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PROF. ANTHONY ROBERT BEECH

VISITING PROFESSOR OF FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

+357 24694000

Qualifications

D.Phil. (University of Oxford, UK, 1988)

B.Sc. (Hons.) (University of East London, UK, 1984)

FBPsS Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS)

C.Psychol Chartered Psychologist (Forensic), British Psychological Society

Forensic Psychologist Health and Care Professions Council

 

Specialization

Criminological Psychology

 

Employment Track

Academic Appointments

Visiting Professor, UCLan Cyprus (2021-Present)

Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham (2017- Present)

Honorary Professor University of Kent (2017- Present)

Head of the Centre for Applied Psychology, University of Birmingham (2015 – 2017)

Head of the Centre for Forensic & Criminological Psychology, University of Birmingham (2008 – 2015)

Deputy Head of School of Psychology (2011 – 2012)

Professor of Criminological Psychology, University of Birmingham (2005 – 2017)

Reader in Criminological Psychology, University of Birmingham (2003 – 2005)

Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham (1998 – 2003)

Research Fellow, STEP (Sex Offender Treatment Evaluation Project). Funded by the UK Home Office (1991 – 2000)

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham (1997 – 1998)

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham (1994 – 1997)

Research Consultant, West Berkshire Health Authority (1990 – 1992)

 

Memberships (Academic/Professional)

  • BPS membership
  • HCPC membership
  • Member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) Research Committee, Beaverton, Oregon, USA (2009 – Present)
  • Member of the Collaborative Outcome Data Committee of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Oregon, USA (2003 – Present)
  • Affiliate Member Forensic Psychology Research Centre, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, (July 2013 – Present)
  • Board member of Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Beaverton, Oregon, USA (2013 – 2015)
  • Member of the European Union initiative examining treatment in the EC (representing the U.K.) (2001 – 2002)

 

Research Interests

His particular areas of research interests are risk assessment; the neurobiological bases of offending; reducing online exploitation of children; and increasing psychotherapeutic effectiveness of the treatment given to offenders. His recent research has examined internet offending; new approaches to treatment of offenders; and the neurobiological basis of offending.

 

Roles and Responsibilities (including past roles and responsibilities)

Teaching and Course Leadership 

UCLan Cyprus: Involved in the Risk Assessments module and Violent and Sexual Offenders Interventions module

University of Birmingham: Head of the forensic courses in the School of Psychology.  He has an input into undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and headed up the suite of post-graduate courses leading to forensic chartership. He also created the first clinical/forensic doctorate in the UK.

 

 Selective Publications 

Journal Publications (last 10 years)

 

