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  1. What Do We Think About Women Who Kill? Validation of the Attitudes Towards Female Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Homicide Scale

    Article • Journal of Interpersonal Violence, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  2. How the Sarah Everard Case has Changed Public Perceptions of Police Officers

    Article • Violence Against Women, August 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  3. Are social media platforms blurring the lines between coercive control and healthy relationship? A study investigating perceptions of coercive control

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  4. The Impact of Offence Type and Gender‐Role Attitudes on Sentencing Decisions for Male and Female Offenders

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, December 2024, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  5. Psychological factors leading to sextortion: The role of personality, emotional factors and sexual needs in victimisation

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  6. Greek sexting landscape: Uncovering consequences beyond the selfie

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, September 2024, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  7. Understanding the variation in offender behaviour and risk factors in cases of homicide perpetrated against the UK homeless population between the years 2000 and 2022

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, February 2024, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  8. Femicide in Northern Ireland during the COVID‐19 lockdown: A model for differentiating male offender characteristics

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  9. Content analysis of infanticide and neonaticide cases in the UK

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, February 2023, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  10. A description and examination of cyber‐bullying victimisation in the UK

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  11. ‘I'm Not Even Bothered if they Think, is that Autism?’: An Exploratory Study Assessing Autism Training Needs for Prison Officers in the Scottish Prison Service

    Article • The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, June 2021, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  12. The relationship of offending style to psychological and social risk factors in a sample of adolescent males

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, June 2020, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  13. Investigating the effects of age and gender on cowitness suggestibility during blame attribution

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, August 2019, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  14. Crime location choices: A geographical analysis of German serial killers

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, January 2019, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  15. Women offenders' emotional experience of crime

    Article • August 2018, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  16. When sex is more than just sex: evaluating police perspectives regarding the challenges in interviewing victims of sexual offences in Jamaica

    Article • Policing & Society, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Stamatis Elntib, Dr Maria Ioannou, Phillip Mcpherson

  17. Applying the Criminal Narrative Experience Framework to Young Offenders

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  18. Group size, misinformation and unanimity influences on co-witness judgements

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  19. Differentiating Contract Killers: A Narrative-Based Approach

    Article • The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, January 2018, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  20. A Content Analysis of Online Suicide Notes: Attempted Suicide Versus Attempt Resulting in Suicide

    Article • Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, September 2017, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  21. Male-on-male sexual assault: Victim, offender and offence characteristics

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  22. Variations in the Journey from Crime: Examples from Tiger Kidnapping

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  23. Criminal Narrative Experience: Relating Emotions to Offence Narrative Roles During Crime Commission

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  24. Offenders’ Crime Narratives Across Different Types of Crimes

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  25. Person Perception Aspects of Judgments of Truthfulness in Public Appeals

    Article • Psychiatry Psychology and Law, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  26. Age effects on juvenile homicide perpetration

    Article • Journal of Criminal Psychology, August 2015, Emerald

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  27. A model for differentiating school shooters characteristics

    Article • Journal of Criminal Psychology, August 2015, Emerald

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  28. The changing face of homicide research: the shift in empirical focus and emerging research trends

    Article • Journal of Criminal Psychology, August 2015, Emerald

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  29. A predictive model of criminality in civil psychiatric populations

    Article • Journal of Criminal Psychology, February 2015, Emerald

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  30. A review of the polygraph: history, methodology and current status

    Article • Crime Psychology Review, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  31. Genuine and simulated suicide notes: An analysis of content

    Article • Forensic Science International, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  32. Expressive and Instrumental Offending

    Article • International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, November 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  33. The Detection of Deception Within Investigative Contexts: Key Challenges and Core Issues

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  34. An empirical framework of control methods of victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation

    Article • Global Crime, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  35. Original article Latent classes of criminal intent associated with criminal behaviour

    Article • Current Issues in Personality Psychology, January 2014, Termedia Sp. z.o.o.

    Professor Daniel Boduszek, Dr Katie Dhingra, Dr Maria Ioannou

  36. Psychosocial correlates of recidivism in a sample of ex-prisoners: the role of oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Daniel Boduszek, Dr Katie Dhingra, Dr Maria Ioannou

  37. Special Issue ofJournal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profilingon The Detection of Deception within Investigative Contexts

    Article • Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  38. A Model of Client-Related Violence Against Female Street Sex Workers

    Article • Journal of Forensic Social Work, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  39. Distinguishing stalker modus operandi: an exploration of the Mullen, Pathé, Purcell, and Stuart (1999) typology in a law-enforcement sample

    Article • Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  40. A MULTIVARIATE MODEL OF STALKING BEHAVIOURS

    Article • Behaviormetrika, January 2004, Behaviormetric Society of Japan

    Dr Maria Ioannou

  41. Serial Murder

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Maria Ioannou