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Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality. (2011)
Journal Article
Murray, J., Thomson, M. E., Cooke, D. J., & Charles, K. E. (2011). Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 16, 126-143. https://doi.org/10.1348/135532510X490183

Purpose: The present research aimed to investigate the effects of attribution on expert clinical judgment in comparison to semi-experts and lay-people. Two research questions were addressed. Firstly, would experts be less subject to attributional m... Read More about Influencing expert judgment: attributions of crime causality..

Sensational Interests (2011)
Book Chapter
Charles, K. E., & Egan, V. (2011). Sensational Interests. In R. J. R. Levesque (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence, 2601-2606. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_379

This essay examines the current status of sensational interests and their relationship with offending in adolescence. The essay describes sensational interests, their measurement and how they came to be associated with criminal behavior. New rese... Read More about Sensational Interests.

Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations (2011)
Journal Article
Murray, J., Thomson, M. E., Cooke, D. J., & Charles, K. E. (2013). Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 18(1), 1-1

Purpose. The present research investigated the relationship between underlying justice and vengeance motivations and sentencing recommendations made by expert clinicians, semi-experts, and lay-people. It was hypothesized that the semi-experts would r... Read More about Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations.