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Richard Wortley is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has established a publication record primarily within the social sciences. Their research output spans 58 publications in this broad field, with a focused engagement in subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Health, and Information Systems.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment

Wortley publishes frequently in venues such as CrimRxiv, Sexual Abuse, Journal of Sexual Aggression, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and Child Abuse & Neglect. CrimRxiv is the most frequent platform, featuring 12 of their publications.

Recent papers include:

  • "Effects of Automated Messages on Internet Users Attempting to Access 'Barely Legal' Pornography," 2021, Sexual Abuse
  • "Child sexual abuse material in child-centred institutions: situational crime prevention approaches," 2020, Journal of Sexual Aggression
  • "Alcohol and drug problems among Australian homicide offenders," 2020, Addiction
  • "Situational Crime Prevention in Sexual Offenses Against Women: Offenders Tell Us What Works and What Doesn't," 2020, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
  • "The Micro-situational Context of Sexual Offences Against Adult Women: Unpacking the Role of Guardianship Intensity in Disruption," 2020, Crime & Delinquency

Richard Wortley collaborates regularly with several scholars, including Paul Watters, Aiden Sidebottom, Jeremy Prichard, Caroline Spiranovic, and Benoît Leclerc, reflecting interdisciplinary and collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • Environmental criminology and crime analysis: situating the theory, analytic approach and application

    Richard Keith Wortley;Lorraine Ann Mazerolle

  • Environmental criminology and crime analysis

    Richard Keith Wortley;Lorraine Ann Mazerolle

  • A Classification of Techniques for Controlling Situational Precipitators of Crime

    Richard Wortley

  • Situational Prison Control: Crime Prevention in Correctional Institutions

    Richard Keith Wortley

  • Prediction of Whistleblowing or Non-reporting Observation: The Role of Personal and Situational Factors

    Peter George Cassematis;R. Wortley

  • Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Evidence, Policy and Practice

    Stephen Walkley Smallbone;William L Marshall;Richard Keith Wortley

  • Getting into the Script of Adult Child Sex Offenders and Mapping out Situational Prevention Measures

    Benoit Leclerc;Richard Wortley;Stephen W. Smallbone

  • Child pornography on the Internet

    Richard Keith Wortley;Stephen Walkley Smallbone

  • Child Sexual Abuse in Queensland: Offender Characteristics and Modus Operandi

    Stephen Walkley Smallbone;Richard Keith Wortley

  • Preventing Alcohol-related Crime Through Community Action: The Surfers Paradise Safety Action Project

    Ross Homel;Margory Ann Hauritz;Richard Keith Wortley;G. McIlwain

  • Applying situational principles to sexual offenses against children

    Richard Keith Wortley;Stephen Walkley Smallbone

  • Child sexual abuse: Offender characteristics and modus operandi

    Stephen Walkley Smallbone;Richard Keith Wortley

  • Onset, persistence, and versatility of offending among adult males convicted of sexual offenses against children

    Stephen Walkley Smallbone;Richard Keith Wortley

  • Situational Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse

    Richard Keith Wortley;Stephen Walkley Smallbone

  • Situational Prison Control: List of figures and tables

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  • Intimate Femicide: The Role of Coercive Control

    Holly Johnson;Li Eriksson;Paul Mazerolle;Richard Wortley

  • Criminal Diversity and Paraphilic Interests Among Adult Males Convicted of Sexual Offenses Against Children

    Stephen Walkley Smallbone;Richard Keith Wortley

  • Internet Child Pornography: Causes, Investigation, and Prevention

    Richard Wortley;Stephen Walkley Smallbone

  • Measuring Police Attitudes Toward Discretion

    Richard Keith Wortley

  • Guilt, shame and situational crime prevention

    Rk Wortley

  • Reconsidering the role of opportunity in situational crime prevention

    R Wortley

  • Environmental criminology and crime analysis

    Richard Wortley;Michael Townsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Mazerolle
Paul Mazerolle University of New Brunswick
Ross Homel
Ross Homel Griffith University
Nick Tilley
Nick Tilley University College London
Lorraine Mazerolle
Lorraine Mazerolle University of Queensland
Martine B. Powell
Martine B. Powell Griffith University
Ethel Quayle
Ethel Quayle University of Edinburgh
William L. Marshall
William L. Marshall Queen's University
Yuan Chang
Yuan Chang University of Pittsburgh
Robert M. May
Robert M. May University of Oxford

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