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The power of presentation: How attire, cosmetics, and posture impact the source...
Gender stereotypes may negatively affect perceptions of women professionals' credibility, including forensic experts. This study investigated the impact of behavior‐based and appearance‐based factors on women expert witness's credibility. Jury‐eligible adults were shown...
Psychopathy among condemned capital murderers
Psychopathy is an important forensic mental health construct. Despite this importance, the research base of psychopathy among individuals convicted of capital murder is limited. Archival data were collected from a sample of 636 persons convicted of capital murder and sentenced to...
Mass murders involving firearms and other methods in school, college, and university...
While mass murders involving academic settings, especially using firearms, are of grave, growing public concern, identifying consistent patterns to aid prevention has proved challenging. Although some characteristics, such as male sex, have been routinely associated with these ev...
Distinguishing lone from group actor terrorists: A comparison of attitudes, ideologies,...
The increasing recognition of the risks posed by lone‐actor terrorists provides the impetus for understanding the psychosocial and ideological characteristics that distinguish lone from group actors. This study examines differences between lone and group actor terrorists in two d...
Female murderers who mutilate or dismember their victims: An exploration of patterns and...
Attributes and behavioral patterns of female homicide offenders have been less explored than those of males, particularly in crimes that involve aggravating factors such as dismemberment and mutilation. This study explored the patterns of female murderers who engage in postmortem...
Criminal mutilation homicides in Japan: Corpse dismemberment and disposal pattern types,...
This study examined the offender characteristics of criminal mutilation homicides in Japan for offender profiling. The current sample (N = 108) showed that the most typical offender was a male, in his 30s (age that observed most often), one‐person, and acquainted with the victim....
An examination of the sociodemographic and psychiatric characteristics of children who...
Penetrative and nonpenetrative sexual abuse can cause short‐ and long‐term psychiatric problems in victims. This study aimed to examine the sociodemographic characteristics and psychiatric diseases of children in Malatya, eastern Turkey, according to whether the abuse was penetra...
A court ruled case on therapy‐induced false memories
We report on a unique Italian criminal case in which a court ruled that a therapist implanted false memories of abuse in a young girl. Using therapeutic excerpts, we show that the therapist used a multitude of problematic interventions that are all linked to false memory creation...
The Relationship of Firearm Possession to Attachment Styles and Psychological Well-Being
The Perpetrator-Victim Bond in Matricide: An Unusual Case
The Insanity Defense in the Contemporary Context
The Neurocognitive and Emotional Effects of Chronic Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB)...
Face Similarity Linkage: A Novel Biometric Approach to Sexually Motivated Serial Killer...
Family Mass Murders in Italy, 1990-2019
Deviant Behavior in Relationships Between Humans and Animals
Mental Health Crisis Response Teams and the Challenges of Evidence-Based Police Reform
Psychosis and Psychopathy: Two Conditions That Have Determined the Form and Function of...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—Child Pornography, Cybercrime, and Pediatrics: A Case Report From...
Mapping the neurocircuitry of impulsive aggression through the pharmacologic review of...
Impulsive aggression, in contradistinction to premeditated aggression in humans or predatory aggression in animals, corresponds to defensive aggression in animal models. At the core of the neurocircuitry of impulsive aggression, from murine to feline to human species, it is the m...
Romantic attachment, childhood stability, depression, and PTSD in couples with an...
Incarceration has a multitude of effects on prisoners' finances, health, education, employment, and family relationships. Incarceration complicates the maintenance of attachment bonds between romantic partners. Data from the Multi‐site Family Study on Incarceration, Parentin...