Advisory board

Mary Ann Campbell, Ph.D. (Curriculum Vitae)

Dr. Campbell (Ph.D. Dalhousie) is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the Saint John Campus of the University of New Brunswick. Her research interests cover two broad domains in the area of forensic psychology. The first of these concerns research related to credibility assessment (i.e., the process of evaluating whether an individual's statement/memory for an event is based in fact) and understanding the individual differences that contribute to deception detection. Dr. Campbell is also interested in developing methods to facilitate credibility assessment that could eventually be applied to forensic settings (e.g., police interrogations, evaluation of witness statements).

Her second area of research is concerned with improving the practice of clinical forensic psychology as applied to both adult and adolescent offender populations. Specific foci include recidivism risk assessment, psychopathy, adolescent offenders, treatment responsivity, mentally ill offenders, and the evaluation of mental health assessments written for legal purposes (e.g., parenting capacity assessments, mental health assessments designed to assist sentencing decisions) and evaluation of offender-related treatment programs. In addition to her research activities, Dr. Campbell is a licensed clinical psychologist in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Advisory Board Members

Michael T. Bradley, Ph.D. - Dr. Bradley is a Professor with UNB Saint John. Most of his research is on polygraph techniques used for interrogations and includes both information detection and "lie detection".

Caroline Brunelle, Ph.D. - Dr. Brunelle (Ph.D. McGill) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at UNB Saint John. Her research interests focus on how certain etiological risk factors (i.e., neurobiological, personality) may increase the risk both for alcoholism as well as for other comorbid disorders (e.g., drug dependence, pathological gambling, antisociality). She is also interested in the treatment of substance use disorders, particularly in the use of methadone maintenance therapy for opiate dependence. Dr. Brunnell is a licensed psychologist in the province of Quebec.

Murray Cullen, Ph.D. - Dr. Cullen (Ph.D. UNB Saint John) is currently a community Psychologist for Federal Parole, as well as an Adjunct Professor in the department of Psychology at UNB Saint John. His current research interests include: the understanding and management of violence among inmates; polygraph (lie detection) research, and creating / enhancing motivation to change (treatment readiness). Requests to contact Dr. Cullen should be directed to sjcriminal@unbsj.ca.

Chris Doran, Ph.D. - Dr. Doran is a Professor with the UNB Saint John. He received his doctorate from the University of Calgary. Specializing in textual analysis, socio-legal studies and historical sociology. Current research: Examining questions of Ideology and Recursion in the work of Stuart Hall. Introducing Donzelot's mature work into English-speaking Social Science. Re-examining older critiques of 'official statistics' in light of recent theorizing in this field.

Claire Goggin, Ph.D. - Dr. Goggin (Ph.D., UNB Saint John) is an Assitant Professor in the Criminology Department at St. Thomas University. Her research interests include: 1) offender risk assessment and classification: which are the most (and least) useful risk assessment measures and how successful are they in predicting offender outcome?, 2) effective correctional programming: “what works” (and what doesn't’t) in offender programming?, 3) correctional program evaluation: what are the program components that make correctional programs effective (or ineffective)?, 4) empirical research methodology and statistics: what methods of measurement do we use to answer the above questions? , and 5) Knowledge cumulation and technology transfer: how do we know what we know and how do we effectively communicate that knowledge to interested constituents (i.e., offenders, families, policy makers)? Email Claire

Stewart Hyson, Ph.D. - Dr. Hyson (Ph.D. Carleton) is an Instructor with UNB Saint John. He is interested in Canadian Government and politics, public policy and administration, political parties and elections, corruption and ethics in politics and provincial politics. He has conducted research and written extensively in these areas. He teaches courses on Introduction to Canadian Politics, Canadian Federalism, Provincial Politics, New Brunswick Politics and Ethics in Politics.

Leslie Jeffrey, Ph.D. - Dr. Jeffrey (Ph.D. York) is an Associate Professor with UNB Saint John. She examines issues of nationalism, global human rights, SE Asian politics, the welfare state, gender and politics, and international cooperation on social issues. She researches the international sex-trade, Canadian prostitution policy and politics in Thailand. She teaches Comparative Politics, International Relations, Gender and International Politics, Human Rights, Politics in Asia, Gender and Comparative Politics, and Politics in Developing Societies.

Greg Marquis, Ph.D. - Dr. Marquis (Ph.D. Queen's) is an Associate Professor of Canadian history in the Department of History and Politics at UNBSJ. He has degrees from St. FXU (BA 1980), UNB (MA 1982) and Queen’s University (1987). He is the author of two books, including Policing Canada’s Century: A History of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (Toronto: Osgoode Society/University of Toronto Press, 1993), and at present is writing a book on Canadian alcohol control in the 20th century. He teaches courses on the history of criminal justice system, the social history of crime, policing, and family and the state. Email Greg

Cst. Gordon Redfurn - Cst. Redfurn is an officer with the Family Protection Unit of the Saint John Police Force. He has years of expertise in law enforcement, child protection, and has an interest in interrogations and credibility assessment. Requests to contact Cst. Redfurn should be directed to sjcriminal@unbsj.ca.

Scott Ronis, Ph.D. - Dr. Ronis (Ph.D. University of Missouri) is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the Fredericton campus of the University of New Brunswick. His primary research interests focus on examining the psychosocial risks for juvenile delinquency (e.g., sexual offending, assaultive behaviour) and other adolescent behavioural problems. In particular, he is interested in studying youth within the broader contexts in which they are embedded (e.g., families, peers, schools, neighbourhoods). Similarly, Dr. Ronis has interests in examining the effectiveness of family- and community-based interventions that target/prevent criminal behaviour, such as multisystemic therapy. Dr. Ronis is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia.