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Stephen C. P. Wong

Stephen C. P. Wong

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Psychology

D-Index
38
Citations
8758
World Ranking
8751
National Ranking
587

Overview

Stephen C. P. Wong is affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and psychology, with a focus on clinical psychology and related subfields.

Their work covers topics such as psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, sexual assault and victimization studies, criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, intimate partner and family violence, suicide and self-harm studies, and personality disorders and psychopathology.

Stephen C. P. Wong has published research in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • Psychological Assessment
  • Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • Psychiatry Psychology and Law
  • Assessment

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Wong includes:

  • A prospective multisite examination of dynamic sexual violence risk: Extension and update to Olver, Nicholaichuk, Kingston, and Wong (2014). (2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
  • Incremental Contributions of Static and Dynamic Sexual Violence Risk Assessment: Integrating Static-99R and VRS-SO Common Language Risk Levels (2020, Criminal Justice and Behavior)
  • Assessing dynamic violence risk: Common language risk levels and recidivism rates for the Violence Risk Scale. (2022, Psychological Assessment)
  • Predictive Properties of the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offense Version as a Function of Age (2020, Assessment)
  • The validity of the Violence Risk Scale (VRS) in a Portuguese sample of remand prisoners (2024, Psychiatry Psychology and Law)

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Mark E. Olver
  • Drew A. Kingston
  • Sarah M. Beggs Christofferson
  • Neil R. Hogan
  • Richard B. A. Coupland

Best Publications

  • Psychopathy and recidivism: A review

    James F. Hemphill;Robert D. Hare;Stephen Wong

  • The Efficacy of Violence Prediction: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Nine Risk Assessment Tools.

    Min Yang;Stephen C. P. Wong;Jeremy W. Coid

  • Treating criminal psychopaths in a therapeutic community program

    James R. P. Ogloff;Stephen Wong;Anthony Greenwood

  • 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

  • Violence: Criminal psychopaths and their victims.

    Sherrie Williamson;Robert D. Hare;Stephen Wong

  • The validity and reliability of the Violence Risk Scale: A treatment-friendly violence risk assessment tool.

    Stephen C. P. Wong;Audrey Gordon

  • 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

  • Is Hare's Psychopathy Checklist reliable without the interview?

    Stephen Wong

  • Outcome of an Institutional Sexual Offender Treatment Program: A Comparison Between Treated and Matched Untreated Offenders:

    Terry Nicholaichuk;Arthur Gordon;Deqiang Gu;Stephen Wong

  • Electrodermal and cardiovascular evidence of a coping response in psychopaths

    James R.P. Ogloff;Stephen Wong

  • 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

  • Guidelines for a psychopathy treatment program

    Stephen C.P Wong;Robert D Hare

  • Predictors of Treatment Attrition as Indicators for Program Improvement not Offender Shortcomings: A Study of Sex Offender Treatment Attrition:

    Michelle J. Beyko;Stephen C. P Wong

  • Treatment of Gang Members Can Reduce Recidivism and Institutional Misconduct

    Chantal Di Placido;Terri L. Simon;Treena D. Witte;Deqiang Gu

  • Psychopathy and Crime: Recidivism and Criminal Careers

    James F. Hemphill;Ron Templeman;Stephen Wong;Robert D. Hare

  • Assessment and treatment of violence–prone forensic clients: an integrated approach

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Olver
Mark E. Olver University of Saskatchewan
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas
David Thornton
David Thornton Haukeland University Hospital
Randolph C. Grace
Randolph C. Grace University of Canterbury
James R. P. Ogloff
James R. P. Ogloff Swinburne University of Technology
Devon L. L. Polaschek
Devon L. L. Polaschek University of Waikato
Merrill Hiscock
Merrill Hiscock University of Houston
John M. W. Bradford
John M. W. Bradford McMaster University

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