Journal of Criminal Psychology: Volume 14 Issue 4

Are legal experts better decision makers than jurors? A psychological evaluation of the role of juries in the 21st century

Lee Curley, Till Neuhaus

The 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…

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 Badger

Knife 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…

Examining traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for violent offending: testing for cognitive and affective mediation

Thomas Wojciechowski

While 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…

Perceptions of the freezing response of male and female rape victims, and the moderating role of rape myth beliefs

Judith Christiane Ostermann, Steven James Watson

The 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…

Risk and desistance factors for female acquisitive offending: a systematic review

Faiza Ihsan-Ghafoor, Rachel Worthington, Louise Coughlin

This systematic review sought to examine the research body on acquisitive offending among female offenders, specifically exploring what factors may take females closer towards…

Actions speak: personality, nonverbal behaviors, and self-perceptions of vulnerability in college-aged women

Jayme Stewart, Jessie Swanek, Adelle Forth

Despite 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…

Increasing access and transparency: evaluating transcript provision for rape victim-survivors in Scottish legal proceedings

Emma Richardson

The 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…

Doubling down on dosage: exploring the interplay between dosage effects, antisocial traits, treatment attitudes, and recidivism-related therapy outcomes

Michael Lester, Faith Scanlon, Ashley Batastini

Studies evaluating the external validity of theoretically informed (risk-need-responsivity [RNR]) cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) programs have not systematically assessed…

Double jeopardy: the effects of retrial knowledge on juror decisions

James Munro, Fred Motson, Jim Turner, Lara A. Frumkin, Lee John Curley

Since 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…

Hanging up on emergency services: staged calls end differently

Serena Elms, David D. Clarke, Mark Briskey, David Keatley

Emergency 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…

Unmasking the dark triad: exploring its relationship with attitudes toward intimate partner violence

Charlie Waite, Robyn Mooney

Although 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…

The dark figure of murder and unsolved homicides in the USA

Molly Minkler, Matt DeLisi, James Marquart, Nicholas Scurich

This 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…

Reconstructive psychological assessment (RPA) applied to the analysis of digital behavioral residues in forensic contexts

Francisco Ceballos-Espinoza

This 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…

Why some homicide investigations go cold: a study exploring the experiences of the investigative review process by UK detectives

Kirsty Bennett, Jason Roach

The 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…

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. Farrington

This 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…