Edited By: Pamela J. Taylor, John Gunn, Mary McMurran
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health is an interdisciplinary journal connecting criminology and psychiatry to explore all aspects of the relationship between mental state and crime. The journal explores factors that influence this relationship, and particularly welcomes studies about pathways into and out of crime, treatment studies, and studies evaluating the impact of interventions and services designed to increase the safety of the public, the perpetrators, and victims.
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Unhoused Individuals, Mental Disorders, and the Criminal Justice System
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health invites submissions of articles on reporting original, meta-analytic research introducing effective approaches or review articles on interventions relevant to unhoused individuals with mental and/or substance use disorders. We also welcome articles that advocate public policy solutions or changes to current practices for individuals who are homeless with a serious mental illness.Deadline for Submissions: January 31st, 2024
Articles
Screening and identification of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in criminal legal settings: A realist review
-  208-270
-  25 April 2024
CBMH special issue editorial: Neurodivergent conditions and criminal behaviour
-  115-116
-  8 April 2024
Prevalence of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder in adult prisoners: An updated meta‐analysis
-  3 April 2024
A literature review of outcome and treatment options after acquired brain injury: Suggestions for adult offenders using knowledge from the general population
-  25 March 2024
Police shootings, violent crime, race and socio‐economic factors in municipalities in the United States of America
-  15 March 2024
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Some benefits of dichotomization in psychiatric and criminological research
-  100-122
-  14 March 2006
EssenCES, a short questionnaire for assessing the social climate of forensic psychiatric wards
-  49-58
-  30 January 2008
The predictive efficiency of school bullying versus later offending: A systematic/meta‐analytic review of longitudinal studies
-  80-89
-  3 March 2011