Can Risk Assessment be Empowering? Yes! Adopt A Strength-Based Approach!

WICC2025 Presentation by Dr Shelley Brown PhD (WICC2025-PID149)

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Dr Shelley Brown

Professor, Carleton University, Canada

Dr. Shelley Brown is a professor of forensic psychology within the Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Shelley’s program of research aims to improve rehabilitative services including assessment, custodial, and probation practices for justice impacted people with a special focus on girls and women in conflict with the law. Shelley studies complex trauma, violence, strengths, risk assessment and desistance among justice-impacted girls and women, and more recently, among under-represented genders and sexual minorities. She enjoys working with various collaborators from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto Canada, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada, Orbis Partners, Ottawa, Canada, the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General, the Department of Sociology, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan and the Centre for Effective Public Policy, United States. Shelley has published various articles, reports, book chapters and books about criminal conduct in general, as well as works specific to justice-impacted girls and women. One of her more recent publications includes the edited book: The Wiley Handbook on What Works with Girls and Women in Conflict with the Law: A Critical Review of Theory, Practice, and Policy (Brown & Gelsthorpe, 2022). Shelley teaches courses in criminal behaviour, gender and crime, and supervises an active team of undergraduate and graduate students engaged in gender responsive corrections-based research. Shelley is committed to advancing gender responsive evidence-based practices.

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