Defining and Assessing vulnerability within law enforcement and public health organisations: A scoping review.
Journal Article
Enang, I., Murray, J., Dougall, N., Wooff, A., Heyman, I., & Aston, E. (2019)
Defining and Assessing vulnerability within law enforcement and public health organisations: A scoping review. Health and Justice, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-019-0083-z
Historically, police departments focused solely on criminal justice issues. Recently, there has been a dynamic shift in focus, with Law Enforcement professional groups assumin...
Investigating the Effect of Locus of Control, Sex and Age on Perceptions of Petty Crime
Journal Article
Brown, L., & Murray, J. (2021)
Investigating the Effect of Locus of Control, Sex and Age on Perceptions of Petty Crime. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 17(2), 46-53
The present research investigated locus of control, sex and age to identify which influenced crime perceptions and to what extent. A 2 (internal versus external locus of contr...
Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations
Journal Article
Murray, J., Thomson, M. E., Cooke, D. J., & Charles, K. E. (2013)
Investigating the relationship between justice-vengeance motivations and punitive sentencing recommendations: Justice-vengeance motivations. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 18(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02021.x
Purpose. The present research investigated the relationship between underlying justice and vengeance motivations and sentencing recommendations made by expert clinicians, semi...
The role of images on illness behaviour: Interdisciplinary theory, evidence, and ideas
Journal Article
Williams, B., & Murray, J. (2021)
The role of images on illness behaviour: Interdisciplinary theory, evidence, and ideas. Psychological Reports, 124(6), 2453-2475. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294120945602
If illness behaviour is to be fully understood, the social and behavioural sciences must work together to understand the wider forms in which illness is experienced and commun...
Suicide Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department: An Investigation of Current Practice in Scotland
Journal Article
McClatchey, K., Murray, J., Chouliara, Z., Rowat, A., & Hauge, S. R. (2019)
Suicide Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department: An Investigation of Current Practice in Scotland. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 73(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.13342
Background
Suicide is a global public health issue. Approximately one third of individuals who complete suicide have attended an emergency department in the year preceding the...
Are consistent juror decisions related to fast and frugal decision making? Investigating the relationship between juror consistency, decision speed and cue utilisation
Journal Article
Curley, L. J., Murray, J., MacLean, R., & Laybourn, P. (2017)
Are consistent juror decisions related to fast and frugal decision making? Investigating the relationship between juror consistency, decision speed and cue utilisation. Medicine, Science and the Law, 57(4), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802417733354
To establish whether more consistent/accurate juror decision making is related to faster decision making processes which use fewer cues, i.e. fast and frugal heuristic process...
A theory-informed approach to developing visually mediated interventions to change behaviour using an asthma and physical activity intervention exemplar
Journal Article
Murray, J., Williams, B., Hoskins, G., Skar, S., McGhee, J., Treweek, S., …Gauld, D. (2016)
A theory-informed approach to developing visually mediated interventions to change behaviour using an asthma and physical activity intervention exemplar. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-016-0091-x
Background Visualisation techniques are used in a range of healthcare interventions. However, these frequently lack a coherent rationale or clear theoretical basis. This lack...
Preliminary evidence that glucose ingestion facilitates prospective memory performance
Journal Article
Riby, L., Law, A., McLaughlin, J., & Murray, J. (2011)
Preliminary evidence that glucose ingestion facilitates prospective memory performance. Nutrition Research, 31, 370-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nutres.2011.04.003
Previous research has found that the ingestion of glucose boosts task performance in the memory
domain (including tasks tapping episodic, semantic, and working memory). The pr...
COVID-19 Public Inquiry: Research Report for Portfolio 3 The Provision of Health and Social Care Services Adult Social Care
Report
Report commissioned by Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry into the Scottish Government's strategic response to the COVID pandemic in relation to the provision of healthcare serv...
Verdict spotting: Investigating the effects of juror bias, evidence anchors, and verdict system in jurors
Journal Article
Curley, L. J., Murray, J., MacLean, R., Munro, J., Lages, M., Frumkin, L. A., …Brown, D. (2022)
Verdict spotting: Investigating the effects of juror bias, evidence anchors, and verdict system in jurors. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 29(3), 323-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2021.1904450
The Scottish verdict of not proven represents a second acquittal verdict which is not legally defined. Existing research into the influence of the not proven verdict on jury d...