The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management
Theory, Research and Practice
Edited by J. Stephen Wormith, Leam A. Craig, and
Todd E. Hogue
This edition first published 2020
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Title: The Wiley Handbook of what works in violence risk management : theory, research and practice / J. Stephen Wormith, Leam A. Craig, and Todd E. Hogue.
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22 Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrator Programmes: Ideology or Evidence‐Based Practice?
Nicola Graham‐Kevan and Elizabeth A. Bates
23 Interventions for Violent Offenders with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
John L. Taylor
Gina Ambroziak and David Thornton
25 Effective Systems and Processes for Managing Violent Offenders in the United Kingdom and the European Union
Hazel Kemshall and Sarah Hilder
26 Beyond Core Correctional Practice: Facilitating Prosocial Change through the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision 505 Guy Bourgon, Nick Chadwick, and Tanya Rugge
27 What Works in Risk Assessment in Stalking Cases
David V. James and Lorraine P. Sheridan
28 Managing Violent Offenders in the Community: Reentr y and Beyond 543 Ralph C. Serin , Christopher T. Lowenkamp , and Caleb D. Lloyd
About the Contributors
Gina Ambroziak, B.S., has worked for Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center (SRSTC), Wisconsin’s sex offender civil commitment program, for approximately nine years. She is currently the Quality Improvement and Research Supervisor and held previous positions with the program as a Research Analyst and Treatment Specialist. She has been involved in research related to the Structured Risk Assessment – Forensic Version, sex offenders with major mental illness, and outcomes of released sexually violent persons. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in psychology and legal studies from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison.
Elizabeth A. Bates, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology at the University of Cumbria. Her PhD involved exploring the impact of personality and psychopathology on men’s and women’s intimate partner violence. Her key research interests lie in exploring effective interventions for perpetrators, women’s violence and male victims of intimate partner violence.
Elliot Bell, BCA, MA, PGDipClinPsyc, Ph.D., FNZCCP, is a senior lecturer at the University of Otago Wellington, New Zealand. Dr Bell has a clinical background working in New Zealand forensic mental health services in inpatient, community, and prison settings, with mentally disordered and intellectually disabled offenders. He has extensive experience writing court reports and has provided expert witness testimony. Dr Bell maintains a private practice currently. He completed his Masters thesis on psychopathology in people with intellectual disabilities, and his PhD on Theory of Mind in people with schizophrenia. His current research focuses cognitive behaviour therapies, mental health rehabilitation, intellectual disability, forensic rehabilitation, resilience, and psychological factors in the rehabilitation of physical health conditions. He is a Fellow and past Vice President of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists.
Douglas P. Boer, Ph.D., is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychology at the University of Canberra (Australia). Prior to his current position, he worked as an academic at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand for approximately seven years and before that he worked for the Correctional Service of Canada for 14 years in a variety of contexts including sex offender therapist and treatment programme supervisor. He is a consultant to a number of agencies regarding sex offender treatment and the treatment of
intellectually disabled individuals who have offended in a violent manner. He has published more than 70 articles and book chapters and edited books, as well as several structured risk assessment manuals for use with sexual of fenders. In 2017, Professor Boer was the senior editor on a three volume handbook published by Wiley regarding the theories, assessment and treatment of sexual offending. He is also on a number of editorial boards including the Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, Sexual Offender Treatment, and the British Journal of Forensic Practice. Finally, he is an active clinician, assessor, researcher, and clinical supervisor.
Guy Bourgon, Ph.D., received his PhD from the University of Ottawa and is a clinical psychologist specializing in correctional and criminal justice psychology. With over 30 years clinical experience in the assessment and treatment of adults and youths involved in the criminal justice system, Dr. Bourgon has been dedicated to the development and implementation of empirically validated correctional services. He has published numerous articles on effective correctional treatment services, community corrections and risk assessment. He has extensive international experience in the training and supervision of front‐line professionals helping transfer “What Works” to everyday practice. As co‐lead for the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS), an empirically supported and internationally recognized best practice model of community supervision, he is recognized for translating research evidence into useful and practical concepts, skills, and techniques that promote client engagement and facilitate prosocial change.
Gunnar C. Butler, B.A., is currently enrolled as a master’s student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC). He received his bachelor’s degree from SIUC, and has primarily focused on research that aims at reducing recidivism rates throughout interventions. He has worked on projects pertaining to prison programming, as well as a grant that studied the effects of intensive probation.