  • Gillespie, S. M., Rotshtein, P., Beech, A.R., & Mitchell, I.J. (in press). Processing of emotional faces in sexual offenders with and without child victims: an eye-tracking study with pupillometry . Biological Psychology.
  • Hamilton-Giachritsis C., Hanson, E.; Whittle, H.; Alves-Costa, F.; Beech, A.R. (in press). Dispelling the myths of online child sexual abuse:  Outcomes and additional complexities for young people. Child Abuse and Neglect.
  • Stevanska, E., Carter, A.C., & Beech, A.R. (2021). “We boil at different degrees” Factors associated with severity of attack in sexual killing. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 36, 2409-2429.
  • Hamilton-Giachritsis C., Hanson, E.; Whittle, H.; Alves-Costa, F.; Beech, A.R. (2020). Technology assisted child sexual abuse in the UK: Young people’s views on the impact of online sexual abuse. Children and Youth Services Review, 119.
  • Hamilton-Giachritsis C., Hanson, E.; Whittle, H.; Alves-Costa, F.; Beech, A.R. (2020). Technology assisted child sexual abuse: Professionals’ perceptions of risk and impact on children and young people. Child Abuse and Neglect. DOI:1016/j.chiabu.2020.104651
  • Gray, E., Beech, A. R., & Rose, J. (2019). Using biofeedback to improve emotion regulation in sexual offenders with intellectual disability: A feasibility study. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities. 65, 195–204.
  • Kloess, J.A., Larkin, M., Anthony R. Beech, A.R., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (2019). Case studies of men’s perceptions of their online sexual interactions with young people: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Sexual Abuse, 31, 867-885.
  • Elliott, I.A., Mandeville-Norden, R., Rakestrow-Dickens, J., & Beech, A.R. (2019). Reoffending. Rates in a U.K. community sample of individuals with convictions for indecent images of children.
 Law and Human Behavior, 43, 369 382.
  • Gillespie, S. M., Rotshtein, P. Chapman, H., Brown. E., Beech, A.R., & Mitchell, I.J. (2019). Pupil reactivity to emotional faces among convicted violent offenders: The role of psychopathic traits. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128, 622- 632.
  • Bartels, R., Harrison, S., Beard, N., Harkins, L., & Beech, A. R. (2018). Sexual fantasies become less vivid, positive, and arousing after making bilateral eye-movements. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 59, 107-114.
  • Campbell, L., & Beech, A.R. (2018) Do scores on the HCR-20 and FAM predict frequency of self-harm in females within a secure psychiatric hospital? Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 29, 914-933.
  • Campbell, L., & Beech, A.R. (2018), Is there a link between psychopathy and self-harm? A review of the literature. International Journal of Risk and Recovery, DOI: 10.15173/ijrr.v1i2.3475
  • Kloess, J., Beech, A., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (2018). Case studies of offenders’ lived experiences of their online sexual interactions with young people: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 36, 539.
  • Mitchell, I, J., & Beech, A.R. (2018). Neurobiology for forensic psychologists. Psychology, Crime, and Law, 24, 210-227.
  • Stevanska, E., Carter, A.C. & Beech, A.R. (2017). When is a murder a sexual murder? Understanding the sexual element in the classification of sexual killings. Journal of Criminal Justice, 50, 53-61.
  • Bartels, R.M., Beech, A.R., & Harkins, L. (2017). The influence of fantasy proneness, dissociation, and vividness of mental imagery on male’s aggressive sexual fantasies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-24.
  • Bartels, R.M., Anthony R. Beech, Leigh Harkins, David Thornton (2017). Assessing Sexual Interest in Children Using the Go/No-Go Association Test. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment.
  • Johnson, L. G., & Beech, A.R. (2017). Rape myth acceptance in convicted rapists: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 34, 20-34.
  • Kewley, S., Harkins, L. & Beech, A.R. (2017). Restoring identity: The use of religion as a mechanism to transition between an identity of sexual offending to a non-offending identity. Criminology and Criminal Justice. 17.
  • Kloess, J., Beech, A., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (2017). A descriptive account of victims’ behaviour and responses in sexually exploitative interactions with offenders. Psychology, Crime and Law, 23, 621-632
  • Kloess, J., Beech, A., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (2017). Offense Processes of Online Sexual Grooming and Abuse of Children Via Internet Communication Platforms. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 23, 72 -91.
  • Kloess, J., Beech, A., & Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. (2017). A qualitative analysis of offenders’ modus operandi in sexually exploitative interactions with children online. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 29: 563-591.
  • Beech, A.R., Miner, M., & Thornton, D. (April, 2016). Paraphilias in DSM-5 Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 12, 13.1-13.24. doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-021815-093330
  • Beech, A.R., Wakeling, H.C., Szumski, F, & Freemantle, N. (2016).  Problems in the measurement of dynamic risk factors in sexual offenders. Psychology, Crime and Law, 22, 68-83.
  • Catena, A., Redondo, S., Frerich, N., & Beech, A. R. (2016). A dynamic risk factors–based typology of sexual offenders. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, DOI: 10.1177/0306624X16629399
  • Gillespie, S. M., Bailey, A., Squire, T., Carey, M. L., Eldridge, H. J., & Beech, A. R. (2016). An evaluation of a community based psycho-educational program for users of child sexual exploitation material. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 03/2016; DOI: 10.1177/1079063216639591
  • Healey, J., Beauregard, E., Beech, A.R., & Vettor, S. (2016). Is the sexual murderer a unique type of offender? A typology of violent sexual offenders using crime scene behaviors. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. 28(6), 512-533.
  • Kerr, K., & Beech, A. R. (2016). Thematic analysis of the motivation behind sexual homicide from the perspective of the killer. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260515585529
  • Kewley, S., Beech. A.R., & Harkins, L. (2016). Examining the role of faith community groups with sexual offenders: A systematic review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 142-149.
  • Stevanska, E., Carter, A.C. & Beech, A.R. (2016). A systematic review of the literature comparing male non-serial sexual killers and sexual aggressors: Examining homogeneous and heterogeneous characteristics of these groups. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 22, 323-341.
  • Beech, A. R., Freemantle, N., Power, C., & Fisher, D. (2015). An examination of potential biases in research designs used to assess the efficacy of sex offender treatment. The Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Studies, 7, 204-222.
  • Gillespie, S., Mitchell, I.J., Satherley, R-M., Beech, A. R., & Rotshtein, P. (2015). Relations of distinct psychopathic personality traits with anxiety and fear: Findings from offenders and non-offenders. PlosOne, November 2015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143120.
  • Gillespie, S.M., Rotshtein, P., Satherley R-M., Beech A.R, & Mitchell I.J. (2015). Emotional expression recognition and attribution bias among sexual and violent offenders: A signal detection analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 595. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00595
  • Gillespie, S.M., Rotshtein, P., Wells, L.J., Beech A.R, & Mitchell I.J. (2015). Psychopathic traits are associated with reduced attention to the eyes of emotional faces among adult male non-offenders. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 1-11.
  • Gillespie, S., Williams, R., & Beech, A. R. (2015). Characteristics of females who sexually offend: A comparison of solo and co-offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 27, 284-301. DOI: 10.1177/1079063214556358
  • Kewley, S., Beech. A.R., Harkins, L. & Bonsall, H. (2015). Effective risk management planning for those convicted of sexual offending. The Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Studies, 7, 237-257.Jones, E., Harkins, L., & Beech, A.R. (2015). The development of a new risk model: The Threat Matrix. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 20, 165-175. DOI: 10.1111/lcrp.12019
