At the crossroads
Speakers day 1.
Luk Gijs
Luk Gijs, Ph.D., psychologist-sexologist is an associate professor affiliated with the Interfaculty Institute of Familial and Sexological Studies, Department of Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven (Belgium).
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Anthony Beech
Professor Anthony Beech is Head of Centre for Forensic and Criminological Psychology at the University of Birmingham and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His particular speciality is around the assessment and treatment of sex offenders. In 2009 he received the prestigious Significant Achievement Award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers in Dallas, Texas for recognition of his work in this area. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles, 50 book chapters and six books mainly in the area of sexual offending. His particular areas of research interests are: risk assessment; the neurobiological bases of offending; reducing online exploitation of children; and increasing psychotherapeutic effectiveness of the treatment given to offenders. His recent research has examined: Internet offending; new approaches to treatment of offenders; and the neurobiological basis of offending.
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Rainer Banse
Rainer Banse studied psychology at the University of Giessen (Germany) and received a Diploma (MSc) in 1988. He then worked as a research assistant in Giessen and at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) where he worked mainly in the field of emotion psychology and obtained a PhD in 2005. He then worked at the Humboldt-University Berlin (Germany) in personality psychology group until 2003. From 2003 to 2007 he was Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Since 2007 he holds a chair for Social and Legal Psychology at the University of Bonn (Germany). His main research interests are indirect measurement methods in forensic, personality, and social psychology. Other research topics are the psychology of relationships, social cognition, and sexuality, and here especially the prevalence and etiology of pedophilic sexual interest.
L. Maaike Helmus
L. Maaike Helmus is a researcher with the Forensic Assessment Group in Ottawa, Canada. Her research interests focus on the assessment and treatment of sexual offenders. She has been part of the development team for several structured risk assessment tools, including the STABLE-2007/ACUTE-2007, Static-99R, Static-2002R, and BARR-2002R. She has also developed a risk scale for predicting administrative segregation placements (the RAST). She is a certified trainer for Static-99R and Static-2002R, and has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics. She has received numerous grants and academic awards including the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) Pre-doctoral Research Grant and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier scholarship. She has also served on the Executive Boards of both the Criminal Justice Section of the Canadian Psychological Association (2006-2011) and ATSA (2012-2013).
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Wineke Smid
Wineke Smid (PhD) is a senior researcher at Forensic Care Specialists in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Her work focuses on the topic of sex offenders and sexual offending behaviour. She divides her time between conducting and supervising empirical research projects, carrying out individual (risk) assessments of (tbs) patients and providing feedback of state of the art knowledge to various stakeholders in Dutch society. Wineke Smid conducted a national study on Sex Offender Risk Assessment in the Netherlands and is currently involved in a number of research projects focussing on the assessment and treatment of specific dynamic risk factors for sex offenders (sexual deviance, sexual preoccupation, hostility towards women). She provides presentations and (risk assessment) training to police officers, prosecutors, judges, treatment providers and probation officers. She is the current president of NL-ATSA.
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