Louise Porter, B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD.
Research Associate

Porter, L. E. & Alison, L. J. (2001). A Partially Ordered Scale of Influence in Violent Group behavior: An example from gang rape. Small Group Research, 32(4), pp475-497. View abstract

Porter, L. E. & Alison, L. J. (In Press). A Circumplex Model of Interpersonal Processes in Group Sexual Assault. Aggressive Behavior.

Porter, L. E. & Alison, L. J. (In Press). Decisions, Actions And Orders As Influence Strategies Employed By Leaders Of Violent Gangs. Small Group Research.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J. Examining Group Rape: A descriptive analysis of offender and victim behaviour. Submitted to Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J. Participative leadership and Behavioural contagion in group rape. Under review with Leadership quarterly.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J. Participative Leadership and Hierarchical Structures in Group Rape. Under review with the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Porter, L.E. & Alison, L.J. Leadership and hierarchies in criminal groups: Scaling degrees of leader behaviour in group robbery. Under review with Legal and Criminological Psychology.

Externally Funded Internal Documents

Porter, L.E., Canter, D.V. & Maruna, S. (2000) Going Straight: transitions away from Juvenile Delinquency and Drug Misuse. Internal project report. Prepared for The Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Canter, D.V, Porter, L.E, Maruna, S. & Youngs, D.E. (May 1998) Changing The Script: Results and Proposals Derived from a Study of Employment, Education and Training Provision for Drugs Mis-users on Merseyside. Internal project report. Prepared for Safer Merseyside Partnership and Merseyside Safer Cities.

Conference Presentations

1999
The European Association of Psychology and Law, Dublin, July 1999. Changing The Script: An evaluation of Employment, Education and Training Provision for Drug Mis-users on Merseyside.

2000
British Criminological Society, Leicester, July 2000. Transitions away from Juvenile Delinquency.

Social Psychology, Nottingham, Sept 2000. Internal Behavioural Consistency of Sexually Violent Gangs.

American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, USA, Nov 2000. Motivations for ‘Going Straight’.

2001
6th Investigative Psychology Conference, University of Liverpool, Jan 2001. The Impact of Decisions, Actions and Orders on the Behavior of Violent Gangs.

Division of Forensic Psychology, Birmingham, April 2001. The Impact of Decisions, Actions and Orders on the Behavior of Violent Gangs.

2002
7th Investigative Psychology Conference, University of Liverpool, June 2002. A Circumplex Model of Interpersonal Processes in Group Sexual Assault.

American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Nov 2002, A Circumplex Model of Interpersonal Processes in Group Sexual Assault.

2003
6th International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making. Pensacola, May 2003. Pragmatic Research in Criminal Investigative Decision Making: Projects from the National Centre for the Study of Critical Incident Decision Making. Poster Presentation.