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Patrick McClanahan, Ph.D.

Main Focus

  • Situational Correlates of Crime
  • Offender Decision-Making
  • Offender-Based Research
  • Survey Research
  • Experimental Methods
  • Virtual Reality

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Employment

  • 2026–Present: Head of the Max Planck Partner Group “Individual Differences and the Perceptual Process in Criminal Decision-Making”
  • 2024–Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Alabama
  • 2021–2024: Postdoc, Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany

Education

  • 2021: PhD, Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 2017: MPhil, Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 2014: BS, Psychology, with Second Major in Criminal Justice, Roanoke College, Virginia

Project

virtual reality/neighborhood, street with houses and front yards

Head of project: Jean-Louis van Gelder
The Virtual Burglary Project is a research program co-headed by Prof. Claire Nee (University of Portsmouth) and involves a collaboration with researchers from Leiden University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The Virtual Burglary Project uses a VR approach to better understand the behavior of residential burglars and to contribute to crime… more

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