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Patrick Lussier

Patrick Lussier

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
37
Citations
5159
World Ranking
9238
National Ranking
628

Patrick Lussier publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Lussier sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 152 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Patrick Lussier D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick Lussier sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Patrick Lussier is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has a substantial body of research focused primarily on topics related to criminology, forensic psychiatry, and psychology. Their work spans multiple aspects of criminal behavior, particularly recidivism among sexual offenders and the broader criminal justice system.

Among their recent publications are the following:

  • A meta-analysis of trends in general, sexual, and violent recidivism among youth with histories of sex offending (2023) in Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • The sexual recidivism drop in Canada: A meta-analysis of sex offender recidivism rates over an 80-year period (2022) in Criminology & Public Policy
  • Sex Offender Recidivism: Some Lessons Learned From Over 70 Years of Research (2023) in Criminal Justice Review
  • Psychopathy and the prospective prediction of adult offending through age 29: Revisiting unfulfilled promises of developmental criminology (2020) in Journal of Criminal Justice

Lussier's research contributions include interdisciplinary perspectives combining social sciences and psychology with a strong focus on clinical psychology and sociology. The main fields of study represented in their work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these fields, Lussier has concentrated on subfields such as sociology and political science, clinical psychology, and general health professions. Their research topics cover areas including:

  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

The scholar has frequently published in venues such as CrimRxiv, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Criminologie, among others. The most common publication venues include:

  • CrimRxiv
  • Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Criminologie
  • Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Collaborative work is evident in the scholar's career, with frequent co-authorship by several researchers. Their most frequent collaborators are:

  • Evan McCuish
  • Julien Fréchette
  • Stéphanie Chouinard Thivierge
  • Raymond R. Corrado
  • Stéphanie Chouinard-Thivierge

Best Publications

  • The criminal activity of sexual offenders in adulthood: revisiting the specialization debate.

    Patrick Lussier

  • The generality of criminal behavior: A confirmatory factor analysis of the criminal activity of sex offenders in adulthood

    Patrick Lussier;Marc LeBlanc;Jean Proulx

  • Antisociality, Sexual Deviance, and Sexual Reoffending in Juvenile Sex Offenders A Meta-Analytical Investigation

    Kristie McCann;Patrick Lussier

  • Forensic psychiatric inpatients and aggression: an exploration of incidence, prevalence, severity, and interventions by gender.

    Tonia L. Nicholls;Johann Brink;Johann Brink;Caroline Greaves;Patrick Lussier

  • Criminal propensity, deviant sexual interests and criminal activity of sexual aggressors against women: A comparison of explanatory models.

    Patrick Lussier;Jean Proulx;Marc Leblanc

  • The adolescence-adulthood transition and Robins's continuity paradox: Criminal career patterns of juvenile and adult sex offenders in a prospective longitudinal birth cohort study

    Patrick Lussier;Arjan Blokland

  • Beyond sexual recidivism : a review of the sexual criminal career parameters of adult sex offenders

    Patrick Lussier;Jesse Cale

  • IS THE ANTISOCIAL CHILD FATHER OF THE ABUSIVE MAN? A 40-YEAR PROSPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL ANTECEDENTS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE*

    Patrick Lussier;David P. Farrington;Terrie E. Moffitt

  • Criminal Trajectories of Adult Sex Offenders and the Age Effect: Examining the Dynamic Aspect of Offending in Adulthood

    Patrick Lussier;Stacy Tzoumakis;Jesse Cale;Joanna Amirault

  • A person-oriented perspective on sexual offenders, offending trajectories, and risk of recidivism: A new challenge for policymakers, risk assessors, and actuarial prediction?

    Patrick Lussier;Garth Davies

  • A Developmental Taxonomy of Juvenile Sex Offenders for Theory, Research, and Prevention: The Adolescent-Limited and the High-Rate Slow Desister

    Patrick Lussier;Chantal Van den Berg;Catrien C. J. H. Bijleveld;jan Hendriks

  • Patterns of criminal achievement in sexual offending: Unravelling the “successful” sex offender

    Patrick Lussier;Martin Bouchard;Eric Beauregard

  • Rediscovering Quetelet, Again: The “Aging” Offender and the Prediction of Reoffending in a Sample of Adult Sex Offenders

    Patrick Lussier;Jay Healey

  • Developmental Pathways of Deviance in Sexual Aggressors

    Patrick Lussier;Benoit Leclerc;Jesse Cale;Jean Proulx

  • Psychopathic traits and offending trajectories from early adolescence to adulthood

    Evan C. McCuish;Raymond Corrado;Raymond Corrado;Patrick Lussier;Stephen D. Hart;Stephen D. Hart

  • The role of sexual interests and situational factors on rapists' modus operandi: Implications for offender profiling

    Eric Beauregard;Patrick Lussier;Patrick Lussier;Jean Proulx;Jean Proulx

  • An Exploration of Developmental Factors Related to Deviant Sexual Preferences Among Adult Rapists

    Eric Beauregard;Patrick Lussier;Jean Proulx

  • Sexual Sadism in the Context of Rape and Sexual Homicide An Examination of Crime Scene Indicators

    Jay Healey;Patrick Lussier;Eric Beauregard

  • Confessing their Crime: Factors Influencing the Offender’s Decision to Confess to the Police

    Nadine Deslauriers‐Varin;Patrick Lussier;Michel St‐Yves

  • Pathways to Sexual Aggression

    Jean Proulx;Eric Beauregard;Patrick Lussier;Benoit Leclerc

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Proulx
Jean Proulx University of Montreal
Eric Beauregard
Eric Beauregard Simon Fraser University
Arjan Blokland
Arjan Blokland Maastricht University
Martin Bouchard
Martin Bouchard Simon Fraser University
Stephen D. Hart
Stephen D. Hart Simon Fraser University
Douglas A. Gentile
Douglas A. Gentile Iowa State University
Rolf Loeber
Rolf Loeber University of Pittsburgh
David P. Farrington
David P. Farrington University of Cambridge
Craig A. Anderson
Craig A. Anderson Iowa State University
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University

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