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{"title":"All mouth and trousers? Use of the Devil’s Advocate questioning protocol to determine authenticity of opinions about protester actions","authors":"Samantha Mann, Aldert Vrij, Haneen Deeb, Sharon Leal","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2023.2242433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2023.2242433","url":null,"abstract":"We examined the Devil’s Advocate lie detection method which is aimed at detecting lying about opinions. In this approach, participants give reasons for why they hold an opinion in the eliciting-opinion question and counter-arguments to their opinion in a devil’s advocate question. Truth tellers (n = 55) reported their true opinion about protestor actions, whereas lie tellers (n = 55) reported the opposite of their true opinion. Answers were coded for number of arguments and plausibility, immediacy, clarity and scriptedness. Data were analysed with analyses of variance with veracity being the sole factor. Supporting the hypothesis, truth tellers provided more pro-arguments than lie tellers and to all eliciting-opinion questions their answers sounded more plausible, immediate and clear than lie tellers’ answers. The opposite pattern was predicted for the devil’s advocate question but not found, likely caused by the simplification of the question. Neither was being scripted a diagnostic veracity indicator.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135063508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons <b>Towards Human Rights Compliance in Australian Prisons</b> , by Anita Mackay, Canberra: ANU Press, November 2020, 368pp, AU$60 or Free Download, ISBN 9781760464004 (print), ISBN 9781760464011 (online)","authors":"Kris Gledhill","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2023.2242441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2023.2242441","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Ethical standards Declaration of conflicts of interestKris Gledhill has declared no conflicts of interest.Ethical approvalThis article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134948611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of alibi consistency, presence of physical evidence and timing of disclosure on mock juror perceptions.","authors":"Meredith Allison, Sandy Jung, Scott E Culhane","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2023.2206869","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13218719.2023.2206869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inconsistent alibis often are viewed negatively, but they may be due to simple mistakes and not deception. The strength of alibi evidence also matters; alibis supported by strong corroborative physical evidence are more believable than alibis with no physical evidence. The timing at which the alibi is disclosed to the prosecution also can affect alibi believability. Two hundred and seventy online participants evaluated a consistent or inconsistent alibi that had corroborative physical evidence or not, and was disclosed early or late. Collapsing across the three conditions, more participants voted guilty than not guilty, and more believable alibis were associated with more not guilty verdicts. Consistent alibis were more believable, and the defendant was viewed more positively on five character traits than when the alibi was inconsistent. There were few effects of alibi timing. In sum, consistency led to positive views of alibis and defendants.</p>","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":"659-670"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11580147/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48114940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crime, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System in Africa: A Psycho-Criminological Perspective,","authors":"S. Shepherd","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2023.2175073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2023.2175073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 1","pages":"418 - 421"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49549769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Qualitative study of district health board inquiries into mental health related homicide in a New Zealand sample","authors":"L. Ng, A. Merry, R. Paterson, S. Merry","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2142977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2142977","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to identify the methods and content of hospital-based serious incident reviews involving mental health related homicide where a service user was the perpetrator between 2007 and 2017. Eleven reports were obtained from mental health services in New Zealand’s largest city and thematically analysed. Nine used the London protocol to identify clinical and system factors that may have contributed to the serious incident, but there was considerable variation in the way in which it was applied. Feedback to services was inconsistent. The voices of family members of the victims were largely absent and consideration of cultural context was missing. A structured protocol to specifically address the mental health context in New Zealand and internationally could resolve some of these issues and lead to a process that is more likely to provide comprehensive coverage of relevant matters and produce clear recommendations to effect improvements to services.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48210170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using item response theory modelling to understand criminal justice professionals’ perceptions of cross-examination in child sexual abuse trials","authors":"Eunro Lee, J. Goodman-Delahunty, Natalie Martschuk, Nina J Westera, Martine B. Powell","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2142974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2142974","url":null,"abstract":"The need to educate criminal justice professionals about best practices to cross-examine complainants of child sexual abuse is widely acknowledged. Yet, a dearth of empirical information about their perceptions has hindered development of targeted professional education programmes. The present study compared perceptions of the quality of cross-examination of a child and an adolescent complainant between judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, police officers and witness support staff. Questioning type (appropriate/inappropriate) and judicial intervention (present/absent) were varied. Results of two-parameter Item Response Theory modelling showed that defence lawyers perceived significantly less unfairness to the complainant than the other professional groups. Judges’ views of unfairness were driven by the potential for confusion more than the age-inappropriate questioning. Police officers and witness support staff more likely rated the cross-examination as deleterious to the credibility and reliability of the complainant. Topics to include in professional development programmes around eliciting best evidence from vulnerable witnesses are discussed.