Dr Adrian Grounds, Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute of Criminology, was recently awarded the Yochelson Visiting Professorship at Yale University.
The visiting professorship is granted annually by the Law and Psychiatry Division of the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. It was created by the family of Yale alumnus Dr Samuel Yochelson and granted to distinguished researchers in the fields of forensic psychiatry.
Dr Yochelson was senior author of ‘The Criminal Personality’ (Jason Aronson: New York, 1976, 1977, 1986), a pioneering three volume study that focused on understanding offenders’ thinking processes, the decisions that led to them committing crime, and the consequent processes for enabling cognitive change.
As part of the Visiting Professorship, Dr Grounds will be present at Yale from 8-11 April, during which he will give lectures and seminars. Subjects will include the psychological consequences of miscarriages of justice, on ‘corruption of care’ in psychiatric hospitals, and on his work as a Sentence Review Commissioner in Northern Ireland.
The Institute of Criminology congratulates Dr Grounds for receiving this professorship.