Dr Marie Henshaw is a Senior Research Fellow employed as the Research Lead for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention in a joint initiative between Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, Swinburne University, and Stop It Now! Australia, Jesuit Social Services. Her applied research focuses primarily on enhancing risk assessment, case prioritisation, and clinical, legal and prevention practices for people who engage in child sexual abuse, particularly online child sexual exploitation offences. She is the lead author of the CEM-COPE Program, a novel treatment program for child sexual abuse material that is currently being piloted in Australia, Canada and the USA. She has also previously conducted research into the interface between law enforcement and individuals with intellectual disability.

 

As a clinical and forensic psychologist, Dr Henshaw also has expertise in the assessment and treatment of problem behaviours (e.g., sexual offending, violence, stalking, and arson), personality disorders and mental disorders, and has worked with both offenders and the general population across community, prison-based, and inpatient settings. She previously worked as a Psychologist at the Problem Behaviour Program, Forensicare, and as the Senior Practitioner at Stop It Now! Australia, a child sexual abuse prevention service that launched in Australia in September 2022.