Journal of Criminal Psychology: Volume 14 Issue 1

Being unwanted and other very early predictors of adult psychopathy

Georgia Zara, Henriette Bergstrøm, David P. Farrington

This paper aims to present new evidence from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) showing the extent to which obstetric (e.g. abnormal birth weight, confinement at…

Why might psychopathy develop? Beyond a protective function: a commentary on Zara et al. (2023)

Kristopher J. Brazil

Zara et al. (2023) provide novel findings into how psychopathy may develop, showing that early life predictors of poor relationships (e.g. being unwanted before birth) are…

Beliefs and therapeutic practices related to traumatic memories among Italian cognitive behavioral therapists and trainees

Angelo Zappalà, Ivan Mangiulli, Pekka Santtila, Elizabeth F. Loftus, Henry Otgaar

The purpose of this study was to investigate cognitive behavior therapists and trainees’s beliefs about various aspects of traumatic memory and to investigate cognitive behavior…

The role of the dark triad and emotion regulation in women’ sexual coercion: a social information processing perspective

Maxime Escarguel, Massil Benbouriche, Sarah Tibbels, Nathalie Przygodzki-Lionet

The perpetration of sexual coercion is a complex public health problem associated with many kinds of deficits. The literature has shown that women also perpetrate sexually…

Nudging eyewitnesses: the effect of social influence on recalling witnessed events

Kirk Luther, Zak Keeping, Brent Snook, Hannah de Almeida, Weyam Fahmy, Alexia Smith, Tianshuang Han

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the literature on information elicitation. The authors investigated the impact of social influence strategies on eyewitness recall…

The relation between psychopathy factors and emotional states prior and during criminal behaviour in a Dutch sample

Marije Keulen-de Vos, Martine Herzog-Evans, Massil Benbouriche

The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive value of psychopathy features on crime-related emotional states in forensic male patients with offence histories who were…