Jessica Woodhams
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- Professor of Forensic Psychology, Psychology
- The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour
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Jessica Woodhams is a chartered psychologist and an HPC registered forensic psychologist. Her primary areas of research are:
Investigative psychology: Assisting police decision-making, including case linkage (behavioural linking of crimes), offender prioritisation and investigative risk assessment, offender profiling and identifying false allegations
Sexual and serial offending: Sexual offending (particularly offences committed by strangers, juveniles and groups), modus operandi behaviour, victim coping strategies, serial offending (including robbery, burglary and sexual offences)
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