The International Journal of Forensic Psychology editorial board (surnames A-H)
The following list contains a short professional description about editorial board members:
Associate Professor Allan is qualified in law and psychology and is registered as both a clinical and forensic psychologist in Western Australia. He is a member of the national committees of a number of professional bodies and the ethics committee of the Australian Psychological Society. He is also a former chair of the ethics committee of the Psychological Society of South Africa. He is a member of the executive committee of the National Forensic Psychology Research Group, the convenor of the Psychology and Law Research Group of ECU, and a member of the Research and Evaluation Committee of the Western Australian Department of Justice. He works in the field of psychology and law with particular focus on the psychological impact of law, legislation and legal institutions on the psychological functioning of individuals. He has published in legal, psychological and psychiatric journals and the second edition of his book, 'The law for psychotherapists and counsellors', was published in 2001. He was a member of the team that investigated the drug use careers of male prisoners in Western Australia and the main author of a report on juvenile sex offenders in Western Australia in 2001.
Professor Robert G. Andry, M.A. (Melb), PhD. (Lond.), F.A.P.S., F.B.Ps.S., F.H.K.Ps.S. is currently Hon. Professor of the Psychology Department of the University of Hong Kong, and of the University of Montreal and is now consulting in Hong Kong, London and Sydney in the areas of Forensic and Clinical Psychology and was a founder member of the Hong Kong Mediation Centre.
He started his professional career, after WW2 army service in New Guinea and graduation from the University of Melbourne, as Psychologist-in-Charge at Melbourne's Children's Court Clinic.
After obtaining his Doctorate in Criminology and Forensic Psychology at the University of London, and publishing some books and articles, he was appointed as Senior Clinical Psychologist-In-Charge at St Thomas' Hospital and lecturer at the University of London and became an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Criminology. Several part-time engagements as a U.N. Consultant, took him to France, North Africa, Japan and the U.S.A and elsewhere. He also took up over the years, several visiting professorships at Harvard, Minnesota and Tallahassee until he was appointed as a full-time Professor at the University of Montreal.
Dr Patricia Brown, clinical and forensic psychologist, is the Director of the Victorian Children's Court Clinic, a statewide service. The primary work of this Clinic is to provide comprehensive assessments in criminal and protective matters, at the order of Children's Court magistrates and County Court judges, to aid the Court in decision-making. Dr. Brown lectures in her field at a number of universities in Victoria, presents the child forensic unit for the masters and doctoral courses in Forensic Psychology at Melbourne University. Dr Brown has given invited lectures abroad and her most recent writings have been on the issue of assessment and reporting for the Children's Court. A visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne, a Fellow of the APS, and a past National Chairman of the Board (now College) of Forensic Psychologists of the APS, Dr Brown received an Australia Day award in 2000 for her work in the field.
Associate Professor Richard Bryant (School of Psychology University of New South Wales)
Director of the MPsychol (Forensic) program at UNSW, he has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles on posttraumatic stress reactions, received multiple funding from NHMRC and ARC, and recently published the only book on acute stress disorder. He has extensive experience in both investigative and compensation procedures involving traumatised populations. He was the recipient of the 1999 Australian Psychological Society Ian Campbell Award and the 1999 Academy medal of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Research interests include Post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety: assessment, cognitive processes, and treatment; experimental and clinical investigation of dissociative processes: memory, trauma, and dissociation; clinical and experimental hypnosis; autobiographical memory in clinical disorders.
Professor Ray Bull (Centre for Forensic Psychology
University of Portsmouth). Professor Bull is the Associate Director of the Centre for Forensic Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. He is the Course Leader of the MSc/PGDip in Child Forensic Studies: Psychology and Law, a distance learning course for professionals who deal with children in legal proceedings and in police or social work settings. He also contributes to the BSc (Hons) Psychology and MSc Forensic Psychology degree courses within the School of Psychology.
Professor Bull is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His main research interests are in the areas of psychology, law and policing. He has published widely in books and academic journals on the interviewing of child witnesses and on police investigating interviewing of adult suspects.
Mitchell K. Byrne Lecturer (Clinical Psychology)
University of Wollongong. Mitch Byrne is a clinical psychologist whose research interests include Memory and Crime, Cognitive Interviewing, Treatment Responsivity, Forensic Risk Assessment, Determinants of treatment responsivity in forensic contexts, Needs of Female Offenders, Post traumatic Stress and Crime, Forensic Interpretations of criminal behaviour and Forensic Rehabilitation.
