Psychology

Profile

Background

Claire Nee joined the Department in 1996 from the Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate. She is the Director of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology which encompasses her own work and that of 10 other members of staff within the Department (Lucy Akehurst, Dee Anand, Julie Cherryman, Simon Easton, Lorraine Hope, Adrian Needs, Michelle Newberry, James Ost,  Jim Sauer and  Aldert Vrij); several postgraduates; and a number of high-profile external members from across the globe. It brings together considerable departmental expertise in detecting deception, child witnesses, investigative interviewing, offending behaviour, eye-witness memory and false memory syndrome with other external collaborators of world renowned reputation. Claire is an Associate Editor of the BPS journal Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Teaching responsibilities

Claire teaches on four degree pathways in the Psychology Department but is most heavily involved in the MSc and BSc in Forensic Psychology.  She teaches on a range of units including interventions with offenders, the psychology of criminal behaviour, research methods and data analysis, personality and individual differences, introduction to experimental psychology, forensic psychology in context and current trends in applied psychology. She supervises the research of numerous undergraduate, MSc and PhD students. She is an undergraduate and postgraduate tutor. She is Chair of the Departmental Research Ethics Committee and Schools Liaison Coordinator for the department.

Research

Claire's research has included a variety of forensic areas including crime specific research (burglary and car theft); interventions in prisons; criminality in children; electronic monitoring of offenders; intensive probation; self-reported offending; female violence; and racism and sexism within the police force. Her current research projects include evaluating interventions in female prisoners with personality disorder, reducing risk in very young persistent offenders; and decision-making in burglars. Her main research interests lie in the field of offending behaviour (including motivational and situational analyses); self-reported offending; and the origins on criminal behaviour

Research Grants

Nee, C. and Ellis, T. (2009). £4,695  for 1 year from Jan 2009: Evaluation of Portsmouth Persistent Young Offenders Project - (Portsmouth City Council).

Nee, C., Howells, K. & Vrij A. (2008). £62k. Understanding offending behaviour in children: the contribution of cognitive deficits and self-identity to criminality. (grant paid for an ESRC CASE PhD studentship for Lucy Wainwright). October 2008- October 2012, in conjunction with Kids Company, London.

Nee, C. and Ellis, T. (2005). £5220  for 1 year from Jan 2006: Evaluation of Portsmouth Persistent Young Offenders Project - (Portsmouth City Council).

Nee, C. (2003) £65k for 2 years from Spring 2003: Evaluation of the second pilots of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for women with borderline personality disorder in three women's prisons. (Prison Service HQ).   

Nee, C. and Ellis, T. (2002). £7,250 for 1 year from Jan 2003: Portsmouth Persistent Young Offenders Project - Year 4 (Portsmouth City Council).

Nee, C. (2001). £48,500 for 22 months from Oct 2001: Evaluating the pilots of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for women with borderline personality disorder in three women's prisons. (Prison Service HQ).   

Needs, Nee, & Vrij: £25.000: Time to change? Offender readiness for psychological rehabilitation progammes (grant paid by the Economic and Social Research Council, ESRC studentship for Nina Wragg, October 2002 - October 2005)

Nee, C. (2001). £5,052 for six months: Evaluating and anger management programme in four Hampshire schools. (North Hampshire Youth Offending Team).  

Nee, C. and Ellis, T. (2001). £14,500 for two years from Nov 2000: Portsmouth Persistent Young Offenders Project - Year 3 and 4 (Portsmouth City Council).

Nee, C. (2001). £2,167 for one month: The impact of street lighting on the behaviour of young offenders. (Home Office Policing and Reducing Crime Unit).

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2008

Verwee, I., Meenaghan, A. & Nee, C. (2008).  The study of burglars: what can we learn from it for crime prevention? In H. Groene-Gras (Ed.) Safety policy in Europe. Belguim: Boom Juridische Uitgever.

Nee, C. (2004). The offender's perspective on crime: methods and principles in data collection. In A. Needs and G. Towl (Eds.), Applying psychology to forensic practice. London: BPS Blackwell.

Nee, C.  (2003). Burglary research at the end of the millenium: an example of grounded theory? Security Journal. 16, 37-44.

Ellis, T., Denney, D., Nee, C. & Barberet, R. (2002). Cocaine markets and drug enforcement in Spain and the Netherlands.  The Police Journal, 75, 99-107.

Ellis, T., Denney. D., Nee, C., Loveday, B. & Betts, P. (2001). Police drugs training activities: and international perspective. The Police Journal, 74.

Sarno, C., Hearndon, I., Hedderman, C., Nee, C. & Herrington, V. (2000). Working their Way Out of Offending: An evaluation of two employment schemes for offenders. Home Office Research Study No 218, London: Home Office.

Holder, K., Nee, C. &  Ellis, T. (2000). Triple Jeopardy: experiences of sexism and racism in black and Asian female police officers. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 3, 1.

Nee, C. & Taylor, M. (2000). Examining Burglars' Target Selection: Interview, Experiment, or Ethnomethodology? Psychology, Crime and Law, 6, 1.