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41596335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defendant psychopathic traits, but not defendant gender, predict death penalty verdicts in mock-juror decision making","authors":"Gaurav Saxena, H. Eisenbarth, J. Cox, Adam D. Coffey, Claire Lankford","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2142976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2142976","url":null,"abstract":"Perceptions of a defendant’s psychopathic personality traits can impact mock jurors’ decision making, yet findings on the relationship of jurors’ and defendants’ gender on legal decision making have been inconsistent. This study investigates the relationship between defendant prototypical gender-congruent or -incongruent psychopathic traits and mock jurors’ perception and sentencing recommendations. In a between-subject design, participants (N = 1,721) rendered a verdict and rated the extent to which they perceived the defendant as legally responsible, morally responsible, and their recidivism risk. Participants prescribed harsher punishments and held more negative perceptions of a defendant with psychopathic traits than a defendant without these traits. However, the defendant received similar punishment and was judged equally negatively in both gender-congruent and -incongruent conditions. Finally, while men were more likely to choose the death verdict, women held more negative views of the defendant. Thus, portrayal of psychopathic traits seems related to harsher sentencing independent of gender-specific trait variations.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41598046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of the atypical sexual interests (self-report) scale: the dimensional structure of paraphilia","authors":"M. Rowlands, F. P. Morrison, E. Brock, H. Stocker, D. Green, D. Marks, D. Castano","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2142973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2142973","url":null,"abstract":"According to the DSM-5, an individual is diagnosed with a paraphilic disorder when there are persistent behaviours or fantasies that cause distress and/or impairment. However, there is limited research on assessing a continuum of paraphilic interest. The current study sampled 1,650 individuals (age range = 18–93 years, M = 33.64, SD = 16.1) from the general population in assessing a novel 53-item scale – Atypical Sexual Interests Scale (ASIS) – that measures six atypical interests: devotism, frotteurism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, sexual sadism, and sexual masochism. Factor analyses identified that the six-factor model was a poor fit, with the former suggesting a four-factor model; 21 poorly performing items were consequently removed from the scale, and a second confirmatory factor analysis was run. While the six-factor model was a better fit on the refined ASIS compared to unitary and four-factor models, three subscales (frotteurism, voyeurism and exhibitionism) possibly ‘tap into’ a single courtship deviation construct.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49306742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gender differences in stalking, threats and online abuse reported by Victorian politicians","authors":"L. Phillips, M. Pathé, T. Mcewan","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2142975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2142975","url":null,"abstract":"This study sought to estimate the frequency of harassment, threats, assault and stalking faced by Victorian Members of Parliament (MPs), with a focus on gender and experience of online abuse. 46 of 128 MPs completed an online survey (36%). 82% reported experiences of harassment, 85% reported threats of harm, and 35% reported stalking, with most reporting lifestyle changes in response. Female MPs were more likely than males to report all these experiences. Almost 100% of MPs using social media reported online abuse. Abuse about political positions or general defamatory statements were most common (95% and 87% respectively) and were experienced equally by male and female MPs. 50% reported gender-based abuse, with 85% of female MPs reporting such abuse. Results highlight the frequency and impact of abuse and harassment of MPs by the public, and support the need for increased awareness of, and accessibility to, expert advice, threat assessment and interventions.","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42072873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to special edition","authors":"A. Carroll, R. Darjee","doi":"10.1080/13218719.2022.2135189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2022.2135189","url":null,"abstract":"Since its inception in 1978, ANZAPPL has sought to foster dialogue between legal professionals and mental health professionals. Importantly, this endeavour has always been not multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary: it is not simply that different professions make distinct contributions to the effective working of the law; rather, there are interactive relationships between the work done in their distinct professional discourses. The needs of the law pose certain questions that mental health experts may seek to answer; conversely, mental health professionals provide answers that may shape and at times constrain jurisprudence. The nuances and complexities of this dialectical relationship are especially evident in the domain of criminal responsibility and the associated issue of appropriate sentencing practice as applied to persons with mental health concerns. There is a natural synergy between the aims of ANZAPPL and those of the RANZCP Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry: training and professional development in the delivery of expert evidence to the courts and other decision making bodies is a central aim of the Faculty. The one day event on which this special edition of the journal is based was delivered jointly by the two bodies. It brought together a diverse range of outstanding experts in an effort to illuminate a range of emerging themes relevant to criminal responsibility and mental health. We were fortunate indeed to have President Chris Maxwell open the proceedings. In his scene-setting paper, he eloquently provides a comprehensive but accessible overview of the moral philosophical underpinnings of criminal responsibility. In doing so he illustrates the importance of mental health expertise in ensuring that the courts discharge their responsibilities in a way that is not only fair and just, but also promotes constructive public policy. In passing, we acknowledge here the immense contribution that President Maxwell has made to promoting psychologicallyinformed jurisprudence throughout his career, most notably in his tenure as President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Jamie Walvisch, in a typically scholarly and well-reasoned paper, discusses the important emerging construct of ‘meta-culpability’. In doing so, not only does he clearly lay out the philosophical foundations for that construct but also lays bare both its strengths and its limitations, illustrating the complex interplay between jurisprudential thinking and the mental health field. He argues that mental health experts should adopt comprehensive","PeriodicalId":51553,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatry Psychology and Law","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45861276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}