Articles

Juvenile fire-setting: A review of treatment programs (with Mairead Dolan, Rebekah Doley, and Troy E. McEwan), Psychology, psychiatry and law (2011)

The current paper provides a review of the literature on juvenile fire-setting, focusing on psychological...

 

Risk factors and risk assessment in juvenile fire-setting (with Mairead Dolan, Troy E. McEwan, and Rebekah Doley), Psychiatry, psychology and law (2011)

This article provides an overview of the literature on risk issues in juvenile fire-setting behaviour....

 

Risk factors for recidivistic arson in adult offenders (with Rebekah Doley, Kenneth Fineman, Mairead Dolan, and Troy E. McEwan), Psychology, psychiatry and law (2011)

This article reviews the current literature on known risk factors for recidivistic arson, with a...

 

Looking at the characteristics of adult arsonists from a narrative perspective (with Heather Lewis and Rebekah Doley), Psychology, psychiatry and law (2011)

This article reviews literature on the characteristics of adult arsonists as well as clinical and...

 

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Functional consistency across two behavioural modalities: fire-setting and self harm in female special hospital patients (with Sarah Miller), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)

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Special Hospitals provide treatment and care for individuals with a mental disorder, detained under...

 

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Understanding change in a therapeutic community: An action systems approach (with Lucy Neville and Sarah Miller), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2007)

This study aims to provide a framework for assessing and modelling behavioural changes in a...

 

Beyond Columbine: A faceted model of school-associated homicide (with Andrea Brun), Psychology, Crime & Law (2005)

The current paper applies action systems theory to the phenomenon of school violence perpetrated by...

 

Disordered personalities at work (with Belinda Board), Psychology, Crime and Law (2005)

Current categorical classification systems of personality disorders (PDs) remain widely used amid growing evidence that...

 

Investigating the nature of expressiveness in stranger, acquaintance and intrafamilial homicides (with Stephanie K. Last), Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling (2005)

This study explores the role of the victim–offender relationship in the dynamics of homicide, by...

 

Linking arson incidents on the basis of crime scene behavior (with Pekka Santtila and Anna Lena Tamelander), Journal of police and criminal psychology (2004)

The present study investigated the possibility of statistically linking arson cases based on consistency of...

 

Inferring the characteristics of an arsonist from crime scene actions: a case study in offender profiling (with Pekka Santtila and Helina Hakkanen), International Journal of Police Science & Management (2003)

Discusses the use of psychological models of offender behaviour in providing assistance to a police...

 

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An examination of the relationship between distance travelled and motivational aspects of firesetting behaviour, Journal of Environmental Psychology (2001)

This paper offers a model of the spatial behaviour of arsonists based on motivational aspects...

 

Book Chapters

Theories on arson: The action systems model, Firesetting and mental health: Theory, research and practice (2012)
 

Arson, The Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology (2010)
 

Functional consistency in female forensic psychiatric patients: An action system theory approach (with Sarah Miller), Offence paralleling behaviour: A case formulation approach to offender assessment and intervention (2010)

New to the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, Offence Paralleling Behaviour presents an original...

 

Personality and social risk factors for driving offences (with Carla Ferrari and Laura Fleming), Personality and individual differences: Current directions (2010)

The aim of this study was to identify salient personality and social characteristics that are...

 

Assessment and treatment of fire-setters (with Rebekah Doley), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)

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I am malicious because I am miserable. -Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

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Research methods in forensic psychology (with Mark Kebbell), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)

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Students wishing to undertake research on a forensic-relevant topic often have no difficulty...

 

Assessing the reliability of interviews with vulnerable witnesses, The forensic psychologist's casebook - Psychological profiling and criminal investigation (2005)

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Within the Criminal Justice System there is a general perception that people with...

 

Crime prevention (with Andrea Watts), Handbook of psychology in legal contexts (2003)

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In the UK, the recognition of crime as a political as well as...