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HARPER, C.A., LIEVESLEY, R., WOODWARD, E., WILSON, R., STUBBS, L., BONEHAM, C. and NORTON-CLARKE, E., 2025. Development and validation of a measure of attitudes toward sex doll ownership. Psychology and Sexuality. ISSN 1941-9899 (Forthcoming)

LIEVESLEY, R., HARPER, C.A. and WOODWARD, E., 2025. Toward a holistic approach to treatment and support for people with attractions to children. Current Sexual Health Reports. ISSN 1548-3584

LIEVESLEY, R., SWABY, H., STEVENSON, J. and HARPER, C.A., 2025. “Not offending is easy. The double life, the secrets, the loneliness are the hardest parts I needed help with”: understanding the treatment needs of people with attractions to children. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 51 (1), pp. 22-41. ISSN 0092-623X

WOODWARD, E., LIEVESLEY, R., HARPER, C.A. and MCDERMOTT, D.T., 2024. Sexual fulfilment, wellbeing and risk considerations for people with sexual attractions to children. Child Abuse and Neglect: 107037. ISSN 0145-2134

VINTER, L.P., HARPER, C.A., DILLON, G. and WINDER, B., 2024. Mental wellbeing, but not prison climate, mediates the association between autistic traits and treatment readiness among men with sexual convictions. Journal of Sexual Aggression. ISSN 1355-2600

FIDO, D., HARPER, C., DUFF, S. and PAGE, T., 2024. Understanding social judgments of and proclivities to commit upskirting. Sexual Abuse. ISSN 1079-0632 (Forthcoming)

LIEVESLEY, R. and HARPER, C.A., 2024. The interaction between perceived chronological age and physical sexual development in attractiveness judgments made by people who are attracted to children. Psychology and Sexuality. ISSN 1941-9899

VINTER, L.P., DILLON, G., WINDER, B. and HARPER, C.A., 2023. A multi-perspective qualitative study about working with autistic individuals in prison-based interventions to address sexual offending. Sexual Abuse. ISSN 1079-0632

VINTER, L., DILLON, G., WINDER, B. and HARPER, C., 2023. A multi-perspective qualitative study about working with autistic individuals in prison-based interventions to address sexual offending. Sexual Abuse. ISSN 1079-0632 (Forthcoming)

LIEVESLEY, R., HARPER, C., WOODWARD, E. and TENBERGEN, G., 2023. Fantasy sexual material use by people with attractions to children. Current Psychiatry Reports. ISSN 1523-3812 (Forthcoming)

LIEVESLEY, R., REYNOLDS, R. and HARPER, C., 2023. The ‘perfect’ partner: understanding the lived experiences of men who own sex dolls. Sexuality and Culture. ISSN 1095-5143 (Forthcoming)

PURSER, H.R.M. and HARPER, C.A., 2023. Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021). Humor, 36 (1), pp. 135-150. ISSN 0933-1719

HARPER, C.A., RUMNEY, P.N.S. and SACKEY, D.A., 2023. Are sex offending allegations viewed differently? Exploring the effect of offense type and conviction status on criminal stigmatization. Sexual Abuse. ISSN 1079-0632 (Forthcoming)

LIEVESLEY, R., HARPER, C.A., SWABY, H. and WOODWARD, E., 2022. Identifying and working with appropriate treatment targets with people who are sexually attracted to children. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy. ISSN 0092-623X

HARPER, C.A. and LIEVESLEY, R., 2022. Exploring the ownership of child-like sex dolls. Archives of Sexual Behavior. ISSN 0004-0002

HARPER, C., PURSER, H. and BAGULEY, T., 2022. Do concepts creep to the left and the right? Evidence for ideologically-salient concept breadth judgments across the political spectrum. Social Psychological and Personality Science. ISSN 1948-5506 (Forthcoming)

HARPER, C., SMITH, L., LEACH, J., DARUWALA, N. and FIDO, D., 2022. Development and validation of the Beliefs about Revenge Pornography Questionnaire. Sexual Abuse. ISSN 1079-0632

