Professor Don Andrews
Don Andrews form Carleton University, Canada, is one of the leading researchers and academics in his field. His research interests are listed as: General personality and social psychology. Assessment and evaluation. Theories of deviance, crime and addiction with a particular emphasis upon general personality and social learning perspectives. Assessment and evaluation of programs, persons and settings. Social structure and individual conduct. Consultation. Attitude/behaviour correspondence with social support and self-management skills as moderator variables. Gender differences in the correlates of deviant conduct. Attitude and behaviour influence processes as evident in counselling. Effective prevention and correctional treatment. Effects of selection, training, clinical supervision and program structure on the behaviour and effectiveness of direct service workers. Assessments of change. Family, children's and youth services. The social psychology of criminological knowledge. Meta-analysis. Contextual influences on prediction and effects of intervention.
Professor Andrews has written many articles, book chapters, books and manuals, and has presented many papers at professional conferences throughout the world. He is co-developer, with James Bonta, of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), an assessment instrument that is used in various jurisdictions to help target treatment to offenders. He also co-authored ‘The Psychology of Criminal Conduct' with Don Andrews and it was nominated for the Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology (1995).
James Bonta Ph.D
Dr Jim Bonta, Director of Corrections Research, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Ottawa. Jim Bonta has written many articles, book chapters, books and manuals, and has presented many papers at professional conferences in Canada and the United States. He is co-developer, with Professor Don Andrews, of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R), an assessment instrument that is used in various jurisdictions to help target treatment to offenders. He also co-authored ‘The Psychology of Criminal Conduct' with Don Andrews and it was nominated for the Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology (1995). Jim Bonta is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (2002) and was honoured with the Exemplary Service Award, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (2006).
Professor Robert Ross
Professor Robert Ross from the University of Ottawa is the author of the original ‘Reasoning & Rehabilitation' Programme. Robert Ross is one of the pioneers of the ‘What Work?' movement and remains a major influence in the field. The Ross Programme (R&R2) was introduced into the United Kingdom in2003 as a result of collaboration between Professor Ross and the Cognitive Centre Foundation. He has since overseen the development of the Ross Programme for Girls and Young Women by Cognitive Centre staff.
Dr. Robert D. Hare
Bob Hare is a researcher renowned in the field of criminal psychology. He is professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia where his studies centered on psychopathology and psycho-physiology. He developed the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) and Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), used to diagnose cases of psychopathy and also useful in predicting the likelihood of violent behavior. He advises the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC) and consults for various British and North American prison services.Dr. Hare has spent over 35 years researching psychopathy and is the developer of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), and a co-author of its derivatives, the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV), the P-Scan, the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV), and the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD). He is also a co-author of the Guidelines for a Psychopathy Treatment Program. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, with demonstrated reliability and validity, is rapidly being adopted worldwide as the standard instrument for researchers and clinicians. The PCL-R and PCL:SV are strong predictors of recidivism, violence and response to therapeutic intervention. They play an important role in most recent risk-for-violence instruments. The PCL-R was reviewed in Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook (1995), as being the "state of the art" both clinically and in research use. In 2005, the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook review listed the PCL-R as "a reliable and effective instrument for the measurement of psychopathy and is considered the 'gold standard' for measurement of psychopathy.
Professor Chris Trotter
Chris Trotter is an Associate Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His work on prosocial modelling has been shown to wide-ranging applications in the fields of work with families, child protection and criminal and youth justice. During the past few years Professor Trotter has worked in partnership with the Cognitive Centre to produce the ‘Focus on People - Effect Change', ‘Family Problem Solving' and ‘Prosocial Approaches to Working in Child Protection' programmes.
Dr. Barbara Armstrong
Barbara Armstrong was formerly the Chief Psychologist at the Rideau Correctional Centre in Ottawa and is the author of the widely acclaimed ‘Criminal Lifestyles' suite of offender programmes. Professor Paul Gendreau of New Brunswick University has assessed these programmes as being the best programmes of their type available. Dr Armstrong has worked with the Cognitive Centre to develop these programmes for use in the United Kingdom. Since her retirement from Rideau Barbara has been able to work more closely with us in the development of programmed approaches.
