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Overview

Mark E. Olver is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with particular emphasis on Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Gender Studies. The scientist's work covers diverse topics including Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Mark E. Olver are:

  • Reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in the assessment of risk for institutional violence: A cautionary note on DeMatteo et al. (2020), 2020, Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Involuntary Celibacy: A Review of Incel Ideology and Experiences with Dating, Rejection, and Associated Mental Health and Emotional Sequelae, 2022, Current Psychiatry Reports
  • One is the loneliest number: Involuntary celibacy (incel), mental health, and loneliness, 2023, Current Psychology
  • Stigma-related stress, complex correlates of disclosure, mental health, and loneliness in minor-attracted people, 2021, Stigma and Health
  • Assessing protective factors in treated violent offenders: Associations with recidivism reduction and positive community outcomes, 2020, Psychological Assessment

Mark E. Olver frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Keira C. Stockdale
  • Alexandra M. Zidenberg
  • Brandon Sparks
  • Stephen C. P. Wong
  • Neil R. Hogan

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Sexual Offending Theory Research and Prevention
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Sexual Abuse

Best Publications

  • A meta-analysis of predictors of offender treatment attrition and its relationship to recidivism

    Mark E. Olver;Keira C. Stockdale;J. Stephen Wormith

  • Risk assessment with young offenders: A meta-analysis of three assessment measures.

    Mark E. Olver;Keira C. Stockdale;J. Stephen Wormith

  • The validity and reliability of the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offender Version: Assessing sex offender risk and evaluating therapeutic change

    Mark E. Olver;Stephen C. P. Wong;Terry Nicholaichuk;Audrey Gordon

  • Thirty years of research on the level of service scales: a meta-analytic examination of predictive accuracy and sources of variability.

    Mark E. Olver;Keira C. Stockdale;J. Stephen Wormith

  • Offender Treatment Attrition and its Relationship with Risk, Responsivity, and Recidivism:

    J. Stephen Wormith;Mark E. Olver

  • The psychology of criminal conduct (fifth edition) Edited by D. A. Andrews and J. Bonta

    Mark E. Olver

  • Does specialized psychological treatment for offending reduce recidivism? A meta-analysis examining staff and program variables as predictors of treatment effectiveness.

    Theresa A. Gannon;Mark E. Olver;Jaimee S. Mallion;Mark James

  • Use of the Personality Assessment Inventory to assess psychopathy in offender populations.

    John F. Edens;Stephen D. Hart;Darryl W. Johnson;Judy K. Johnson

  • Therapeutic responses of psychopathic sexual offenders: treatment attrition, therapeutic change, and long-term recidivism.

    Mark E. Olver;Stephen C. P. Wong

  • Psychopathy, Sexual Deviance, and Recidivism Among Sex Offenders

    Mark E. Olver;Stephen C. P. Wong

  • Risk reduction treatment of high-risk psychopathic offenders: the relationship of psychopathy and treatment change to violent recidivism

    Mark E. Olver;Kathy Lewis;Stephen C. P. Wong

  • The Future of Criminal Attitudes Research and Practice

    David J. Simourd;Mark E. Olver

  • The Violence Risk Scale Predictive Validity and Linking Changes in Risk With Violent Recidivism in a Sample of High- Risk Offenders With Psychopathic Traits

    Kathy Lewis;Mark E. Olver;Stephen C. P. Wong;Stephen C. P. Wong

  • The Effectiveness of Violence Reduction Treatment for Psychopathic Offenders: Empirical Evidence and a Treatment Model

    Stephen C. P. Wong;Audrey Gordon;Deqiang Gu;Kathy Lewis

  • Short- and long-term recidivism prediction of the PCL-R and the effects of age: A 24-year follow-up.

    Mark E. Olver;Stephen C. P. Wong

  • Predictors of sex offender treatment dropout: Psychopathy, sex offender risk, and responsivity implications.

    Mark E. Olver;Steve Wong

  • Short and long-term prediction of recidivism using the youth level of service/case management inventory in a sample of serious young offenders.

    Mark E. Olver;Keira C. Stockdale;Stephen C. P. Wong

  • Outcome Evaluation of a High-Intensity Inpatient Sex Offender Treatment Program

    Mark E Olver;Stephen C P Wong;Terry P Nicholaichuk

  • The Long-Term Prediction of Offender Recidivism Using Diagnostic, Personality, and Risk/Need Approaches to Offender Assessment

    J. Stephen Wormith;Mark E. Olver;Hugh E. Stevenson;Lina Girard

  • A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Assessment of Sexual Offender Risk and Need in a Treatment Context

    Mark E. Olver;Stephen C.P. Wong

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen C. P. Wong
Stephen C. P. Wong University of Saskatchewan
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas
Theresa A. Gannon
Theresa A. Gannon University of Kent
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia
David Thornton
David Thornton Haukeland University Hospital
Raymond A. Knight
Raymond A. Knight Brandeis University
Nicola S. Gray
Nicola S. Gray Swansea University
Michael J. Vitacco
Michael J. Vitacco Augusta University
Randall T. Salekin
Randall T. Salekin University of Alabama

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