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Jodi Viljoen (Associate Professor / Michael Smith Scholar)
Phone:   778-782-8638  
 
Email:   Send Message  
 
Office:   RCB 6153  
 
Areas of Study:   Law and Forensic, Clinical Science 
 
Research Interests:   Adolescent offenders, youth violence, mental health of adolescent offenders, adolescents' legal rights and competencies, youth forensic assessment, treatment of adolescent offenders.  
 
Teaching Interests:   Psychology and the law, adolescents and the law, clinical-forensic assessment and treatment, research design.  
 
Home Page:   http://www.sfu.ca/psyc/faculty/viljoen
 
Selected Publications:   Penner, E., Roesch, R., & Viljoen, J. L. (in press). Juvenile offenders: An international comparison of mental health assessment and treatment practices. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health.

Viljoen, J. L., McLachlan, K., & Vincent, G. (2010). Assessing violence risk and psychopathy in adolescent and adult offenders: A survey of clinical practices. Assessment, 17, 377-395.

Viljoen, J. L., MacDougall, E. A., Gagnon, N., & Douglas, K. (2010). Psychopathy evidence in legal proceedings involving adolescent offenders. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, 16, 254-283.

Spice, A., Viljoen, J. L., Gretton, H. M., & Roesch, R. (2010). Psychological assessment for adult sentencing of juvenile offenders: An evaluation of the RSTI and the SAVRY. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 9, 124-137.

Viljoen, J. L., Elkovitch, N., Scalora, M., & Ullman, D. (2009). Assessing risk for violence in adolescents who have sexually offended: An examination of the predictive validity of the ERASOR, YLS/CMI, PCL-YV. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 36, 981-1000.

Cuadra, L., Viljoen, J., & Cruise, K. (2010). The use of risk assessments to inform the treatment of adolescents who have committed sexual offenses. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 3, 201-213.

Viljoen, J. L., Scalora, M., Ullman, D., Cuadra, L., Bader, S., Chavez, V., & Lawrence, L. (2008). Assessing risk for violence in adolescents who have sexually offended: A comparison of the J-SOAP-II, SAVRY, and J-SORRAT-II. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 35, 5-23.

Viljoen, J. L., & Grisso, T. (2007). Prospects for remediating juveniles' adjudicative incompetence. Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law, 13, 87-114.


 
 

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