Journal of Criminal Psychology: Volume 13 Issue 4

Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice

Geraldine Akerman

Maladaptive personality domains and crime related characteristics among convicts incarcerated in central jails of Pakistan

Nimrah Ishfaq, Anila Kamal

This study aims to differentiate maladaptive personality domains through crime-related characteristics among convicts incarcerated in central jails of Punjab (CJP). In total, 552…

Specialist courts and borderline personality disorder: a pilot study of the efficacy of the assessment and referral court list to reduce recidivist behaviour

Brianna Chesser, Ken Smith, Alyssa Sigamoney, Casey Becker

This paper aims to examine the ways in which the criminal justice system has evolved to accommodate mental illness. Mental health courts are one such alternative; these courts…

Finding the missing: using statement analysis to assist in missing persons cases

Yasmin Richards, Mark McClish, David Keatley

The purpose of this paper is to address the complexity of missing persons cases and highlight the linguistic differences that arise in this type of crime. Missing persons cases…

Understanding the complexities of non-familial child abductions: a systematic literature review on the behavioural characteristics of acquaintance and stranger abductors

Matthew Jones, Dara Mojtahedi, Nadia Wager, Adrian West

Reports from 2016 to 2017 suggest that approximately 870 cases of non-familial child abduction (NFA) are recorded in England and Wales per year. Yet, empirical knowledge of the…

A preliminary study exploring the nature of aggression supportive beliefs in a forensic psychiatric sample

Ivan Sebalo, Lisa Maria Beethoven Steene, Lisa Lee Elaine Gaylor, Jane Louise Ireland

This preliminary study aims to investigate and describe aggression-supportive normative beliefs among patients of a high-secure hospital.

“I’ll live better, stay away from crime”: exploring the reintegration of former prisoners into the community through a music programme

Rachel Hopley, Laura Caulfield, Andrew Jolly

There is evidence that music programmes can have a positive impact on people in contact with the criminal justice system. However, little attention has been paid to the potential…

Cyber intimate partner aggression in adulthood: the role of insecure attachment and self-control

Natalie Booth, Gail Derefaka, Roxanne Khan, Gayle Brewer

This study aims to build on existing literature on face-to-face aggression in intimate relationships and adopts Finkel’s I³ theory to investigate the relationship between adult…

How restrictions of choice affect the sense of agency: the case of personal autonomy in prison

Josi M.A. Driessen, Anja J.E. Dirkzwager, Joke M. Harte, Henk Aarts

Imprisonment is associated with far-reaching restrictions of personal autonomy, which critically depends on the sense of agency (SoA), i.e. the experience of control over one’s…

Prevalence scores: an addition to behaviour sequence analysis

David Keatley, Abbie J. Marono, David D. Clarke

Behaviours occur across complex, dynamic timelines. Research methods to analyse these complex timelines have repeatedly used behaviour sequence analysis (BSA) as a primary method…

Self-reported antisocial behaviour of 10-year-old boys in Zhuhai (China) versus Pittsburgh (USA)

David P. Farrington, Jianhong Liu

The purpose of this study is to compare self-reported antisocial (SRA) behaviour of 10-year-old boys in China (in Zhuhai) and the USA (in Pittsburgh).

Female perpetrators of child sexual abuse in the United States

Nicholas Scurich

Research on women who sexually abuse children is relatively scarce and tends to rely on small or unrepresentative convenience samples. The purpose of the current descriptive study…

Sequencing statements: using behaviour sequence analysis with statement analysis to indicate deception

Yasmin Richards, Mark McClish, David Keatley

Understanding when an individual is being deceptive is an important part of police and criminal investigations. While investigators have developed multiple methods, the research…

Naked body disposal: an indicator of the type of sexual homicide

Hana Georgoulis, Eric Beauregard, Julien Chopin

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether sexual homicide offenders (SHO) who dispose of the victim’s body naked present with particular crime scene characteristics.