Selected Journal Articles
The Neurobiological Basis of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior
Choy, O. & Raine, A. (2024). The neurobiology of antisocial personality disorder. Neuropharmacology, 261, 110150.
Heart Rate
Raine, A.*, Choy, O.*, Achenbach, T., & Liu, J. (2024). High resting heart rate protects against the intergenerational transmission of antisocial behavior: A birth cohort study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 1597-1603.
*denotes equal authorship
Choy, O., Raine, A., Venables, P. H., & Farrington, D. P. (2017). Explaining the gender gap in crime: The role of heart rate. Criminology.
Choy, O., Farrington, D. P., & Raine, A. (2015). The need to incorporate autonomic arousal in developmental and life-course criminological research and theories. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 1, 189-207.
Choy, O., Raine, A., Portnoy, J., Rudo-Hutt, A., Gao, Y., & Soyfer, L. (2015). The mediating role of heart rate on the social adversity-antisocial behavior relationship: A social neurocriminology perspective. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 52, 303-341.
Neuropsychology
Choy, O., Tan, G., & van Dongen, J. D. (2025). Executive functions and aggression in “hot” and “cold” contexts: Two meta-analyses. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 80, 102024.
Treatments for Crime and Antisocial Behavior
Denson, T. F., & Choy, O. (2024). Reconsidering biological treatments for reducing violent offending. Psychology of Violence, 14, 412.
Nutrition
Konkolÿ Thege, B., Robitaille, C., Mahmoud, L., Kinzel, E. A., Qamar, R., Hartmann‐Boyce, J., & Choy, O. (2025). The efficacy of nutritional interventions in reducing childhood/youth aggressive and antisocial Behavior: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐Analysis. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 21, e70059.
Choy, O. (2023). Nutritional factors associated with aggression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1176061.
Raine, A.*, Choy, O.*, Leung, C., Singh, M., & Kaur, J. (2023). Omega-3 and vitamin D supplementation to reduce recidivism: A pilot study. Journal of Experimental Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-023-09552-2.
*denotes equal authorship
Choy, O. & Raine, A. (2021). Vitamin D insufficiency attenuates the effect of early social adversity on child antisocial behavior. Psychological Medicine, 1-10.
Choy, O. & Raine, A. (2018). Omega-3 supplementation as a dietary intervention to reduce aggressive and antisocial behavior. Current Psychiatry Reports, 20, 32.
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
Kuhn, L., Choy, O., Keller, L., Habel, U., & Wagels, L. (2024). Prefrontal tDCS modulates risk-taking in male violent offenders. Scientific Reports, 14, 10087.
Choy, O., Tan, G., & Wong, Y. C. (2023). The effect of multi-session prefrontal cortical stimulation on aggression: A randomized, double-blind, parallel-group trial. Life, 13, 1729.
Choy, O., Raine, A., & Hamilton, R. H. (2018). Stimulation of the prefrontal cortex reduces intentions to commit aggression: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, stratified, parallel-group trial. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38, 6505-6512.
Psychopathy
Choy, O., Raine, A., & Schug, R. (2022). Larger striatal volume is associated with increased adult psychopathy. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 149, 185-193.
Choy, O., Berryessa, C. M., & Raine, A. (2016). The ethics of biological interventions on psychopathic prisoners. AJOB Neuroscience, 7, 154-156.
Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence
Ho, M. H., Ng, W. E., Rosario, A. L. C., Lee, J., Wadhwa, B., Choy, O., & Tandoc Jr, E. C. (2025). ‘When everything goes online, it’s never really gone’: Understanding technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in Singapore. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-24.
Selected Book Chapters
Choy, O. & Focquaert, F. (2023). A biopsychosocial approach to interventions for violent offending. In K. M. Heide (Ed.), International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide. Routledge.
Choy, O. (2022). Structural magnetic resonance imaging studies of antisocial personality disorder. In D. W. Black & N. J. Kolla (Eds.), Textbook of Antisocial Personality Disorder. American Psychiatric Association Publishing.
Choy, O. (2020). Antisocial personality disorder. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief), J. S. Mio, & R. E. Riggio (Vol. Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences: Vol. IV. Clinical, Applied, and Cross-cultural Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Choy, O. (2020). Biosocial risk factors for offending. In F. Focquaert, E. Shaw, & B. N. Waller (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Science of Punishment. Routledge.
Choy, O., Portnoy, J., Raine, A., Remmel, R. J., Schug, R., Tuvblad, C., & Yang, Y. (2019). Biosocial influences on offending across the life course. In D. P. Farrington, L. Kazemian, & A. R. Piquero (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.