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  1. New in British J of Criminology: Middle Class Offenders, A 35-Year Follow-Up bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/…
  2. New research - fascinating: The Effects of Power and Deception on Dominance, Credibility, and Decision Making. crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/ab…
  3. The Effect of Context and Crime Characteristics on Sex Offenders’ Reaction to Victim Resistance cad.sagepub.com/content/early/…
  4. Golfing with a murderer—Professional indifference and identity work in a Danish prison sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
  5. Detecting authorship deception: a supervised machine learning approach using author writeprints llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2/1…?
  6. "implication that criminals may escape prosecution because of procedures implemented to protect innocent makes policy decisions complicated"
  7. "Eyewitness ID procedures that reduce risk of false ID of innocent also reduce likelihood of correct ID of the guilty" pps.sagepub.com/content/7/3/23…
  8. Current issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science has a heap of articles on eyewitnesses pps.sagepub.com/content/7/3.toc
  9. Current issue of Policing is a special on Crime Science (marking 10th Anniversary of the Jill Dando Institute) policing.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol6/i…
  10. From US sociologist Bert Useem: U.S. Prisons and the Myth of Islamic Terrorism ctx.sagepub.com/content/11/2/3…
  11. In this month's FBI law enforcement bulletin, how involvement in deadly force shootings can affect officers' memories fbi.gov/stats-services…
  12. New: how perceptions of guilt for both male and female suspects co-vary with masculine physical appearance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…
  13. Oh dear: "We found that questioning induced forgetting of offender characteristics" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…
  14. New: child-provided alibis reduced perceptions of suspect guilt; child alibi witnesses viewed more credible than adult onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…
  15. New: reaction time based Concealed Information Test successfully differentiates betw guilty &innocent participants onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ac…
  16. Hmm: how suspicious nonverbal cues from other people can trigger feelings of physical coldness pss.sagepub.com/content/early/…
  17. Study using social network framework to understand delinquency and gang membership in a Latino neighborhood (pdf) urban.org/UploadedPDF/41…
  18. New research: When questioning two suspects together, how does one determine truth or deception?hfs.sagepub.com/content/early/…
  19. Bumper crop of free articles from @Routledge_Crim tandf.co.uk/journals/explo…