| , a pioneer in the field of forensic nursing, is Professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing at Boston College Connell School of Nursing. She, with Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, co-founded one of the first hospital-based crisis intervention programs for rape victims at Boston City Hospital in 1972. She is a Clinical Specialist in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, has been a SANE since 1994 and is co-director of the SANE Training Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and chaired the 1996 National Research Council’s Task Force on Violence Against Women. Dr. Burgess has been principal investigator of research projects on the use of children in pornography; sexual homicide and patterns of crime scenes; possible linkages between sexual abuse and exploitation of children, juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior; children as witnesses in child sexual abuse trials; infant kidnapping, elder sexual abuse victims and their offenders, and the efficacy of SANE/SART programs on arrests and prosecutorial outcome. She has written 5 textbooks in the fields of psychiatric nursing and crisis intervention; 11 texts from her research in the crime victim area; and co-edited 5 books of research in the area of rape and child trauma. Her current research centers on Child Internet Safety. |
| , is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia, where he has taught and conducted research for 35 years, and also President of Darkstone Research Group Ltd., a forensic research and consulting firm. He has devoted most of his career to the investigation of psychopathy, its nature, assessment, and implications for mental health and criminal justice. He is the author of several books, including Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, and most recently, with Paul Babiak, Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. He is the developer of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) and a co-author of its derivatives. Dr. Hare consults with the FBI and the RCMP, sits on the Research Advisory Board of the new FBI Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC), and is a member of the FBI Serial Murder Working Group. He also was a member of the Advisory Panel established by Her Majesty’s Prison Service to develop new programs for the treatment of psychopathic offenders. His current research includes assessment issues, developmental factors, neurobiological correlates, risk for recidivism and violence, and the development (with S. Wong) of new treatment and management strategies for psychopathic offenders (Guidelines for a Psychopathy Treatment Program). His most recent awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy.
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