Nick Chadwick, M.A., is a senior research analyst at Public Safety Canada in Ottawa, Canada. He has contributed to research on the use and implementation of evidence‐based practices in community supervision, the utility of assessing dynamic risk and protective factors in the prediction of recidivism, and effective correctional programming.
Leam A. Craig, Ph.D, FBPsS, FAcSS, is a Consultant Forensic and Clinical Psychologist and Partner at Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. He is Hon. Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Centre for Applied Psychology, University of Birmingham, and Visiting Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at Birmingham City University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and of the Academy of Social Sciences and Full Member of the Academy of Experts. He has experience working in various forensic settings including prisons, probation and secure forensic psychiatric services throughout England and Wales and Northern Ireland. He is currently a Consultant to the National Probation Service working on the Offenders with Personality Disorder Pathway. He has over 100 publications including 12 books published/in press. He is the Series Editor for the Wiley Handbook on What Works in Offender Rehabilitation book series for Wiley‐Blackwell. His research interests include sexual and violent offenders, personality disorder, forensic risk assessment and the use of expert witnesses in civil and criminal courts (see About the Editors section for more detail).
Andrew Day, Ph.D., is Professor in the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Centre at James Cook University, Australia. Before joining academia he was employed as a clinical psychologist in South Australia and the UK, having gained his Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Birmingham and his Masters in Applied Criminological Psychology from the University of London. He is widely published in many areas of forensic psychology, with a focus on the development of effective and evidence based approaches to offender rehabilitation.
Michael R. Davis, B.Behav.Sci.(Hons), D.Psych. (Clinical and Forensic), is a forensic and clinical psychologist in full time consulting practice. He is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology, an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Monash University, and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. Dr Davis’ practice is divided between forensic assessment (particularly the assessment of risk, sexual deviance, and personality disorder) and providing behavioural investigative advice to law enforcement in cases of sexual and violent crime. He has provided behavioural advice to several police agencies across three continents and is the only mental health professional in Australia to be elected to membership of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. He regularly provides training workshops on risk assessment for clinicians and has conducted hundreds of risk assessments for the courts and in consultation for mental health services, government departments, and private lawyers. Dr Davis serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling.
Louise Dixon, Ph.D., C.Psychol., is a UK‐registered Forensic Psychologist and Reader in Forensic Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington where she is the Director of the postgraduate programme in Forensic Psychology. She specialises in the prevention of interpersonal aggression and violence. Primarily, her research has centred on the study of intimate partner violence and abuse, and the overlap with child maltreatment in the family. Louise’s research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Police Knowledge fund and more recently Ministry of Social Development, NZ. She is a series editor to the What Works in Offender Rehabilitation book series for Wiley‐Blackwell.
Liam Ennis, Ph.D., is the founder of the Forensic Behavioural Science Group, and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alberta. A registered psychologist with 20 years of experience in the field of violence risk assessment and management, he previously served as the resident psychologist for Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams, assigned to the Integrated Threat and Risk Assessment Centre (ITRAC) where he provided risk management training and consultation to federal and provincial law enforcement and child protective services regarding intimate partner violence, stalking, and other forms of targeted violence. He is an active researcher and collaborator on the grant‐funded Optimizing Risk Assessment for Domestic Violence (ORA‐DV) research project.
Ephrem Fernandez, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, San Antonio. His research on anger is directed primarily at the phenomenology and typology of anger, the psychometrics of anger assessment, and integrative therapy for maladaptive anger. He recently edited a book on Treatments for Anger in Specific Populations and
co‐edited (with Andrew Day) a book on violence. W ith Sheri Johnson and Charles Carver, he is co‐recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation grant to evaluate treatments for aggressive anger. He provides workshops and consulting services on anger, aggression, and violence.
Catherine Garrington, B.Sc. (Hons.), is a registered psychologist and psychology supervisor who has facilitated group and individual treatment for violent and sexual offenders in prison and community corrections settings for over nine years. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Canberra, Australia, supervised by Professor Doug Boer, researching the risk assessment of online Child Sexual Exploitation Material (CSEM) offenders.