  • Stevanska, E., Higgs, T., Carter, A. C., Bishopp, D., & Beech, A. R. (2015). Offense pathways of non-serial sexual killers. Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 99-107.
  • Ward, T., & Beech, A. R. (2015). Dynamic risk factors: a theoretical dead-end? Psychology, Crime, and Law, 21, 100-113.
  • Whittle, H., Hamilton-Giachristsis, C., & Beech, A.R. (2015). A Comparison of victim and offender perspectives of grooming and sexual abuse. Deviant Behavior, 36, 539-564. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2014.944074
  • Beech, A.R., & Gillespie, S. (2014). The understanding and treatment of sexual offenders in the 21st century: A neurobiological perspective. Die Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 97, 78-84.
  • Kloess, Harkins, & Beech (2014). Online child sexual exploitation: Prevalence, process, offender characteristics. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 15, 126-139. Doi 0.1177/1524838013511543
  • Price, S., Beech, A.R., Mitchell, I.J., & Humphreys, G. (2014). Measuring deviant sexual interest in adolescents using the emotional Stroop task. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 26, 450-471.
  • Whittle, H., Hamilton-Giachristsis, C., & Beech, A.R. (2014). In Their Own Words: Young People’s Vulnerabilities to Being Groomed and Sexually Abused Online. Psychology, 5, 1185-1196.
  • Whittle, H., Hamilton-Giachristsis, C., & Beech, A.R. (2014). Under his spell”: Victims’ perspectives of being groomed online. Open Access: Social Sciences:Special Isuue: Contemporary Developments in Child Protection, 3, 404-426. (ISSN 2076-0760). www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci
  • Beardsley, N., & Beech, A.R. (2013). Applying the Violent Extremist Risk Assessment (VERA) to a sample of terrorist case studies. The Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Studies, 5, 4-15.
  • Beech, A.R., Bartels, R., & Dixon, L. (2013). Assessment and treatment of distorted schemas in sexual offenders. Trauma Violence and Abuse, 14, 54-66.
  • Beech, A.R., & Chauhan, J. (2013). Evaluating the effectiveness of the Supporting Offenders through Restoration Inside (SORI) programme delivered in seven prisons in England and Wales. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 18, 229-239. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.2012.02053
  • Elliott, I.A., & Beech, A.R. (2013). A cost-benefit analysis for Circles of Support and Accountability. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 25, 211-229.
  • Elliott, I.A., & Beech, A.R. & Mandeville-Norden, R. (2013). The psychological profiles of internet-only, contact-only and mixed internet/contact sex offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 25, 3-20.
  • Gillespie, S., Mitchell, I.J., Beech, A.R., Dawson, & Johnson, A. (2013). Exaggerated intergroup bias in economical decision making games: Differential effects of primary and secondary psychopathic traits. PloS ONE, 8, e69565.
  • Harkins, L., Beech, A.R., & Thornton, D. (2013). The influence of risk and psychopathy on the therapeutic climate in sex offender treatment. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 25, 103-122.
  • Kerr, K.J., Anthony R. Beech, A.R., & Murphy, D. (2013). Sexual homicide: definition, motivation and comparison with other forms of sexual offending. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 18, 1-10.
  • Mitchell, I.J. Smid, W., Troilstra, J., Wever, E., Zeigler, T., & Beech (2013). Psychopathic characteristics are related to high basal urinary oxytocin levels in male forensic patients. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology. 24, 309-318   DOI: 10.1080/14789949.2013.773455
  • Price, S., Beech, A.R., Mitchell, I.J., & Humphreys, G. (2013). Measuring deviant sexual interest using the emotional Stroop task. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 40, 970-987.
  • Wakeling, H., Beech, A.R. & Freemantle, N. (2013). Investigating treatment change and its relationship to recidivism in a sample of 3773 sex offenders in the UK. Psychology, Crime and Law, 19, 233-252. DOI:10.1080/1068316X.2011.626413
  • Whittle, H., Hamilton-Giachristsis, C., & Beech, A.R. (2013). Victim’s voices: The impact of online grooming and abuse. Universal Journal of Psychology, 1, 59-71.
  • Whittle, H., Hamilton-Giachritsis, C., Beech, A.R., & Collings, G. (2013). A review of online grooming: Characteristics and concerns Aggression and Violent Behavior, 18, 62-70.
  • Whittle, H., Hamilton-Giachritsis, C., Beech, A.R., & Collings, G. (2013). A review of young people’s vulnerabilities to online grooming. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 18, 135-146.
  • Williams, R., Elliott, I.A., & Beech, A.R. (2013). Identifying sexual grooming themes used by internet sex offenders. Deviant Behavior, 34, 135-152. DOI:10.1080/01639625.2012.707550
  • Beech, A.R., & Craig, L.A. (2012). The current status of static and dynamic factors in sexual offender risk assessment. The Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Studies, 4, 169-185.
  • Beech, A.R., & Harkins, L. (2012). DSM-IV paraphilia: Descriptions, demographics and treatment interventions. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 17, 527-539.
  • Beech, A.R., Mandeville-Norden, R., & Goodwill, A.M. (2012). Comparing recidivism rates of treatment responders/non-responders in a sample of 413 child molesters who had completed community-based sex offender treatment in the UK. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 56, 29-49.
  • Brown S., Harkins, K., & Beech, A.R. (2012). Victim specific and general empathy: Associations with actuarial risk, treatment outcome and sexual recidivism. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 24, 411-430. doi: 10.1177/1079063211423944
  • Farmer, M., Beech, A.R., & Ward, T (2012). Assessing desistance in child molesters: A qualitative analysis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27, 930-950.
  • Gillespie, S., Mitchell, I.J., Fisher, D., & Beech, A.R. (2012). Treating disturbed emotional regulation in sexual offenders: The potential applications of mindful self-regulation and controlled breathing techniques. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 17, 333-343.
  • Harkins, L., Flak, V., Beech, A.R., & Woodhams, J. (2012). Evaluation of a community-based sex offender treatment program using a Good Lives Model approach. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 24, 519-543.
  • Mitchell, I.J., Keylock, H., Campbell, N., Beech, A.R., & Kogan, D. (2012). Do child molesters show abnormal disgust and fear of contamination reactions? Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 19, 282-294. DOI:10.1080/13218719.2011.561768
  • Akerman, G., & Beech, A.R. (2011). A review of measures of deviant sexual interest and arousal. Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 18, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2010.547161
  • Blacker, J., Beech. A.R., Wilcox, D.T., & Boer, D.P. (2011). The assessment of dynamic risk and recidivism in a sample of special needs sexual offenders. Psychology, Crime and Law, 17, 75-92.
  • Harkins, L., Pritchard, C., Haskayne, D., Watson, A., & Beech, A.R. (2011). Evaluation of Geese Theatre’s Reconnect Program: Addressing resettlement issues in prison. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 55, 546-566.
  • Lindsay, W.R., Hastings, R.P., & Beech, A.R. (2011). Forensic research in offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities, 1: Prevalence and risk assessment. Psychology, Crime and Law, 17, 3-8.
  • Lindsay, W.L., Hastings, R., & Beech, A.R. (2011). Forensic research in offenders with intellectual and developmental disabilities 2: Assessment and treatment. Psychology, Crime and Law, 17, 95-98.
  • Mitchell, I.J., & Beech, A.R (2011). Towards  anattachment  related  neurobiological  model  of offending. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, 872-882.
  • Price, S., Beech, A.R., Mitchell, I.J., & Humphreys, G.W. (2011). The promises and perils of the emotional Stroop task with offender samples: A review. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 17, 1-16.
  • Sullivan, J., Beech. A.R., Craig, L.E., & Gannon, T.A. (2011). Comparing intra-familial and extra-familial child sexual abusers with professionals who have sexually abused children with whom they work. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 55, 56-74. doi: 10.1177/0306624X09359194
  • Wakeling, H., Freemantle, N., Beech, A.R., & Elliott, I. A. (2011). Identifying predictors of recidivism in a large sample of UK sexual offenders: A prognostic model. Psychological Services, 8, 307-318.

