Dr Maria Ioannoum.ioannou@hud.ac.uk | 01484 471174
Dr Maria Ioannou, a Chartered Psychologist, has been a member of the IRCIP for the past nine years. She obtained a first class undergraduate degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Pedagogics from the University of Ioannina, Greece in 2000. In 2001 she completed her MSc in Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool. Her dissertation was on The Experience of Crime focusing on the roles that offenders act out and the emotions they experience while they are committing their crimes. She developed this research for her PhD, which she completed in 2006.
Dr Ioannou has been involved in the assessment of intervention programmes for reducing/preventing crime for a range of different forms of criminality and groups of offenders. Typically these evaluations have required assessments of change/impact/influence of the interventions on individuals and their criminal behaviour as well as assessments of the overall programme itself. She has also contributed to consultancy reports and been involved in consultancy work with a range of police forces and other agencies such as the Safer Merseyside Partnership, Merseyside Police, Liverpool City Council, Lancashire Constabulary, the Ministry of Defence as well as in a number of legal cases that involved among others preparation of background material and investigative advice on Forensic Psycholinguistics/ Questioned Authorship Attribution, interpretation of psychological measures on a case of offender profiling with personality and other psychometric assessment and analysis of the psychological features indicated within personal documents. .
Dr Ioannou is a Senior Lecturer and the Deputy Course Director for the MSc Investigative Psychology.
Her research interests include the emotional experience of offending, criminal narratives, psychological characteristics of offenders, the relationship between personality and crime, mental disorder and crime, stalking behaviour, sexual offences, homicide.
Youngs, D. and Ioannou, M. (2013) ‘A Model of Client-Related Violence against Street-Workers ’ Journal of Forensic Social Work . ISSN 1936-9298
Youngs, D., Ioannou, M. and Straszewicz, A. (2013) ‘Distinguishing stalking modus operandi: An exploration of the Mullen et al (1999) typology in a law-enforcement sample’ Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology . ISSN 1478-9949
Barcroft, L. and Ioannou, M. (2013) ‘Behavioural Characteristics of Missing Persons’. In: First International Conference on Missing Children and Adults, 18-20 June 2013, Portsmouth
Ioannou, M (2013) ‘Emotions as explanations of crime’. In: The behavioural analysis of crime. Festschrift in honour of Professor David Canter. Aldershot: Ashgate. .
Wilmott, D. and Ioannou, M. (2012) ‘Profiling the Rioters: An Exploratory Narrative Examination of the August 2011 England Riots’. In: 14th International Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology , 05-07 December 2012, London
Oostinga, M. and Ioannou, M. (2012) ‘Targeting the Victims of Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in the Netherlands: An Empirical Framework of Entrapment.’. In: 14th International Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology , 05-07 December 2012, London
Simpson, O. and Ioannou, M. (2012) ‘Differentiating School Shooters: A Narrative Action Systems Model’. In: 14th International Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology , 05-07 December 2012, London
Youngs, D. and Ioannou, M. (2012) ‘An Empirical Examination of the Mullen et al. (1999) Typology of Stalking’ Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology . ISSN 1478-9949
Hammond, L., Canter, D., Youngs, D. and Ioannou, M. (2012) ‘The Geospatial Patterning of Insurgent Activity in Al Basra, Iraq ’. In: European Association of Psychology and Law, 10-13 April 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus
Ioannou, M. and Hammond, L. (2012) ‘A Thematic Analysis of School Shooting Incidents ’. In: European Association of Psychology and Law, 10-13 April 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus
Ioannou, M., Youngs, D. and Eagles, J. (2011) ‘Violence Against Street-workers’. In: 13th International Facet Theory Conference , 11-13 July 2011, Huddersfield, UK
Straszewicz, A., Youngs, D. and Ioannou, M. (2011) ‘Empirical test of the Mullen et al. Typology of Stalkers’. In: 4th Cracow Conference of Psychology and Law, 4-5 June 2011, Cracow, Poland
Hammond, L. and Ioannou, M. (2011) ‘Desistance from Crime: A Thematic Analysis of Motivators and Roles’. In: 12th Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology , 31 March-2 April 2011, Amsterdam
Chungh, G., Canter, D., Youngs, D. and Ioannou, M. (2011) ‘False Appeals: Detecting truths and Deceit in Naturally Occurring High Stake Lies.’. In: 12th Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology , 31 March-2 April 2011, Amsterdam
Hammond, L. and Ioannou, M. (2011) ‘Desistance from Crime: A Thematic Analysis of Motivators and Roles’. In: 12th International Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology, 31st March - 2nd April 2011, Amsterdam
Jones, K., Youngs, D. and Ioannou, M. (2011) ‘Do Offenders Specialise Within Criminal Careers?’. In: 12th Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology , 31 March-2 April 2011, Amsterdam
