February 2025
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Publications (78)
February 2025
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September 2024
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September 2024
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Journal of Forensic Practice
Purpose Adolescents with harmful sexual behaviors (AHSB) who drop out of treatment are more likely to continue offending than are those who complete treatment; therefore, it is important to identify factors that heighten the risk of dropout, so they can be detected early. The purpose of this paper is to present the predictors of treatment dropout derived from a community sample of AHSB in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach Pretreatment data on 100 males (aged 12–16) in community-based treatment for harmful sexual behavior were analyzed. Data on 50 adolescents who dropped out were matched by age and ethnicity to 50 adolescents who completed treatment. Pretreatment variables were identified using the Estimate of Risk of Adolescent Sexual Offence Recidivism. The degree to which these variables influenced treatment dropout was tested using logistic regression. Findings Compared to those who completed treatment, adolescents who dropped out were more likely to have a prior history of personal victimization, to deny or minimize their behavior, to have been mandated to attend treatment and to have engaged in noncontact offences. Practical implications Screening for a prior history of personal victimization, denial or minimization, mandated treatment and noncontact offences may facilitate the prediction of dropout risk more confidently. Addressing these pretreatment risk variables has the potential to improve treatment completion rates. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper is the first to highlight treatment dropout predictors in a New Zealand community sample.
June 2024
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Journal of Criminology
Early childhood offending onset (before age 14 years) is associated with increased risk of lifecourse offending and poor life outcomes. The vast majority of children who offend in Aotearoa New Zealand (N.Z.) have had involvement with the child-welfare system prior to offending. Why does this engagement with statutory systems not prevent the trajectory into offending, nor its persistence into the youth-justice system (aged 14–18)? This study interviewed 33 key stakeholders (including family members, lawyers, police officers, social workers, psychologists, school and cultural leaders) on the systemic issues they had experienced with children who had offended and their families. Interviews were transcribed and analysed by the authors. Barriers to effectively responding to offending (and, more importantly, prevention of offending in the first place) included child-welfare engagement that was delayed and ineffective; deficit-focused engagement with families and children; under-resourced Family Court systems that delayed court proceedings and further hindered effective child-welfare intervention; and systemic shortfalls that continued once a child had offended, with widespread uncertainty as to how best to respond or access appropriate resources. Earlier and more effective intervention with children and families with child-welfare concerns is needed to prevent and reduce offending and victimisation of and by children.
April 2024
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice
Despite dropping crime rates and prison muster, pretrial population rates in New Zealand are growing faster than in other OECD nations, risking negative impacts on defendants and communities. Fourteen defendants and 18 stakeholders were interviewed about a bail support service's strengths and weaknesses. Officer‐training quality, communication between stakeholders and access to practical and cultural resources were crucial to success. Defendants reported that professional staff support and having access to services were the most helpful aspects. Changes were positive overall, but the programme's implementation, resources (especially lack of housing suitable for bail), and structure (within changing pretrial legislation) were of concern.
January 2024
October 2023
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Fire Safety Journal
July 2023
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Current Issues in Criminal Justice
July 2023
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The purpose of the present study was to report on a pilot study using a personality-based classification of a community-based sample of 298 adolescent males with harmful sexual behaviours (AHSB) using the Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI). Three personality-based profile types were identified using cluster analysis: Cluster 1. Detached, a detached and socially isolated type (n = 97); Cluster 2. Offending Supportive, an antisocial, offending-supportive type (n = 73); and Cluster 3. Typical Teen/Restricted, a type with few clinically elevated personality characteristics (n = 128). Further analyses indicated significant differences among the personality-based profiles on the MACI subscales that measured response styles, adolescents’ concerns and clinical problems. Few statistically significant relationships between the profile types and AHSB, offence and victim characteristics were found. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed, and the need for further research on the use of personality-based classification is recommended.
Citations (64)
... In NZ, while overall youth offending rates have significantly declined in recent years (Polglase & Lambie, 2024), Māori youth remain overrepresented. Polglase and Lambie (2024) conducted an analysis of trends in youth justice custody in NZ from 2017 to 2023. ...