 

Authored Books:

 

  • Davies, G., Beech, A.R. & Colloff, M. (in preparation). Forensic psychology, Fourth edition (BPS Textbooks in Psychology). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Beech, A.R., Carter, A., Mann R.E., & Rotshtein, P. (2018). Handbook of forensic neuroscience Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Davies, G., & Beech, A.R. (2017). Forensic psychology, third edition (BPS Textbooks in Psychology). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Beech, A. R., & Ward, T. (2017). The Wiley Blackwell Handbook on assessment, treatment and theories of sexual offending, Volume 1. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-118-57266-5
  • Browne, K.D. Beech, A.R., Craig, L.E., & Chou, S. (2017). Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Davies, G., & Beech, A.R. (2012). Forensic psychology, second edition (BPS Textbooks in Psychology). Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9781119991953
  • Doolin, K., Child, J., Raine, J., & Beech, A.R. (2011). Who’s criminal justice? Regulatory state or empowered communities? Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hook: Waterside Press. ISBN 9781904380627.
  • Beech, A.R., Craig, L.A., & Browne, K.D. (2009). Assessment and treatment of sex offenders: A handbook. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 978-0470019009.
  • Craig, L., Browne, K.D., & Beech, A.R. (2008). Assessing risk in sex offenders: A practitioner’s guide. Chichester: Wiley.  ISBN: 978-0-470-01897-2.
  • Gannon, T., Ward, T., Beech, A.R., & Fisher, D. (2007). Aggressive offenders cognition: Theory, research and practice. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN-13: 978-0470034019.
  • Ward, T., Bickley, J., Webster, S., Fisher, D., Beech, A. & Eldridge, H. (2007). Het zelfregulatiemodel in delictroutes. Deel 1: Diagnostiek. Victoria, BC, Canada: Pacific Psychological Associate Corporation. ISBN 978-90-809757-5-1.
  • Ward, T., Polaschek, D. & Beech, A.R. (2006). Theories of sexual offending. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 13-978-0-471-49167-5.
  • Ward, T., Bickley, J., Webster, S., Fisher, D., Beech, A. & Eldridge, H. (2004). The self-regulation model of the offense and relapse process. Victoria, BC, Canada: Pacific Psychological Associate Corporation.

