All Outputs (15)

‘Constant pressures from all angles’: Understanding the mental health of UK police officers (2024)
Journal Article

Policing in the United Kingdom can be challenging. The organisational (i.e., within the police force) and operational (i.e., when working in the field) stressors that police officers encounter can negatively impact their mental health. To investigate... Read More about ‘Constant pressures from all angles’: Understanding the mental health of UK police officers.

Understanding the impact of organisational and operational stressors on the mental health of police officers in Ireland (2024)
Journal Article

The mental health of police officers is a critical yet under-researched area. They face unique operational and organisational stressors, including exposure to violence and trauma, as well as bullying, managerial conflict, and a lack of support in the... Read More about Understanding the impact of organisational and operational stressors on the mental health of police officers in Ireland.

Resettlement needs for foreign national prisoners returning to their home country (2023)
Journal Article

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.

Restorative justice in cases of sexual violence: Current and future directions in the UK (2023)
Journal Article

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.

Complications and consistency: Investigating the asymmetric information management ‘AIM’ technique with follow-up statements (2023)
Journal Article

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

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.

Sexual offending and barriers to employability: Public perceptions of who to hire (2022)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Book review - Overwhelming injustice and posttraumatic blame theory: Psychological wellbeing in frontline services (2021)
Journal Article

Social media reactions of nurses to the documentary Stacey Dooley: On the Psych Ward (2021)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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.