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…
Sexual harassment, rape myths and paraphilias in the general population: a mediation analysis study
Emily Snow, Nicholas LongpréSexual harassment is a worldwide and prevalent problem that can have severe consequences. The #MeToo movement has highlighted that sexual harassment is not an isolated event and…
Policing rape and serious sexual offences: officers’ insights on police specialism
Arianna Barbin, Anna Gekoski, Kari Davies, Miranda A.H. HorvathSeveral studies have been conducted to understand why the conviction rate for rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO) remains so low. Increasing pressure and criticism have led…
Prospective person memory and own-race bias of missing person appeals
Daniel Hunt, Dara MojtahediThis study aims to examine own-race bias (ORB) in prospective person memory (PPM) and explore whether the effects of ORB were moderated by two factors that are salient to…
The effect of tailored reciprocity on information provision in an investigative interview
Lynn Weiher, Christina Winters, Paul Taylor, Kirk Luther, Steven James WatsonIn their study of reciprocity in investigative interviews, Matsumoto and Hwang (2018) found that offering interviewees water prior to the interview enhanced observer-rated rapport…
Reconstructive psychological assessment (RPA) applied to the analysis of digital behavioral residues in forensic contexts
Francisco Ceballos-EspinozaThis paper aims to explore advances in indirect personality assessment, with emphasis on the psychology of digital behavior based on the analysis of new technological devices and…
“Unless you’ve got a conviction, there’s not much you can do”: Rethinking long-term disruption and exit strategy in RASSO investigations
Katherine Allen, Aneela Khan, Miranda A.H. Horvath, Kari DaviesThis paper aims to evaluate how five Operation Soteria Bluestone (OSB) participating forces integrated principles of procedural justice and proactive disruption of offending into…
An overview of the replicability, generalizability and practical relevance of eyewitness testimony research in the Journal of Criminal Psychology
Paul Riesthuis, Henry OtgaarBefore psychological research is used for policy reforms and recommendations, it is important to evaluate its replicability, generalizability and practical relevance. This paper…
“We have to fight for our existence in the system”: exploring service providers’ experiences with male victims and female perpetrators of intimate partner violence
Giulia Pisano, B. Kennath Widanaralalage, Dominic WillmottThis study aims to investigate the experiences of service providers supporting male victims and female perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). The study explored the…
Factors in terrorist risk assessment: a rapid evidence assessment of the extremism risk guidance (ERG22+) factors
Andrew SilkeSince 2011, the Extremism Risk Guidance (ERG 22+) has been the primary risk assessment framework used for terrorist and violent extremist offenders in England and Wales. The aim…
Getting stuck in a collective stigma: sex offense registrants, liminality liminoid experiences, and identity limbo groups
Brooke Cooley Webb, Cassandra Petersen, Lisa L. SampleThe purpose of this study was to examine the internalization of group-level identities held by people who are on the sex offense registry and how these influence emotions and the…
One psychopathic route to an unsuccessful life. Psychopathy and life outcomes in Generation 3 of the Cambridge study in delinquent development
Georgia Zara, Henriette Bergstrøm, David P. FarringtonThis study aims to examine whether psychopathic traits are associated with “unsuccessful” life outcomes in a community sample. While it is not easy to define what a successful…
Self-generated cues: the role of cue quality in facilitating eyewitness recall
Rebecca L. Wheeler-Mundy, Fiona Gabbert, Lorraine HopeWitness-led techniques, informed by theory, have been recognized as best practice for eliciting information from cooperative eyewitnesses. This study aims to test a self-generated…
Evaluation of forensic interviews and interrogations: a thematic analysis of law-enforcement views
Laura Farrugia, Gavin Oxburgh, Fiona GabbertEffective forensic interviewing is crucial, particularly if the interview is the only source of evidence. Whilst there are a number of interview models that advocate for…
Why some homicide investigations go cold: a study exploring the experiences of the investigative review process by UK detectives
Kirsty Bennett, Jason RoachThe purpose of this study is to explore the review mechanisms’ efficacy from the perspective of cold case reviewers. Live homicide review mechanisms at the 7- and 28-day stage of…
Unmasking the dark triad: exploring its relationship with attitudes toward intimate partner violence
Charlie Waite, Robyn MooneyAlthough it is a relatively recent conceptualization of malevolent personality, the dark triad (DT) has been widely researched and shown to be responsible for increases in…
Double jeopardy: the effects of retrial knowledge on juror decisions
James Munro, Fred Motson, Jim Turner, Lara A. Frumkin, Lee John CurleySince the passage of the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011, mirroring changes in other jurisdictions, a person who has been acquitted in Scotland can, under certain…
The dark figure of murder and unsolved homicides in the USA
Molly Minkler, Matt DeLisi, James Marquart, Nicholas ScurichThis study aims to use a novel data set of 636 murderers sentenced to death in California to investigate homicide offenses that are committed but not prosecuted or officially…
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…
Hanging up on emergency services: staged calls end differently
Serena Elms, David D. Clarke, Mark Briskey, David KeatleyEmergency service dispatchers perform a vital role in assisting callers by helping them through the emergency they are in and ensuring the delivery of first responders. If an…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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