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July 2023
Current Issues in Criminal Justice
... Engaging in fire-play (e.g., playing with matches or fireworks, putting paper on fire) is developmentally normal (Lambie et al., 2015), and childhood firesetting is predominantly driven by curiosity or fire interest with less intent of harm (Gaynor, 2002). However, firesetting in adolescence is suggested to be more deliberate and pathological (Lambie et al., 2023), and result from a desire to test boundaries, and from delayed maturation related to risk assessment and decision-making (Gaynor, 2002;Pooley & Ferguson, 2017), and maladaptive or antisocial motivations (Fineman, 1995). Of all deliberately lit fires, children and adolescents are responsible for around 30% to 60% (Dolan et al., 2011;Lambie et al., 2013), with almost one in three adolescents reporting having engaged in firesetting behavior (Del Bove et al., 2008;MacKay et al., 2009). ...
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October 2023
Fire Safety Journal
... M. Purcell et al. [16] tried to find out if personalitybased classifications are helpful in guiding therapeutic interventions for adolescents with harmful sexual behaviors. Although this study has been proven effective, it does not involve any Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based automation. ...
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July 2023
... It is important to note that whilst all drug use is associated with some level of risk, the propensity for harm varies according to the drug type and pattern of use [38,39], with many risks exacerbated by environmental and structural conditions, including societal responses to drugs and those who use them [40]. Many policy documents unduly and disproportionately problematise all drug use among TGD people [41]. ...
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June 2023
Journal of Psychopharmacology
... However, a participant's engagement with the process can be greatly improved when consideration is given to cultural factors. Grey et al. (2023) recently communicated this, stating treatment for Māori youth with harmful sexual behaviours must be holistic and comprehensive, with an emphasis on family. A body of research recommends that treatment programmes need to be culturally appropriate and informed from the perspective derived from the Māori world and beliefs (Ape-Esera & Lambie, 2019; Grey et al., 2023;Lim et al., 2012;Ministry of Justice, 2017). ...
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January 2023
Journal of Sexual Aggression
... In the context of property crime, poverty in various forms are the primary predictors. More poverty leading to more property crime is far from a new result here and has a long history as a known factor in criminal activity-see Farrington et al. (2001), Reil et al. (2022), and Sharkey et al. (2016) as a few examples with the latter being a review of the literature. Donations to the poor and literacy both matter for property crime. ...
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March 2022
Journal of Criminology
... Nonetheless, our study shows that Pacific peoples draw from complex interpersonal and interrelated support systems that are designed to maintain holistic health and well-being. We hope these findings contribute to the ongoing critique regarding the interpretation of resilience within an Indigenous context (Chen et al., 2021) and reinforce voices calling for government response across health and education to work with our communities to reflect the power of the collective worldview (Ioane et al., 2021). This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. ...
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April 2021
The New Zealand medical journal
... For example, countries with a high share of juveniles in the total number of registered persons under the age of 18 are the United States, in which juveniles participate with a share of 25%(Snyder, 1997, p. 2), and New Zealand, where they make up one-fifth of the total number of reported juveniles(Best et al., 2021).11 Thus, according to available data from the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control from 2010, the participation of women in the overall crime structure ranges from 4.3% in Albania to 25.4% in Germany, whereas in the USA, this share is 11.7% (Federal Bureau of Investigation, n.d.). ...
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April 2021
... Similarly, in a sample of 76 practitioners trained in PCIT although 80% of the sample reported no significant concerns with time-out, 38% adapted the intervention, most commonly by removing time-out or adding emotion-regulation components [33]. Practitioners also reported less confidence on the parent-directed interaction phase (69.4%) of treatment that includes time-out relative to the child-directed phase (90.7%) without time-out [33], although time-out specific concerns were rarely reported across studies [38][39][40]. Hence at present it appears there is general acceptance by practitioners for BPT programs and limited concerns about timeout in the literature. However, without empirical evidence directly investigating time-out specifically, we do not know how much this evidence-based strategy is used or accepted among intervention deliverers. ...
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December 2020
Children and Youth Services Review
... For example, in patients with teleiophilia, we found no relationship between general childhood trauma (CTQ mean score) and offense-supportive cognitions but a weak effect for the Sexual Abuse subscale. This could be explained with social learning theory (Bandura 1986): the sexual abuse experience affects the social learning of the abused child and, therefore, facilitates the development of CSA-related offense-supportive cognitions (Lambie and Reil 2021). All other types of childhood trauma (physical and emotional), however, do not affect CSA-related cognitions in patients with exclusive teleiophilia, as no social learning of sexually abusive behaviors takes place. ...
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October 2020
Journal of Sexual Aggression