He is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), the APS College of Forensic Psychologists, the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, as well as a member of the British Psychological Society (Chartered Psychologist).
He has published in the areas of Women Offenders, Offender risk and needs assessment, Needs of Indigenous offenders, Post traumatic stress in offenders, and Best Practice in offender rehabilitation.
Professor David Canter is Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at The University of Liverpool, where he directs the Center for Investigative Psychology. He has advised many police investigations throughout the world, and UK government Inquiries, on various aspects of criminal behavior, including very successful advice on the likely residential location of offenders. Dr. Canter has published widely on many aspects of crime and its investigation. He has just published a series of four volumes on offender profiling for Ashgate/Dartmouth. This combines recent work of the Center for Investigative Psychology with other previously unpublished examinations of the activity of criminals. He continues to publish Environmental Psychology studies, his initial, major field of research activity. His award-winning book Criminal Shadows has just been published in the US by Authorlink.
Professor Jimmy Chan B.Sc., Dip.Ed., M.A.(Ed.) (University of Hong Kong); B.Sc.Special, Academic Dip.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. (University of London); Post-doctoral Fellow (University of Melbourne).
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong; Visiting Professor, Xuchang Teachers University, Henan, China (replacing Xuchang Teachers College);
Honorary Fellow, Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies, Lingnan University; Part-time Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau.
Honorary Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Hong Kong;
Honorary Professor of Social Sciences and Education, School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong; Visiting Professor (Research Fellow), Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing); Visiting (Guest) Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Peking University (Beijing); Visiting Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University; Visiting Professor of Psychology, School of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Shanxi University; and Visiting Professor, Institute for Global Chinese Affairs, University of Maryland, USA Part-time Professor, Xuchang Teachers College, Henan, China Principal of Hong Kong Government Evening Secondary School for Adults; Tutor of Psychology and Research of the Open University of Hong Kong; Lecturer of Psychology and Research of the Hong Kong Institute of Education; Lecturer of Psychology and Research of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Professor Christopher Cordess is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Sheffield and a Kleinian Psychoanalyst. He qualified in Medicine from Trinity College, Dublin, and in Psychiatry from the Maudsley Hospital. He worked as a psychoanalyst and as a forensic psychiatrist in London, until moving to work in Sheffield six years ago. He has a particular interest in working with adolescents and with families within the forensic field. He co-edited, with Dr Murray Cox, "Forensic Psychotherapy Crime Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient", Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, and has recently edited a volume entitled Confidentiality and Mental Health (2001), same publishers.
Lara Dolnik has a first class honours degree in psychology and a law degree from the Australian National University. Her area of expertise is psychology of the courtroom. She has a broad range of both practical and research experience in this field.
Lara has held various research and teaching positions in psychology and law, and social psychology at the Australian National University, University of New South Wales and Sydney University. She has also been a strategic consultant to the New South Wales Bar Association in Australia and has conducted continuing legal education workshops for the Maricopa Bar Association in the United States. Lara currently works as a trial consultant and research analyst for Starr Litigation Services Inc, in Scottsdale Arizona, where her duties include witness preparation, jury selection, strategic trial consulting and the design and analysis of jury research projects.
Dr Lynne ForsterLee (BA CULongBeach, MA, PhD Toledo)
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Central Queesland
Research Interests: Decision making: the application of cognitive theories within the decision making processes of individuals and groups; Forensic psychology: attitudes toward reintroduction of the death penalty in Australia; child sexual abuse and repressed memories; and the effect of exposure to distressing evidence on jurors.
Vidula Garde is a Forensic and Clinical Psychologist who has worked in universities, neuro-surgical and neurological settings, tertiary forensic mental health services and prisons. She is currently a lecturer in Forensic Psychology at James Cook University. Her interests include Forensic mental health and service delivery issues, Relationship between brain damage and offending, Offender rehabilitation, Victim issues and restorative justice, Intellectually disabled offenders, Mentally ill offenders, Correctional programming and offender management issues, Violence and risk assessment, Dual diagnosis and offending, and Forensic psychotherapy.
