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Overview

Anthony R. Beech is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily across the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on clinical psychology and sociology and political science as subfields.

The main topics in Anthony R. Beech's work address issues related to psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending as well as child abuse and trauma. Other research areas include intimate partner and family violence, criminal justice and corrections analysis, sexuality, behavior, and technology, gender, feminism, and media, and child welfare and adoption.

Recent publications highlight a range of themes connected to child sexual abuse, emotional processing in sexual offenders, and correctional rehabilitation. Notable papers include:

  • "Technology assisted child sexual abuse in the UK: Young people's views on the impact of online sexual abuse," 2020, Children and Youth Services Review
  • "Technology assisted child sexual abuse: Professionals' perceptions of risk and impact on children and young people," 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • "Urgent issues and prospects in correctional rehabilitation practice and research," 2022, Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • "Processing of emotional faces in sexual offenders with and without child victims: An eye-tracking study with pupillometry," 2021, Biological Psychology
  • "A feasibility trial of an instructed breathing course in prison to improve emotion regulation in people with substance use difficulties," 2020, Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology

Frequent collaborators in Beech's research include Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Elly Hanson, Helen Whittle, Filipa Alves-Costa, and Steven M. Gillespie. These coauthors have contributed to work spanning similar fields and topics, indicating a collaborative approach within this research community.

Publications by Anthony R. Beech have appeared consistently in journals such as Children and Youth Services Review, Child Abuse & Neglect, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Biological Psychology, and the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology. These venues are known for their focus on psychological, forensic, and social science research.

Best Publications

  • An integrated theory of sexual offending

    Tony Ward;Anthony Robert Beech

  • Theories of Sexual Offending

    Tony Ward;Devon L. L. Polaschek;Anthony R. Beech

  • The integration of etiology and risk in sexual offenders: A theoretical framework

    Anthony Robert Beech;Tony Ward

  • Therapeutic climate of sexual offender treatment programs

    Anthony Beech;Ann Scott Fordham

  • Evidence of reduced 'cognitive inhibition' in schizophrenia.

    Anthony Beech;Trevor Powell;Jonathan McWilliam;Gordon Claridge

  • Risk assessment of sex offenders.

    Anthony R. Beech;Dawn D. Fisher;David Thornton

  • Comparison of Sex Offenders to Nonoffenders on Selected Psychological Measures

    Dawn Fisher;Anthony Beech;Kevin Browne

  • The Internet and child sexual offending: A criminological review

    Anthony Robert Beech;Ian Alexander Elliott;Astrid Birgden;Donald Findlater

  • Relationship Between Therapeutic Climate and Treatment Outcome in Group-Based Sexual Offender Treatment Programs

    Anthony Robert Beech;Catherine E. Hamilton-Giachritsis

  • A review of online grooming: Characteristics and concerns

    Helen Whittle;Catherine E. Hamilton-Giachritsis;Anthony Robert Beech;Guy Collings

  • The relationship between static and dynamic risk factors and reconviction in a sample of U.K. child abusers.

    Anthony Robert Beech;Caroline Friendship;Matt Erikson;R. Karl Hanson

  • Sexual Murderers' Implicit Theories

    Anthony Robert Beech;David Fisher;T. Ward

  • A Psychometric Typology of Child Abusers

    Anthony R. Beech

  • Reduced cognitive inhibition in obsessive-compulsive disorder

    Simon J. Enright;Anthony R. Beech

  • Psychopathic traits are associated with reduced attention to the eyes of emotional faces among adult male non-offenders.

    Steven M. Gillespie;Pia Rotshtein;Laura J. Wells;Anthony R. Beech

  • Forensic assessment of sexual interest: A review

    Ellis Kalmus;Anthony Robert Beech

  • Psychological profiles of internet sexual offenders: comparisons with contact sexual offenders.

    Ian Alexander Elliott;Anthony Robert Beech;Rebecca Mandeville-Norden;Elizabeth Hayes

  • Evaluation of a National Prison-based Treatment Program for Sexual Offenders in England and Wales

    Caroline Friendship;Ruth E. Mann;Anthony R. Beech

  • Individual differences in negative priming: relations with schizotypal personality traits.

    Anthony Beech;Gordon Claridge

  • Cognitive Distortions, Schemas, and Implicit Theories

    Ruth E. Mann;Anthony R. Beech

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Ward
Tony Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Kevin D. Browne
Kevin D. Browne University of Nottingham
Devon L. L. Polaschek
Devon L. L. Polaschek University of Waikato
Theresa A. Gannon
Theresa A. Gannon University of Kent
Gordon Claridge
Gordon Claridge University of Oxford
David Thornton
David Thornton Haukeland University Hospital
Pia Rotshtein
Pia Rotshtein University of Birmingham
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Ruth E. Mann
Ruth E. Mann Government of the United Kingdom

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