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Restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: Current and future directions in the UK (2024)
Journal Article
Gavin, P., Kite, C., Porter, C., McCartan, K., & Cawley, P. (in press). Restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: Current and future directions in the UK. Contemporary Justice Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2024.2330375

Restorative justice seeks to repair the harm caused by crime by bringing together victims, offenders, and affected parties in a facilitated dialogue. Restorative justice is often viewed negatively in relation to cases of sexual violence, due to fears... Read More about Restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: Current and future directions in the UK.

Resettlement needs for foreign national prisoners returning to their home country (2023)
Journal Article
Gavin, P., & Porter, C. (2023). Resettlement needs for foreign national prisoners returning to their home country. Irish Probation Journal, 20, 200-223

While a wide range of literature exists on the topic of prisoner resettlement, little is known about the struggles faced by foreign national prisoners who return to their home country after serving a prison sentence aboard. This paper aims to address... Read More about Resettlement needs for foreign national prisoners returning to their home country.

Complications and consistency: Investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, C., Morrison, E., Harvey, A., & Taylor, R. (in press). Complications and consistency: Investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements. Psychology, Crime and Law, https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316x.2023.2229478

The Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique encourages truth tellers to adopt a forthcoming verbal strategy and liars a withholding strategy. We investigated the effectiveness of this technique using a follow-up statement. We predicted that... Read More about Complications and consistency: Investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements.

Applying the asymmetric information management (AIM) technique to virtual interviewing (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N., Taylor, R., Lee, R., Chioatto, E., Hill, M., & Harvey, A. C. (2023). Applying the asymmetric information management (AIM) technique to virtual interviewing. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(3), 470-479. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4049

The Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique enhances verbal lie-detection by encouraging truth tellers (but not liars) to be forthcoming with information. We examined the AIM technique's utility for correctly distinguishing genuine and fabr... Read More about Applying the asymmetric information management (AIM) technique to virtual interviewing.

Restorative justice in cases of sexual offending  (2022)
Journal Article
Gavin, P., Kite, C., McCartan, K., & Porter, C. (2022). Restorative justice in cases of sexual offending . Probation Quarterly, 26, 23-26. https://doi.org/10.54006/ukle4326

On August 2022 the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England ‘UWE’ Bristol held an in person one-day conference to consider the role that restorative justice can play in cases of sexual offending. The event was a part of... Read More about Restorative justice in cases of sexual offending .

Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N., Haggar, L., & Harvey, A. C. (2023). Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire. Current Psychology, 42(32), 28799-28811. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03841-1

Employment can reduce reoffending, yet many employers refrain from hiring candidates with prior convictions, particularly for sexual offences. This study explored employability ratings before and after a disclosure and barring service (DBS) check for... Read More about Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire.

Implementing converged security risk management: Drivers, barriers, and facilitators (2022)
Journal Article
Schneller, L., Porter, C. N., & Wakefield, A. (2023). Implementing converged security risk management: Drivers, barriers, and facilitators. Security Journal, 36, 333–349. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-022-00341-6

Converged security risk management is an approach that addresses interdependencies between security-related business functions that have traditionally been managed by separate departments within organizations. It is a more effective means of addressi... Read More about Implementing converged security risk management: Drivers, barriers, and facilitators.

Applying the asymmetric information management technique to insurance claims (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N., Taylor, R., & Harvey, A. C. (2022). Applying the asymmetric information management technique to insurance claims. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(3), 602-611. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3947

This study investigates the Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique's ability to detect fraudulent insurance claims submitted online. The AIM instructions inform claimants that, inter alia, more detailed statements are easier to accurately... Read More about Applying the asymmetric information management technique to insurance claims.

Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward (2021)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N. (2021). Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward. British Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 10(3), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjmh.2020.0041

Abstract Background/Aims Mental health nursing is becoming a more transparent discipline. Increasingly, documentaries have provided the general public with insights regarding these therapeutic ward environments. The opinions of staff working in suc... Read More about Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward.

A critical analysis of the Model Statement literature: Should this tool be used in practice? (2020)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N., Taylor, R., & Salvanelli, G. (2021). A critical analysis of the Model Statement literature: Should this tool be used in practice?. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 18(1), 35-55. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1563

Investigators need to elicit detailed statements from interviewees to find potential leads, whilst simultaneously judging if a statement is genuine or fabricated. Researchers have proposed that the Model Statement (MS) can both (a) increase informati... Read More about A critical analysis of the Model Statement literature: Should this tool be used in practice?.

Lie-detection by strategy manipulation: Developing an Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique (2020)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N., Morrison, E., Fitzgerald, R. J., Taylor, R., & Harvey, A. C. (2020). Lie-detection by strategy manipulation: Developing an Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9(2), 232-241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.01.004

Liars can, when prompted, provide detailed statements. Ideally, interview protocols to improve lie-detection should (a) encourage forthcoming verbal strategies from truth tellers and (b) encourage withholding verbal strategies from liars. Previous re... Read More about Lie-detection by strategy manipulation: Developing an Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique.

Eliciting information and cues to deception using a model statement: Examining the effect of presentation modality (2020)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N., & Salvanelli, G. (2020). Eliciting information and cues to deception using a model statement: Examining the effect of presentation modality. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 17(2), 101-117. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1541

Forensic interviewing involves gathering information from a suspect or eyewitness. Administering a model statement during an interview results in greater information elicitation, which can enhance lie detection. Typically, a model statement is a high... Read More about Eliciting information and cues to deception using a model statement: Examining the effect of presentation modality.

Using specific model statements to elicit information and cues to deceit in information-gathering interviews (2018)
Journal Article
Porter, C. N., Vrij, A., Leal, S., Vernham, Z., Salvanelli, G., & McIntyre, N. (2018). Using specific model statements to elicit information and cues to deceit in information-gathering interviews. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7(1), 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.10.003

Model Statements are designed to modify an interviewee's expectation of the amount of details required during an interview. This study examined tailored Model Statements, emphasising either spatial (Spatial-MS), or temporal (Temporal-MS) details, com... Read More about Using specific model statements to elicit information and cues to deceit in information-gathering interviews.