Editorial Board Member - JFSC
Maria Ioannou
Senior LecturerUniversity of Huddersfield
United Kingdom
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr Maria Ioannou, a Chartered Forensic Psychologist, is a Senior Lecturer and the Course Director for the MSc Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield. She has been involved in the assessment of intervention programmes for reducing/preventing crime for a range of different forms of criminality and groups of offenders. Typically these evaluations have required assessments of change/impact/influence of the interventions on individuals and their criminal behaviour as well as assessments of the overall programme itself. She has also contributed to consultancy reports and been involved in consultancy work with a range of police forces and other agencies such as the Safer Merseyside Partnership, Merseyside Police, Liverpool City Council, Lancashire Constabulary, the Ministry of Defence as well as in a number of legal cases that involved among others preparation of background material and investigative advice on Forensic Psycholinguistics/ Questioned Authorship Attribution, interpretation of psychological measures on a case of offender profiling with personality and other psychometric assessment and analysis of the psychological features indicated within personal documents. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Maria Ioannou's research interests include Forensic Psychology, Investigative Psychology, Emotional experience of offending, Offender profiling, Criminal narratives, Relationship between personality and crime, Mental disorder and crime, Stalking behaviour, Sexual offences, Homicide and School shootings.
Other Editorial Board Members - JFSC
MENG-YANG ZHU
Department of Pharmacology
Quillen College of Medicine
East Tennessee State University
United States
DUARTE NUNO VIEIRA
Portuguese National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences
University of Coimbra
Portugal
Viorica Lopez-Avila
Agilent Technologies
United States
Yaping Luo
Department of Forensic Science
China People's Public Security University
China
Clifton L Smith
Electron Science Research Institute
Edith Cowan University
Australia
ADELIA C BOVELL-BENJAMIN
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tuskegee University
United States
JORGEN LANGE THOMSEN
Institute of Forensic Medicine
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
RONALD R. THRASHER
School of Forensic Sciences
Oklahoma State University
United States
Sarah Hall
Department of Life Sciences
Anglia Ruskin University
United Kingdom