Prato 2025 – Safer Communities: Creating better outcomes for justice involved people

Andrew Carroll

Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science

Andrew Carroll is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science. He has worked as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in both treatment and assessment roles in Victoria since the late 1990s.

He studied as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, obtaining First Class Honours in Medical Sciences before reading Psychology to Masters level. He then trained in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford.

After training in psychiatry in North Yorkshire, he completed a Research Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh. He then moved to Melbourne and worked at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) for some 25 years, undertaking a variety of roles in its hospital, community and prison services.

He is an experienced expert witness in both criminal and civil matters. He has particular interest in how the effects of mental disorders, and their possible causal relationships to offending behaviour, are considered by the criminal courts at sentencing. He was an expert witness in the landmark case of Brown, that radically changed how personality disorders are taken into account at sentencing in Victoria following an Appeal court ruling (Brown v The Queen [2020] VSCA 212). 

He has co-authored a number of papers and book chapters on the role of mental health expert evidence in the criminal courts.

Dr Carroll also has a role at the Victorian Department of Health as a Deputy Chief Psychiatrist (Forensic Mental Health). In addition, he is Co-Director of Our Curious Minds, a training and consultancy company working in the mental health, psychosocial and legal sectors.

Carlo Garofalo

Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Perugia (Italy), Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education

Carlo Garofalo is a Senior Assistant Professor at the University of Perugia (Italy), Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education. Before joining the University of Perugia in 2022, he graduated from Sapienza University of Rome in 2016, and worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at Tilburg University (Netherlands) from 2015 to 2017.

His main research interests lie at the intersection of personality pathology (mainly, psychopathy), emotion regulation, and aggression, and he has published extensively on these and related topics. In 2022, he co-edited (with Jelle Sijtsema) the book Clinical Forensic Psychology: Introductory Perspectives on Offending for Palgrave MacMillan.

He serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, the Journal of Criminal Justice, the International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, and Frontiers in Psychiatry – section Forensic Psychiatry, as well as a Consulting Editor for Journal of Personality Assessment and Psychological Assessment. Further, he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Criminal Psychology, Advances.in/Psychology, Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, Journal of Forensic Psychology: Research and Practice, and Portuguese Journal of Behavioral and Social Research.

He is a Full Member and member of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society for Forensic Psychotherapy and Rehabilitation, as well as a Full Member of the Italian Association of Psychology, the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy, and the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. Within the latter, he is founding member and co-chair (with Steven Gillespie) of the Section for the Study of Aggression and Antisociality.

Susan McVie

Chair of Quantitative Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Professor McVie OBE FRSE FAcSS is Chair of Quantitative Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.  She is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime; Director of the Policing the Pandemic in Scotland project; Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research; a member of the Scottish Government’s Board of Official Statistics; and an associate member of the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.

Susan has worked in academia for around 30 years and her areas of research include: crime and justice inequalities; changing patterns of victimisation and offending; criminal careers over the life course; transitions from juvenile to adult justice systems; violence and homicide; youth gangs and knife crime; violence and vulnerability; youth offending and ACES; police use of stop and search; non-compliance with the Coronavirus Regulations; policing mental health crises; public health policing; and online drug markets.  Prior to joining the academy, she was a government researcher and focused on multiple areas of policy, including policing, courts and prisons. She has acted as an advisor to governments in Scotland, the UK and a range of international countries on policy issues relating to crime, justice and policing. 

Along with her colleague and co-author, Professor Lesley McAra, Susan received the Howard League for Penal Reform Research Medal in 2013; the University of Edinburgh’s Chancellor’s Award for Impact from HRH Princess Anne in 2016; and the ESRC’s Award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact in 2019. She won the 2021 European Society for Prevention Research President’s Award for a co-authored paper in the British Journal of Criminology.  She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014 and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2020.  She received an OBE for services to social science in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2016.   

Barry Rosenfeld

Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University

Barry Rosenfeld is a Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University, where he co-directs the concentration in Forensic Psychology. He is a Past President of the American Psychology Law Society and the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. He is also a member of the editorial board of several prominent journals and routinely provides workshops on violence risk assessment, malingering and cross-cultural issues in forensic assessment.

Dr. Rosenfeld has published more than 200 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters addressing a wide range of topics in psychology and law, including violence risk assessment, malingering, and cross-cultural issues in forensic assessment. He is board certified in forensic psychology and conducts evaluations in both civil and criminal forensic settings, including violence risk assessment, civil commitment of sex offenders, competency to stand trial, and personal injury/emotional damages.

Dr. Rosenfeld has also been involved in the evaluation of individuals detained in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison and the Guantanamo Bay military prison, consulted to the U.N. War Tribunal regarding the prosecution of Serbian individuals accused of war crimes, and has evaluated Punjabi litigants involved in a class action lawsuit against the government of India and Sudanese refugees living in the U.S. suing for damages suffered during the second Sudanese civil war. He currently consults to multiple television networks on issues related to risk assessment for reality television show participants.