Professor Devon L L Polaschek

Director, Te Puna Haumaru New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science; Professor, Psychology

Qualifications: DipClinPsych Canterbury, PhD Victoria

Personal Website: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/staff-profiles/people/polascde

About Devon

Devon Polaschek is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology. Her interests are in causes and prevention strategies for criminal behaviour, and in improving staff effectiveness in the criminal justice system. She is also the Director of the Te Puna Haumaru New Zealand Institute of Security and Crime Science (NZISCS).

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Research Supervised

My research students are conducting projects on family harm, stalking, hate crime, prison violence,  and  with: people at high risk of violence and what helps them to live better lives and be less involved in violence and crime.

Research Interests

Theory, assessment, intervention, intervention evaluation with for people with extensive general and violent offending histories, and with family harm perpetrators, from both person and environmental perspectives. I am also a member of a team looking at understanding and intervention to reduce prison violence (Ngā Tumanakotanga). I am currently interested in supervising PhDs in the areas of prison violence, violent offending, imprisonment effects, parole, desistance, offender rehabilitation, offender reintegration, treatment change, and  works with offenders.

Keywords

Crime; Psychology; Violence

criminal behaviour violent offending imprisonment parole rehabilitation crime perpetrators, desistance, reintegration family violence p what works with offending prison violence

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