Dr Casey is a Senior Research Fellow in clinical forensic psychology in the School of Psychology. Her primary role is associated with the provision of research and training services for the Singapore Prison Service and the Singapore Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. Dr Casey also holds an ARC Linkage grant (with Corrective Services New South Wales) examining the impact of drug treatment modality, coercion and treatment readiness on criminal recidivism.
A member of the Clinical Forensic Research Group in The Forensic Psychology Centre, Dr Casey’s research interests include offender rehabilitation (particularly in relation to substance abuse), treatment readiness, psychometrics and evidence-based assessment, program evaluation, and juvenile justice.
Memberships
Australian & New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
Service to the University, discipline or community
Regular reviewer of papers submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals. Examiner of external postgraduate theses.
Conferences
The psychometric assessment of treatment readiness: Psychology and the Law. Invited Symposium. International Congress of Applied Psychology, Melbourne, Australia, July 11-16, 2010.
Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Juvenile Justice and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Do they coexist? 31st Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, New York, USA, June 28th - July 4th, 2009.
Offender Reintegration: An RNR-GLM Framework. 31st Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, New York, USA, June 28th - July 4th, 2009
Online, Distance Education in Correctional Law as a Tool of International Social Change. 60th Meeting American Society of Criminology: Reinvigorating Theory Through Diversity and Inclusiveness, St Louis, USA, November 12-15, 2008
Validation of a treatment readiness screening measure for violent offenders. 3rd International Congress of Psychology and Law, Adelaide, 3-8 July 2007.