Laura Caulfield
Laura Caulfield is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal & Forensic Psychology, based in the Division of Psychology and working with the Centre for Applied Criminology.
Laura lectures to undergraduate students on Criminal and Forensic Psychology, Victimology, and Research Methods and lectures Research Methods to postgraduate students. Laura also supervises undergraduate and masters level dissertations and postgraduate research degrees (MPhil and PhD).
The majority of Laura's research experience is in the areas of youth crime and the adult prison population. She has been involved in number of small and large scale research projects, funded by national government agencies, charities, and local authorities. Laura's research interests and experience fall into the following categories:
Female offenders
The impact of the arts in prisons
Risk and need assessment
Offender rehabilitation
Mental health and crime
Development of offending behaviours
Interventions for offenders
Selected recent publications:
Under review
Caulfield, L.S., Wilson, D., & Wilkinson, D.J. (accepted, pending revision). Promoting positive change: The impact of a prison based music project. Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Henley, J., Caulfield, L.S., Wilson, D., & Wilkinson, D.J. (under review). Good Vibrations: Positive change through social music-making. Submitted to the Journal of Music Psychology.
Kumari, N., Caulfield, L.S. & Newberry, M. (under review). The experiences of women working in a therapeutic community prison. Submitted to the Prison Service Journal.
2011 and in press
Jones T, Caulfield L.S., Wilkinson D, Weller L. (2011) The Relationship Between Nonclinical Schizotypy and Handedness on Divergent and Convergent Creative Problem-Solving Tasks. Creativity Research Journal. 23(3): 222-228,
Wilkinson D, Jones T, Caulfield L.S. Time to Reason about Crime: Assessing the impact of Schizotypal Tendencies on a Crime-Based Reasoning Task. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 50(4): 393-405.
Browning, A. & Caulfield, L.S. (2011). The prevalence and treatment of people with Asperger's Syndrome in the Criminal Justice System. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 11, 169-184.
Caulfield, L.S. (2011). Review of the book [Offenders, Deviants or Patients? (4th edn.) by H. Prins]. Medicine, Science, and the Law, 51, 121.
Caulfield, L.S. (2011). Interim report: An evaluation of the Artist in Residence at HMP Grendon. Grant Report to the Motesiczky Charitable Trust.
Caulfield, L.S. & Wilson, D. (2011, in press). Prison music programmes for female offenders. In Leonard, L. (Ed.), Advances in Social Criminology, Volume 1: Debates in Criminal Justice. Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
Jones, T., Caulfield, L.S., Wilkinson, D. & Weller, L. (2011, in press). The relationship between non-clinical Schizotypy and handedness on divergent and convergent creative problem solving tasks. Creativity Research Journal, 23 (3).
Wilkinson, D.J., Jones, T., & Caulfield, L.S. (2011, in press). Time to reason about crime. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.
2010
Caulfield, L.S. (2010). Rethinking the assessment of female offenders. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 49, 315-327.
Caulfield, L.S. (2010). The role of the arts in prisons. The Howard League for Penal Reform ECAN Bulletin, 4.
Caulfield, L.S. & Wilson, D. (2010). Female offenders' experiences of the arts in criminal justice. Journal of Social Criminology, 3, 67-90.
2009
Caulfield, L.S. & Wilson, D. (2009). Fredom of expression. Public Service Review: Home Affairs, 20, 64-65.
Caulfield, L.S., Wilson, D., & Wilkinson, D.J. (2009). Continuing positive change: An analysis of the long-term and wider impact of the Good Vibrations Project. Grant Report to Good Vibrations.
Wilson, D., Caulfield, L.S., & Atherton, S. (2009). Good Vibrations: The long-term impact of a prison based music project. The Prison Service Journal, 182, 27-32.
2008
Caulfield, L. S. (2008). Evidence Paper 11: An analysis of offending in young people looked after by local authorities. Department for Children, Schools and Families.
Darker, I., Ward, H., & Caulfield, L. S. (2008). An analysis of offending in young people looked after by local authorities. Youth Justice, 8, 134-148.
Wilson, D., Caulfield, L.S., & Atherton, S. (2008). Promoting positive change: Assessing the long term psychological, emotional and behavioural effects of the good vibrations in prisons project. Report for the Firebird Trust.
2007
Palmer, E. J., Caulfield, L. S., & Hollin, C. R. (2007). Interventions with Arsonists and Young Firesetters: A Survey of the National Picture in England and Wales. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 12, 101-116.
2006
Munro, E.R. and Caulfield., L. S. (2006). Local authority projects to improve outcomes for looked after children. Reports to Department for Education and Skills. Loughborough: CCFR, Loughborough University.
2005
Caulfield, L. S., Palmer, E. J., & Hollin, C. R. (2005). Interventions with arsonists and young firesetters: Research bulletin no. 6, May 2005. Arson Control Forum: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Palmer, E. J., Caulfield, L. S., & Hollin, C. R. (2005). Evaluation of interventions with arsonists and young firesetters. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Palmer, E. J., Hollin, C. R., & Caulfield, L. S. (2005). Surveying fear: Crime, buses, and new paint. Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal, 7, 47-58.
