Karen De Claire
Reader in Forensic Psychology
Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences
Overview
Dr De Claire is a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered Forensic Psychologist and Chartered Forensic Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. She is a full member of the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP), Associate Fellow and Chartered Scientist of the BPS and an EMDR therapist. Dr De Claire has a part time role with the National Offender Management Service leading on specific projects related to prisoner management and welfare. Dr De Claire's background is as a practitioner forensic psychologist, with particular expertise in assessment and intervention of high risk men who have engaged in violent and sexual offending, in custody and the community. She also has considerable experience of consultancy within forensic settings on a range of issues which affect prisoners their children and families and prison staff. She also has experience of and continues to advise during critical incidents in prisons. Her research interests include: desistance and family relationships, the role of attachment in offending, the effect of the treatment of trauma on re-offending behaviour.
Dr De Claire is a co-opted member of the DFP committee and the BPS Wales Policy Committee and is currently treasurer of the Wales DFP.
Research Publications
I Was the Violence Victim, I Am the Perpetrator: Bullying and Cyberbullying Perpetration and Associated Factors among Adolescents
Jankowiak, B., Jaskulska, S., Pérez-Martínez, V., Pyżalski, J., Sanz-Barbero, B., Bowes, N., Claire, K. D., Neves, S., Topa, J., Silva, E., Mocanu, V., Vives-Cases, C. & Peralta, R. L. (Editor), 28 Aug 2024, In: Social Sciences. 13, 9, 452.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bullying and Cyberbullying Victimization and Associated Factors among Adolescents in Six European Countries
Jaskulska, S., Jankowiak, B., Pérez-Martínez, V., Pyżalski, J., Sanz-Barbero, B., Bowes, N., Claire, K. D., Neves, S., Topa, J., Silva, E., Mocanu, V., Gena Dascalu, C. & Vives-Cases, C., 28 Oct 2022, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 14, 21, p. 14063 1 p., 14063.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Will You Make Me Happy? The Role of Dating and Dating Violence Victimisation in Happiness Among Adolescents in Europe
Jaskulska, S., Jankowiak, B., Sanz-Barbero, B., De Claire, K., Bowes, N., Silva, E., Neves, S., Albaladejo-Blázquez, N., Pyżalski, J., Waszyńska, K., Chmura-Rutkowska, I. & Vives-Cases, C., 5 Sept 2022, In: Journal of Happiness Studies. 23, 8, p. 3693-3712 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Correction: Effect of the Lights4Violence intervention on the sexism of adolescents in European countries (BMC Public Health, (2022), 22, 1, (547), 10.1186/s12889-022-12925-3)
Sanz-Barbero, B., Ayala, A., Ieracitano, F., Rodríguez-Blázquez, C., Bowes, N., De Claire, K., Mocanu, V., Anton-Paduraru, D. T., Sánchez-SanSegundo, M., Albaladejo-Blázquez, N., das Neves, A. S. A., da Silva Queirós, A. S., Jankowiak, B., Waszyńska, K. & Vives-Cases, C., 11 May 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, 945.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Effect of the Lights4Violence intervention on the sexism of adolescents in European countries
Sanz-Barbero, B., Ayala, A., Ieracitano, F., Rodríguez-Blázquez, C., Bowes, N., De Claire, K., Mocanu, V., Anton-Paduraru, D. T., Sánchez-SanSegundo, M., Albaladejo-Blázquez, N., das Neves, A. S. A., da Silva Queirós, A. S., Jankowiak, B., Waszyńska, K. & Vives-Cases, C., 19 Mar 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, 547.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Will i like myself if you hurt me? Experiences of violence and adolescents’ self-esteem
Jankowiak, B., Jaskulska, S., Sanz-Barbero, B., Waszyńska, K., De Claire, K., Bowes, N., Silva, E., Neves, S., Albaladejo-Blázquez, N., Pyżalski, J., Chmura-Rutkowska, I. & Vives-Cases, C., 21 Oct 2021, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 13, 21, 11620.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sexism and its associated factors among adolescents in Europe: Lights4Violence baseline results
Ayala, A., Vives-Cases, C., Davó-Blanes, C., Rodríguez-Blázquez, C., Forjaz, M. J., Bowes, N., DeClaire, K., Jaskulska, S., Pyżalski, J., Neves, S., Queirós, S., Gotca, I., Mocanu, V., Corradi, C. & Sanz-Barbero, B., 21 Feb 2021, In: Aggressive Behavior. 47, 3, p. 354-363 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The role of school social support and school social climate in dating violence victimization prevention among adolescents in europe
Jankowiak, B., Jaskulska, S., Sanz-Barbero, B., Ayala, A., Pyżalski, J., Bowes, N., De Claire, K., Neves, S., Topa, J., Rodríguez-Blázquez, C., Davó-Blanes, M. C., Rosati, N., Cinque, M., Mocanu, V., Ioan, B., Chmura-Rutkowska, I., Waszyńska, K. & Vives-Cases, C., 1 Dec 2020, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17, 23, p. 1-13 13 p., 8935.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Factors Predictive of Behavioural and Emotional Dysfunction in Adolescents in a Secure Children’s Home
Harris, R., Stubbings, D. R. & De Claire, K., 17 Nov 2020, In: Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma. 14, 3, p. 299-310 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
How prisoners and their partners experience the maintenance of their relationship during a prison sentence
De Claire, K., Dixon, L. & Larkin, M., 5 Nov 2019, In: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 30, 3, p. 293-306 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review