Nicola Graham‐Kevan, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminal Justice Psychology; the University of Central Lancashire’s lead for Violence and Aggression, and a visiting professor at Mittuniversitetet, Sweden. Nicola’s research focuses on exploring psychological processes associated with criminal behaviour and victimisation experiences. These processes include those that increase risk (e.g., exposure to adverse childhood and adulthood experiences, dysregulated emotions) and those that are protective (e.g., post‐traumatic growth, compensatory consequences of domestic abuse, interventions). Nicola’s interests have led to her collaborating with others across the world including Europe, Asia, America and Oceania. Nationally, Nicola works with stakeholders including UK Offices of the Police and Crime Commissioner; Constabularies, Her Majesty’s Prison Service, Community Rehabilitation Companies and third sector charities. She presents her research and delivers training on domestic abuse both nationally and internationally. Nicola has an interest in theoretical models of risk and recovery and how these can be applied to interventions for offenders and victims. Her research has informed programmes currently being delivered across a range of services across many stakeholder organisations. Evaluations of these interventions suggest that they make an important contribution to the quality of life of some of society’s most vulnerable people.
L. Maaike Helmus, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her research has focused on offender risk assessment, particularly regarding risk scale development and validation, and risk assessment for subgroups such as sex offenders, domestic violence offenders, and Indigenous offenders. She is part of the development team for Static‐99R, Static‐2002R, BARR‐2002R, STABLE‐2007, ACUTE‐2007, VRAG‐R, CPORT, and the Risk of Administrative Segregation Tool (RAST). Dr. Helmus also has a particular interest in meta‐analysis and statistical approaches to prediction. She is currently co‐editor of the journal Sexual Offender Treatment and on the editorial board of Sexual Abuse. A former Banting postdoc scholar and winner of the Governor General’s Gold Medal for her work in risk assessment, Dr. Helmus has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from organizations including the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Sarah Hilder, M.S.W., is a senior lecturer and researcher in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. Her research and teaching expertise has centered on working with victims, domestic abuse, gang violence and the sexual exploitation of women and girls, knife crime, sex offender rehabilitation, the super vision and surveillance of high risk sexual and violent offenders. Prior to an academic career she worked for the National Probation Service, as both a main grade and then Senior Probation Officer. Sarah has published academic work on risk assessment and safety planning in situations of domestic abuse, multi‐agency working, desistance
work, sexual exploitation and female gang members, sexual offending and cross border information exchanges on serious violent or sexual offenders travelling across the EU community. She is well versed in comparative victim and criminal justice work across the European Union (EU) having worked as a senior researcher on two major EU funded projects from 2010‐2015.
N. Zoe Hilton, Ph.D., is Senior Research Scientist at the Waypoint Research Institute, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a registered psychologist. She earned degrees from the University of Southampton, University of Cambridge and University of Toronto. She was the lead on the research team that developed the Ontario Domestic Assault Risk Assessment (ODARA), led the development and evaluation of in‐class and online professional training (“ODARA 101”), and continues to study risk assessment with collaborators and students. Her other current research involves understanding how workplace factors impact trauma experiences among forensic and general psychiatric staff, and research with a new cohort of men admitted to a forensic assessment including their pathways to violence, risk and criminogenic needs, and physical health.
Sheilagh Hodgins, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., is currently professor at the Département de Psychiatrie, Université de Montréal and the Institut Universitaire de Santé Mentale de Montréal, and a visiting professor with the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institutet. Professor Hodgins has been publishing studies of antisocial behaviour and criminality among persons with schizophrenia since 1992. Initially, large birth cohorts followed into adulthood were examined in order to compare crimes committed by persons with and without schizophrenia. Once it was robustly established that schizophrenia conferred an elevated risk, especially for violent crimes, clinical studies were undertaken to examine physically aggressive behaviour towards others that was also shown to be more common among those with, than without, schizophrenia. Subsequent studies aimed at identifying effective treatments, the neural correlates of early‐onset persistent antisocial behaviour among persons with schizophrenia, while others adopted a developmental perspective in order to begin to identify the causal chain of bio‐psycho‐social factors leading to aggressive behaviour among persons with schizophrenia.
Todd E. Hogue. Ph.D is a Registered Forensic and Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Lincoln. He has worked as a Forensic Psychologist in prison, community and secure mental health settings developing forensic clinical services for individuals who are hard to engage and have high risk, sexual and violent offending histories. His research interests focus mainly on the impact of attitudes on professional judgements and social policy, the use of new technologies such as eye‐tracking to assess inappropriate sexual interest and the evaluation of brief interventions to impact on prisoner engagement and wellbeing.
