Dr. Janet I. Warren, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, Associate Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy provides forensic social work consultation on civil and criminal cases nationally.
She has served as President of the National Association of Forensic Social Work and as Forensic Co-Chair of the National Association of Clinical Social Work. She has a BSW and MSW degree from the University of Manitoba, School of Social Work, and a doctorate in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Warren is licensed as a clinical social worker in the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a Certified Sex Offender Treatment Provider, and is a psychoanalyst trained by the New York Freudian Society in New York City.
She is the University of Virginia Liaison to the Behavioral Sciences Unit of the FBI and a member of the Research Advisory Board for the Profiling Units of the FBI National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.
As part of her forensic consultation, Dr. Warren provides consultation and case review on issues including:
- Duty to warn, negligent release decision-making, and assessing the risk for violent behavior in clinical, psychiatric, and academic/work settings;
- Placement decision-making and supervision concerning issues of sexual and physical abuse in foster homes, group homes, daycare centers, school, and residential treatment settings;
- Prison rape and assessing issues of credibility, predictability, institutional response, and the state of knowledge concerning issues of consensual, bartered, and coerced sex in male and female prisons;
- Violent offending, psychopathy, and sexual offending perpetrated by female offenders;
- Assessing alleged sexual abuse in civil contexts including custody and placement decision of children;
- Professional complaints and issues of malpractice concerning all aspects of social work practice;
- Patterns of serial crime including serial rape, serial sexual murder, and sexual sadism;
- The relationship between personality disordered behavior and violence.