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Kevin S. Douglas

Kevin S. Douglas

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Psychology

D-Index
60
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13471
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3543
National Ranking
225

Overview

Kevin S. Douglas is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Psychology and Social Sciences, contributing extensively to the subfields of Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Health, Gender Studies, and Demography.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse

Some of the recent papers authored by Douglas are:

  • "Statement of concerned experts on the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in capital sentencing to assess risk for institutional violence." (2020), published in Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • "How much does that cost? Examining the economic costs of crime in North America attributable to people with psychopathic personality disorder." (2022), published in Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • "The role of psychopathic features and developmental risk factors in trajectories of physical intimate partner violence." (2021), published in Psychology of Violence
  • "Predictive validity of the SAVRY, YLS/CMI, and PCL:YV is poor for intimate partner violence perpetration among adolescent offenders." (2022), published in Law and Human Behavior
  • "Construct Validity of the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP): Examining the Internal Structure and Generalizability of CAPP Self-Ratings Across Gender and Ethnicity" (2020), published in Assessment

The venues where Douglas frequently publishes include:

  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • Assessment
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Psychiatry Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Douglas are:

  • Stephen D. Hart
  • Dylan T. Gatner
  • Jodi L. Viljoen
  • Solveig Karin Bø Vatnar
  • Katherine B. Hanniball

Best Publications

  • VIOLENCE RISK ASSESSMENT: Getting Specific About Being Dynamic

    Kevin S. Douglas;Jennifer L. Skeem

  • Psychosis as a risk factor for violence to others: a meta-analysis.

    Kevin S. Douglas;Laura S. Guy;Stephen D. Hart

  • Assessing risk for violence among psychiatric patients: the HCR-20 violence risk assessment scheme and the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version.

    Kevin S. Douglas;James R. P. Ogloff;Tonia L. Nicholls;Isabel Grant

  • A Prevention-Based Paradigm for Violence Risk Assessment: Clinical and Research Applications

    Kevin S. Douglas;P. Randall Kropp

  • Evaluation of a model of violence risk assessment among forensic psychiatric patients.

    Kevin S Douglas;James Robert P Ogloff;Stephen D Hart

  • Violence risk assessment: Science and practice

    Kevin S. Douglas;David N. Cox;Christopher D. Webster

  • Does psychopathy predict institutional misconduct among adults? A meta-analytic investigation.

    Laura S. Guy;John F. Edens;Christine Anthony;Kevin S. Douglas

  • The HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme: Concurrent Validity in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders

    Kevin S. Douglas;Christopher D. Webster

  • Assessing risk for violence among male and female civil psychiatric patients: the HCR-20, PCL:SV, and VSC.

    Tonia N Nicholls;James Robert P Ogloff;Kevin S Douglas

  • Comparative Validity Analysis of Multiple Measures of Violence Risk in a Sample of Criminal Offenders

    Kevin S. Douglas;Melissa Yeomans;Douglas P. Boer

  • HCR-20 Violence Risk Assessment Scheme: Overview and Annotated Bibliography

    Kevin S. Douglas;Laura S. Guy;Kim A. Reeves;John Weir

  • Violence Against Teachers: Prevalence and Consequences:

    Catherine M. Wilson;Kevin S. Douglas;David R. Lyon

  • Risk for Criminal Recidivism: The Role of Psychopathy.

    Kevin S. Douglas;Gina M. Vincent;John F. Edens

  • Historical-Clinical-Risk Management-20, Version 3 (HCR-20V3): Development and Overview

    Kevin S. Douglas;Stephen D. Hart;Christopher D. Webster;Henrik Belfrage

  • Handbook of violence risk assessment.

    Randy K. Otto;Kevin S. Douglas

  • The relationship between psychopathic features, violence and treatment outcome: the comparison of three youth measures of psychopathic features.

    Sarah E. Spain;Kevin S. Douglas;Kevin S. Douglas;Norman G. Poythress;Monica Epstein

  • Using the PCL-R to help estimate the validity of two self-report measures of psychopathy with offenders.

    Norman G. Poythress;Scott O. Lilienfeld;Jennifer L. Skeem;Kevin S. Douglas

  • The impact of graphic photographic evidence on mock jurors' decisions in a murder trial: probative or prejudicial?

    Kevin S. Douglas;David R. Lyon;James R. P. Ogloff

  • Youth with psychopathy features are not a discrete class: a taxometric analysis.

    Daniel C. Murrie;David K. Marcus;Kevin S. Douglas;Zina Lee

  • Identifying subtypes among offenders with antisocial personality disorder: a cluster-analytic study.

    Norman G. Poythress;John F. Edens;Jennifer L. Skeem;Scott O. Lilienfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Edens
John F. Edens Texas A&M University
Jennifer L. Skeem
Jennifer L. Skeem University of California, Berkeley
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Stephen D. Hart
Stephen D. Hart Simon Fraser University
James R. P. Ogloff
James R. P. Ogloff Swinburne University of Technology
Norman G. Poythress
Norman G. Poythress University of South Florida
Ronald Roesch
Ronald Roesch Simon Fraser University
Sarah L. Desmarais
Sarah L. Desmarais North Carolina State University
Daniel C. Murrie
Daniel C. Murrie University of Virginia
Christopher J. Patrick
Christopher J. Patrick Florida State University

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