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Forensic Psychology Unit Publications

The most recent publications from members of the Forensic Psychology Unit

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Please see below for the most recent publications from staff members of the Centre. If you would like to see more, please visit .


Donato, Laura; Treglia, Michele; Cecchi, Rossana; Ubelaker, Douglas H.; Camatti, Jessika; Gabbert, Fiona; Pallocci, Margherita; Santunione, Anna Laura and Marsella, Luigi T.. 2026. Forensic age progression for missing person investigations: A pilot evaluation of recognition accuracy. Legal Medicine, 82, 102808. ISSN 1344-6223 [Article]


Eaton, Asia A.; Scott, Adrian J.; Flynn, Asher and Powell, Anastasia. 2026. Perceptions of sexualized deepfake abuse across three nations: An exploration of how victim gender and race shape attitudes towards deepfake abuse in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Computers in Human Behavior, 177, 108899. ISSN 0747-5632 [Article]


Gabbert, Fiona; Scott, Adrian J. and Brouillard, Celine. 2026. Enhancing investigative interview skills with brief educational videos. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 16(2), pp. 282-294. ISSN 2009-3829 [Article]


Farrugia, Laura; Gabbert, Fiona and Oxburgh, Gavin. 2026. Evaluation of Forensic Interviews and Interrogations: A Thematic Analysis of Law-Enforcement Views. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 16(2), pp. 269-281. ISSN 2009-3829 [Article]


Brouillard, Celine; Gabbert, Fiona and Scott, Adrian J.. 2026. Development and validation of the rapport-pro for investigative information-gathering contexts. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 16(1), pp. 135-160. ISSN 2009-3829 [Article]


Barbieri, Costanza; Oldfield, Lucy; Norman, Hilary and Gould, Georgina. 2026. Evaluation of a Nature-based Psychological Intervention: Dose of Nature Young People’s Programme. Journal of Ecopsychology, 6, 1. ISSN 2752-5260 [Article]


Toolin, Katie; Gabbert, Fiona and Scott, Adrian J.. 2026. What works in behavioural recognition? A systematic review. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 40(1), e70153. ISSN 0888-4080 [Article]


Marzano, Lisa; Brown, Sophie; Spence, Ruth; Joyner, Laura; Norman, Hilary; Fields, Bob; Barbin, Arianna; Kruger, Ian and MacDonald Hart, Steven. 2025. Environmental Risk Factors for Railway Suicide: A Nationwide Analysis of England’s Mainline Network (2019–2021). Archives of Suicide Research, ISSN 1381-1118 [Article] (In Press)


Jordan, Dominic T.; Scott, Adrian J. and Thomson, Donald M.. 2025. The psychology of eyewitness identification: Exploring the relationship between traditional and alternative approaches to recognition. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032942827 [Book]


Gabbert, Fiona; Scott, Adrian J.; Shalev, Karen and van Langeraad, Amy. 2025. Disproportion and decision: Ethnic minority overrepresentation and police risk assessment in missing persons cases. Behavioral Sciences, 15(12), 1628. ISSN 2076-328X [Article]


Merla, Isabela; Gabbert, Fiona and Scott, Adrian J.. 2025. Interventions to reduce implicit bias in high-stakes professional judgements: A systematic review. Behavioral Sciences, 15(11), 1592. ISSN 2076-328X [Article]


Flynn, Asher; Powell, Anastasia; Eaton, Asia A. and Scott, Adrian J.. 2025. Sexualized deepfake abuse: Perpetrator and victim perspectives on the motivations and forms of non-consensually created and shared sexualized deepfake imagery. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, ISSN 0886-2605 [Article] (In Press)


Price, Heather L.; Luther, Kirk; Thomas, Wayne; Gabbert, Fiona and Hope, Lorraine. 2025. Extracting Witness Evidence in “Cold Case” Investigations: What we Know and What we Need to Learn. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 40(2), pp. 405-416. ISSN 0882-0783 [Article]


Hope, Lorraine; Hawkins de Namor, Nadine; Gabbert, Fiona; Ferenczi, Nelli and Oxburgh, Gavin. 2025. From an investigator's perspective: Challenges and opportunities in building and maintaining rapport in cross-cultural investigative interviewing contexts. Journal of Criminal Psychology, ISSN 2009-3829 [Article] (In Press)


Mainwaring, Chelsea; Scott, Adrian J. and Gabbert, Fiona. 2025. Situational facilitators and barriers of bystander intervention intent in image-based sexual abuse contexts. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, ISSN 0886-2605 [Article]


Moffett, Lee; Oxburgh, Gavin; Dresser, Paul and Gabbert, Fiona. 2025. Developing a narrative theory of deception for the analysis of mock-Covert Human Intelligence Source (CHIS) accounts. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 98(1), pp. 58-75. ISSN 0032-258X [Article]


Wheeler, Rebecca L.; Gabbert, Fiona and Hope, Lorraine. 2025. Self-Generated Cues: The role of cue quality in facilitating eyewitness recall. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 15(2), pp. 164-175. ISSN 2009-3829 [Article]


Flynn, Asher; Cama, Elena and Scott, Adrian J.. 2025. Image-based sexual abuse and bystander intervention: A mixed methods study of attitudes, barriers and facilitators. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031836466 [Book]


Scott, Adrian J.; Pina, Afroditi; Page, Thomas E. and Smith, Arthur T.. 2025. The Alice Ruggles Trust Assembly Project evaluation: County Durham and Darlington. Project Report. [Report] (Submitted)


Gabbert, Fiona; Scott, Adrian J. and Shalev, Karen. 2025. Investigating factors and potential biases that might help explain the overrepresentation of people from ethnic minority backgrounds amongst missing person cases. Project Report. [Report] (Submitted)