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Devon L. L. Polaschek

Devon L. L. Polaschek

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Psychology

D-Index
39
Citations
8001
World Ranking
8486
National Ranking
54

Overview

Devon L. L. Polaschek is affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to social sciences and psychology, with substantial focus on criminology and forensic psychology.

Their research spans multiple fields with a primary emphasis on social sciences and psychology. Within these broad fields, their work addresses subfields including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, health, artificial intelligence, and epidemiology.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment

Polaschek's publications have appeared frequently in several academic venues, including:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • Crime Science
  • Journal of Family Violence
  • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Their recent papers illustrate a range of research interests and methodologies, such as:

  • "Methods for Eliciting Informative Prior Distributions: A Critical Review," 2022, Decision Analysis
  • "A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space," 2020, Crime Science
  • "Predicting Women's Recidivism Using the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-Entry: Preliminary Evidence of Predictive Validity With Community-Sentenced Women Using a 'Gender-Neutral' Risk Measure," 2020, Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • "A National Examination of the Spatial Extent and Similarity of Offenders' Activity Spaces Using Police Data," 2021, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
  • "Life on parole: The quality of experiences soon after release contributes to a conviction-free re-entry," 2020, Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Chaitanya Joshi
  • Apriel D. Jolliffe Simpson
  • Sophie Curtis-Ham
  • Wim Bernasco
  • Oleg N. Medvedev

Best Publications

  • Psychopathic Personality Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Evidence and Public Policy

    Jennifer L. Skeem;Devon L. L. Polaschek;Christopher J. Patrick;Scott O. Lilienfeld

  • Theories of Sexual Offending

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

  • A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories

    Kimberley A. Wade;Maryanne Garry;J. Don Read;D. Stephen Lindsay

  • Assessing Relationship Quality in Mandated Community Treatment: Blending Care With Control

    Jennifer L. Skeem;Jennifer Eno Louden;Devon Polaschek;Jacqueline Camp

  • An appraisal of the risk–need–responsivity (RNR) model of offender rehabilitation and its application in correctional treatment

    Devon L. L. Polaschek

  • The implicit theories of potential rapists: What our questionnaires tell us

    Devon L.L Polaschek;Tony Ward

  • The therapeutic alliance: A theoretical revision for offender rehabilitation

    Elizabeth C. Ross;Devon L.L. Polaschek;Tony Ward

  • The Implicit Theories of Rapists: What Convicted Offenders Tell Us

    Devon L. L. Polaschek;Theresa A. Gannon

  • Imagination and Memory

    Maryanne Garry;Devon L.L. Polaschek

  • Cognitive distortions in child molesters: A re-examination of key theories and research

    Theresa A. Gannon;Devon L.L. Polaschek

  • Rapists' Offense Processes A Preliminary Descriptive Model

    Devon L. L. Polaschek;Stephen M. Hudson;Tony Ward;Richard J. Siegert

  • Linking Violent Thinking: Implicit Theory-Based Research with Violent Offenders

    Devon L. L. Polaschek;Susan W. Calvert;Theresa A. Gannon

  • Do early therapeutic alliance, motivation, and stages of change predict therapy change for high-risk, psychopathic violent prisoners?

    Devon L. L. Polaschek;Elizabeth C. Ross

  • Rape and rapists: theory and treatment.

    Devon L.L. Polaschek;Tony Ward;Stephen M. Hudson

  • A brief motivational interviewing intervention with prisoners: when you lead a horse to water, can it drink for itself?

    Brendan Anstiss;Devon L.L. Polaschek;Marc Wilson

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Rehabilitation for High-Risk Violent Offenders An Outcome Evaluation of the Violence Prevention Unit

    Devon L. L. Polaschek;Nick J. Wilson;Marilyn R. Townsend;Lorna R. Daly

  • Treatment and psychopathy in forensic settings

    Devon L.L. Polaschek;Tadhg E. Daly

  • Rehabilitating serious violent adult offenders: an empirical and theoretical stocktake

    Devon L. L. Polaschek;Rachael M. Collie

  • Criminal attitudes to violence: Development and preliminary validation of a scale for male prisoners.

    Devon L.L. Polaschek;Rachael M. Collie;Frank H. Walkey

  • High-Intensity Rehabilitation for Violent Offenders in New Zealand: Reconviction Outcomes for High- and Medium-Risk Prisoners

    Devon L. L. Polaschek

Frequent Co-Authors

Tony Ward
Tony Ward Victoria University of Wellington
Anthony R. Beech
Anthony R. Beech University of Birmingham
Theresa A. Gannon
Theresa A. Gannon University of Kent
Jennifer L. Skeem
Jennifer L. Skeem University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Day
Andrew Day University of Melbourne
Marc S. Wilson
Marc S. Wilson Victoria University of Wellington
Stephen M. Hudson
Stephen M. Hudson University of Canterbury
Maryanne Garry
Maryanne Garry University of Waikato
Stephen C. P. Wong
Stephen C. P. Wong University of Saskatchewan
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine

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