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Dr Ricks Allan

Ricks is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Background

Ricks has worked for a life insurance company for 20 years - in the actuarial, product development, human resources and management information areas.

Ricks has been working at ECU since 1998 with responsibilities in the areas indicated above.

Awards and Recognition

  • 2001: Award of Excellence in Postgraduate Support. Postgraduate and Honours Student Association of Edith Cowan University, Perth.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Apology and Forgiveness
  • Developmental assessment of children
  • Psychometric properties of psychological tests.

Qualifications

  • Doctor Philosophiae, South Africa, 1992.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Wrightson-Hester, A., Allan, A., Allan, R. (2022). Kissing, Grabbing and Grinding: Young Australians’ Personal and Social Norms regarding Nightlife Sexual Behavior. Deviant Behavior: an interdisciplinary journal, 43(8), 959-975. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2021.1945424.
  • Wrightson-Hester, A., Allan, A., Allan, R. (2022). “I'm not batman” and other factors impacting bystander intervention against sexual violence in Australian nightlife settings. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 22(2), 669-693. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12312.
  • Allan, A., De Mott, J., Larkins, I., Turnbull, L., Warwick, T., Willet, L., Allan, R. (2022). The impact of voluntariness of apologies on victims’ responses in restorative justice: findings of a quantitative study. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 29(4), 593-609. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2021.1956383.

Book Chapters

  • Allan, A., Allan, R. (2021). Prompted versus voluntary apologies: What does psychological research tell us?. Apologies in the legal arena: A comparative perspective (251-270). Bonomo Editore. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/11918.

Journal Articles

  • Parry, C., Preece, D., Allan, R., Allan, A. (2021). Alexithymia in non-violent offenders. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 31(1), 44-48. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2177.
  • Preece, D., Parry, C., Allan, R., Allan, A. (2021). Assessing alexithymia in forensic settings: Psychometric properties of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale in a sample of incarcerated adult offenders. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 31(1), 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2176.

Journal Articles

  • Allan, A., Allan, R. (2020). Ethical issues when working with terminally ill people who desire to hasten the ends of their lives: a western perspective. Ethics and Behavior, 30(1), 28-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2019.1592683.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

  • Strickland, J., Martin, K., Allan, A., Allan, R. (2018). An Explanation of Apology Acceptance Based on Lay Peoples’ Insights. Interpersona, 12(1), 68-90. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v12i1.286.

Journal Articles

  • Strickland, J., Parry, CL., Allan, R., Allan, A. (2017). Alexithymia amongst perpetrators of violent offences in Australia: Implications for rehabilitation. Australian Psychologist, 52(3), 230-237. https://doi.org/10.1111/ap.12187.
  • Strickland, J., Allan, A., Allan, R. (2017). The acceptance of apologies: in the Corrective Process: Implications for research and practice. Onati Socio-Legal Series, 7(3), 421-436.
  • Allan, A., Strickland, J., Allan, R. (2017). Interpersonal apologies: A psychological perspective of why they might work in law?. Onati Socio-Legal Series, 7(3), 390-407.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

  • Allan, A., McKillop, D., Dooley, J., Allan, R., Preece, D. (2015). Apologies following an adverse medical event: The importance of focusing on the consumer’s needs. Patient Education and Counseling, 98(9), 1058-1062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2015.06.001.

Book Chapters

  • Allan, A., Allan, R. (2014). The definition and nature of domestic violence. Overcoming Domestic Violence: Creating a Dialogue Around Vulnerable Populations (11-27). Nova Science Publishers.

Book Chapters

  • Slocum, D., McKillop, D., Allan, A., Allan, R., Drake, D. (2011). Apology and acceptance in intimate partner relationships. Interpersonal acceptance and rejection: Social, emotional and educational contexts (175-181). Brown Walker Press.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

  • Allan, R., Giles, M. (2008). Psychometric properties of Scheier and Carver's life orientation test in a sample of Australian prisoners. Psychological Reports, 103(1), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.2466/PR0.103.1.305-322.

