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  1. Politics in policy: An experimental examination of public views regarding sentence reductions via second chance mechanisms.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, April 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  2. Non-Consensual Synthetic Intimate Imagery: Prevalence, Attitudes, and Knowledge in 10 Countries

    Article • May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa, Associate Professor Nicola Henry

  3. Compassionate Release as a “Right” in the Age of COVID-19

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  4. The role of the defense attorney in relation to biological interventions as rehabilitative strategies

    Article • Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  5. The effects of essentialist thinking toward biosocial risk factors for criminality and types of offending on lay punishment support

    Article • Behavioral Sciences & the Law, July 2020, Wiley

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  6. The potential effect of neurobiological evidence on the adjudication of criminal responsibility of psychopathic defendants in involuntary manslaughter cases

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  7. The Stigma of Addiction and Effects on Community Perceptions of Procedural Justice in Drug Treatment Courts

    Article • Journal of Drug Issues, May 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  8. How information about perpetrators’ nature and nurture influences assessments of their character, mental states, and deserved punishment

    Article • PLOS One, October 2019, PLOS

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  9. When a sex offender wins the lottery: Social and legal punitiveness toward sex offenders in an instance of perceived injustice.

    Article • Psychology Public Policy and Law, May 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  10. The Brain of Dexter Morgan: the Science of Psychopathy in Showtime’s Season 8 of Dexter

    Article • American Journal of Criminal Justice, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  11. Judicial Stereotyping Associated with Genetic Essentialist Biases toward Mental Disorders and Potential Negative Effects on Sentencing

    Article • Law & Society Review, December 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  12. The psychopathic “label” and effects on punishment outcomes: A meta-analysis.

    Article • Law and Human Behavior, December 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  13. Potential Impact of Research on Adolescent Development on Juvenile Judge Decision-making

    Article • Juvenile and Family Court Journal, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  14. Neurocriminology

    Article • July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  15. The effects of psychiatric and “biological” labels on lay sentencing and punishment decisions

    Article • Journal of Experimental Criminology, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  16. US public views toward biosocial risk factors for criminality: a brief report

    Article • Journal of Criminological Research Policy and Practice, December 2017, Emerald

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  17. Jury-Eligible Public Attitudes Toward Biological Risk Factors for the Development of Criminal Behavior and Implications for Capital Sentencing

    Article • Criminal Justice and Behavior, July 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  18. Educator of the court: the role of the expert witness in cases involving autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Psychology Crime and Law, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  19. Extralegal Punishment Factors and Judges’ Normative Judgments of Moral Responsibility of bvFTD Patients

    Article • AJOB Neuroscience, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  20. Public attitudes toward legally coerced biological treatments of criminals

    Article • Journal of Law and the Biosciences, August 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  21. Attention, reward, and inhibition: symptomatic features of ADHD and issues for offenders in the criminal justice system

    Article • ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  22. The Ethics of Biological Interventions on Psychopathic Prisoners

    Article • AJOB Neuroscience, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  23. Genetic essentialist biases, stigma, and lack of mitigating impact on punishment decisions

    Article • Journal of Law and the Biosciences, May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  24. Behavioral and neural impairments of frontotemporal dementia: Potential implications for criminal responsibility and sentencing

    Article • International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  25. Brief Report: Judicial Attitudes Regarding the Sentencing of Offenders with High Functioning Autism

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  26. Judges’ views on evidence of genetic contributions to mental disorders in court

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  27. Brain imaging research on psychopathy: Implications for punishment, prediction, and treatment in youth and adults

    Article • Journal of Criminal Justice, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  28. Impact of Psychiatric Information on Potential Jurors in Evaluating High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (hfASD)

    Article • Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  29. Potential Implications of Research on Genetic or Heritable Contributions to Pedophilia for the Objectives of Criminal Law

    Article • Recent Advances in DNA & Gene Sequences (Formerly Recent Patents on DNA & Gene Sequences), April 2015, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  30. Judiciary views on criminal behaviour and intention of offenders with high-functioning autism

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour, June 2014, Emerald

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  31. Judicial Perceptions of Media Portrayals of Offenders with High Functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders

    Article • International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, January 2014, Lifescience Global

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa, Lifescience Global Inc.

  32. Ethical, legal and social issues surrounding research on genetic contributions to anti-social behavior

    Article • Aggression and Violent Behavior, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa

  33. Ethical, Legal, Social, and Policy Implications of Behavioral Genetics

    Article • Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, August 2013, Annual Reviews

    Dr. Colleen M. Berryessa