Publications
Select publications by the faculty of the UVA Forensic Clinic demonstrating our commitment to advancing forensic psychology through rigorous research and scholarship.
Research Excellence in Forensic Psychology
Our faculty have contributed extensively to the scientific literature in forensic psychology, with research spanning bias detection, risk assessment, juvenile justice, and innovative evaluation methodologies.
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Advance Directives
5 Publications
Implementing advance directives in mental health services: A manual for providers and advocates
Retrievable from Virginia Advance Directives website, scheduled for release in 2016
Advance directives for mental health care: Innovation in law, policy, and practice
Psychiatric Services, 2015
Embedding advance directives in routine care for persons with serious mental illness: The challenge of implementation
Psychiatric Services, 2015
Implementing Advance Directives in Mental Health Services: A Manual for Providers and Advocates
Virginia Advance Directives, 2015
Bias, Reliability, and Quality in Forensic Evaluations
15 Publications
A Hierarchy of Expert Performance applied to Forensic Psychology
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, in press
Allegiance effects in clinical psychology research and practice
In Psychological science under scrutiny: Recent challenges and proposed remedies, 2017
Does the predictive validity of psychopathy ratings depend on the clinical experience of the raters?
International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 2017
Field reliability influences field validity: Risk assessments of individuals found not guilty by reason of insanity
Psychological Assessment, 2017
Why do forensic experts disagree? Sources of unreliability and bias in forensic psychology evaluations
Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 2017
Adversarial allegiance among expert witnesses
Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2015
Static-99R reporting practices in sexually violent predator cases: Does norm selection reflect adversarial allegiance?
Law and Human Behavior, 2015
Evaluator differences in PCL-R factor and facet scores
Law and Human Behavior, 2014
Are forensic experts biased by the side that retained them?
Psychological Science, 2013
How reliable are forensic evaluations of legal sanity?
Law and Human Behavior, 2013
Field reliability of competency to stand trial evaluations: How often do evaluators agree, and what do judges decide when evaluators disagree?
Law and Human Behavior, 2012
Rater (dis)agreement on risk assessment measures in sexually violent predator proceedings: Evidence of adversarial allegiance in forensic evaluation?
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2009
Clinician variation in findings of competence to stand trial
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2008
Do some evaluators report consistently higher or lower psychopathy scores than others? Findings from a statewide sample of sexually violent predator evaluations
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2008
Does interrater (dis)agreement on Psychopathy Checklist scores in Sexually Violent Predator trials suggest partisan allegiance in forensic evaluation?
Law and Human Behavior, 2008
Clinician variation in rates of legal sanity opinions: Implications for self-monitoring
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 2005
Violence Risk Assessment
7 Publications
Allegiance effects in clinical psychology research and practice
In Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Emergencies and Crises, 2017
Violence risk assessment
In The Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry, Third Edition, 2018
Structured violence risk assessment: Implications for preventing gun violence
In Gun Violence and Mental Illness, 2016
Evaluating and managing the risk of violence in clinical practice with adults
In Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Emergencies and Crises, 2015
Reformulating suicide risk formulation: From prediction to prevention
Academic Psychiatry, 2016
Forensic Evaluation of violence risk: A guide to risk assessment and risk management
John Wiley & Sons, 2007