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Risk Tools Predict Recidivism for Men With Low Intellectual Ability and a History of Sexual Offending.

Standardized risk assessments are essential to evidence-based responses to criminal behaviour, including sexual offending. Since the 1990s, many actuarial and structured risk assessment instruments ha…

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Hanson, R. K., Babchishin, K. M., May, K., Reid, B., & Wilson, R. J. (2026). Risk Tools Predict Recidivism for Men With Low Intellectual Ability and a History of Sexual Offending.. Sex Abuse, 38(4), 386-419. https://doi.org/10.1177/10790632261429124

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Prioritizing patterns in evidence: Applying the analysis of competing hypotheses framework to criminal investigations and cold cases.

Police investigations often give rise to multiple hypothetical pathways for how the crime was conducted. Investigators may develop several hypotheses, often based on different pieces of evidence. It i…

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Keatley, D. A. (2025). Prioritizing patterns in evidence: Applying the analysis of competing hypotheses framework to criminal investigations and cold cases.. Sci Justice, 65(5), 101308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2025.101308

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Effects of task structure and confirmation bias in alternative hypotheses evaluation.

We empirically examined the effectiveness of how the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) technique structures task information to help reduce confirmation bias (Study 1) and the portrayal of intell…

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Dhami, M. K., Belton, I. K., De, W. e. r. d. . P., Hadzhieva, V., & Wicke, L. (2024). Effects of task structure and confirmation bias in alternative hypotheses evaluation.. Cogn Res Princ Implic, 9(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00560-y

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A general model of cognitive bias in human judgment and systematic review specific to forensic mental health.

OBJECTIVE: Cognitive biases can impact experts' judgments and decisions. We offer a broad descriptive model of how bias affects human judgment. Although studies have explored the role of cognitive bia…

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Neal, T. M. S., Lienert, P., Denne, E., & Singh, J. P. (2022). A general model of cognitive bias in human judgment and systematic review specific to forensic mental health.. Law Hum Behav, 46(2), 99-120. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000482

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Improving Criminal Responsibility Determinations Using Structured Professional Judgment.

Forensic psychologists commonly utilize unstructured clinical judgment in aggregating clinical and forensic information in forming opinions. Unstructured clinical judgment is prone to evaluator bias a…

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Acklin, M. W., & Velasquez, J. P. (2021). Improving Criminal Responsibility Determinations Using Structured Professional Judgment.. Front Psychol, 12, 700991. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.700991

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Interrater reliability of Violence Risk Appraisal Guide scores provided in Canadian criminal proceedings.

Published research suggests that most violence risk assessment tools have relatively high levels of interrater reliability, but recent evidence of inconsistent scores among forensic examiners in adver…

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Edens, J. F., Penson, B. N., Ruchensky, J. R., Cox, J., & Smith, S. T. (2016). Interrater reliability of Violence Risk Appraisal Guide scores provided in Canadian criminal proceedings.. Psychol Assess, 28(12), 1543-1549. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0000278

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Adversarial allegiance: The devil is in the evidence details, not just on the witness stand.

This study examined the potential influence of adversarial allegiance on expert testimony in a simulated child sexual abuse case. A national sample of 100 witness suggestibility experts reviewed a pol…

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McAuliff, B. D., & Arter, J. L. (2016). Adversarial allegiance: The devil is in the evidence details, not just on the witness stand.. Law Hum Behav, 40(5), 524-35. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000198

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Field reliability of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised among life sentenced prisoners in Sweden.

Although typically described as reliable and valid, the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) has come under some criticism by researchers in the last half-decade due to evidence of poor interrater re…

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Sturup, J., Edens, J. F., Sörman, K., Karlberg, D., Fredriksson, B., & Kristiansson, M. (2014). Field reliability of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised among life sentenced prisoners in Sweden.. Law Hum Behav, 38(4), 315-24. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000063

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Are forensic experts biased by the side that retained them?

How objective are forensic experts when they are retained by one of the opposing sides in an adversarial legal proceeding? Despite long-standing concerns from within the legal system, little is known …

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Murrie, D. C., Boccaccini, M. T., Guarnera, L. A., & Rufino, K. A. (2013). Are forensic experts biased by the side that retained them?. Psychol Sci, 24(10), 1889-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613481812

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