 

Book Chapters

 

  • Bartels, R., Beech, A.R., & Harkins (2021). Understanding sexual thoughts and fantasizing. In Craig, L & Bartels, R., Sexual deviance: Understanding and managing sexual interests and paraphilic disorders. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Beech, A.R., & Fisher, D. (2018). Neuroscience in forensic settings: Origins and recent developments. In Beech, A.R., Carter, A., Mann R.E., & Rotshtein, P. Handbook of forensic neuroscience Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Beech, A.R., Nordstrom, B., & Raine A. (2018). Developmental risk factors. In Beech, A.R., Carter, A., Mann R.E., & Rotshtein, P. Handbook of forensic neuroscience Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Beech, A.R., Nordstrom, B., & Raine A. (2018). Understanding risk factors for offending. In Davies, G., & Beech, A.R. Forensic psychology, third edition (BPS Textbooks in Psychology). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Bartels, R. M., Beech, A. R., & Harkins, L. (2017). Rape. In B. K. Puri & I. Treasaden (eds.), Forensic Psychiatry. London: Hodder Arnold.
  • Cortoni, F., Beech, A.R., & Craig, L.A. (2017). Sexual offenders. In Browne, K.D. Beech, A.R., Craig, L.E., & Chou, S. (2017). Assessments in Forensic Practice: A Handbook. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Beech, A.R., & Harkins, L. (2014). Voyeurism. In H. Copes & C.J.Forsyth (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social deviance. New York: Sage.
  • Craig, L.A., Beech, A.R., & Cortoni, F. (2013). What works in assessing risk in sexual and violent offenders.  In L.A. Craig, L. Dixon & T.A. Gannon (Eds.). What works in offender rehabilitation:  an evidence based approach to assessment and treatment. Chichester: Wiley.
  • Beech, A.R., & Elliott, I.A. (2012). Understanding the online sexual exploitation of children: how useful are current theories in understanding the problem?In K. Ribisl, & E. Quayle, Internet child pornography: Understanding and preventing on-line child abuse .  Cullompton, Devon: Willan.
  • Beech, A.R. Norstrom, B., & Raine A. (2012). Contributions of forensic neuroscience. In G. Davies & A.R. Beech (Eds.), Forensic psychology, second edition (BPS Textbooks in Psychology) (pp. 55-76). Chichester: Wiley.
  • Davies, G., Hollin, C., & Beech, A.R. (2012). Introduction. In G. Davies, & A.R. Beech, Forensic psychology, second edition (BPS Textbooks in Psychology). Chichester: Wiley.
  • Harkins, L., & Beech, A.R. (2012). Paraphilias and sexual offending.  In P. Sturmey and M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of evidence-based practice in clinical psychology, volume 2, adults (pp. 646-678). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley USA. DOI: 10.1002/9781118156391
  • Elliott, I.A., Eldridge, H.J., Beech, A.R., & Ashfield, S. (2012). Assessing female sex offenders’ motivations and cognitions. In B.K. Schwartz (Ed.) The sex offender: Current trends in policy and treatment practice, Volume 7(15-1 – 15-17). Kingston, NJ: Civic Research Institute.
  • Beech, A. Child, J., Doolin, K., & Raine, J. (2011). The way forward for criminal justice. In K. Doolin, J. Child, J.  Raine, A. (in press). Who’s criminal justice? Regulatory state or empowered communities?(pp. 239-250). Sherfield-on-Loddon,Hampshire: Waterside Press.
  • Blandford, M., & Beech, A. (2011). Policing sexual offenders in the community: Is it time to move from the invisible to the visible?In K. Doolin, J. Child, J.  Raine, A. (in press). Who’s criminal justice? Regulatory state or empowered communities?(pp. 201- 218). Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire: Waterside Press.
  • Beech, A.R. (2010). Sex offenders. In J. Brown & E. Campbell (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Cortoni, F., Craig, L., & Beech, A.R. (2010). Risk assessment of sexual offenders. Transnational criminology, volume3 (pp. 503-527). Nijmegen, Netherlands: Wolf Legal Publishers.
  • Beech, A.R., Craig, L.A., & Browne, K.D. (2009). Introduction. In, A.R. Beech, L.A., Craig, & K.D. Browne, Assessment and treatment of sex offenders: A handbook (pp. 1-12). Chichester: Wiley.
  • Beech, A.R. & Mitchell, I.M. (2009). Attachment difficulties. In M. McMurran & R. Howard (Eds.), Personality, personality disorder and risk of violence (pp. 213-228). Chichester, Wiley.
  • Craig, L.A. & Beech, A.R. (2009). Psychometric assessment of sexual deviance. In, A.R. Beech, L.A., Craig, & K.D. Browne, Assessment and treatment of sex offenders: A handbook (pp. 89-107). Chichester: Wiley.
  • Craig, L.A., Beech, A.R., & Harkins, L. (2009). Predictive accuracy of risk factors and frameworks. In, A.R. Beech, L.A., Craig, & K.D. Browne, Assessment and treatment of sex offenders: A handbook (pp. 53-73). Chichester: Wiley.
  • Flak, V., Beech, A.R. & Humphreys, G.W. (2009). The Rapid Serial Visual Presentation test of sexual interest in child molesters. In D. Thornton & D.R. Laws (Eds.), Cognitive approaches to the assessment of sexual interests in sexual offenders. Chichester: Wiley.
  • Gannon, T., Beech, A.R. & Ward, T (2009). Risk assessment and the polygraph. In D. Wilcox (Ed.), The use of the polygraph in assessing, treating and supervising sex offenders. Chichester: Wiley.
  • Harkins, L. & Beech, A.R. (2009). Assessing the therapeutic needs of sexual offenders. In J.L.Ireland, C.A., Ireland, C. A., & P. Birch, P, Assessment, treatment and management of violent and sexual offenders(pp. 97-131). Cullompton, Devon: Willan.
  • Kalmus, E., Beech, A.R., & Warberg, B. (2009). Forensic assessment of sexual interest: A review. In D. Wilcox (Ed.), The use of the polygraph in assessing, treating and supervising sex offenders. Chichester: Wiley.

