Tamsin Higgs

Department of Psychology 
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7

Pav. Marie-Victorin, local E354
Phone : (514) 343-6111, # 40538

tamsin.higgs@umontreal.ca

Publications

Gauthier, A., Ménard, I., Higgs, T.James, J., & Bouchard, J. P. (2023). La délinquance sexuelle féminine: état des connaissances. In Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique. Elsevier Masson.

Garant, E., Gauthier, A., Higgs, T., James, J., Bouchard, J-P. (2022). Les pédophiles sont-ils tous des agresseurs sexuels d’enfants ?. In Annales Médico-psychologiques. MASSON Éditeur

Higgs, T., Proulx, J., Gauthier, A., Garant, É., & James, J. (2021). Sexual sadism and offending. In Craig, L. A. & Bartels, R. (Eds.), Sexual Deviance: Understanding, Assessing and Managing Deviant Sexual Interests and Paraphilic Disorders. Wiley.

Higgs, T., Lord, A., Stefanska, E.B. & Perkins, D. (2020). Assessing Sadism in Sexual Offenders. In Proulx, J., Cortoni, F., Craig, L. A. & Letourneau E. J. (Eds.), Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders. Contemporary Perspectives in Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention. Wiley-Blackwell.

Proulx, J., James, J. & Higgs, T. (2020). Sexual Murderers. In Proulx, J., Cortoni, F., Craig L. A. & Letourneau E. J. (Eds.), Handbook of What Works with Sexual Offenders. Contemporary Perspectives in Theory, Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention. Wiley-Blackwell.

Higgs, T., & Stefanska, E. (2018). Psychological and criminological factors in diverse types of sexual murderers. In Proulx, J., Carter, A., Beauregard, E., Mokros,A., Darjee, R. & James, J. (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Homicide Studies. UK : Routledge.

Stefanska, E., & Higgs, T. (2018). Understanding the sexual element in sexual murder. In Proulx, J., Carter, A., Beauregard, E., Mokros, A., Darjee, R. & James, J. (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Sexual Homicide Studies. UK: Routledge.

Carter, A., Barnett, G., Stefanska, E., & Higgs, T. (2014). Offense pathways of extrafamilial child molesters. In Proulx, J., Beauregard, E., Lussier, P. & Leclerc. B. Pathways to Sexual Aggression. UK: Routledge.

James, J., Gauthier, A., Garant, É., Ménard, I., Higgs, T., & Bouchard, J. P. (2023). Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur le sadisme sexuel (sans jamais oser le demander). In Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique. Elsevier Masson. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2023.07.001

Bélanger, L., & Higgs, T. (2023). Factors related to motivation to change and therapeutic alliance among men early in treatment following perpetration of child sexual abuse. Journal of sexual aggression, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2023.2249542

Higgs, T., Darjee, R., Davis, M. R., & Carter, A. J. (2023). Grievance-fueled sexual violence. Frontiers in psychology14, 996. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1070484

Giguère, G., Higgs, T., & Charette, Y. (2023). Gender Effects in Actuarial Risk Assessment: An Item Response Theory Psychometric Study of the LS/CMI. Women & Criminal Justice, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2023.2186199

Mikhael, V., Ghabi, R., Belahmer, A., Kadi, R., Guirguis, N., Gutzeit, A., ... & Matoori, S. (2023). Intimate partner violence: Defining the pharmacist’s role. Canadian Pharmacists Journal/Revue des Pharmaciens du Canada156(2), 63-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/17151635231152450

Girard, S., Higgs, T., Brien, T., & Deslauriers-Varin, N. (2023). Intrinsic and extrinsic factors associated with confession in an investigative interviewing context among men who have committed a sexual offense. Investigative Interviewing: Research & Practice13(1).

Olver, M. E., Mundt, J. C., Hogan, N. R., Coupland, R., Eggert, J. E., Higgs, T., ... & Wong, S. C. (2022). Assessing dynamic violence risk: Common language risk levels and recidivism rates for the Violence Risk Scale. Psychological assessment34(6), 528. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001116

Deslauriers, J.-M., Drouin, C., Higgs, T., & Bastonnais, J. (2022). Implementation and functioning of a collaboration agreement for intrafamilial homicide risk intervention. Partner Abuse, 13(2), 217-234. https://doi.org/10.1981/PA-2021-0026

Higgs, T., Allard, V., & Cortoni, F. (2021). Les interventions cognitivo-comportementale appliquées aux hommes reconnus coupables d’infraction sexuelle. Revue internationale de criminologie et de police technique et scientifique, 21, 233-252.

James, J.Higgs, T., & Langevin, S. (2020). Reactive and proactive aggression in sexual homicide offenders. Journal of Criminal Justice71, 101728. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101728

Higgs, T., Olver, M. E., Nunes, K. L., & Cortoni, F. (2020). Risk relevance of psychometric assessment in high-risk violent offenders. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 25(2), 219-236. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12173

Higgs, T.Cortoni, F., & Nunes, K. (2019). Reducing violence risk? Some positive recidivism outcomes for Canadian treated high-risk offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46, 359-373. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854818808830

Higgs, T., James, J., & Proulx, J. (2019). The unusual suspects: Multiple perpetrator and multiple concurrent victim sexual homicide. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63(9), 1705-1725https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X19830854

Stefanska, E. B., Higgs, T., Carter, A. J., & Beech, A. R. (2021). “We boil at different degrees”: Factors associated with severity of attack in sexual killing. Journal of interpersonal violence36(5-6), 2409-2429. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518758333

Higgs, T., Carter, A. J., Tully, R. J., & Browne, K. D. (2017). Sexual murder typologies: A systematic review. Aggression and violent behavior35, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2017.05.004

Higgs, T., Tully, R., & Browne, K. (2017). Psychometric properties in forensic application of the screening version of the Psychopathy Checklist. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative  Criminology, 62(7), 1869-1887. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X17719289

Higgs, T., Stefanska, E., Carter, A., & Browne, K. (2017). The developmental and criminal histories of subgroups of sexual murderers engaging, or not engaging, in post mortem sexual interference, compared to rapists. Journal of Criminal Justice, 53, 92-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.10.001

Stefanska, E., Higgs, T., Carter, A., & Beech, A. (2017). When is a murder a sexual murder? Understanding the sexual element in the classification of sexual killings. Journal of Criminal Justice, 50, 53-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.03.004

Carter, A., Hollin, C., Stefanska, E., Higgs, T., & Bloomfield, S. (2016). The use of crime scene and demographic information in the identification of non-serial sexual homicide. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61(14), 1554-1569. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X16630313

Higgs, T., & Carter, A. (2015). Autism Spectrum Disorder and sexual offending: Responsivity in forensic interventions. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 22, 112-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2015.04.003

Higgs, T., Carter, A. J., Stefanska, E. B., & Glorney, E. (2017). Toward identification of the sexual killer: A comparison of sexual killers engaging in post-mortem sexual interference and non-homicide sexual aggressors. Sexual Abuse29(5), 479-499. https://doi.org/10.1177/1079063215609935

Stefanska, E. B., Carter, A. J., Higgs, T., Bishopp, D., & Beech, A. R. (2015). Offense pathways of non-serial sexual killers. Journal of Criminal Justice43(2), 99-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.01.001

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