The February 2024 issue of LHB is almost here! Preview the table of contents now! @apls41 @aplssc

CALL FOR PAPERS- LHB is seeking submissions for an upcoming special issue on Justice, Legitimacy, and Technology, which will be edited by Brandon Garrett, Christopher King, and David DeMatteo. Read the full call for papers here- drive.google.com/file/d/1t2itDt… APLS41

How do attorneys make decisions about offering or recommending pleas in child sexual abuse cases? We surveyed 468 to find out! Read more in our new paper just published in Law and Human Behavior! Available from bit.ly/5t2ya

Inconclusive decisions can put the innocent at risk of wrongful conviction by depriving them of a clearly exculpatory forensic decision. Read more about this in Madon, Burd, and Guyll's article in the February 2024 issue here- buff.ly/3PTZMKI APLS41 AP-LS Students

Curious about using the MMPI-3 to assess for psychopathy? Read this #free article from the February 2024 issue by Wygant & Sellbom to learn more! Check out the full-text article here- buff.ly/4arow50 @apls41 @aplssc

Friday means FREE research! Fessinger et al.'s February 2024 article showed the consistency of the child’s report plays a major role in predicting perceptions of evidence strength in child sexual abuse cases. Read more of the findings here- buff.ly/3yuWMP8 @apls41 @aplssc

The SoS approach, aimed at revealing hidden info from suspects, proves effective. Both Standard and Reinforcement versions outperform direct questioning. However, Reinforcement may feel more negative for suspects. Read more in Nyström et al.'s article- buff.ly/44YMLpC

Judges and juries give significant weight to clinical information, particularly pedophilia diagnoses, when making civil management legal decisions. Read more about this in Kemper et al.'s February 2024 article here- buff.ly/3UNn6eI @apls41 @aplssc

Here are all the wonderful articles from the April 2024 issue! We will be highlighting each beginning next week! buff.ly/3yGOUd8 @apls41 @aplssc

There are a range of gender, racial, and ethnic inequities in criminal justice involvement and mental health utilization among this high-risk high-need population. Edwards et al.'s article explains this in more detail. Read it here- buff.ly/3yAez7z @apls41 @aplssc

Legal stakeholders value eyewitness ID differently but show consistent policy preferences, sometimes diverging from science. Yet, all support using research to guide policy on eyewitness evidence. Zimmerman & Rodriguez explains more here- buff.ly/3UYJFwS @apls41 @aplssc

Happy Friday! Reed et al.'s article addresses the effects of attorney guidance and jury deliberation to mitigate the challenges that civil juries face in assessing damages. Read the full article for FREE here- buff.ly/3R3Mb3V @apls41 @aplssc

Although judgments of risk and disposition toward individuals who sexually offend can be adjusted regardless of victim type, there is a more severe bias against individuals with child victims. Calobrisi & Knight explore this further in their article- buff.ly/3KhvPB0

Silver et al. conducted the first age-graded evaluation of the Public Safety Assessment (PSA) focused on assessing whether the predictive validity and scoring predictions of the tool vary across the lifespan. See their findings here- buff.ly/3Ki8wqS @apls41 @aplssc

The June 2024 issue is here! Check out the table of contents and come back tomorrow to see the first article highlight of the issue. @apls41

Confession evidence is persuasive, and although jurors recognize the harmful impact of coercive interrogation methods, they still consider unreliable confessions. Read more about this in the FREE article by Mindthoff, Ferreira, & Meissner here- buff.ly/3zG4NBq

Rearrest is associated with increases in CU traits irrespective of the quality of a youth’s relationship with their mother. Interested in this finding? Check out Rodger's et al.'s article from the June 2024 issue here- buff.ly/4cxIVGP @apls41 @aplssc

Could changes in criminal laws lead to reductions in the reoffense rates of individuals convicted of sexual offenses? Read Rettenberger & Eher's article from the June 2024 issue to find out! buff.ly/4bG5KGS @apls41 @aplssc

Quinney, Wenzel, & Woodyatt conducted three preregistered studies to examine the role of truth in victim-offender mediation. Read about their findings in their free-to-read article here- buff.ly/461NJlf @apls41 @aplssc

Annual competence to proceed evaluation volume likely far exceeds previous estimates. Read more of Kois, Potts, Cox, and Zapf's findings in their FREE article from the June 2024 issue here- buff.ly/3WghT0N @apls41 @aplssc