Selective Conference and Seminar Presentations 

  • Keynote address . Risk factors for offending indicating innovative approaches to treatment for offenders. Congreso International” Peligrosidad Criminal y Estado de Derecho. Valencia Spain 15-16th December 2016
  • Keynote address: A flavour of psychology: Understanding why some people commit violent crimes: A neurobiological understanding of risk factors leading to offending and implications for treatment. Belfast, 5th October 2016.
  • Keynote address: The Neurobiological basis of offending. 25th Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference, Brighton, UK 14-16th June 2016.
  • Keynote: A neurobiological and attachment-based understanding of why some people sexually offend against others. At the Sex and the Brain- The neuroscience of love, sex and attachment conference . COSRT (College of Sexual and Relationship Therapists) summer conference, London 11th June, 2016
  • Keynote speaker. The neurobiological basis of sex offending and implication for Treatment. 1st International Conference on Forensic Psychiatry. Lahore, Pakistan, 8-9th April 2016.
  • Plenary lecture. The neurobiological basis of sex offending. this lecture will focus on the challenges and future directions of theory development and research, as well as on the implications of recent neurobiological findings for practice. At the Crossroads: Future directions in sex offender treatment. 17th -18th March 2016, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Keynote speaker. Risk factors for offending indicating innovative approaches to treatment for offenders at the ‘Perchè alcune persone commettono crimini violenti? La comprensione neurobiologica dei fattori di rischio e le implicazioni per il trattamento conference’, 9th March 2016. Turin, Italy.
  • 7TH MARCH UNITED NATIONS INTREREGIONAL CRIMA AND JUSTICE. Turin 7th March 2016.
  • Invited preconference: full day symposium: Connecting theory with research: How to test theoretical assertions about the causes of sexual offending. Presented at the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Montreal, Canada, October 14th, 2015.
  • Keynote speaker. New directions in treatment approaches for sexual offenders. New Directions Conference. University of Birmingham, 20th April 2015.
  • Invited speaker. Sexual homicide, investigation, assessment and treatment Conference. Scottish National Police College, Tulliallen near Kincardine. 25-26th February 2015.
  • Invited speaker. NOTA North East: The neurological and psychological impacts of trauma. Newcastle, NOTA workshop. 10th February 2015.
  • Keynote speaker. Risk factors for offending and new approaches to treatment. Zaktad Seksuologii Spotecznej i Klinicznej. Poznan, Poland, November 21-23rd
  • Keynote speaker. The way forward in treatment for offenders and victims, incorporating neurological insights. BASPCAN – the Association of England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales for Child Protection. Glasgow, 12th November 2014.
  • Invited speaker. Emotion, self-regulation and risk. A risky business? Challenges and complexities in modern forensic and legal systems. The British Psychological Society: North West England Branch. Manchester, 17th October 2014.
  • Keynote speech The neurobiology of risk factors of offending indicating new approaches to treatment. 10th International Summer Conference: Research in Forensic Psychiatry, University of Regensbourg, Regensbourg, Germany, July 2014.

 

