This article reviews the existing literature on differences in police response to IPV (intimate
partner violence) based on officer gender and suggests policy changes that could address …

The general personality and social psychology underlying the Risk–Need–Responsivity
(RNR) model of rehabilitation recognizes the importance of the personal, interpersonal, and …

Background & objectives Though it has been argued that courts should admit biogenetic
evidence on psychopathy, no research to date has evaluated whether individuals with …

Forty-one men and 67 women undergraduate students, as well as 35 men and 27 women
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers, rated the abusiveness of intimate partner …

Objective Mental health disorders are prevalent among active-duty Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP) officers. The current study was designed to assess whether RCMP …

Research suggests interrogation techniques used by US law enforcement can yield false
confessions. To investigate, participants (n= 151) were randomly assigned to complete one …

Three studies examined the psychometric properties of a new scale, the Forensic Stigma
Scale (FSS), designed to measure public stigma of forensic patients. In Study 1, the initial …

Cannabis Criminology explores the prohibition, decriminalization, and liberalization of
cannabis policy through the lens of criminological and sociological theory, essential …

We explored interviewing practitioners' views about the effectiveness of a range of diverse
interview strategies in the field. An online survey examined 73 interviewing practices …

Misconceptions about psycho-legal issues are widespread and threaten the fabric of our
legal system. The present study examines how misconception endorsement is related to …