Wineke J Smid Editor

Kasia Uzieblo is Senior Researcher at the Research Department of the Forensic Care Specialists in Utrecht, Netherlands, and Associate Professor at the Department of Criminology of the Free University Brussels, Belgium. Her teaching, trainings and research focus on sexual/family violence and forensic assessment, including risk assessment.

Wineke J. Smid is Head of the Research Department at Forensic Care Specialists in Utrecht, Netherlands. She conducts empirical research (e.g., the etiology of sexual deviance), carries out individual (risk) assessments of residential high-risk sex offenders and is European master trainer for the risk assessment instruments Static-99R, Stable-2007 and Acute-2007.

Kieran McCartan researches sexual offending, risk management, trauma informed practice, and developmental criminology at University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He is an executive board member of ATSA and NOTA, the chair of the Confederation of European Probation working group on sexual offenses, and advises the Council of Europe.