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The Journal of Psychiatry & Law is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints, Human auditory perception and evaluation.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inPsychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints Human auditory perception and evaluation Mental Health and Psychiatry Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
ISSN0093-1853
h-index35
i10-index183
Total citations6,697
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Pennsylvania
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Papers published in The Journal of Psychiatry & Law per year

45
2001
34
2002
35
2003
51
2004
47
2005
50
2006
41
2007
33
2008
43
2009
34
2010
41
2011
19
2012

Citation impact of The Journal of Psychiatry & Law by publication year

161
2001
72
2002
181
2003
369
2004
151
2005
117
2006
143
2007
107
2008
186
2009
488
2010
236
2011
44
2012

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The Journal of Psychiatry & Law

Improving Clinical Judgment and Decision Making in Forensic Evalution

Randy Borum, Randy K. Otto, Stephen L. Golding · 1 Mar 1993

Psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are frequently involved as expert witnesses in legal proceedings. However, clinical judgment and decision making, which play a role in almost all clinical evaluations, have problems and limitations. Mental health professionals who conduct forensic examinations should be aware of these problems and take steps to address them. This…

Psychopathy and the Death Penalty: Can the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised Identify Offenders Who Represent “A Continuing Threat to Society”?

John F. Edens, John Petrila, Jacqueline Buffington-Vollum · 1 Dec 2001

Psychopathy has gained increasing importance in the field of risk assessment in the last decade, in large part because of the established association between this construct and future violence and criminality. Situations in which the prediction of “future dangerousness” is at issue appear to be logical areas in which the assessment of psychopathic traits would…

Insanity Plea: A Review of the Research Literature

Richard A. Pasewark · 1 Dec 1981

This article summarizes the limited number of data-based research studies relating to the insanity plea that are to be found in the literature. Although some tentative conclusions might be made concerning some aspects of the plea's operation, the limited data base available makes these conclusions highly tentative and demonstrates the need of much further research…

Recovered Memories: The Current Weight of the Evidence in Science and in the Courts

Daniel Brown, Alan W. Scheflin, Charles L. Whitfield · 1 Mar 1999

The authors critically review the main strategies that false-memory proponents have used to challenge the admissibility of testimony regarding recovered abuse memories in the courts: that the laboratory evidence fails to prove the existence of repression, that people rarely forget trauma, and that scientific studies claiming amnesia for trauma and abuse are fraught with a…

Criminal versus HUMINT Interrogations: The Importance of Psychological Science to Improving Interrogative Practice

Jacqueline R. Evans, Christian A. Meissner, Susan Brandon et al. · 1 Mar 2010

The discovery of many cases of wrongful conviction in the criminal justice system involving admissions from innocent suspects has led psychologists to examine the factors contributing to false confessions. However, little systematic research has assessed the processes underlying Human Intelligence (HUMINT) interrogations relating to military and intelligence operations. The current article examines the similarities and…

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The Journal of Psychiatry & Law uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', The Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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