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Middlesex University 0000-0002-6197-9975
Bournemouth University 0000-0003-1782-7437
Professor Miranda Horvath
University of Suffolk 0000-0003-4363-4575
Bournemouth University 0000-0003-1269-4073
Dr Anna Gekoski is a forensic psychologist, who conducts qualitative trauma-focused research. Her research interests centre broadly around sexual violence against women and girls, and she is particularly interested in how victims of crime are affected by the criminal justice process. She regularly publishes in academic journals and is the author of four books. She is currently working on an ESRC funded project with Bournemouth, Suffolk and Middlesex universities, conducting secondary data analysis from Operation Soteria Bluestone, which aims to transform police responses to rape in England and Wales.
Bournemouth University 0000-0001-8160-2254
Middlesex University 0000-0002-1721-9899
Dr Ioana Crivatu is a mixed methods researcher in Forensic Psychology, specialising in sexual violence. Her interests lie in perpetration and policing of sexual violence, criminal justice responses to offending and victimisation, the continuum of sexual violence, multiple perpetrator rape, and behavioural and contextual understanding of the immediate and wider crime commission process. She was one of the quantitative researchers in Operation Soteria Bluestone's (OSB) Pillar 2, focusing on uncovering and understanding repeat sex offending using police crime data. She has conducted further statistical analyses on the OSB data for this secondary data analysis project between Middlesex, Bournemouth, and Suffolk universities. Currently, she is a Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Birmingham's Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB) where she is leading an ESRC-funded project investigating street sexual harassment and predatory behaviours in public spaces in collaboration with a large English police force. She is part of the Violence Against Women and Girls Research Network and a junior editor for the Psychology, Crime, & Law journal.
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Bournemouth University, 0000-0001-5769-788X
Centre for Criminology (Kriminologische Zentralstelle—KrimZ), Wiesbaden, Germany and Department of Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University (JGU), Mainz, Germany 0000-0002-0979-4295
Prof. Dr. Martin Rettenberger is the Director of the Centre for Criminology (Kriminologische Zentralstelle – KrimZ) in Wiesbaden, Germany, and is Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany. He previously worked at the Federal Evaluation Centre for Violent and Sexual Offenders (FECVSO) in the Austrian Prison System in Vienna, Austria, and at the Institute of Sex Research and Forensic Psychiatry at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. Since 2025, he is the President of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO) and editor-in-chief of the open access journal “Sexual Offending: Theories, Research, and Prevention” (SOTRAP). He has published more than 250 research articles, book chapter, and books about risk assessment, sexual and violent offending, and about several other aspects and topics in criminology and forensic psychology. As expert witness he is writing regularly risk assessment and treatment planning reports for different courts and correctional and forensic facilities and serves as a media expert for crime-related topics.