Selective Research Funding/ Grant Capture

  • £18,750 (2017) Barnardos Project.
  • £1507.60. (2016). University pump priming money.
  • $170,0000. (2015). Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar Sex Offender Treatment Program Evaluation and Development Support. Consultant on project.
  • £2,370 (2014). EPS Small grant scheme EEG Deception Detection on the Fringe of Awareness: Testing Ecological Validity Bowman, Woodhams & Beech.
  • £49,580 (2013). College of Policing Innovation Fund/Capacity Building Grant
  • Awarded to the Better Policing Collaborative (Universities of Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, Aston and Skills for Justice). Co-I’ are: Jessica Woodhams (Lead Applicant for Birmingham), Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Louise Dixon, Anthony Beech and Monica Lloyd
  • £302,196.85 (2013). (co-PI) What aspects of paedophilic sex offenders’ neuropsychological profile differentiate them from other types of sex offender? ESRC ES/L002337/1
  • €505,394 (£430,905) (2013). (co-PI). Neurobiology and treatment of adolescent female conduct disorder: the central role of emotion processing. European Union FP7 award
  • $78,020 (CAN) (£58,020) (2013) Applications de la réalité virtuelle en psychiatrie légale (ARVPL).  Fonds de recherche du Québec société et culture (FRQSC).
  • £9,000 (2013, PI) Worcestershire Drug and Alcohol Team
  • £71,000. NSPCC. (2013, co-PI). (GMGM RDCH173290). The Impact of online sexual abuse on the victim.
  • £371,000. (2013). ESRC. Breaking the Cycle? Prison Visitation and Recidivism in the UK (consultant role on the project)
  • $94,000. (2012). An evaluation of the Colorado (USA) prison based sex offenders treatment program. Colorado Corrections Services. (consultant role on the project)
  • $1,600,000 (2011- ongoing). co-(Canadian)Associated with a grant of 1.6 Million Canadian dollars from the Quebec research fund on society and culture to the Centre International de Criminologie Comparée, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
  • £12,000 (2011). Circles of Support Evaluation, Lucy Faithfull Foundation. PI
  • £32,000 (2011). Evaluating the effectiveness and impact of revised contact methodologies, and the impact and outcomes of Victim Support interventions. Victim Support. Co-PI
  • £1862 (2011). Pump priming money, School of Psychology. Assessment of social anxiety deficits in sex offenders. PI
  • £4195 (2011). Consultancy money Project No.LV0068, Development of Supervision and Treatment System of Sex Offenders in Latvia” of the State Probation Service PI
  • £5262.50 (2011). National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA). The role of group process factors in group member satisfaction and successful completion of sex offender treatment: A multinational examination.
  • £27,000 (2011-2013). Child Exploitation and Online Protection Agency for studentship
  • £52,150 (2011, unsuccessful bid). Sex Offender Treatment Programme Impact Evaluation using Statistical Matching and Management Information. Joint proposal with the National Centre for Social Research to the Ministry of Justice. PI
  • £30,000 (2010). University of Birmingham Resilience Sandpit
  • £4,816 (2010). National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA). Pump priming for assessment of level of neuropeptide function in psychopaths and paedophilic sexual offenders. PI
  • £241,605 (2010, unsuccessful bid) NHS National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Effective screening for the psychological and mental health needs of young offenders. PI
  • £2000 (2010). College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. Pump priming for the assessment of level of neuropeptide function in psychopaths and paedophilc sexual offenders. PI
  • £341,000 (2010, unsuccessful bid) The Evaluation of The Mandatory Polygraph Pilot. Ministry of Justice. PI
  • £19953 (2008). Ministry of Justice. Evaluation of Good Lives component of the N-SOG Community-based sex offender treatment programme PI
  • £3000 (2008) CRN: Health, Well-being and Development Collaborative Research and Symposium Grant PI
  • £8744 (2007-8) Geese Theatre PI
  • £6000 (2007) West Midlands Probation Service PI
  • £27,000 (2006) Lucy Faithfull Foundation. Development of a risk assessment schedule for female sexual offenders. PI
  • £13,000 (2005) Youth Justice Board – £2400 consultancy money
  • £59,559 (2002-2007) (awarded from the National Probation Directorate) Evaluation of probation based treatment for sexual offenders (Grant actually with Devon & Cornwall Probation Service) but will fund consultancy and part-time Ph.D. student at the University of Birmingham. PI
  • £21,388 (January to March 2003) (awarded by the Home Office) for a three-month contract for a scoping exercise to look at the need for residential (probation-based) treatment for sex offenders. PI
  • £86,000 (2001 to 2003) from the Home Office/ Prison Service to examine the effectiveness of treatment for rapists and sexual murderers in U.K. prisons. PI
  • £55,000 (2002) with Dr. M. Kebbell and Dr. E. Gilchrist) from the Crime Reduction Programme (funded by the Home Office) to evaluate an intervention for a witness support scheme and therapeutic program for young rapists.
  • £200,000 (2001 to 2003) with Dr. E. Gilchrist and Dr. M. Kebbell) to evaluate domestic violence programs from the U.K. Home Office
  • $22,940 (2002) with Dr. M. Kebbell) ‘Evaluation of indigenous sexual offenders’. Department of Corrections, Queensland Australia

 