David V. James, Ph.D., is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist currently working with Theseus LLP in the field of threat assessment and management. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at University College London. He spent twenty years working with mentally disordered offenders in the U.K.’s National Health Service. He was co‐founder of the Fixated Threat Assessment Centre and the National Stalking Clinic. He is co‐author of the Stalking Risk Profile and of the Communications Threat Assessment Protocol. He is an author of some 65 papers in peer‐reviewed journals, as well as a dozen book chapters.
Lawrence Jones star ted his career working in the community with former lifers, serious offenders and high secure hospital patients, after they had been released. He went on to work at HMP Wormwood Scrubs where he trained as a Forensic Psychologist working with Lifers and going on to work in and eventually manage a wing based therapeutic community. He developed and piloted a CBT model for running Therapeutic Communities. He moved from HMP Wormwood Scrubs to Rampton High Secure Hospital where he trained as a Clinical psychologist and worked with people with a personality disorder diagnosis. He then moved to work in the Peaks Unit, also in Rampton Hospital, eventually working as Lead psychologist there, managing the treatment programmes and developing and maintaining specialist services for individuals who have personality disorder diagnoses who have typically not responded to or been able to access services in other high secure settings. More recently he has taken on the role of Head of Psychology at Rampton Hospital. He is a former chair of the Division of Forensic Psychology and teaches on the Sheffield and Leicester Clinical Psychology doctorate courses and the Nottingham University Forensic Psychology Doctorate. He is an honorary (clinical) associate professor at Nottingham University. He has published in a range of areas including therapeutic communities, working with people who have personality disorder diagnoses who have offended sexually, case formulation with people with personality disorder diagnoses, iatrogenic responses to intervention, motivation, offence paralleling behaviour (OPB) and trauma informed care.
Melissa R. Jonnson, BA (Hon.), is a graduate student in the Clinical‐Forensic Psychology program at Simon Fraser University. Her research involves the use of risk assessment tools in criminal sentencing, the experiences of sexual and gender minority youths in the justice system, and the role of objectification in intimate partner violence. She takes an interdisciplinar y approach to her research, integrating perspectives from Psychology, Criminology, Sociology, and Gender Studies.
Hazel Kemshall is currently Professor of Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University. She has research interests in risk assessment and management of offenders, effective work in multi‐agency public protection, and implementing effective practice with high risk offenders. She has completed research for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, the Scottish Government, the Risk Management Authority, and the European Union. She has over 100 publications on risk, including Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice (2003, Open University Press), and Understanding the Community Management of High Risk Offenders (2008, Open University). Her most recent book Working with Risk was published by Polity in 2013. She was appointed to the Parole Board Review Committee in 2011 and is a Board Member of the Risk Management Authority Scotland and has chaired the Risk Management Plan Approval Committee for Orders for Lifelong Restriction. She recently completed research into European information exchange systems on serious violent and sexual offenders who travel across EU borders.
Daryl G. Kroner, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University (SIU). He has more than 20 years of experience in the field as a correctional psychologist. During this time, he worked at maximum, medium, and minimum facilities delivering intervention services to incarcerated men. In collaboration with Dr. Jeremy Mills, he has developed several instruments, including the Measures of Criminal Attitudes and Associates (MCAA), Depression, Hopelessness and Suicide Scale (DHS),
Criminal Attribution Inventory (CRAI), Transition Inventor y (TI), and the Measures of Criminal and Antisocial Desistance (MCAD). In collaboration with Drs. Morgan and Mills, a book entitled “Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes: A Treatment Program for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness has been published by Rutledge. In 2008, Dr. Kroner joined the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at SlU. Current research interests include risk assessment, measurement of intervention outcomes, interventions among offenders with mentally illness, and criminal desistance.
Caleb D. Lloyd, Ph.D., completed his doctorate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He directs a program of research on offender change in corrections and the community, with an aim to conduct theoretically informed research with clear practical applications for the correctional system. He has successfully attained funding for his work from federal agencies in Canada and the United States, and is currently serving as Principal Investigator on projects funded by the U.S. Department of Justice (National Institute of Justice) and Victoria Department of Justice and Regulation (Corrections Victoria, Australia). He seeks to be involved in building an international understanding of the psychology of offender change, and collaborates on projects within multiple countries (New Zealand, US, Australia, and Canada).
