This event is offered by the School of Human and Health Sciences, Centre for Applied Childhood Youth and Family Research to promote communication and knowledge sharing between academics and social work and social care professionals.
Seminar Outline
Despite being one of the most (if not the most) serious of crimes, research on the patterns, causes and risks of child homicide is still relatively scarce. Research exploring patterns of risk of child homicide in the UK will be presented, with a particular focus on the age of child victim and their relationship to their killer, and explanations for why it occurs in such predictable patterns will be suggested. The presentation will end with a discussion of how the findings can be used by professionals to help prevent and detect child homicide in the UK.
Roach, J., & Bryant, R. (2015). Child homicide: generating victim and suspect risk profiles. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 5(3), 201-215. https://bit.ly/2G6DqDz
Speaker
Dr. Jason Roach – Reader in Crime and Policing and Director of the Applied Criminology and Policing Centre
Dr Jason Roach is a Chartered Psychologist, and to date, he has co-published four books, written ten book chapters in edited works, and published more than twenty-five academic papers in the field of violent crime, policing and the criminal investigation of homicide. Jason continues to carry-out research with, and provide consultancy to, numerous UK police services.
Queensgate
Huddersfield
HD1 3DH
