Kelly Babchishin
Assistant Professor
- Ph.D.
- Email Kelly Babchishin
Biography
Kelly M. Babchishin is an Assistant Professor of forensic psychology within the Department of Psychology. After completing her Ph.D. (experimental psychology, 杏吧原创 University), Kelly completed a Banting postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Mental Health Research (Ottawa) and the Karolinska Institute Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Stockholm; 2013-2017). Prior to starting at 杏吧原创, Kelly was a research advisor at the Public Safety Canada (Correction Research Unit, 2017-2019) and the Parole Board of Canada (2019-2021) where she conducted research to facilitate evidence-based policies for justice-involved individuals within Canada.
Research Interests
My research uses an epidemiological and socioecological framework to provide novel information on factors involved in the development and maintenance of sexually harmful behaviours with the ultimate goal of improving prevention efforts. I use population-based, family-based, cohort, and convenience sampling strategies.
Ongoing research projects involves: (1) incest and sexual behaviours between siblings, (2) online sexual offending, (3) causal candidates for sexual offending, (4) sexting and the non-consensual sharing of sexual materials, and (5) risk assessment for individuals adjudicated for sexual offences.
More information on my research can be found on my lab鈥檚 website.
Selected Publications (*students/trainees)
Holmes, E. J.*, &聽Babchishin, K. M.聽(2025). Safe sexting, sexual orientation, and gender: Risky sexting in a community sample.聽Archives of Sexual Behavior,听54(8), 2921-2931.聽
Baskurt, S.*,听聽Babchishin, K. M.,听Hilkes, G.*, & Seto,听M.C.(2025). A meta-analysis of recidivism rates among individuals who commit child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) offending.聽Aggression and Violent Behavior, 85, 102080.聽
Babchishin, K. M., Seto, M. C., & L氓ngstr枚m, N. (2025). Psychiatric and neurological morbidity predicts sexual offending: A nationwide, population-based, case-control study. Journal of Criminal Justice, 96,
O鈥橠onaghy, M.*,聽Babchishin, K. M.,听Culp, G.*, Zarbl, R.*, & Hinkson, A. G.*聽(2025). An Efficient Measure of Sexual Interest in Children: The Revised Screening Scale for Pedophilic Interests (SSPI-2).聽Sexual Abuse,听37(8),听
Jonkers Both, D., Babchishin, K. M., Bouman, Y. H. A., Burger, J., Sjerps, M., & van den Berg, J. W. (2025). Nodewise Predictability in Cross-Sectional Data Does Not Outperform Mechanical Totals in Predicting Sexual Reoffending. Assessment. Advance online publication.
Babchishin, K. M.,听Holmes, E. J.*, Banse, R., Huppertz, L., & Seto, M. C. (2024). Characteristics and risk factors for sibling incest.聽PloS one,听19(12), e0314550.聽
Eke, A. W., Babchishin, K. M., Paquette, S., Scott, S. B., Batinic, M., Fortin, F., & Seto, M. C. (2024). Comparing the Static-99R and the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT) in two Canadian samples adjudicated of child sexual exploitation material offenses. Journal of Criminal Justice, 95, 102303.
Holmes, E. J.*,听Baskurt, S.*, Hilkes, G.*, &聽Babchishin, K. M.聽(2024). Non-consensual forwarding of sexts: Characteristics and overlap with in-person sexual coercion.聽Journal of Sexual Aggression, 1-16.
Babchishin, K. M.,听Dibayula, S.*, McCulloch, C.*, Hanson, R. K.*, & Helmus, L. M.*聽(2023). ACUTE-2007 and STABLE-2007 predict recidivism for men adjudicated for child sexual exploitation material offending.聽Law and Human Behavior,听47(5), 606-618.聽
Brown, S., Olver, M., Babchishin, K. M., & Forth, A. (2023). Psychology of Criminal Behaviour: A Canadian Perspective (3rd edition). Pearson.