Professor Peter Raynor
Professor Peter Raynor has held a personal Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice since 1996 at Swansea University, where he now works in the School of Human Sciences. A former probation officer, he earned his PhD from the University of Wales in 1987 for an evaluation of probation as an alternative to custody. He has published widely on probation and criminal justice topics, including work on victims of crime (for Victim Support, of which he was a founder member and Chair of its Research Committee 1982-7), drug and alcohol services (for the Alcohol Education and Research Council, the Home Office and the Youth Justice Board), young offenders (for the Children’s Society), social work education (for CCETSW), unemployed young people (for ESRC), intensive probation, and the relationship between rehabilitation and justice (both supported by the Nuffield Foundation) and a range of other criminal justice topics (for the National Probation Service, the States of Jersey and others). A series of Home Office funded studies since the early 1990s has included work on the quality and effectiveness of pre-sentence reports; a pilot of a cognitive-behavioural programme for offenders; the confirmation of probation officers in appointment; risk and need assessment in correctional services; the resettlement of medium-term and short-sentence prisoners, and the needs and experiences of Black, Asian and other minority ethnic probationers. He has been a member of accreditation panels for correctional services in England and Wales and Scotland, and a member of the NOMS Stakeholder Forum, as well as of a Probation Committee and Probation Board in South Wales. He is currently a member of Scotland’s National Advisory Body on Offender Management. In addition he has held visiting Fellowships at the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and the Oxford Probation Studies Unit, and two Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowships. He is currently a visiting Professor to the Free University of Barcelona. Recent books include Rehabilitation, Crime and Justice (with Gwen Robinson), Race and Probation (with Lewis, Smith and Wardak) and Developments in Social Work with Offenders (with Gill McIvor).
Dr. John Marshall
John Marshall is a Consultant Forensic and Clinical Psychologist and is the Clinical Lead for Multi-Dimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) in Glasgow and was aLso responsible for the implementation of the Glasgow Child and Adolescent Forensic Mental Health Services Plan. Dr. Marshal has substantial experience in the Forensic Mental Health field, and is an adviser to the Scottish Executive Child Health Support Group on inpatient secure options. He is a risk assessor and expert witness in high profile complex cases and has completed a research study into juvenile psychopathy and prediction of violence. Together with Dr. Joe Bouch John Marshall is the co-author of the Suicide Risk Assessment and Management Manual (S-RAMM)
Dr Graeme Richardson
Graeme Richardson is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive Psychotherapist. He is currently Head of Psychology at the Northern Forensic Mental Health Service For Young People in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He is one of the UK's leading experts on the assessment and management of adult and youthful violent and sexual offenders. He also has considerable practical experience in the administration, scoring and interpretation of psychometric instruments. Dr. Richardson is the author of the assessment instrument the Sexually Harming Adolescent Risk Protocol (SHARP) and SHARPP, a programme for high-risk sexually harmful adolescents based on his practice in working with these young people.
Professor David Kolko
David Kolko, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. At Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, he directs the SAFETY Program (Services Aimed at Fire Education and Treatment of Youth), a treatment and research program for children and youth referred for firesetting behavior. Dr. Kolko has been involved in the study and treatment of child/juvenile firesetters for 30 years. He is a founding member of the Allegheny County Task Force on Juvenile Firesetting and the Pennsylvania Coalition on Juvenile Firesetting. His research publications have described the characteristics, assessment, course, treatment, and follow-up outcomes of firesetting children and their families. He is editor of the Handbook on Firesetting in Children and Youth (2002, Academic Press) that includes contributions from several colleagues in various disciplines on a variety of topics related to understanding and controlling this public health problem. Dr. Kolko’s federal and state grant funding has been directed towards the study and treatment of children's disruptive disorders, childhood firesetting, juvenile sexual offending, child physical abuse, and adolescent depression.
Dr Vincente Garrido
Dr. Vicente Garrido, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Valencia University in Spain, where he teaches criminal psychology and correctional education. Dr Garrido has directed several projects teaching the Reasoning and Rehabilitation program in prisons and secure settings for juvenile offenders, as well as in prevention projects for at-risk youths in Spain and South America. Dr. Garrido is a member of the Steering Committe of the Crime and Justice Group of the renowned Campbell Collaboration that develops systematic reviews designed to ascertain ‘what works’ in crime prevention. He has published many articles in academic and professional journals in education, psychology and criminology and has written several books including a book describing Recent Advances in the Reasoning and Rehabilitation Program (in Spanish). He is co-editor of “Advances in Psychology and Law” (De Gruyter). He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Crime, Behaviour & Mental Health and Psychology, Crime and Law.