Caroline Logan, D.Phil., is Lead Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in the Specialist Services Network in Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the University of Manchester, England. Presently, she leads the Trust’s Personality and Autism Spectrum Disorders Assessment and Liaison Team, and has developed and runs a number of services for people with personality disorder in prison and probation services. She has worked as a researcher and a clinician in forensic mental health and criminal justice services for 22 years, working directly in both roles with clients who are at risk to themselves and others. She also undertakes various consultancy roles with the national health and criminal justice organisations that look after and manage this client group, examining risk assessment and management practice, and proposing and evaluating change. Dr Logan has served on the editorial board or been associate editor of several journals ( International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology ). She is the co‐author of several sets of national practice guidelines (e.g., Understanding Personality Disorder for the British Psychological Society 2006; Best Practice in Managing Risk for the Department of Health 2007 and 2009; Working with Personality Disordered Offenders for the National Offender Management Service/Department of Health 2015). She is Past President of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (2006‐2008), and a past board member of the Scottish Risk Management Authority (2004‐2008) and remains attached to the latter organisation in a consultancy role. Dr Logan has also served on a number of Home Office/Ministry of Justice committees on criminal justice issues. She is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bergen International Conference on Forensic Psychiatry series (www.bergenconference.no). Dr Logan has on‐going research interests in the areas of personality disorder, including psychopathy, and risk and she has a special interest in gender issues in offending behaviour. She has published two books and multiple articles on all these subjects and is currently working on a book on forensic clinical interviewing.
Christopher T. Lowenkamp, Ph.D., received his PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati and is currently a social science analyst for the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts, Probation and Pretrial Services Office. Prior to his appointment at the AO, Dr. Lowenkamp was a research professor and the director of the Center for Criminal Justice Research at the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Lowenkamp’s research interests include pretrial and post‐conviction risk assessment, effective supervision practices, treatment and intervention quality, and program evaluation. Dr. Lowenkamp has been involved in the development of six risk assessments and has published over 25 articles on the topic of risk assessment. He has written numerous practice related curriculum and materials such as Effective Practices In Correctional Settings‐II (EPICS‐II), Staf f Training Aimed at Reduction Re‐arrest (STARR), the Post‐Conviction Risk Assessment (PCRA), the Pretrial Risk Assessment (PTRA) and the Public Safety Assessment (PSA). Dr. Lowenkamp is internationally recognized as an expert in the field of corrections and has been awarded the Simon Dinitz Award by the Ohio Justice Alliance for Community Corrections, the MacNamara Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Science, and the Dan Richard Beto Award by the National Association of Probation Executives. Dr. Lowenkamp has been named as one of the top 100 most influential criminologists based on publication records and a top ten scholar based on research grant acquisition.
Wagdy Loza, Ph.D., received his PhD in psychology from Carleton University. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor (Psychiatry, Queen’s University) and ex. Adjunct Professor (Psychology, Carleton University). He is a licensed psychologist (Ontario) and is the founder of the Extremism/terrorism section of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). In 2009, he retired from Correctional Service of Canada with almost 30 years of experience in the Correctional/Forensic field. He was the Chief Psychologist of Kingston Penitentiary. He is currently a member of the Ontario Review Board (a government department responsible for releasing Forensic offenders). Dr. Loza’s research interests are in the areas of predicting violent and non‐violent recidivism with Correctional and Forensic populations, and understanding extremism and terrorism, primarily emanating from the Middle‐East. He has more than 45 publications in these areas and offered workshops and presentations in several countries around the world. Dr. Loza has developed two measure to help with predicting violent and non‐violent recidivism and Middle‐Eastern extremism and terrorism.
Dawn McDaniel, Ph.D., is Research and Evaluation Consultant with the PEAR Institute: Partnerships in Education and Resilience, a joint initiative of Harvard University and McLean Hospital. Dawn received her PhD in Child Clinical Psychology from the University of Southern California, and completed a fellowship in Applied Epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She has worked with large youth‐serving organization, such as the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Outward Bound USA, to refine their social and emotional development strategies, including integrating new measurement tools to maintain continuous quality improvement through national dissemination of evidence‐based practices and programs. In her clinical practice and research, she has focused on youth impacted by gangs and trauma exposure and is interested in how social and emotional programming relates to youth resilience.