FIDO, D., RAO, J. and HARPER, C., 2022. Celebrity status, sex, and variation in psychopathy predicts judgements of and proclivity to generate and distribute deepfake pornography. Computers in Human Behavior, 129: 107141. ISSN 0747-5632

HARPER, C. and HICKS, R., 2022. The effect of attitudes towards individuals with sexual convictions on professional and student risk judgments. Sexual Abuse. ISSN 1079-0632

HARPER, C. and RHODES, D., 2022. Ideological responses to the breaking of COVID-19 social distancing recommendations. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. ISSN 1368-4302

HARPER, C., LIEVESLEY, R. and WANLESS, K., 2022. Exploring the psychological characteristics and risk-related cognitions of individuals who own sex dolls. Journal of Sex Research. ISSN 0022-4499 (Forthcoming)

LIEVESLEY, R., SWABY, H., HARPER, C.A. and WOODWARD, E., 2022. Primary health professionals’ beliefs, experiences, and willingness to treat minor attracted persons. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51 (2), pp. 923-943. ISSN 0004-0002

HARPER, C.A., LIEVESLEY, R., BLAGDEN, N.J. and HOCKEN, K., 2021. Humanizing pedophilia as stigma reduction: a large-scale intervention study. Archives of Sexual Behavior. ISSN 0004-0002

HARPER, C.A., FIDO, D. and PETRONZI, D., 2021. Delineating non-consensual sexual image offending: towards an empirical approach. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 58: 101547. ISSN 1359-1789

HARPER, C.A. and RHODES, D., 2021. Reanalysing the factor structure of the moral foundations questionnaire. British Journal of Social Psychology. ISSN 0144-6665

LIEVESLEY, R. and HARPER, C., 2021. Applying desistance principles to improve wellbeing and prevent child sexual abuse among minor-attracted persons. Journal of Sexual Aggression. ISSN 1355-2600

HARPER, C., LIEVESLEY, R., BLAGDEN, N., AKERMAN, G., WINDER, B. and BAUMGARTNER, E., 2020. Development and validation of the Good Lives Questionnaire. Psychology, Crime and Law. ISSN 1068-316X

HARPER, C.A. and LIEVESLEY, R., 2020. Sex doll ownership: an agenda for research. Current Psychiatry Reports, 22: 54. ISSN 1523-3812

HARPER, C.A., FRANCO, V. and WILLS, M., 2020. Excusing and justifying rape cognitions in judgements of sexually-coercive dating scenarios. Sexual Abuse, 32 (5), pp. 543-566. ISSN 1079-0632

LIEVESLEY, R., HARPER, C.A. and ELLIOTT, H., 2020. The internalization of social stigma among minor-attracted persons: Implications for treatment. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49 (4), pp. 1291-1304. ISSN 0004-0002

HARPER, C.A., SATCHELL, L.P., FIDO, D. and LATZMAN, R.D., 2020. Functional fear predicts public health compliance in the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. ISSN 1557-1874

WARE, J., BLAGDEN, N. and HARPER, C., 2020. Are categorical deniers different? Understanding demographic, personality, and psychological differences between denying and admitting sex offenders. Deviant Behavior, 41 (4), pp. 399-412. ISSN 0163-9625

HARPER, C.A., PERKINS, C. and JOHNSON, D., 2020. Psychological factors influencing religious congregation members' reporting of alleged sexual abuse. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 26 (1), pp. 129-144. ISSN 1355-2600

FIDO, D., HARPER, C.A., DAVIS, M.A., PETRONZI, D. and WORRALL, S., 2019. Intrasexual competition as a predictor of women's judgments of revenge pornography offending. Sexual Abuse. ISSN 1079-0632

HOGUE, T.E. and HARPER, C.A., 2019. Development of a 21-item short form of the Attitudes to Sexual Offenders (ATS) scale. Law and Human Behavior, 43 (1), pp. 117-130. ISSN 0147-7307

SATCHELL, L., JOHNSON, H., HUDSON, C.A. and HARPER, C., 2019. Dispositional disinhibition and alcohol use disorders: personality, risk appraisal and problematic alcohol consumption. Substance Use and Misuse. ISSN 1082-6084

HARPER, C.A. and HOGUE, T.E., 2019. The role of intuitive moral foundations in Britain's vote on EU membership. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 29 (2), pp. 90-103. ISSN 1052-9284

