Dr. Shannon Vettor
PhD
Associate Teaching Professor
Graduate Program Director
Forensic Psychology
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Contact information
2 Simcoe Street
- Room 623
Downtown Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5
905.721.8668 ext. 5845
Research Areas
- offender profiling
- sexual aggression
- sexual victimization
Research Biography
Dr. Shannon Vettor is a forensic psychologist who concentrates her research on the collaborative approach that is designed to decrease victimization in a variety of global regions. Dr. Vettors devotes a significant portion of her research to comprehending the characteristics and behaviours that contribute to violent and sexual offences. Her objective is to establish a foundation for more effective rehabilitation and support methods that will prevent reoffending and further potential victimization.Dr. Vettors conducted her doctoral research on the methods of analyzing the criminal behaviours of sexual offenders, rapists, and sexual murderers. She remains committed to the study of offender profiling in order to ascertain whether the commission of crimes can disclose specific characteristics or behaviours that could facilitate law enforcement investigations in the identification of a suspect or the prioritization of suspicions.
Education
- Honours BSc - Double Major in Psychology, and Crime and Deviance University of Toronto
- MSc - Psychology and Investigation University of Liverpool
- PhD - Forensic Psychology University of Birmingham