James McGuire, MA, MSc, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool. After some years in self‐employment he worked in intellectual disability services and then in a high security hospital. He has provided psycho‐legal assessments
and reports for criminal cour ts, parole hearings, and Mental Health Tribunals. He conducted research in probation services, prisons, youth justice, and in addictions services on aspects of psychosocial rehabilitation with offenders, and has designed and evaluated a number of intervention and staff training programmes. He was co‐organiser of the What Works series of conferences in the UK in the 1990s. He has authored or edited 15 books and over 150 other publications, has been an invited speaker in 21 countries and has acted as a consultant to criminal justice agencies in several parts of the world.
Martyn Matthews, RNLD, DipCCM(ID), Ph.D., is director of Kestrel Consulting, and was previously National Clinical Practice Leader for IDEA Services, New Zealand. He also has a long association with Otago University, Department of Psychological Medicine, where he completed his PhD investigating psychiatric comorbidity with autism spectrum disorder. Martyn has worked with people with intellectual disabilities or autism spectrum disorders for 30 years, split between his two passions: early intervention for children and families, and developing services for people who have complex behaviours or have come to disability services via the criminal justice system. He has extensive experience in specialist forensic services for people with ID, in secure hospital and in community settings, both in the UK and NZ. Martyn was a member of the NZ Government’s Autism Spectrum Disorder Guideline Implementation Group and is a current member of the NZ ASD Living Guideline Group. He is also a member of IASSIDD special interest research groups: Autism, and Challenging Behaviour and Mental Health.
Raymond W. Novaco, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, at the University of California, Irvine. He has extensive expertise on the assessment and treatment of anger with a variety of clinical populations, including those with a history of violence. He received the Best Contribution Award in 1978 from the International Society for Research on Aggression for his book, Anger Control: The Development and Evaluation of an Experimental Treatment, the Distinguished Contributions to Psychology Award in 2000 from the California Psychological Association, and, in 2009, the Academic Award from the Division of Forensic Psychology of the British Psychological Society. His co‐edited book, "Using Social Science to Reduce Violent Offending" (Oxford University Press) received the 2013 "Best Book" Award from the American Psychology‐Law Society. He received a UC Irvine Excellence in Undergraduate Education Award in 2015.
David Nussbaum, Ph. D., C. Psych., received his PhD in Biological Psychology at the University of Waterloo in 1983 and a Post‐Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Neuropsychology at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry. After working as a staff psychologist and Senior Psychologist at the Metro Toronto Forensic Service (METFORS) for 17 years. He taught in the Psychology Department at York University for 20 years, where he now remains as an adjunct professor. He also taught in the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto (Scarborough) for seven years, where he remains a sessional lecturer. Since 2010, he has held a Guest Professorship at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, PRC. He has published approximately 38 peer reviewed journal articles and delivered over 110 peer‐reviewed papers at professional and scientific meetings. He served multiple terms as Chair of three sections of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) (Criminal Justice, Psychopharmacology, and the Study of Extremism and Terrorism. He was elected a Fellow of both the CPA and APA (Division 55; Society for Pharmacotherapy). He has sat as a Psychology
Member of the Ontario Review Board since 1996. His ongoing research interests include epistemology, behavioural neurobiology, risk assessment and extremism/terrorism. His areas of practice include neuropsychology, forensic psychology and clinical psychology. He recently established the Allan K. Hess Institute for Integrative and Forensic Psychology.
James R. P. Ogloff, B.A., M.A., J.D., Ph.D., is trained as a lawyer and psychologist. He is Foundation Professor and Director of the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University of Technology. He is also Executive Director of Psychological Services and Research Forensicare, Victoria’s statewide forensic mental health service. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to education and law as a forensic psychologist, academic, researcher and practitioner. He assesses and assists with the management of some of the most difficult offenders in Australia. He served as British Columbia’s first Director of Mental Health Services for Corrections and has been president or chair of professional organisations (i.e., Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law; College of Forensic Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society; Canadian Psychological Association; American Psychology‐Law Society). He has published 17 books and more than 275 scholarly articles and book chapters. He has served as editor and associate editor of leading scholarly journals in his field. He is the recipient of the distinguished contributions awards in law and psychology/forensic psychology from the Australian Psychological Society, the Canadian Psychological Association, and the American Psychology‐Law Society.
