Dr Louise Porter joined CEPS as a Research Fellow and is working on both the "Integrity Systems" and "Risky People" projects in the Centre. Louise joins us from the UK, where she was a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Liverpool.

Her research interests centre on interpersonal processes, specifically leadership and peer influence in forensic contexts. Louise has explored social and organisational features of group crime, specifically with regard to rape and robbery groups and, more recently, police corruption. Much of Louise’s work in this area has involved a behavioural approach, examining the actions of offenders in their crimes, as taken from archival accounts such as police statements, law reports and media sources. She has also worked on a number of criminal cases, aiding the preparation of psychological reports for both the courts and the police.

Publications

Books

Porter, L.E., Prenzler, T. (2012). Police Integrity Management in Australia: Global Lessons for Combating Police Misconduct. CRC Press-Taylor and Francis. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439895986

Book Chapters

Porter, L.E., (Invited for 2013). Leadership and Role-Taking in Multiple Perpetrator Rape. In J. Woodhams & M. Horvath (Eds.) Multiple Perpetrator Rape: A Multidisciplinary Response to an International Problem. Routledge.

Porter, L.E., Prenzler, T. (2012). Corruption Prevention and Complaint Management. In T. Prenzler (Ed.) Policing and Security in Practice: Challenges and Achievements. Palgrave-Macmillan.http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=508549

Porter, L.E. (2010). Robbery. In J. Brown & L. Campbell (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology. Cambridge University Press.

Porter, L.E. (2005).  Policing the Police Service: Psychological Contributions to the study and prevention of police corruption.  In L.J. Alison (Ed.) Offender Profiling and Criminal Investigation: A Forensic Psychologist’s Casebook. Cullompton: Willan. pp143-169.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Porter, L.E. & Prenzler, T. (2012). Police Oversight in the United Kingdom: The Balance of Independence and Collaboration. International Journal of Law Crime and justice.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756061612000031

Caddick, A. & Porter, L.E. (2012). Exploring a model of Professionalism in multiple perpetrator violent Gun Crime in the UK.Criminology & Criminal Justice. 12(1): 61-82.

Porter, L.E., Prenzler, T. & Fleming, J. (2011). Complaint reduction in the Tasmania Police. Policing & Society. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10439463.2011.641548

Kebbell, K. & Porter, L.E. (2011). An Intelligence Assessment Framework for Identifying Individuals at Risk of Committing Acts of Violent Extremism Against the West. Security Journal. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sj/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/sj201119a.html

Porter, L. E., & Kebbell, M. R. (2010). Radicalization in Australia: Examining Australia's Convicted Terrorists. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 18(2): 212-231.

Hauffe, S. & Porter, L.E. (2009). An interpersonal comparison of lone and group rape. Psychology, Crime & Law, 15(5): 469-91.

Porter, L. E., & Warrender, C. (2009). A multivariate model of police deviance: examining the nature of corruption, crime and misconduct. Policing and Society, 19(1), 79 - 99.

Porter, L.E. (2008). Multidimensional methods for assessing leadership from archival data. Issues in Forensic Psychology No. 8, 33-44.  (Invited Special Issue).

Woods, L.  & Porter, L.E. (2008). Examining the relationship between sexual offenders and their victims: interpersonal differences between stranger versus non-stranger offences. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 14(1):61-75.

Almond, L., Alison, L. & Porter, L. (2007). An evaluation and comparison of claims made in behavioural investigative advice reports compiled by the National Policing Improvements Agency in the United Kingdom. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 4(2):71-83.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J.  (2006). Leadership and hierarchies in criminal groups: Scaling degrees of leader behaviour in group robbery.  Legal and Criminological Psychology, 11(2): 245-265.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J.  (2006). Behavioural coherence in group robbery: A circumplex model of offender and victim interactions. Aggressive Behavior, 32(4): 330-342.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J. (2006) Examining Group Rape: A descriptive analysis of offender and victim behaviour.  European Journal of Criminology. 3(3): 357-381.

Porter, L. E. & Alison, L. J.  (2005) Decisions, Actions And Orders As Influence Strategies Employed By Leaders Of Violent Gangs. Small Group Research, 36(2):188-207.

Maruna, S., Porter, L., and Carvalho, I. (2004) The Liverpool Desistance Study and probation practice. Probation Journal, 51(3), 221-232.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J. (2004). Behavioural coherence in violent group activity: An interpersonal model of sexually violent gang behaviour. Aggressive Behavior, 30(6): 449-468

Porter, L. E. & Alison, L. J. (2001) A Partially Ordered Scale of Influence in Violent Group behavior: An example from gang rape. Small Group Research, 32(4), pp475-497.

Conference Presentations

2011    24^th Annual Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology, Geelong, Sept 2011. Indigenous Deaths in Police Custody.

2^nd Seminar on Multiple Perpetrator Rape: Setting the Research Agenda, British Psychological Society Funded Seminar Series, London, Sept 2011. Leadership in multiple perpetrator rape. Invited Presentation.

2010    CEPS International Conference, Canberra, Oct 2010. Complaint reduction in the Tasmania Police.

The 20th European Association of Psychology and Law, Gothenburg, June 2010. Leadership and Police Integrity Systems: reducing citizen complaints. Poster Presentation.

            Invited seminar on the Australian Federal Police Inter-Agency Integrity Investigators Program, Canberra, May 2010. Integrity Systems.

2009    Invited presentation, ANZPAA Police Integrity Forum, Melbourne, Dec 2009. Measuring the effectiveness of integrity agencies.

            Invited presentation, CEPS research Colloquium, Canberra, Nov 2009. A national Stocktake of Police Integrity Strategies.

Invited presentation, Australian Public Sector Anti-Corruption Conference, Brisbane, Jul 2009. A Typology of Misconduct.

            Invited seminar on the Australian Federal Police Inter-Agency Integrity Investigators Program, Canberra, May 2009. Integrity Systems.

            Invited presentation, ANZPAA Police Integrity Forum, Melbourne, Feb 2009, Integrity Systems.

2008    21^st Annual Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology