Journal of Criminal Psychology: Volume 13 Issue 3

Exploring the stigmatisation of offending and non-offending paedophiles: a terror management approach

Abbie Maroño, Ross M. Bartels, Kimberley Hill, Theodoros Papagathonikou, Glenn Hitchman

Paedophilic individuals are a highly misunderstood and stigmatised group, with the general public tending to equate paedophilia with child sexual abuse. Given that paedophilia is…

Criminal and positive identity development of young male offenders: pre and post rehabilitation

Laura Amy Jackson, Alex Kyriakopoulos, Nikki Carthy

The rates of offending and re-offending for young males are higher than any other population. Whilst the UK Ministry of Justice (2020) states that rehabilitation programmes should…

Professional boundary violations in prisons: a scoping review of the literature

Dominic Kelly, Jonathan Potter

Professional boundary violations – intentional blurring, minimising or exploiting of institutions’ ethical and legal frameworks – have the potential to cause significant harm to…

Photovoice study of gratitude in ex-juvenile offenders

Paula Lado, Marselino K.P.A. Keraf, Apris Adu, Andrian Liem, Indra Yohanes Kiling

Gratitude is an element of positive psychology that has been found effective in improving subjective well-being and decreasing aggression in offenders. However, there is a dearth…

The life course of impulsive males from childhood to adulthood

David P. Farrington, Marta Aguilar-Carceles

This paper aims to advance knowledge about the life course of impulsive males from childhood to adulthood, based on data collected in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development…

Pathways to truth: using criteria-based content analysis in missing person cases

Yasmin Richards, David Keatley

When investigating missing persons cases, witness and suspect statements are often the only available evidence to investigators. As such, forensic linguistics can be useful to…

Book review: Global perspectives on interventions in forensic therapeutic communities

Phil Willmot