Mark E. Olver, Ph.D., is a Professor and Registered Doctoral Psychologist at the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he is involved in program administration, graduate and undergraduate teaching, research, and clinical training. Prior to his academic appointment, Mark worked as a clinical psychologist in various capacities, including providing assessment, treatment, and consultation services to young offenders in the Saskatoon Health Region and with adult federal offenders in the Correctional Service of Canada. He has published over 110 journal articles and book chapters and his research interests include offender risk assessment and treatment, young offenders, psychopathy, and the evaluation of therapeutic change. He is co‐developer of the Violence Risk Scale‐Sexual Offense version (VRS‐SO) and Violence Risk Scale‐Youth Sexual Offense Version (VRS‐YSO), and he provides training and consultation services internationally in the assessment and treatment of sexual, violent, and psychopathic offenders.
Devon L.L. Polaschek, Ph.D., DipClinPsyc., is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology in the School of Psychology and the Joint Director of the Institute of Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Her research interests include theory, intervention, and intervention evaluation with serious violent and sexual offenders, family violence, psychopathy, desistance, reintegration and parole. She is the author of more than 110 journal articles, book chapters and government reports, and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Her research has been supported by a decade of funding from the Department of Corrections, in order to develop a better understanding of high‐risk violent male prisoners: their characteristics, and what works to reduce their risk of future offending. She has evaluated the effectiveness of correctional programmes for rehabilitating offenders since 1987, and more recently has worked on family violence research projects with various non‐governmental organisations and on several different government contracts.
Vernon L. Quinsey Ph.D., received his PhD in Biopsychology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1970. He was the founding Director of Research at the maximum security Oak Ridge Division of the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario. In 1988, he moved to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Biology, and Psychiatry. He has published upwards of 200 articles, including nine books on risk appraisal, sex offenders, violent offenders, clinical judgment, behavioural interventions in forensic institutions, program evaluation, and evolutionary psychology. More information can be found at: http://www.queensu.ca/psychology/people/ emeritus‐and‐retired‐faculty/vern‐quinsey.
Martin Rettenberger, M.A., Priv.‐Doz. Dipl.‐Psych. Dr. biol. hum. Habil., is a psychologist and criminologist and serves currently as the director of the Centre for Criminology (Kriminologische Zentralstelle – KrimZ) in Wiesbaden, Germany, and is affiliated as an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg‐University Mainz, Germany. He previously worked at the Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders (FECVSO) in the Austrian Prison System in Vienna, Austria, and at the Institute of Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry at the University Medical Center Hamburg‐Eppendorf, Germany. Since 2016, he is the secretary general of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) and as editor of the IATSO e‐journal Sexual Offender Treatment.
Tanya Rugge, Ph.D., is a senior research adviser in the Corrections Research Unit at Public Safety Canada in Ottawa, Canada. Over the years she has interviewed numerous offenders and victims, conducted risk assessments, worked with female offenders in clinical settings, and conducted research on recidivism, high‐risk offenders, young offenders and Indigenous offenders, and evaluated several restorative justice programs. She has been involved in researching, advancing, and implementing evidence‐based practices in community supervision and corrections for over two decades.
Caitlin Sayegh, Ph. D., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Divisions of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and General Pediatrics. Dr. Sayegh specializes in motivation, treatment engagement, medical adherence, and therapy process research. She has worked extensively with gang‐involved and juvenile justice‐involved clients in research and clinical contexts.
Ralph C. Serin, Ph.D., is a registered psychologist who received his PhD from Queen’s University in 1988. He worked in federal corrections from 1975‐2003 in various capacities and is now a Professor at Carleton University where he is Director of the Criminal Justice Decision Making Laboratory. He has received research funding from Canadian and US federal agencies; he has consulted with various government agencies in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand; and he is a member of the Correctional Services Advisory and Accreditation Panel in the United Kingdom. Current research interests relate to understanding offender change and decision making at key points within the Criminal Justice System.
Stephane M. Shepherd, Ph.D., is a Visiting Professor at the Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University and Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University of Technology. He conducts
research on risk and protective factors for violence and offending and cross‐cultural issues in forensic assessment. Dr. Shepherd’s research explores cross‐cultural issues at the intersection of psychology and the criminal justice system. He has developed an international body of research and writing on risk and protective factors for violence and cultural differences in offending behaviours and mental ill health and the implications for assessment. Dr. Shepherd has pursued these interests through a variety of novel approaches and international working experiences with people in custody and multicultural communities. His contributions have raised awareness for cross‐cultural issues in the forensic psychology and general psychology disciplines and have compelled researchers and practitioners alike to ensure that their methods are culturally fair, relevant and non‐discriminatory.
