Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada
Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada The current article presents a series of commentaries on urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation…
Reply to Mac Giolla and Ly (2019): On the reporting of Bayes factors in deception research
Reply to Mac Giolla and Ly (2019): On the reporting of Bayes factors in deception research Bayes factors provide a continuous measure of evidence for one hypothesis (, the null,…
Misinformation encountered during a simulated jury deliberation can distort jurors’ memory of a trial and bias their verdicts
Misinformation encountered during a simulated jury deliberation can distort jurors' memory of a trial and bias their verdicts Purpose Jurors swear to base their verdicts solely on the evidence presented…
Risk relevance of psychometric assessment and evaluator ratings of dynamic risk factors in high‐risk violent offenders
Risk relevance of psychometric assessment and evaluator ratings of dynamic risk factors in high‐risk violent offenders Purpose Relatively little research has been conducted with high‐risk violent (non‐sexual) offenders to establish…
When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews
When and how are lies told? And the role of culture and intentions in intelligence‐gathering interviews Purpose Lie‐tellers tend to tell embedded lies within interviews. In the context of intelligence‐gathering…
Context effect and confirmation bias in criminal fact finding
Context effect and confirmation bias in criminal fact finding Purpose Fact finding is an important part of the job of criminal trial judges and juries. In the literature, several potential…
Coexisting violence and self‐harm: Dual harm in an early‐stage male prison population
Coexisting violence and self‐harm: Dual harm in an early‐stage male prison population Purpose This study examined the characteristics of men in prison who have a history of both self‐harm and…
Sanctions, short‐term mindsets, and delinquency: Reverse causality in a sample of high school youth
Sanctions, short‐term mindsets, and delinquency: Reverse causality in a sample of high school youth Purpose We question the commonly assumed view of a fixed causal ordering between self‐control, delinquency, and…
Coping with stalking and harassment victimization: Exploring the coping approaches of young male and female adults in Hong Kong
Coping with stalking and harassment victimization: Exploring the coping approaches of young male and female adults in Hong Kong Purpose Most stalking studies have been conducted on Western samples. Little…
Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock‐witness interviews
Effects of cooperation on information disclosure in mock‐witness interviews Purpose Forensic interviewers often face witnesses who are unwilling to cooperate with the investigation. In this experimental study, we examined the…
Exploring juror evaluations of expert opinions using the Expert Persuasion Expectancy framework
Exploring juror evaluations of expert opinions using the Expert Persuasion Expectancy framework Purpose Factfinders in trials struggle to differentiate witnesses who offer genuinely expert opinions from those who do not.…
Eyewitness metamemory predicts identification performance in biased and unbiased line‐ups
Eyewitness metamemory predicts identification performance in biased and unbiased line‐ups Purpose Distinguishing accurate from inaccurate identifications is a challenging issue in the criminal justice system, especially for biased police line‐ups.…