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Janet I. Warren is a researcher affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their work spans multiple facets of social sciences and psychology, with particular attention to issues related to violence, abuse, and extremist behavior. The main fields of study include social sciences and psychology, further detailed into subfields such as sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and health.

The research topics covered by Janet I. Warren focus primarily on violence and trauma, including intimate partner and family violence, homicide, infanticide, child abuse, terrorism and political violence, criminal justice and corrections analysis, and studies on suicide and self-harm.

Among their notable recent publications are:

  • "The lethality of non-familial child abductions: Characteristics and outcomes of 565 incidents involving youth under the age of 18 years" (2020), published in Behavioral Sciences & the Law
  • "Using the moral-situational action violence risk model for assessing women involved in extremist violence: An empirical study." (2020), published in Journal of Threat Assessment and Management
  • "Victim selection patterns of community-residing child molesters identified by a nationwide youth-serving organization" (2021), published in Behavioral Sciences & the Law
  • "Using the Moral-Situational-Action Model of Extremist Violence (MSA-EV) to Assess Fluctuating Levels of Risk in Women: The Relevance of Risk, Promotive, and Protective Factors" (2025), published in Behavioral Sciences & the Law

Janet I. Warren has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Anita A. Grabowska, James C. Reed, April Celeste R. Leviton, Terri D. Patterson, and Gregory B. Saathoff. These collaborations reflect shared scholarly interests particularly in the areas of violence risk assessment and victimology.

The researcher's studies have appeared predominantly in the journals Behavioral Sciences & the Law and Journal of Threat Assessment and Management, indicating a strong focus on applied research in legal and threat assessment contexts.

Best Publications

  • Psychopathy in instrumental and reactive violent offenders.

    Dewey G. Cornell;Janet Warren;Gary Hawk;Ed Stafford

  • The sexually sadistic criminal and his offenses.

    Park Elliott Dietz;Robert R. Hazelwood;Janet Warren

  • Threatening and Otherwise Inappropriate Letters to Hollywood Celebrities

    PE Dietz;DB Matthews;C Van Duyne;DA Martell

  • Psychopathy in women: structural modeling and comorbidity.

    Janet I Warren;Mandi L Burnette;Susan C South;Preeti Chauhan

  • The Sexually Sadistic Serial Killer

    Janet I. Warren;Robert R. Hazelwood;Park E. Dietz

  • Asperger's Syndrome in Forensic Settings

    Daniel C. Murrie;Janet I. Warren;Marianne Kristiansson;Park E. Dietz

  • Crime Scene and Distance Correlates of Serial Rape

    Janet Warren;Roland Reboussin;Robert R. Hazelwood;Andrea Cummings

  • Threatening and otherwise inappropriate letters to members of the United States Congress.

    Park Elliott Dietz;Daryl B. Matthews;Daniel Allen Martell;Tracy M. Stewart

  • Personality disorders and violence among female prison inmates.

    Janet I. Warren;Mandi Burnette;Susan Carol South;Preeti Chauhan

  • Predicting Rapist Type from Crime-Scene Variables:

    Raymond A. Knight;Janet I. Warren;Roland Reboussin;Bonita J. Soley

  • Linkage analysis: Modus operandi, ritual, and signature in serial sexual crime

    Robert R. Hazelwood;Janet I. Warren

  • Exploring gender differences in trauma exposure and the emergence of symptoms of PTSD among incarcerated men and women

    Irina Alexandrovna Komarovskaya;Ann Booker Loper;Janet Warren;Shelly Jackson

  • Understanding the risk factors for violence and criminality in women: The concurrent validity of the PCL-R and HCR-20

    Janet I. Warren;Susan C. South;Mandi L. Burnette;Allison Rogers

  • Psychiatric symptoms, history of victimization, and violent behavior among incarcerated female felons: an American perspective.

    Janet I Warren;Susan Hurt;Ann Booker Loper;Risha Bale

  • Opinion formation in evaluating the adjudicative competence and restorability of criminal defendants: a review of 8,000 evaluations.

    Janet I. Warren;Daniel C. Murrie;William Stejskal;Lori H. Colwell

  • The Role of Impulsivity in Antisocial and Violent Behavior and Personality Disorders Among Incarcerated Women

    Irina Komarovskaya;Ann Booker Loper;Janet Warren

  • Exploring Prison Adjustment among Female Inmates Issues of Measurement and Prediction

    Janet I. Warren;Susan Hurt;Ann Booker Loper;Preeti Chauhan

  • Comparing the constructs of antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy in a sample of incarcerated women.

    Janet I. Warren;Susan C. South

  • Opinion formation in evaluating sanity at the time of the offense: an examination of 5175 pre-trial evaluations.

    Janet I. Warren;Daniel C. Murrie;Preeti Chauhan;Park E. Dietz

  • The sexually violent offender : Impulsive or ritualistic?

    Robert R Hazelwood;Janet I Warren

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel C. Murrie
Daniel C. Murrie University of Virginia
Susan C. South
Susan C. South Purdue University West Lafayette
Barry Rosenfeld
Barry Rosenfeld Fordham University
Kirk Heilbrun
Kirk Heilbrun Drexel University
Raymond A. Knight
Raymond A. Knight Brandeis University
Craig E. Henderson
Craig E. Henderson Sam Houston State University
Dewey G. Cornell
Dewey G. Cornell University of Virginia
Marcus T. Boccaccini
Marcus T. Boccaccini Sam Houston State University

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