2004
Hollin, C. R., & Caulfield, L. S. (2004). CAMHS health needs analysis: Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. Report for Leicester Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
Palmer, E. J., Caulfield, L. S., Benneworth, K. M, & Hollin, C. R. (2004). Evaluation of interventions with arsonists and young firesetters: A detailed review of eight interventions. Report for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
Palmer, E. J., Caulfield, L. S., & Hollin, C. R. (2004). Provision of effective regimes. Report for the Home Office, Research, Development, and Statistics Directorate.
Conference papers and invited talks
Caulfield, L.S. (forthcoming, July 2011). Rethinking the pathways into crime of female offenders. Paper to be presented at the 12th European Congress of Psychology, Istanbul, Turkey.
Caulfield, L.S. (May 2010). Taking account of female offenders' mental health and emotional problems. Paper presented at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Service 10th Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Caulfield, L.S. (June 2010). Treatment provision for young firesetters: A national picture. Invited paper as part of the symposium 'Firesetting', British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference, Kent, UK
Caulfield, L.S. (June 2010). Promoting positive change. Poster presented at RESCON10, Birmingham City University, UK.
Caulfield, L.S. (September 2010). Evaluating the role of music in prisons. Invited talk at the Arts Alliance Annual Conference, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Caulfield, L.S. (July 2008). Women's pathways into and out of crime: Navigating a course through emotional problems and mental illness. 18th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Caulfield, L. S. (July 2007). What do the women think? Pathways to crime, levels of need, and service provision for women in prison. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference 2007, University of York, UK.
Caulfield, L. S. (August 2005). Female offenders: Risk, need, and recidivism. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Anniversary Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group Conference, University of Exeter, UK.
Caulfield, L. S. (June 2005). Female offenders: Risk, need, and recidivism. Poster presented at the Festival of Postgraduate Research, University of Leicester, UK.
Caulfield, L. S. (December 2004). Inappropriate sexual behaviour in young people: Evidence from a national sample. Invited paper presented at the University of Leicester Health Sciences Annual Conference, University of Leicester, UK.
Caulfield, L. S. (November 2004). Evaluation of interventions with arsonists and young firesetters. Invited paper presented at the Cognitive Centre Foundation, ODPM, & Derby City FRS ‘Firesafe' awareness day, Derby, UK.
Caulfield, L. S., Palmer, E. J., & Hollin, C. R. (July 2005). A review of interventions with arsonists and young firesetters in England and Wales. Paper presented at the Symposium Intervention Strategies, XVth European Conference for Psychology and Law, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Caulfield, L.S. & Wilkinson, D.J. (forthcoming, July 2011). The use of the Arts in a Therapeutic Community prison. Paper presented as part of the panel: Creativity in the Criminal Justice System. British Society of Criminology annual conference, Northumbria University, UK.
Caulfield, L.S. & & Wilson, D. (September 2009). Promoting positive change: The impact of the arts in prisons. Paper presented at the19th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Sorrento, Italy.
Caulfield, L.S., Wilson, D., & Atherton, S. (November 2008). Promoting positive change: assessing the long-term psychological, emotional, and behavioural effects of the Good Vibrations in Prisons Project. Invited paper at the Arts Alliance Launch Conference, London.
Jones, T., Caulfield, L.S., Wilkinson, D.J. & Wilson, D. (May 2011). Fantasy or Reality? The role of the Internet in creating, normalising and reinforcing sexual fantasies. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Glasgow.
Jones, T., Wilson, D., Caulfield, L.S., & Wilkinson, D.J. (May 2010). When thinking leads to doing: Sexual fantasies, the Internet and Offending. Poster presented at the 10th annual INternational Association of Forensic Mental Health Services conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Munro, E. R., & Caulfield, L. S. (September 2006). Protecting and promoting the well-being of very young children: a prospective study of babies in need or at risk of significant harm. Paper presented at the Conference of The International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, York, UK.
Wilkinson, D.J., Jones, T. & Caulfield, L.S. (May 2011). Investigating Reasoning Biases in Adults with Schizotypy. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland.
Wilkinson, D.J., Caulfield, L. S., Jones, T. (May 2010). "Thinking about crime": Assessing the reasoning ability of individuals with Schizotypal tendencies on a crime based reasoning task. Paper presented at the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Service 10th Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Wilkinson, D.J., Caulfield, L. S., Jones, T. & Wilson, D. (July 2008). "Time to reason about crime" - Assessing the reasoning ability of individuals with Schizotypal personality disorder. Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group Conference, University of Manchester, UK.
Wilkinson, D.J., Jones, T., Caulfield, L.S., & Wilson, D. (April 2009). Assessing the reasoning ability of individuals with Schizotypal tendencies. Poster presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Brighton, UK.