Eagles, J., Youngs, D. and Ioannou, M. (2011) ‘Moving Beyond Typologies: Reconciling the Paradox of Specialisation and Versatility within Offending Behaviour’. In: 12th Conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology , 31 March-2 April 2011, Amsterdam
Youngs, D., Ioannou, M. and Eagles, J. (2010) ‘Violence against street workers’. In: 3rd Annual British Psychological Society North East Branch Conference, 22 October 2010, Durham, UK
Ioannou, M (2010) ‘Serial Murder’. In: Violent crime: Clinical and social implications. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. . ISBN 9781412959933
Hammond, L. and Ioannou, M. (2010) ‘Revisiting Criminals’ Mental Maps: Prolific Offenders’ Cognitive Representations of Space’. In: British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Conference, 23-25 June 2010, Kent
Ioannou, M (2010) ‘Reasons for desistance from crime’. In: British Psychological Society Annual Conference, 14-16 April 2010, Stratford- Upon -Avon
Hodgeson, N. and Ioannou, M. (2010) ‘An Introduction to the Integrated Offender Management Unit in Lancashire Constabulary’. In: Launch event for the Institute of Applied Criminology and Forensic Science, 17 March 2010, Leeds
Ioannou, M (2010) ‘The relationship between criminals’ emotional experience and types of crimes’. In: 9th International Investigative Psychology Conference, January 21st-22nd 2010, London
Ioannou, M. and Hammond, L. (2010) ‘When and why do criminals desist? ’. In: 9th International Investigative Psychology Conference, January 21st-22nd 2010, London
Ioannou, M (2009) ‘Criminal Narrative Roles’. In: Nordic Network for Research on Psychology and Law, 9-10 October 2009, Tallinn, Estonia
Canter, D., Ioannou, M. and Youngs, D. (2009) ‘Sex and violence: The experience and management of street prostitution’. In: Safer Sex in the City: The experience and management of street prostitution . Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 1-10. ISBN 978-0-7546-2615-2
Canter, D., Ioannou, M. and Youngs, D. (2009) Safer Sex in the City: The Experience and Management of Street Prostitution . Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd . ISBN 9780754626152
Ioannou, M. and Canter, D. (2009) ‘Criminal Narrative Roles During Offence Commission’. In: British Psychological Society Division of Forensic Psychology Conference, 23-25 June 2009, Preston
Ioannou, M (2008) ‘Domestic violence’. In: Criminal Psychology. London: Hodder Education. pp. 85-100. ISBN 9780340928929
Ioannou, M (2008) ‘Individualistic explanations of crime’. In: Criminal Psychology: Topics in Applied Psychology. London: Hodder Education. pp. 21-36. ISBN 9780340928929
Ioannou, M. and Greenall, P. (2008) ‘Mental disorder and crime’. In: Criminal Psychology: Topics in Applied Psychology. London: Hodder Education. pp. 55-68. ISBN 9780340928929
Ioannou, M. and Vettor, S. (2008) ‘Social explanations of crime’. In: Criminal Psychology: Topics in Applied Psychology. London: Hodder Education. pp. 37-53. ISBN 9780340928929
Ioannou, M. and Canter, D. (2008) ‘Criminals’ emotional experience during offence commission’. In: British Psychological Society Annual Conference, 2-4 April 2008, Dublin, Ireland
Ioannou, M. and Canter, D. (2008) ‘Emotional experience during offence commission’. In: New Directions in Offender Profiling: The Principles and Practice of Investigative Psychology Conference, 15-16 January 2008, London
Ioannou, M. and Youngs, D. (2006) ‘Introduction: Explorations in investigative psychology and contemporary offender profiling’. In: Explorations in investigative psychology and contemporary offender profiling . London: IA-IP Publishing. pp. 7-10. ISBN 9781905894000
Ioannou, M. and Youngs, D. (2006) Explorations in investigative psychology and contemporary offender profiling . London: IA-IP Publishing . ISBN 9781905894000
Ioannou, M (2006) ‘Criminals’ experience during offence commission’. In: 16th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), 27-30 June 2006, Liverpool
Ioannou, M (2006) Hero or villain? Criminals’ experience of crime Doctoral thesis, University of Liverpool.
Canter, D. and Ioannou, M. (2004) ‘Criminals emotional experiences during crimes’ International Journal of Forensic Psychology , 1 (2), pp. 71-81. ISSN 1448-4374
Canter, D. and Ioannou, M. (2004) ‘A multivariate model of stalking behaviours’ Behaviormetrika , 31 (2), pp. 113-130. ISSN 0385-7417
Canter, D., Kaouri, C. and Ioannou, M. (2003) ‘The facet structure of criminal narratives’. In: 9th International Facet Theory Conference, 20-23 July 2003, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ioannou, M. and Canter, D. (2003) ‘The experience of crime: Emotions and roles experienced while committing an offence’. In: European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), 7-12 July 2003, Edinburgh
Canter, D., Kaouri, C. and Ioannou, M. (2003) ‘The facet structure of criminal narratives’. In: Facet theory: towards cumulative social science. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Univerza v Ljubljani. pp. 27-38. ISBN 9612370540
Ioannou, M (2001) The experience of crime: Emotions and roles experienced while committing an offence Masters thesis, University of Liverpool.
Paleologou, A., Petrogiannis, K., Ziara, K., Ioannou, M., Kokinidou, V., Koutiva, B. and Tiktapanidou, A. (1999) ‘From the Clients View: Comparative Psychotherapy’. In: 7th Annual Conference of Psychological Research, 25-28 March 1999, Nicosia, Cyprus
