Professor Sheilagh Hodgins is the best known, and most highly respected forensic psychologist/clinical criminologist in Canada. Her research interests, sustained over thirty-five years, focus on how schizophrenia and personality disorders can be best characterized and understood.

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HODGINS, Sheilagh
Professor Sheilagh Hodgins is the best known, and most highly respected forensic psychologist/clinical criminologist in Canada. Her research interests, sustained over thirty-five years, focus on how schizophrenia and personality disorders can be best characterized and understood. Of particular interest to her is how these and related conditions affect violent behaviour. She specializes in the carrying out of tightly controlled, well-funded, large-scale collaborative projects in Canada and Internationally. These rely on both clinical and epidemiological methods. In 2004, she received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.