HARPER, C.A. and PERKINS, C., 2018. Reporting child sexual abuse within religious settings: challenges and future directions. Child Abuse Review, 27 (1), pp. 30-41. ISSN 0952-9136

HARPER, C.A. and BARTELS, R.M., 2018. Implicit theories and offender representativeness in judgments about sexual crime. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 30 (3), pp. 276-295. ISSN 1079-0632

HARPER, C.A., BARTELS, R.M. and HOGUE, T.E., 2018. Reducing stigma and punitive attitudes toward pedophiles through narrative humanization. Sexual Abuse, 30 (5), pp. 533-555. ISSN 1079-0632

HARPER, C.A., HOGUE, T.E. and BARTELS, R.M., 2017. Attitudes towards sexual offenders: what do we know, and why are they important? Aggression and Violent Behavior, 34, pp. 201-213. ISSN 1359-1789

HARPER, C.A. and HARRIS, A.J., 2017. Applying moral foundations theory to understanding public views of sexual offending. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 23 (2), pp. 111-123. ISSN 1355-2600

HARPER, C.A. and HOGUE, T.E., 2017. Press coverage as a heuristic guide for social decision-making about sexual offenders. Psychology, Crime & Law, 23 (2), pp. 118-134. ISSN 1068-316X

HARPER, C.A. and BARTELS, R.M., 2017. The influence of implicit theories and offender characteristics on judgements of sexual offenders: a moderated mediation analysis. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 23 (2), pp. 139-150. ISSN 1355-2600

HARPER, C.A. and HOGUE, T.E., 2015. The emotional representation of sexual crime in the national British press. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 34 (1), pp. 3-24. ISSN 0261-927X

HARPER, C.A. and HOGUE, T.E., 2015. Measuring public perceptions of sex offenders: reimagining the Community Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders (CATSO) scale. Psychology, Crime & Law, 21 (5), pp. 452-470. ISSN 1068-316X

HARPER, C.A. and HOGUE, T.E., 2014. A prototype-willingness model of sexual crime discourse in England and Wales. The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 53 (5), pp. 511-524. ISSN 2059-1098

HARPER, C. and TREADWELL, J., 2013. Counterblast: punitive Payne, justice campaigns, and popular punitivism - where next for 'public criminology'? The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 52 (2), pp. 216-222. ISSN 2059-1098

HARPER, C.A., 2012. In pursuit of the beast: undergraduate attitudes towards sex offenders and implications for society, rehabilitation and British psychology education. Internet Journal of Criminology. ISSN 2045-6743

Chapter in book

LIEVESLEY, R. and HARPER, C., 2021. Understanding minor attraction. In: L.A. CRAIG and R.M. BARTELS, eds., Sexual deviance: understanding and managing deviant sexual interests and paraphilic disorders. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 132-144. ISBN 9781119705833

HARPER, C., WILSON, C., HOCKEN, K., AWAN, T. and LIEVESLEY, R., 2020. Religiously responsive treatment for people convicted of sexual offences. In: B. WINDER, N. BLAGDEN, K. HOCKEN, H. SWABY, R. LIEVESLEY and P. BANYARD, eds., Sexual crime, religion, and spirituality. Sexual crime . London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 115-138. ISBN 9783030260392

HARPER, C., 2019. Public attitudes and penal policy in the desistance process for sexual offenders. In: N. BLAGDEN, B. WINDER, K. HOCKEN, R. LIEVESLEY, P. BANYARD and H. ELLIOTT, eds., Sexual crime and the experience of imprisonment. Sexual crime . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-218. ISBN 9783030049294

HARPER, C., 2018. Social and professional attitudes in the prevention of sexual abuse. In: R. LIEVESLEY, K. HOCKEN, H. ELLIOTT, B. WINDER, N. BLAGDEN and P. BANYARD, eds., Sexual crime and prevention. Sexual crime . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157-179. ISBN 9783319982427

HARPER, C., 2018. The role of the media in shaping responses to sexual offending. In: H. ELLIOTT, K. HOCKEN, R. LIEVESLEY, N. BLAGDEN, B. WINDER and P. BANYARD, eds., Sexual crime and circles of support and accountability. Sexual crime . Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-150. ISBN 9783319748221

Conference contribution

HARPER, C. and LIEVESLEY, R., 2022. Exploring the psychology of men’s ownership of sex dolls. In: British Psychology Society Male Psychology Section Annual Conference, Preston, UK, 06 June 2022.

