Journal of Criminal Psychology
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Increasing access and transparency: evaluating transcript provision for rape victim-survivors in Scottish legal proceedings
Emma RichardsonThe purpose of this paper is to provide a viewpoint in response to the Scottish Government announcing a yearlong pilot scheme to make court transcripts available to complainants…
Are legal experts better decision makers than jurors? A psychological evaluation of the role of juries in the 21st century
Lee Curley, Till NeuhausThe Scottish Government hope to pilot judge only rape trials to increase the woefully low rape conviction rates in Scotland. The reasoning is that by removing jurors, the court…
Actions speak: personality, nonverbal behaviors, and self-perceptions of vulnerability in college-aged women
Jayme Stewart, Jessie Swanek, Adelle ForthDespite representing a relatively small portion of the population, those who experience repeat victimization make up a significant share of all sexual and violent crimes, implying…
Doubling down on dosage: exploring the interplay between dosage effects, antisocial traits, treatment attitudes, and recidivism-related therapy outcomes
Michael Lester, Faith Scanlon, Ashley BatastiniStudies evaluating the external validity of theoretically informed (risk-need-responsivity [RNR]) cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) programs have not systematically assessed…
Risk and desistance factors for female acquisitive offending: a systematic review
Faiza Ihsan-Ghafoor, Rachel Worthington, Louise CoughlinThis systematic review sought to examine the research body on acquisitive offending among female offenders, specifically exploring what factors may take females closer towards…
Perceptions of the freezing response of male and female rape victims, and the moderating role of rape myth beliefs
Judith Christiane Ostermann, Steven James WatsonThe purpose of this study was to investigate whether indicating victims of sexual attacks actively resisted their attacker or froze during their assault affected perceptions of…
Examining traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for violent offending: testing for cognitive and affective mediation
Thomas WojciechowskiWhile prior research has established that traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk factor for violent offending, there is little understanding of mechanisms that may underpin this…
A systematic review of evidence capturing efficacy of community and school-based approaches to knife crime intervention and prevention programs
Dean Wilkinson, Isha Chopra, Sophie BadgerKnife crime and serious violent crime (SVC) among youth has been growing at an alarming rate in the UK (Harding and Allen, 2021). Community and school-based intervention and…
Exploring the perceived importance of neuroscientific research on addictions in legal contexts: a survey of US criminal justice students and German legal professionals
Doris Ochterbeck, Colleen M. Berryessa, Sarah ForbergerNeuroscientific research on addictions has prompted a paradigm shift from a moral to a medical understanding – with substantial implications for legal professionals’ interactions…
What happened that day? Recall for events of a day that later became important
Madison B. Harvey, Heather L. Price, Kirk LutherThe purpose of this study was to explore potential witnesses' memories for a day that was experienced an unremarkable. There may be instances in an investigation in which all…
The lived experiences of women who discovered their partner perpetrated a sexual offence
Eileen Conmy, Garry Prentice, Barbara Hannigan, Timothy James TrimbleThis study aims to explore the experiences of non-offending partners (NOPs) of men who perpetrated contact and non-contact sexual offences.
Does a conduct disorder factor increment the capacity of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory-Short to predict criminal recidivism?
Pedro Pechorro, Paula Gomide, Matt DeLisi, Mário SimõesRecent developments in the psychometric assessment of youth psychopathic traits suggest that the inclusion of a conduct disorder (CD) factor to the traditional three factors of…
Measuring criminal thinking among convicts imprisoned in Punjab prisons of Pakistan
Nimrah Ishfaq, Anila KamalThis study aims to differentiate crime-related characteristics (such as the number of cases filed against current convictions and criminal history) based on the criminal thinking…
Juror decision-making within domestic sex trafficking cases: do pre-trial attitudes, gender, culture and right-wing authoritarianism predict believability assessments?
Kay Lynn Stevens, Dara Mojtahedi, Adam AustinThis study aims to examine whether country of residence, sex trafficking attitudes, complainant gender, juror gender and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) influenced juror…
The current role and contribution of ‘forensic clinical psychologists’ (FCPs) to criminal investigation in the United Kingdom
Tinna Dögg Sigurdardóttir, Adrian West, Gisli Hannes GudjonssonThis study aims to examine the scope and contribution of Forensic Clinical Psychology (FCP) advice from the National Crime Agency (NCA) to criminal investigations in the UK to…
Beliefs in repressed memory and dissociative amnesia from a cross-cultural lens
Henry Otgaar, Yikang Zhang, Chunlin Li, Jianqin WangThis study aimed to examine beliefs in repressed memory and dissociative amnesia from a cross-cultural perspective.
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- Dr Dominic Willmott