Lorraine P. Sheridan, Ph.D., is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist. She completed Europe’s first PhD on stalking and has so far published four books and more than 70 papers on the subject. Her research has taken an applied, interventionist angle and she frequently trains professionals involved in investigating stalking crimes. In the UK, Lorraine was a police accredited offender profiler and she compiles psychological reports related to offenders, highlighting the risks posed by known or unknown suspects. She regularly gives case management advice to the police, security personnel, public figures and others on stalking, harassment, violence, risk assessment, threat assessment, malicious communications and similar topics. After a long stint as a senior academic in universities in the UK, Lorraine is now a Senior Lecturer at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. She is a founder member of the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals. Her risk checklist for stalking has been adopted by most English and Welsh police forces and partner agencies.
John L. Taylor, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne and Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Associate Director for Psychological Services with Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Taylor is a chartered clinical and forensic psychologist. He is Chair of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Mental Health Act Advisory Group, a Past President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), and a former Chair of the BPS Faculty for Forensic Clinical Psychology. Dr Taylor was one of the first two psychologists to be approved as an Approved Clinician in England following the MHA 2007. He has published more than 140 research papers, articles, books and book chapters mainly concerning the mental health and forensic needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Dr Taylor received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Applied Practice from the BPS Faculty for Forensic Clinical Psychology in 2017.
David Thornton, Ph.D., is a forensic psychologist in private practice, based in Madison (Wisconsin). In this capacity, he also works regularly in Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, New York and England. He holds a part time position as a professor in the department of clinical psychology at the University of Bergen in Norway where he teaches and carries out research. He has previously worked as both the research director and the treatment director of Wisconsin’s SVP program and before that led the unit responsible for treatment services designed to reduce recidivism in the national headquarters of Her Majesty’s Prison Service for England and Wales. As a practitioner, he specializes in the assessment and treatment of sexual and violent offenders. As a researcher he has been involved in the development of statistical and psychological frameworks for assessing factors that contribute to different kinds of recidivism.
This has led to the creation of statistical instruments like Static‐99 and Risk Matrix 2000 as well as psychological models of risk like SRA Need Assessment.
Jodi L. Viljoen, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology at Simon Fraser University and the Associate Director of the Institute for the Reduction of Youth Violence. Her research focuses on risk assessment, particularly strategies by which to bridge risk assessment and treatment. Dr. Viljoen is the first author of the Short‐Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability: Adolescent Version and an intervention‐planning tool called the Adolescent Risk Reduction and Resilient Outcomes Work‐Plan. Her consultation work focuses on helping agencies to implement best practices for assessing and managing risk.
Stephen C.P. Wong, Ph.D., is a forensic psychologist and Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne and Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research and clinical interests include assessment and treatment of violent offending, psychopathy, and treatment evaluation. He is the author of more than 100 journal articles, book, book chapters and reports. Steve started his career as a psychologist at the Regional Psychiatric Centre, a maximum‐security psychiatric hospital in the Correctional Service Canada. He was later appointed Chief of Psychology and Research, and then Director of Research. In 2008, he left Canada to spend a year as Visiting Professor at the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Science at Kings College, London. His research interests are best escribed as a blending of applied research and clinical practice with a focus on the assessment and treatment of violent, sexual and psychopathic offenders. He is the lead author of the Violence Risk Scale (VRS) and the VRS sexual offence version (VRS‐SO). These clinical tools can be used to assess violence and/or sexual risk for the respective offender groups. Steve and his colleagues also developed the Violence Reduction Programme (VRP) for the treatment of offenders and forensic service users.
The late J. Stephen Wormith, Ph.D., was a Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) and Director of the Centre of Forensic Behavioural Science and Justice Studies, which is also at UofS Previously, he was Psychologist‐in‐Chief for the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. He was a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He co‐authored the Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (2004) with D. A. Andrews and J. Bonta and participated internationally in research and training on risk assessment. He was on the editorial board of Criminal Justice and Behavior, Psychological Services and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He was also on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP). Dr. Wormith’s research activities have concentrated on the assessment and treatment of offenders. He consulted with provincial and federal government departments and served as an expert witness on matters of offender assessment and treatment. (See About the Editors section for more detail).
