Associate Professor Stephen Smallbone

PhD

Assoc Prof, Griffith School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Research expertise

• Psychological assessment and treatment of sexual and violent offenders
• Ethical, legal, and methodological issues in recidivism risk assessment
• Characteristics and modus operandi of adult and adolescent sexual offenders
• Biological, developmental, situational, and social ecological aspects of sexual and violent crime
• Prevention of sexual crime

Current teaching areas

• Corrections
• Offender rehabilitation
• Forensic Psychology

Publications

• Smallbone, S.W., & Marshall, W.L. (under contract). Preventing sexual crimes against children: Evidence-based approaches. London: Willan Publishing.
• Wortley, R.K., & Smallbone, S.W. (Eds.). (under contract). Situational perspectives on sexual crimes against children. New York: Criminal Justice Press.
• Rayment, S., Nisbet, I., & Smallbone, S. (forthcoming). Individual, family, and situational factors in sexual offending by adolescents: A comparison of familial and nonfamilial offenders. In R.K. Wortley, & S.W. Smallbone (Eds.). Situational perspectives on sexual crimes against children. New York: Criminal Justice Press.
• Wortley, R.K., & Smallbone, S.W. (under review). Applying Situational Principles to Sexual Offenses Against Children. In R.K. Wortley, & S.W. Smallbone (Eds.). Situational perspectives on sexual crimes against children. New York: Criminal Justice Press.
• Smallbone, S.W., Marshall, W.L., & Wortley, R.K. (under review). Evidence-based prevention of sexual offenses against children.
• Smallbone, S.W. (in press). An attachment theoretical revision of Marshall and BarbareeÕs (1990) Integrated Theory of the Etiology of Sexual Offending. In W.L. Marshall, Y.M. Fernandez, and L.E. Marshall (Eds.). Sexual offender treatment: Issues and controversies. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
• Smallbone, S.W. (in press). Social and psychological factors in the development of delinquency and sexual deviance. In H.E. Barbaree, & W.L. Marshall (Eds.). The juvenile sex offender (2nd ed.) New York: Guilford Press.
• Smallbone, S.W. (2004). Attachment insecurity as a predisposing and precipitating factor for sexually offending behaviour by young people. In M.C. Calder (Ed.). Children and young people who sexually abuse: New theory, research and practice developments. London: Russell House.
• Smallbone, S.W., & Wortley, R.K. (2004). Onset, persistence and versatility of offending among adult males convicted of sexual offenses against children. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 16, 285-298
• Nisbet, I., Wilson, P., & Smallbone, S.W. (2004). A prospective longitudinal study of sexual recidivism among adolescent sexual offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 16, 223-234.
• Smallbone, S.W., & Wortley, R.K. (2004). Criminal diversity and paraphilic interests among adult males convicted of sexual offenses against children. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 48, 175-188.
• Dadds, M.R., Smallbone, S.W., Nisbet, I., & Dombrowski, J. (2003). Willingness, confidence, and knowledge to work with adolescent sex offenders: An evaluation of training workshops. Behaviour Change, 20, 117-123.
• Smallbone, S.W., Wheaton, J., & Hourigan, D. (2003). Trait empathy and criminal versatility in sexual offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 15, 49-60.
• Smallbone, S.W. & McCabe, B. (2003). Childhood attachment, childhood sexual abuse, and onset of masturbation among sexual offenders. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 15, 1-10.