Previous Doctoral Students:
- Ph.D. Thesis, An investigation of factors that influence treatment responsivity in incarcerated high-risk rapists (completed September 2003).
- Ph.D. Thesis, Field test of a gender-specific security re-classification scale for female offenders (completed September 2005).
Marianna Shturman
- Ph.D. Thesis, The assessment of treatment fidelity in correctional programming (completed September, 2011).
- Ph.D. Thesis, Understanding parole recommendations: The contribution of parole officers (completed June 2012).
- Ph.D. Thesis, A Longitudinal Study of Dynamic Risk, Protective Factors, and Criminal Recidivism: Change over Time and the Impact of Assessment Timing (completed September 2013).
- Ph.D. Thesis, Protective Factors and Turning Point Events Among Re-Entering Offenders: Change Measurement and Change Mechanisms from the Risk and Strength Perspectives (completed April 2014).
Maaike Helmus
- Ph.D. Thesis, Developing and Validating a Risk Assessment Scale to Predict Inmate Placements in Administrative Segregation in the Correctional Service of Canada (completed April 2015).
- Ph.D. Thesis, Heterogeneity of Violent Offenders and the Implications for Correctional Treatment: A Descriptive Profile and Examination of Treatment-Related Outcomes and Executive Cognitive Functioning in Reactive and Instrumental Violent Offenders (completed September 2015).
- Ph.D. Thesis, Validating the Structured Dynamic Assessment Case-Management 21-Item (SDAC-21) in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders (completed September 2019).
- Ph.D. Thesis, The Validation of the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-entry for use with Offenders with Mental Disorder (completed April 2020).
- Ph.D. Thesis, Examining Trajectories of Change on Risk and Protective Factors among Men Offenders on Community Supervision (completed April 2020)
Previous Masters of Arts Students:
Nicole Allegri
- M.A. Thesis, Assessing batterer typology among federally incarcerated male offenders (completed September, 2004).
Terri-Lynne Scott
- M.A. Thesis, The utility of a structured decision-making model in correctional release decisions (completed April, 2006).
Mark Latendresse
- M.A. Thesis, Predicting sex offender program attrition: The role of denial, motivation and treatment readiness (completed May 2006).
Shauna Bottos
- M.A. Thesis, Personality and motives in the pathogenesis of substance use disorders in offenders (completed January 2007). (Senate Medal).
Renée Gobeil
- M.A. Thesis, An Exploration of the Role of Cognitive Style in National Parole Board Decision Making (completed August 2006).
Sylvie Lalonde
- M.A. Thesis, Treatment Readiness in Youth with Behavioural Problems: Assessing Characteristics for Use in Decision Making (completed February 2007).
Caleb Lloyd
- M.A. Thesis, Perceptions of the Self and Desistance: Investigating Positive Attributes Associated with Exiting Crime (completed September 2007).
Shannon Gottschall
- M.A. Thesis, Offender Desistance: An Examination of Creating Choices as it is Applied in Community Corrections (completed September 2008).
Laura Hanby
- M.A. Thesis, Using offender competencies to understand offender change (completed September 2009).
Leslie Helmus
- M.A. Thesis, Re-norming Static-99 recidivism estimates: Exploring base rate variability across sex offender samples (completed August 2009). (Senate Medal).
Angela Smeth
- M.A. Thesis, Evaluating Risk assessments among sex offenders: a comparative analysis of static and dynamic factors (completed August 2013).
Nick Chadwick
- M.A. Thesis, Evaluating Risk assessments among sex offenders: a comparative analysis of static and dynamic factors (completed August 2014).
Kaitlyn Wardrop
- M.A. Thesis, Development and Validation of a Parole Quality Assurance Inventory (PQAI) (completed August 2015).
Kate Pardoel
- M.A. Thesis, Measuring Parole Officer Competencies to Advance Core Correctional Practice (completed August 2015).
Sarah McQuaid
- M.A. Thesis, A Profile of Inmates Admitted to the Special Handling Unit in the Correctional Service of Canada (completed August 2015).
Laura Gamwell
- M.A. Thesis, Developing a Competency Model for Parole Board Members (completed August 2016).
Stephanie Biro
- M.A. Thesis, Self-directed workbooks: Evaluating their efficacy in a U.S. probation setting (completed April 2018).
Taylor Carty
- M.A. Thesis, Validating a Measure of Client Change (completed December 2019).