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

Louise’s principal research interests focus on the social psychology of crime, specifically in relation to the interpersonal dynamics between co-offenders. Her research has focused primarily on the crimes of group rape and group robbery and has drawn upon social psychological principles of leadership and influence to describe and explain individual involvement in these crimes.

Louise has produced a behaviourally based, interpersonal model of leadership and influence that incorporates influence styles with the reactions of the recipients of those styles.

Louise’s studies have revealed that group offenders are typically young males who are led through the active participation of one individual who then breeds behavioural contagion in the remaining group members.

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