Speaking
Dr. Shaffer delivers invited lectures and professional training on violence risk assessment, adolescent offending, statistical analysis, and financial crime. Her audiences include law enforcement agencies, health care services, and academic institutions.
Customized trainings and presentations are available. For availability and speaking inquiries, please get in touch via the contact page.
Selected Professional Trainings
Violence risk assessment and management for adolescent intimate partner violence
IWK Health Youth Forensic Services
Adolescent risk assessment for specialized violence (dating violence, stalking, gang violence)
University of New Mexico Law and Mental Health Webinar Series
Gang Intervention and Exiting Tool (Version 3): Overview and application
Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of BC
Special topics in adolescent risk assessment and management: Intimate partner violence
Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals
Applied statistical analysis for operational settings
Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of BC
Interviewing offenders: Applied approaches
Simon Fraser University
Selected Academic Lectures
Psychopathy and violence risk assessment
York University
Intimate partner violence
University of British Columbia
Intimate partner violence among adolescents
Simon Fraser University
Adolescent offending
Simon Fraser University
Physician-assisted death and mental disorder
Simon Fraser University
Assessing and managing violence risk among adolescent offenders
Simon Fraser University – School of Criminology
Selected Invited Presentations
Strengthening financial crime research through collaboration
Law Enforcement Research Network
The legal profession’s role in Canadian money laundering
Europol Anti-Money Laundering Operational Network Meeting, Paris,
Crime severity index and cost of crime estimates methodology
Vancouver Police Department
Speaking to the media: The dos and don’ts of disseminating your research
Simon Fraser University Forensic Psychology-Law Area Research Seminar
Violence against teachers
BC Teachers’ Federation Violence Summit
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