Book Chapters

  • Giles, M., Le, AT., Allan, R., Lees, C., Larsen, A., Bennett, L. (2007). The role of ducation and training in prison to work transitions. Vocational education and training for adult prisoners and offenders in Australia: Research readings (67-77). National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Journal Articles

  • Allan, A., Allan, R., Kaminer, D., Stein, D. (2006). Exploration of the association between apology and forgiveness amongst victims of human rights violations. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 24(1), 87-102.
  • Allan, A., Dawson, D., Allan, R. (2006). Prediction of the risk of male sexual reoffending in Australia. Australian Psychologist, 41(1), 60-68.

Journal Articles

  • Allan, A., Allan, R., Giles, M., Drake, D., Froyland, I. (2005). An observational study of bail decision-making. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 12(2), 319-333.

Books

  • Giles, M., Le, AT., Allan, R., Lees, C., Larsen, A., Bennett, L. (2004). To train or not to train: The role of education and training in prison to work transitions. NCVER.

Journal Articles

  • Fisher, S., Allan, A., Allan, R. (2004). An exploratory study to examine the impact of television reports of prison escapes on state anxiety. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56, 181-190.

Journal Articles

  • Allan, A., Allan, R., Marshall, P., Kraszlan, K. (2003). Recidivism among Male Juvenile Sexual Offenders in Western Australia. Psychiatry Psychology and Law, 10(2), 359-378.

Journal Articles

  • Allan, A., Allan, R., Marshall, P., Kraszlan, K. (2002). Juvenile Sexual Offenders in Western Australia: Demographic Characteristics and Offence Histories. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 9, 200-213.
  • Allan, A., Allan, R., Marshall, P., Kraszlan, K. (2002). Juvenile Sexual Offenders Compared to Juvenile Offenders in General in Western Australia. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 9, 214-233.

Journal Articles

  • Martin, M., Allan, A., Allan, R. (2001). The use of psychological tests by Australian psychologists who do assessments for the courts. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53, 77-82.
  • Allan, A., Allan, R., Robers, M., Pienaar, W., Stein, D. (2001). Intoxication, criminal offences and suicide attempts in a group of South African problem drinkers. South African Medical Journal, 91, 145-150.

Research Student Supervision

No data available

Co-principal Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, The nature of the association between male violent offending and alexithymia.
  • Doctor of Psychology, The lived experience of non-offending mothers in cases of intra-familial child sexual abuse: Towards a preliminary model of loss, trauma and recovery
  • Doctor of Psychology, The relationship between forgiveness, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder amongst secondary victims.
  • Doctor of Psychology, An examination of fathers' satisfaction with the legal system: Exploring the concept in relation to fathers' experience with the family law courts of Western Australia
  • Doctor of Psychology, Aims, separation and attitudinal factors in mediation: An exploratory investigation
  • Doctor of Psychology, The effect of legal judgements on responsibility taking behaviour: An exploratory study.
  • Doctor of Psychology, An exploration of perceptions of an offender's true sorriness in an interpersonal context: An offended intimate partner's perspective
  • Doctor of Psychology, Father role identity: An exploration of the construct and its measurement
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The requirement to be fit and proper: What does it mean to Australian psychologists?
  • Doctor of Psychology, Mock jurors' judgements of the victim, crime and defendant as a function of victim race and deliberation
  • Doctor of Psychology, Mental disorder labelling as an extralegal variable in mock jury deliberations
  • Doctor of Psychology, The impact of assessment on repeat deliberate self-harm.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Risk assessment and Western Australian male Aboriginal sexual and violent offenders
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Alexithymia in a psychiatric population: Stability and relationship with therapeutic outcome.

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Aboriginal perspectives about child sexual abuse: Informing the cultural dimension in sex offending theories for use with Aboriginal offenders
  • Doctor of Psychology, The use and potential problems of neuropsychological evidence in Australian tort litigation
  • Doctor of Philosophy, An examination of social desirablility confounds in a new ipsative measure of murray's psychogenic needs.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Faking good on the mcmi-iii and mcmi-iv
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Male victims of intimate partner abuse: Experiences of disclosure and help-seeking
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Young Australian Nightlife Attendees as Active Bystanders to Reduce Unacceptable Sexual Behaviour: A Multimodal Project
  • Doctor of Psychology, A brief screening instrument for use by lawyers to assess the capacity of older clients with memory deficits.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Australian psychologists' perceptions and experiences of client threats.
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