Shelley Brown
| Degrees: | Ph.D. |
Dr. Shelley Brown
Keywords: Gender, crime, rehabilitation, risk assessment, mental health
Research Interests
My program of research aims to improve rehabilitative services for justice impacted people with a special focus on girls and women in conflict with the law. I am particularly interested in the relationship between mental health challenges (such as trauma and complex PTSD) and criminal justice involvement. I often work in partnership with co-investigators from: the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), Toronto, Canada, Orbis Partners Inc., Ottawa, Canada, the Ministry of the Ontario Solicitor General, and the Department of Sociology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan.
Selected Publications
Brown, S. L., Coady, M. N., & Huppe, E. G. (2024). What works with women in custodial settings (pp. 231-246). In L. A. Craig, L. Dixon & T.A. Gannon (Eds), The Wiley Handbook of what works in correctional rehabilitation: An evidence-based approach to theory, assessment and treatment (2nd Ed.). Wiley
Belyea, L., Brown, S. L., & Van Dieten, M. (2024). Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Need Typologies and Recidivism Likelihood Among Women Who Perpetrate Violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241246008
Chambers, A., Brown, S. L., Peterson-Badali, M. (2023). Risk and strength factors that predict criminal conduct among under-represented genders and sexual minorities: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Campbell Systematic Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1312
Brown, S. L., & Gelsthorpe, L. (2022) (Eds.) The Wiley handbook on what works with girls and women in conflict with the law: A critical review of theory, practice, and policy. In Wiley-Blackwell Series: What Works in Offender Rehabilitation (Series Editors: Leam A. Craig, Louise Dixon, and J. Stephen Wormith). Wiley.
Brown, S. L., Wanamaker, K. A., Greiner, L., Scott, T., & Skilling, T. A. (2021). Complex trauma and criminogenic needs in a youth justice sample: A gender-informed latent profile analysis. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 48(2), 175-194.
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