Supervision of Projects/PhDs

PhD Supervision

  • How might religion and spirituality help to reintegrate those convicted of sexual offending and how do practitioners respond? (2015)
  • The psychological characteristics of sexual murderers (2015)
  • An investigation into online sexual grooming and abuse of children via Internet technologies (2014)
  • Examination of the use of self-report psychometrics within sexual offender treatment and in prediction of reoffending (2014)
  • An exploration of the vulnerability of young people towards online grooming and sexual abuse (2014)
  • Understanding the cognitive processes associated with deviant sexual fantasies: Towards a dual-process model (2014)
  • Cognitive, affective and social psychological correlates of psychopathic personality traits in offenders and non-offenders (2014)
  • Offender profiling: A review, critique, and an investigation of the influence of context, perception, and motivations on sexual offending (2012)
  • Psychological characteristics of users of child pornography on the Internet (2012)
  • Cognitive assessment of deviant sexual interest using the emotional Stroop and fMRI (2011)
  • Assessment of sexual interest in child sex offenders by the use of a computerized measure (2011)
  • Professionals who sexually abuse children with whom they work (2009)
  • Sex offender treatment: Risk, need and responsivity and process issues (2008)
  • Examining community-based treatment effectiveness in a sample of U.K. child abusers (2008)
  • The assessment and treatment of sexual offenders with special needs (2006)
  • Evaluation of community-based domestic violence rehabilitation programme (2005)
  • Risk assessment of sex offenders (2004)
  • Reconviction of sex offenders: Measurement and interpretation (2004)
  • Risk, reconviction and their relationship to key developmental variables (2003)
  • Cognitive distortions in child sexual offenders: Fact or fiction? University of Sussex (I took over external supervision when Sussex supervisor took early retirement) (2003)
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder: Anxiety disorder or schizotype? A questionnaire and experimental investigation. University of Reading. Main/ External supervisor (1993)

ForenPsyD supervision

  • Rape myth acceptance: its role, importance, and psychometric measurement (2017)
  • Deconstructing sexual killing. (2016)
  • What is the relationship between relational security, attachment, ward incidents and treatment outcomes on forensic psychiatric wards? (2016)
  • Exploring the Attachment Styles of Adolescents who Sexually Offend: A Mixed-Methods Research Approach (2015)
  • Examining the effects of early abuse and the links to sexual (2015)
  • An Examination of Female Sexual Offending: Toward a Gender-Specific Approach (2015)
  • Risk assessment in parole decisions: a study of life sentence prisoners in England and Wales. (2014)
  • The role of inhibitory control in defining typologies of internet sex offenders. (2014)
  • Exploring early attachments and maladaptive schemas in juvenile sexual offenders (2014)
  • Schema theory and practice: Exploration and review of its use within female forensic mental health services (2014)
  • Comparing psychopathy subtypes in terms of instrumental and reactive violence (2013)
  • The effects of integrating the populations: The experiences of young adult male offenders incarcerated in an adult prison. (2012)
  • Assessing risk and outcomes in offenders detained in intellectual disability and mental health medium secure units in the United Kingdom (2011)
  • Dynamic risk assessment, Personality Disorder, and key developmental variables (2011)
  • The effectiveness of community-based intensive intervention for young people with complex psychological needs (2010)
  • Current issues in the treatment of sexual offenders (2010)
  • The assessment of risk in intellectually disabled sexual offenders (2009)
  • An examination of the relationship between engagement and treatment in offending samples (2009)
  • Investigating the role of pornography and the Internet in sex offending (2008)
  • An investigation into violence within prisons (2008)
  • Violence risk assessment and management: The predictive validity of dynamic risk factors in a forensic and clinical population (2007)

 

D.Clin. Psychs/MRES (Clinical) Supervision/ MPHI/ MSC by research  

  • MSc in Forensic Psychology Practice (2014)
  • MSc Personality and executive functioning as explanatory variables in media technology use and responsiveness to media technology (2013)
  • DClinPsy Women who sexually offend against children; the role of care and compassion in their experiences and their treatment (2011)
  • MPhil Adolescent Sexual Abusers (2010)
  • MRes Evaluation of the SORI Restorative Justice programme at HMP Hewell (2009)
  • DClinPsy Forensic assessment of sexual interest (2003)
  • DClinPsy Disorganized attachment style and sexual offending (2002)
  • DClinPsy Pathways to sexual offending (2000)

 

Scholarships/Awards

  • ATSA Fellowship October 2016
  • Significant Achievement award from the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA). Dallas, Texas, September 2009
  • Senior Award for a significant lifetime contribution to Forensic Psychology in the UK. Division of Forensic Psychology, British Psychological Society, June 2009

 

Other Scholarly and Outreach Activities

Editorial Board Membership

Associate Editor: Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment (2013 – 2016)

Journal of Criminal Psychology: Editorial Board

Legal and Criminological Psychology: Editorial Board

Psychology, Crime and the Law: Editorial Board

The Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Studies: Editorial Board

Journal of Sexual Aggression (1999 – 2014): Editorial Board

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology): Ed. Board (2002- 2009)

 

Professional Committees

Accreditation of Forensic Programmes Universidade Lusófona Porto (2019)

SKVC accreditation of Lithuanian Psychology UG & PG programmes (MRU Vilnius, LCC Klapedia universities) (2014)

Research Chair Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Beaverton, Oregon, USA (2013 – 2015)

Board member of Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Beaverton, Oregon, USA (2013 – 2015)

Consultant to the Dutch Government’s Samsom Commission (into sexual abuse in institutions and fostercare) (2012)

Member of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA) Research Committee, Beaverton, Oregon, USA (2009 –  Present)

Member of the Collaborative Outcome Data Committee of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), Oregon, USA (2003 – Present)

Consultancy to San Ridge Secure Treatment Center, Wisconsin, USA (August, 2004)

European Union: Member of the European Union initiative examining treatment in the EC (representing the U.K.) (2001- 2002)

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