Christina Patton Gliser

• Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Psychology
• Forensic Psychologist at Forensic Specialty Group

A significant minority of jurisdictions in the United States offer extreme emotional disturbance (EED) as a partial defense to murder. The form of this defense, as established by statute and case law, varies widely among jurisdictions. Empirical research on EED is scant with little guidance to forensic mental health professionals on how to approach...

In this article, we briefly discuss how competency to proceed evaluations are conducted within the state of Colorado, the impact that COVID-19 had on forensic evaluations within the Colorado forensic services system, and the acquisition and adoption of videoconferencing (VC) capabilities. We then shift to an in-depth consideration of how VC forensi...

Some scholars have posited that certain traits associated with psychopathy—namely, fearlessness, boldness, and willingness to take risks—are associated with greater engagement in heroic and altruistic acts; nevertheless, this conjecture has received little empirical attention. We examined the relations among psychopathic traits, heroism, altruism,...

Previous research has examined elements of police performance impacting community policing and police-citizen relationships, but no study has considered the impact of police use of profanity during arrest on public rating of force. Police profanity may negatively bias police-citizen interactions, and this bias could shape later interactions with co...

The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) is a United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database of violent deaths from 2003 to the present. The NVDRS collects information from 32 states on several types of violent deaths, including suicides, homicides, homicides followed by suicides, and deaths resulting from child...

Previous studies have implicated significant differences between military members and civilians with regard to violent behavior, including suicide, domestic violence, and harm to others, but none have examined military murder-suicide. This study sought to determine whether there were meaningful differences between military and civilian murder-suici...

Murder–suicide is the occurrence of suicide preceded by murder within a short period of time; typically 24 h to 1 week. It occurs rarely at an annual rate of approximately 0.1–0.3 per 100 000 individuals in the United States. In most murder–suicide events, the perpetrator is a male and the victim is female; the most common murder–suicide incidents...

Rape trauma syndrome (RTS) is a cluster of common reactions experienced by victims of forcible rape or attempted forcible rape. RTS is often divided into two phases: an acute phase characterized by intense symptoms experienced in the days or weeks immediately following a rape and a long-term reorganization phase of more moderate disturbances in gen...

Few criminological theories have been applied to the study of stalking perpetration, and even fewer address the presence of underlying psychological mechanisms. Attachment theory describes the ways in which an individual with a chaotic family environment in childhood may develop feelings of insecurity that may lead to increased aggression and viole...