Vidula is a member of the Australian Psychological Society Colleges of Forensic and Clinical Psychology, a member of the British Psychological Society, and member of the International Association For Forensic Psychotherapy.
Professor Thomas Grisso, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist, is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he is Coordinator of the Law and Psychiatry Program, as well as Director of Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Arizona in 1969. He is the author of over 100 journal articles in clinical, applied developmental, and forensic psychology, as well as books including Evaluating Competencies (1986), Juveniles' Waiver of Rights (1981), Competency to Stand Trial Evaluations (1988), Understanding Aggressive Behavior in Children (1996, edited with C. Ferris), Assessing Competence to Consent to Treatment (1998, with Paul Appelbaum), Forensic Evaluation of Juveniles (1998), and Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (2000, edited with Robert Schwartz).
Dr. Grisso has been president (1990) of Division 41/American Psychology-Law Society of the American Psychological Association, has served on the Executive Committee of the American Board of Forensic Psychology, and is a Forensic Psychology Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. In 1995 he received the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, in 1987 the American Academy of Forensic Psychology's Distinguished Contribution Award, in 1998 the Saleem Shah Award from the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, and in 1998 an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. His book with Paul Appelbaum, Competence to Consent to Treatment, received the Manfred Guttmacher Award (2000) from the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Grisso has been the recipient of several NIMH, NSF, and private foundation research grants. From 1989-1996 he was a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Mental Health and the Law. He is currently a member of the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice, for which he is directing a research study of juveniles' capacities as trial defendants. His research and clinical practice have focused on legal competencies in civil, criminal, and juvenile law, methods for improving forensic clinical assessments, and mental health needs and service delivery systems for adults and juveniles in justice and corrections settings.
Professor Gisli Gudjonsson a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and Head of the Forensic Psychology Services at the Maudsley. He has published extensively in the areas of psychological vulnerability and false confession and has well over 200 scientific publications. He pioneered the empirical measurement of suggestibility and provided expert evaluation in a number of high profile cases, including those of the 'Guildford Four', the 'Birmingham Six', the 'Tottenham Three', the 'Cardiff Three', Judith Ward, David Mackenzie, Kenneth Erskine (the 'Stockwell strangler'), Derek Bentley, UDR Four and Patrick Kane (both in Northern Ireland), Henry Lee Lucas and John Wille (USA), and the Birgitte Tengs case (Norway). Gisli Gudjonsson testified at the 'Ashworth Inquiry' and at the arbitration of the Zeebrugge disaster. In December 1999, he acted as an expert for the Council of Europe on a CPT inspection visit to Northern Ireland.
He is that author of 'The psychology of interrogations, confessions and testimony' (John Wiley & Sons, 1992), The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales Manual (Psychology Press, 1997), Forensic Psychology. A Guide to Practice (Routledge, 1998, jointly written with Lionel Haward), and The Causes and Cures of Criminality (Plenum Press 1989, jointly written with Hans Eysenck). His recent book, The psychology of interrogations and confessions. A handbook, will be published later this year by John Wiley (Chichester and New York). The unique feature of this book is that it provides a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of interrogation and confessions, the relevant English and American law, the psychological assessment relevant to disputed confessions, and leading judicial judgements.
Tim Hannan is a clinical psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist, who has worked with children and adolescents since 1990. Tim has completed postgraduate degrees in Clinical Psychology ( University of Sydney), Clinical Neuropsychology ( Macquarie University) and Cognitive Science ( University of NSW). He is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), and of the APS Colleges of Clinical Psychologists, Clinical Neuropsychologists, and Educational & Developmental Psychologists. He is the immediate past National Chair of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists, and chaired the college's 1999 Annual Conference. He is also a former NSW Chair of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.
Tim has lectured widely on child clinical psychology and neuropsychology, and has presented workshops on these topics around the country. In 2001, he was an invited workshop presenter at the First Australian Forensic Psychology Conference in February 2001, on the topic of the forensic aspects of traumatic brain injury in childhood. A former lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney, Tim is currently an Honorary Teaching Fellow of the School of Psychology at the University of Western Australia, where he lectures in child neuropsychology, acquired brain injury and neuropsychological rehabilitation.