LIEVESLEY, R. and HARPER, C., 2019. Suppression as an indicator of internalized stigma in people with sexual interests in children. In: Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, 1 November 2019.

HARPER, C., LIEVESLEY, R., BLAGDEN, N., CARPENTER, T. and HOCKEN, K., 2019. Using narrative humanization to reduce the social stigmatization of pedophilia. In: Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA, 1 November 2019.

VINTER, L.P., DILLON, G., WINDER, B. and HARPER, C., 2019. Sexual offending rehabilitation experiences of men with autism spectrum conditions: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. In: The British Psychological Society, Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference 2019, Liverpool, 18-20 June 2019.

VINTER, L.P., DILLON, G., WINDER, B. and HARPER, C., 2019. Staff experiences of autism spectrum conditions in prison-based sexual offending rehabilitation. In: The British Psychological Society, Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference 2019, Liverpool, 18-20 June 2019.

VINTER, L.P., DILLON, G., WINDER, B. and HARPER, C., 2019. Autism spectrum conditions in prison-based sexual offending rehabilitation: service user & staff views. In: National Autistic Society 18th International Conference on the Care and Treatment of Offenders with an Intellectual and/or Developmental Disability, Birmingham, 10-11 April 2019.

HARPER, C., BLAGDEN, N., LIEVESLEY, R., WINDER, B., AKERMAN, G. and BAUMGARTNER, E., 2019. Development and validation of a psychometric measure of primary human goods. In: BPS Division of Forensic Psychology Annual Conference 2019, Liverpool, 18-20 June 2019.

HARPER, C., LIEVESLEY, R., BLAGDEN, N., AKERMAN, G., WINDER, B. and BAUMGARTNER, E., 2019. Development and validation of the Good Lives Questionnaire. In: European Association of Psychology and Law Annual Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 17-20 July 2019.

REBECCA, L., HARPER, C., REYNOLDS, R., DAVIS, M. and MALCOLM, J., 2019. Exploring and understanding the experiences of people who own sex dolls. In: Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers 38th Annual Research and Treatment Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 6-9 November 2019.

LIEVESLEY, R. and HARPER, C., 2019. Thought suppression as an indicator of self-stigmatization among minor-attracted persons. In: European Association of Psychology and Law Annual Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 17-20 July 2019.

HARPER, C., LIEVESLEY, R., ELLIOTT, H., MCLOCKIN, G. and NORMAN, C., 2018. Suppression as an indicator of internalised stigma in people with sexual interests in children. In: International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, 29 August 2018.

VINTER, L., DILLON, G., WINDER, B. and HARPER, C., 2018. Autism Spectrum conditions in prison-based sex offender assessments and interventions. In: NTU Department of Psychology PhD Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, May 2018.

HARPER, C. and BAGULEY, T., 2018. Ideological (a)symmetries in news legitimacy judgements. In: British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, 9 May 2018.

HARPER, C., 2018. Microaggression perception across the ideological spectrum. In: British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, 9 May 2018.

HARPER, C., 2018. Acting on impulse about sexual crime. In: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Bristol, 8 March 2018.

VINTER, L., DILLON, G., WINDER, B. and HARPER, C., 2018. Autism and prison-based sex offender treatment: a staff perspective. In: NTU School of Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, March 2018.

HARPER, C., BARTELS, R., HOGUE, T., LIEVESLEY, R. and BLAGDEN, N., 2018. Using narrative humanization to improve social attitudes towards people with paedophilic sexual interests. In: 15th Conference of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO), Vilnius, Lithuania, 28-31 August 2018.

BARTELS, R. and HARPER, C., 2018. An exploration of the factor structure of Gray et al.’s Sexual Fantasy Questionnaire. In: 15th Conference of the International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO), Vilnius, Lithuania, 28-31 August 2018.