Examining Burglary Scripts in Community-Based Samples
Examining Burglary Scripts in Community-Based Samples
Matthew T King-ParkerRoss M BartelsTochukwu OnwuegbusiPatrick DickinsonUniversity of Lincoln, Lincoln, UKMatthew T King-Parker is a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Lincoln. He received his PhD at the University of Lincoln in 2023. His research focuses on Burglary offending, investigating into the social cognitive factors as well as the behavioural aspects of the offence. This has included the use of novel methods in virtual reality. His recent work has additional start investigating gambling behaviours. Matt has published several journal articles on burglary offending. In 2023 he won a Emerald Literati outstanding reviewing award.Dr. Ross M Bartels is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, where he leads the Forensic and Crime Research Group. His He earned his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. His research focuses on understanding atypical sexual interests, the psychology of sexual fantasising, and offence-supportive cognitions within forensic and community populations. Ross has published numerous papers and book chapters and has co-edited two books. He is currently a co-editor in-chief for the Sexual Offending: Theory, Research, & Prevention journal.Tochukwu Onwuegbusi is currently a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Lincoln and a Chartered Psychologist/Associate Fellow with the British Psychological Society. He received his PhD at the University of Leicester and has previously worked as part of a forensic psychology team focused on delivery of Offending Behaviour programmes at His Majesty Prison in the UK. His research interests are centred around attitude and risk judgements within forensic contexts, applying experimental research designs and eyetracking technology to assess a variety of real-world forensic and clinical phenomena. He recently developed a simple, but powerful data-driven method of analysing eye-tracking data related to dynamic video streams, particularly where you want to identify inter-group differences or identify specifically salient stimuli. A key goal is to uncover and understand group differences in eye movement patterns, that can be used for diagnostics, skill assessment, or to compare offenders and non-offenders e.g., burglars and non-burglars). His other research interests include attitude and risk judgement, improving police lineup identification procedures, amongst others.Patrick Dickinson is an Associate Professor of human computer interaction at the University of Lincoln, where he also gained his Ph.D. in 2008. He leads the Interactive Technologies Lab (intLab) in the School of Computer Science, and his research interests focus on understanding user experience in virtual reality, and games.