Simon Duff
Director, Top-Up Doctorate in Forensic Psychology, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Research Summary
Aspects of stalking - collaboration with Dr. Adrian J. Scott, Sellenger Centre, School of Law and Justice, Edith Cowan University, Australia. Includes work concerned with victims of stalking (with… read more
Selected Publications
DUFF, S.C., 2010. Exploring criminogenic need through victim apology letters: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. 2(2), 33-43
DUFF, S.C., 2011. Exploring criminogenic need through victim apology letters II: An IPA analysis of post-treatment accounts of offending against children Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. (In Press.)
ELSEGOOD, K and & DUFF, S.C., 2010. Theory of Mind in men who have sexually offended against children: A UK comparison study between child sex offenders and non-offender controls Sexual Abuse: A journal of research and treatment. 22(1), 112-131
PRICE, M., NORMAN, E. and DUFF, S., 2010. Fringe consciousness: A useful framework for clarifying the nature of experience-based feelings. In: A. EFKLIDES and P. MISAILIDI, eds., Trends and Prospects in Metacognition Research Springer. 63-80
Current Research
Aspects of stalking - collaboration with Dr. Adrian J. Scott, Sellenger Centre, School of Law and Justice, Edith Cowan University, Australia. Includes work concerned with victims of stalking (with Katherine Sumner (University of Liverpool) and Dr. Sue Ryan (CRACMS)), mock juries (with Elizabeth Bisbee and Jess Birchall), and visual information (Dr. Mark Coulson, University of Middlesex).
Conceptualisations of rape
Grooming (with Emma Evans (University of Liverpool) and Dr. Lisa Wright (Mersey Forensic Psychology Service))
Theory of Mind in men who have offended against children (with Dr. Amaia Robles-Fernandez and Dr. Kelly Elsegood)
Past Research
Attributions in male sexual offenders
Child vs Adult Theory of Mind differences in male sexual offenders
Aspects of therapeutic need in male sexual offenders
Personality Disorder and Aggression
An ICS conceptualisation of Personality Disorder
Self-harming; 1) attitudes of staff working with women in a medium secure unit
2) attitudes of staff working with men in a high secure hospital
3) attitudes of men in a high secure hospital
Religion and sexual offending
Fringe consciousness (with Dr. Elisabeth Norman and Dr. Mark Price, University of Bergen, Norway)
Future Research
Further analysis of Non-Offending Partners' letters to their offending partner (first letters analysed in collaboration with Dr. Hilaray Cahalane and Dr. Gemma Parker (Edenfield Clinic)).