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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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- Dr Dominic Willmott