Publications

Fischer, B., Robinson, T., & Albrecht, H.-J. (2025). Key crime- and public safety-related results of non-medical cannabis legalization policy in Canada: a targeted evidence summary. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice. doi:10.1108/JCRPP-06-2024-0042

McClanahan, W. P., Nagin, D. S., Otte, M., Wozniak, P., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2025). How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities. Criminology, 63(1), 155–182. doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12401

Mertens, E., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2025). The DID-guide: A guide to developing digital mental health interventions for smartphones and virtual reality. Internet Interventions, 100794. doi:10.1016/j.invent.2024.100794

Schwarzenbach, A. (2025). Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France. European Sociological Review, jcaf006. doi:10.1093/esr/jcaf006

Webb, M., Vieira, A., Suazo, N., Sheerin, K. M., & Kemp, K. (2025). Identifying gaps in mental health service and supports utilization among minoritized youth with mental health concerns in the juvenile legal system. Children and Youth Services Review, 108176. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108176

De Courson, B., Frankenhuis, W. E., & Nettle, D. (2025). Poverty is associated with both risk avoidance and risk taking: empirical evidence for the desperation threshold model from the UK and France. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 292, 20242071. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2071

Vermeent, S., Schubert, A.-L., DeJoseph, M. L., Denissen, J. J. A., Van Gelder, J.-L., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2025). Inconclusive evidence for associations between adverse experiences in adulthood and working memory performance. Royal Society Open Science, 12, 241837. doi:10.1098/rsos.241837

Mertens, E., Thielmann, I., Nocentini, A., Siezenga, A., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2024). Putting situational affordances in an intervention context: How the interaction between personality and intervention situations can help us explain differential intervention responses. PLOS ONE, 19(12), e0309180. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0309180

Fischer, B., & Albrecht, H.-J. (2024). Developments in cannabis enforcement practices and patterns associated with non-medical cannabis legalization policies: a basic literature/data review. Journal of Crime and Justice. doi:10.1080/0735648X.2024.2427284

Sergiou, C.-S., Gerstner, D., Nee, C., Elffers, H., & van Gelder, J.-L. (2024). Virtual reality-based retrospective think aloud (VR-RTA): a novel method for studying offender decision-making. Crime Science, 13, 39. doi:10.1186/s40163-024-00236-4

Van Gelder, J.-L., Barnum, T., Herman, S., & Wozniak, P. (2024). The MAXLab aggression and bystander intervention scenario set (MAXLab_ABISS): A modular scenario set for studying decision making in situations of interpersonal violence in virtual reality. Journal of Experimental Criminology. doi:10.1007/s11292-024-09645-6

Sergiou, C.-S., Elffers, H., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2024). Waar letten inbrekers op?: Hoe observeren van inbrekers in een virtual reality omgeving en hardop-denken rapportage ons inzicht kan verdiepen in waar inbrekers op letten. Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, 66(2), 152–172. doi:10.5553/TvC/0165182X2024066002003

Van Gelder, J.-L., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2024). Short-Term mindsets and crime. Annual Review of Criminology, 2025(8), 18.1–18.26. doi:10.1146/annurev-criminol-022422-124536

Deitzer, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., Feinberg, M., Jacobsen, W. C., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2024). Why do harsh and unpredictable environments lead to delinquency? The case for unpredictability schemas and short-term mindsets. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. doi:10.1177/00224278241275573

Barnum, T., Herman, S., Van Gelder, J.-L., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., & Nagin, D. S. (2024). Reactive guardianship: Who intervenes? How? And why? Criminology. doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12380

Defoe, I. N., Van Gelder, J.-L., Ribeaud, D., & Eisner, M. (2024). Short-term mindsets show co-development with adolescent delinquency, but not with adolescent cannabis use. Journal of research on adolescence: the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence, 34(3), 857–870. doi:10.1111/jora.12973

Deitzer, J., Frankenhuis, W. E., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., & Van Gelder, J.-L. (2024). Effect of early interactions with the police on intertemporal choice: A longitudinal study of Zurich public school students. Crime & Delinquency. doi:10.1177/00111287241264224

Fischer, B., Robinson, T., & Albrecht, H.-J. (2024). Primary crime-related outcomes and indicators associated with recreational cannabis legalization: A comprehensive literature and data review. Crime, Law and Social Change, 82(3), 685–715. doi:10.1007/s10611-024-10160-y

Ganschow, B., Zebel, S., van Gelder, J.-L., & Cornet, L. J. M. (2024). Feeling connected but dissimilar to one’s future self reduces the intention-behavior gap. PLOS ONE, 19(7), e0305815. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0305815

Herman, S., & Pogarsky, G. (2024). Moral salience, situational moral evaluations, and criminal choice. Crime & Delinquency. doi:10.1177/00111287241259474