Psychology of Criminal Behaviour: A Canadian Perspective, 3rd edition

Shelley Brown, PhD is a professor of forensic psychology in the Department of Psychology, Carleton University where she also serves as the Director of the Gender and Crime Research Lab. She is also an associate graduate faculty member with the Centre of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Shelley's program of research aims to improve gender responsive services in the criminal justice system. Currently, Shelley studies complex trauma, violence, strengths, risk assessment, and desistance among justice-impacted girls and women. She has published over 50 articles, government reports, book chapters and books about criminal behaviour in general, as well as works specific to justice-impacted girls and women. Her work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Public Safety Canada, and Correctional Service of Canada. Shelley also teaches and supervises students at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Mark E. Olver, Ph.D is Professor and Registered Doctoral Psychologist in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he is involved in graduate and undergraduate research supervision, teaching, administration, clinical training, and applied forensic research. Prior to his academic appointment, Mark worked as a clinical psychologist in various capacities, including providing assessment, treatment, and consultation services for justice involved boys and girls in the Saskatoon Health Region and for federally sentenced men in the Correctional Service of Canada. He has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters and his research interests include risk assessment and correctional treatment, justice involved youth, psychopathy, variations in human sexuality, and the evaluation of therapeutic change. He is the co-developer of the Violence Risk Scale-Sexual Offense version (VRS-SO) and the Violence Risk Scale-Youth Sexual Offense version (VRS-YSO) and he provides training and consultation services internationally in the assessment and treatment of high psychopathy, sexual, and violent offending populations.  .

Kelly M. Babchishin, Ph.D is an assistant professor of forensic psychology in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University and the Director of the Sexually Harmful Behaviours Research Lab. Dr. Babchishin's current research involves identifying risk factors for the onset and maintenance of offending, for which she has amassed over 50 peer reviewed journal articles. Kelly is also authored on three risk tools used with individuals who commit sexual offences: Static-99R, Static-2002R, and BARR-2002R and is the research director of the International Working Group for Best Practice in the Management of Online Sex Offending. Dr. Babchishin's research is funded, among others, by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Dr. Babchishin has received the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA; Early Career Re-search Award), the John Charles Polanyi Prize (Medicine), and the Royal Ottawa's Inspiration Award (Early Career Researcher) for her work.

Adelle Forth, PhD is a professor of forensic psychology in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University, where she also serves as the director of the Psychopathy Research Lab. She completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia, studying criminals with psychopathy, where she worked with Dr. Robert Hare to develop the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised. She is the senior author of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version and a co-author of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (all of these instruments are de-scribed in the textbook). She has also co-authored the textbook Forensic Psychology. Her cur-rent research centers on studying the early manifestations of psychopathy, investigating cognitive and affective underlying psychopathy, development of assessments to identify psychopathy, and most recently studying the impact of psychopathy. She is actively involved in training mental health professionals on the assessment of psychopathy and youth risk assessment in North America, Europe, and Asia..