previous findings and...
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New ideas in psychology crime and law Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 James Michael Lampinen
Published in Psychology, Crime & Law (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2024)
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Exploring the role of emotional demeanor in a preliminary investigation context: expectation violations & gender Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Alisha C. Salerno-Ferraro, Regina A. Schuller
In a criminal investigation, displaying an unexpected emotional demeanor could trigger suspicion or perceptions of involvement. Across two studies, mock investigators read a case summary of a preli...
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Fear from a distance: testing a new model of psychological distance and fear of crime Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Jacques Mellberg, Michael L. Chataway, Matthew J. Ball
This study tests a new model of fear of crime. We hypothesise that community members who perceive crime as psychologically proximal (e.g. likely to happen soon in their immediate environment) will ...
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Exploring individual-level predictors of punitive attitudes in Australia Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Caitlin B. Davey, Kyle J. D. Mulrooney, Susan E. Watt
Western countries tend to display preferences for the harsh punishment of people with criminal justice involvement. Drawing on a representative survey of the Australian population, the present stud...
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Evaluating counter-terrorism interventions to promote reports about leaking prior to terrorist attacks Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Laura Tampe, Morgane D. C. Kroeger, Rebecca Bondü
The present study examined three different interventions that aimed to increase the willingness to report leaking and radicalization signs for Islamist terrorist attacks. Using an experimental appr...
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A systematic review of the validity of Criteria-based Content Analysis in child sexual abuse cases and other field studies Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Siegfried Ludwig Sporer, Jaume Masip
Criteria-based Content Analysis (CBCA) has been primarily employed to assess the credibility of child sexual abuse (CSA) allegations. However, several studies on the validity of CBCA have focused o...
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White paper on forensic child interviewing: research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 J. Korkman, H. Otgaar, L.M. Geven, R. Bull, M. Cyr, I. Hershkowitz, J.-M. Mäkelä, M. Mattison, R. Milne, P. Santtila, P. van Koppen, A. Memon, M. Danby, L. Filipovic, F.J. Garcia, E. Gewehr, O. Gomes Bell, L. Järvilehto, K. Kask, A. Körner, E. Lacey, J. Lavoie, M. Magnusson, Q.C. Miller, T. Pakkanen, C.E. Peixoto, C.O. Perez, F. Pompedda, I.A. Su, N.E.J. Sumampouw, Celine van Golde, G.F. Waterhouse
This white paper consists of evidence-based recommendations for conducting forensic interviews with children. The recommendations are jointly drafted by researchers in child interviewing active wit...
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Managing investigative interviews with vulnerable suspects in the UK: do specialist interview managers (IM’s) understand vulnerability? Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Martin Vaughan, Rebecca Milne, Julie Cherryman, Gary Dalton
An Interview Manager (IM) is required to provide strategic advice to both a Senior Investigating Officer and the interview team on matters relating to suspect management in high stake investigation...
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Prevalence of types of adverse childhood experiences in incarcerated males: a systematic review and meta-analysis Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Petch Umpunjun, Elanor Lucy Webb, Deborah J. Morris
Exposure to childhood adversity has been associated with a greater risk for engaging in offending behaviour. Despite this, investigation of the early experiences of incarcerated people, particularl...
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Towards clinically meaningful subtyping of youth with violent behavior: application of latent profile analysis to a risk-strengths based risk assessment model* Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 A.T.H. Kleeven, E.L.B. Hilterman, M. De Vries Robbé, A. Popma, K.R. Cruise, E.A. Mulder
The ultimate goal of forensic interventions is reducing risk level by targeting criminogenic needs. Person-centered approaches are used to identify subgroups with similar patterns of needs, informi...
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Understanding the mental calculus of a victim advisor: a survey experiment in the context of college campus sexual victimization Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Alexander L. Burton, Michelle N. Harris, Nicole Wilkes, Haley N. Puddy, William T. Miller
This study examines factors that weigh on a victim advisor’s mental calculus when approving whether a victim report a crime to the police. A factorial design was embedded in a survey of college stu...
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Brief multidimensional self-control scale: psychometric properties and cross-gender measurement invariance of the Portuguese version Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Pedro Pechorro, Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Matt DeLisi, Mário R. Simões
Self-control has been traditionally defined as the capacity to inhibit or overrule immediate urges in order to attain long-term goals, and it is considered an important topic of research in crimino...
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Correction Psychology, Crime & Law (IF 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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 1.1) 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...