Previous Doctoral Students:

Ida Dickie

  • Ph.D. Thesis, An investigation of factors that influence treatment responsivity in incarcerated high-risk rapists (completed September 2003).

Kelley Blanchette

  • 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).

Renée Gobeil

  • Ph.D. Thesis, Understanding parole recommendations: The contribution of parole officers (completed June 2012).

Laura Hanby

  • 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).

Caleb Lloyd

  • 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).

Dena Derkzen

  • 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).

Angela Smeth

  • Ph.D. Thesis, Validating the Structured Dynamic Assessment Case-Management 21-Item (SDAC-21) in a Sample of Incarcerated Offenders (completed September 2019).

Kaitlyn Wardrop

  • Ph.D. Thesis, The Validation of the Dynamic Risk Assessment for Offender Re-entry for use with Offenders with Mental Disorder (completed April 2020).

Nick Chadwick

  • 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).