Professor Robert Hare (University of British Columbia) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia, where he has taught and conducted research for some 35 years, and President of Darkstone Research Group Ltd., a forensic research and consulting firm. He has devoted most of his academic career to the investigation of psychopathy, its nature, assessment, and implications for mental health and criminal justice. He is the author of several books and many scientific articles on psychopathy, and is the developer of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and a co-author of its derivatives, the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (with S. Hart and D. Cox), the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (with A. Forth and D. Kosson), the P-Scan (with H. Hervé), and the Antisocial Processes Screening Device (with P. Frick). He consults with law enforcement, including the FBI and the RCMP, and recently was appointed to the Advisory Board of the new FBI Child Abduction and Serial Murder Resources Center (CASMIRC). He also was a member of the Advisory Panel established by the English Prison Service to develop new programs for the treatment of psychopathic offenders. His current research on psychopathy includes its nature, assessment issues, developmental factors, neuroimaging, domestic violence, risk for recidivism and violence, and the development (with S. Wong) of new treatment and management strategies for psychopathic offenders. In addition, he lectures widely on psychopathy and on the use and misuse of the PCL-R in the criminal justice system. Among his recent awards are the 1999 Silver Medal of the Queen Sophia Center in Spain; the Canadian Psychological Association 2000 Award for Distinguished Applications of Psychology; the American Academy of Forensic Psychology 2001 Award for Distinguished Applications to the Field of Forensic Psychology; and the 2001 Isaac Ray Award presented by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law for Outstanding Contributions to Forensic Psychiatry and Psychiatric Jurisprudence. He recently was made an Affiliate Member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship.
Professor Clive Hollin (Centre for Applied Psychology
University of Leicester) graduated from the University of London then completed his doctorate, researching the reliability of eyewitness memory, before spending 4 years working as a prison psychologist. He then took a lectureship in psychology at the University of Leicester, followed by a senior lectureship at the University of Birmingham. In 1992 he was appointed to the split post of Director of Rehabilitation in the Youth Treatment Service, and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Birmingham; moving in 1996 to the split post of Consultant Forensic Psychologist at Rampton Hospital Authority, and Reader in Psychology at The University of Leicester. In 1998, he took a full-time appointment as Reader in Psychology and Director of courses in Forensic Psychology in the Centre for Applied Psychology at The University of Leicester. In 1998 he was awarded a personal chair, as Professor of Criminological Psychology, and was the first recipient of the Senior Career Award, from the Division of Criminological and Legal Psychology of The British Psychological Society, for distinguished contribution to the field of legal, criminological, and forensic psychology.
He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and editor of the academic journal Psychology, Crime, & Law. His own publication list includes over 150 academic articles and 17 books, among which are Psychology and Crime, 1989; Clinical Approaches to Sex Offenders and Their Victims, edited with Kevin Howells, 1989; Young Offenders and Alcohol-Related Crime: A Practitioner's Guide, with Mary McMurran, 1993; Managing Behavioural Treatment, with David Kendrick and Kevin Epps, 1995, Working With Offenders, 1996; Addicted to Crime?, edited with John Hodge and Mary McMurran, 1997; and The Handbook of Offender Assessment and Treatment, 2001. He is a regular contributor, both in this country and abroad, to conferences and training events.
Professor Hollin's main research interests lie in the interface between psychology and criminology, particularly the effectiveness of interventions intended to reduce offending.
Professor Colin A. Holmes James Cook University, trained as a psychiatric nurse in the United Kingdom in 1972, and has specialised in working in secure environments. He became a post-basic Nurse Tutor for West Berkshire Health Athority in 1985, took up a position as Lecturer-clinician at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria at the end of 1989, and as Senior Lecturer shortly afterwards. He was appointed as Foundation Clinical Chair, Professor of Nursing (Mental Health) in February 1997, a position jointly funded by the University of Western Sydney Nepean, and the Western Sydney Area Mental Health Service.
In addition to nursing and teaching qualifications, he holds an Honours degree in psychology and philosophy, a research Masters degree in history, and a PhD which focussed on nursing ethics.
Professor Kevin Howells Director of Forensic and Applied Psychology Research Group (FAPRG) University of South Australia. Professor Howells has particular interest in the criminological and clinical aspects of Forensic Psychology. His current research interests include: anger and its management, violent offending, rehabilitation, program evaluation, cognitive behavioural therapy and suicide and self harm.
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