Virtual Reality and the Criminal Justice System:  New Possibilities for Research, Training, and Rehabilitation

Ticknor, Bobbie; Tillinghast, Sherry

doi:10.4101/jvwr.v4i2.2071

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“…There are still costs involved and skills required to create a VE (Ausburn et al, 2004), but this has moved to well within the reach of the average university research department. As Ticknor and Tillinghast (2011) note, setting up a basic semiimmersive system roughly equals the cost and technical expertise needed to set up a new computer work station. Furthermore, a clear benefit of contemporary VR systems is their re-usability (Das, et al, 2005, Sims, 2007.…”

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“…A player allows users to navigate and interact with the VEs that were created with the editing programme. The platform can be used in immersive and nonimmersive ways and runs on standard PCs using Microsoft Windows and an upgraded graphics card (Ticknor and Tillinghast, 2011).…”

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“…In case of immersive virtual reality (IVR), a user is perceptually surrounded by the virtual environment and his/her awareness of the real world is minimized (Loomis et al 1999;Ticknor & Tillinghast, 2011). As real world sensory input is blocked, this can generate the impression that one has actually stepped inside the virtual environment and create an illusion of involvement with the artificial world (Witmer & Singer, 1998).…”

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“…Presence, finally, refers to a subjective sense of "being there", i.e., in the place depicted by the virtual reality rather than the physical place where the user's body is actually located and the tendency to respond to the virtual events and environment as if they were real (Slater, 2004;Slater et al, 2006). Presence is related to immersion in the sense that a greater level of immersion is also likely to generate a greater sense of presence (Ticknor & Tillinghast, 2011). However, whereas immersion refers to the actual configuration of the interface and VR setup, presence refers to a psychological state that reflects emotional, physical and cognitive engagement with the VE.…”

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“…Think, for example, of a game controller or joystick that tracks the user's motions in the real world and moves the player's character forward on the computer screen, rendering a new environment (Fox et al, 2009). Through a computer-generated image or animated character, an avatar, a user can move around the virtual world and pick up and interact with virtual objects in the going (Ticknor & Tillinghast, 2011).…”

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Using virtual reality in criminological research

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Since the pioneering early studies of the 1990s hinted at its promise as a research method, virtual reality (VR) technology has increasingly been used by social scientists. Given recent developments that have greatly enhanced realism, reduced costs, and increased possibilities for application, VR seems well on its way to become an established research tool in the social sciences. However, as with other methodological innovations, the field of criminology has been slow to catch on. To address this gap, this article explores the potential of VR as a tool for crime research. It provides readers with a brief and non-technical description of VR and its main elements and reviews several applications of VR in social scientific research that are potentially relevant for criminologists. By way of illustration, we identify and discuss in more detail different areas in which we think the field of criminology can particularly benefit from VR and offer suggestions for research. Some of the equipment available on the consumer market is also reviewed. In conjunction, the different sections should equip readers interested in applying VR in their own research with a fundamental understanding of what it entails and how it can be applied.

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Virtual reality applications for diagnosis, risk assessment and therapy of child abusers

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Jordan

Müller

2018

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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Despite the successful application of virtual reality (VR) in a wide variety of mental disorders and the obvious potentials that VR provides, the use of VR in the context of criminology and forensic psychology is sparse. For forensic mental health professionals, VR provides some advantages that outrun general advantages of VR, e.g., ecological validity and controllability of social situations. Most important seems to be the unique possibility to expose offenders and to train coping skills in virtual situations, which are able to elicit disorder-relevant behavior-without endangering others. VR has already been used for the assessment of deviant sexual interests, for testing the ability to transfer learned coping skills communicated during treatment to behavior, and for risk assessment of child abusers. This article reviews and discusses these innovative research projects with regard to their impact on current clinical practice regarding risk assessment and treatment as well as other implementations of VR applications in forensic mental health. Finally, ethical guidelines for VR research in forensic mental health are provided.

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