Tamsin H Higgs (Boursière CICC, mars 2017 à février 2018)

Sujet du stage postdoctoral : Reducing risk of violent reoffending: Priority questions in assessment and intervention with high-risk violent offenders

Tamsin Higgs est encadrée par Franca Cortoni

Thèmes de recherche

• Forensic Psychology
• Risk factors and criminal trajectories associated with violent and sexual offending

 
Publications

•  Higgs, T., & Stefanska, E. B. (in press). Psychological and criminological factors in diverse types of sexual murderers. In J. Proulx, A. J. Carter, E. Beauregard, A. Mokros, R. Darjee, & J. James (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Homicide Studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Stefanska, E. B. & Higgs, T. (in press). Understanding the sexual element in sexual murder. In J. Proulx, A. J. Carter, E. Beauregard, A. Mokros, R. Darjee, & J. James (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Homicide Studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Stefanska, E., Higgs, T., Carter, A., & Beech, A. R. (2018). “We boil at different degrees” Factors associated with severity of attack in sexual killing. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication, doi: 10.1177/0886260518758333

• Higgs, T., Stefanska, E. B., Carter, A. J., & Browne, K. D. (2017). The developmental and criminal histories of subgroups of sexual murderers engaging, or not engaging, in post mortem sexual interference, compared to rapists. Journal of Criminal Justice, 53, 92-101.

• Higgs, T., Carter, A. J., Tully, R., & Browne, K. D. (2017). Sexual murderer typologies: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 35, 1-12.  

• Higgs, T., Tully, R. J., & Browne, K. D. (2017). Psychometric properties in forensic application of the screening version of the Psychopathy Checklist. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 10.1177/0306624X17719289  

• Stefanska, E. B., Higgs, T., Carter, A. J., & Beech, A. R. (2017). When is a murder a sexual murder? Understanding the sexual element in the classification of sexual killings. Journal of Criminal Justice, 50, 53-61.

• Carter, A. J., Hollin, C., Stefanska, E. B., Higgs, T., & Bloomfield, S. (2016). The use of crime scene and demographic information in the identification of non-serial sexual homicide. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 0306624X16630313.

• Higgs, T., Carter, A. J., Stefanska, E. B., & Glorney, E. (2015). Toward identification of the sexual killer: A comparison of sexual killers engaging in post-mortem sexual interference and non-homicide sexual aggressors. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 1079063215609935.  

• Stefanska, E. B., Carter, A. J., Higgs, T., Bishopp, D., & Beech, A. R. (2015). Offense Pathways of Non-Serial Sexual Killers. Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(2), 99-107.

• Higgs, T., & Carter, A. J. (2015). Autism Spectrum Disorder and sexual offending: Responsivity in forensic interventions. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 22, 112-119.

• Carter, A. J., Barnett, G. D., Stefanska, E. B., & Higgs, T. (2014). Offense pathways of extrafamilial child molesters. In J. Proulx, E. Beauregard, P. Lussier, & B. Leclerc (Eds.), Pathways to Sexual Aggression. Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Rapport du stage postdoctoral (année 2017)