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 offenders. 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...