Claire Nee Ph.D.

Claire Nee started her career at University College, Cork in Ireland where she began her research on how burglars pick the properties they will burgle. She joined the University of Portsmouth, UK after a nine year stint at the UK Home Office Research and Statistics Directorate, undertaking policy-related criminological research. She has been Director of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology since 1997 where she oversees research on offender cognition and emotion; detecting deception, improving investigative practice and eyewitness memory. Over the years Claire's research has included offender-decision-making (particularly burglary and car theft); interventions in prisons; criminality in children; personality disorder in female offenders; electronic monitoring of offenders; intensive supervision of offenders; and racism and sexism within the police force. Her current focus in on the 'dysfunctional expertise' displayed by experienced offenders at the scene of the crime and how this can be used to rehabilitate offenders and reduce opportunities for crime in the community. She is a pioneer for the use of technology (such as using simulated environments and bio-sensors) in understanding criminal decision-making and emotion.