Research

  • Rodriguez, M. “Child Pornography Offenders: Assessment and Treatment”. Presented at the NSW Statewide Community Forensic Mental Health Services Conference, Sydney, August 2006. Brett, A., Carroll, A., Green, B., Mals, P., Beswick, S. Rodriguez, M., Dunlop, D., & Gagliardi, C. (2007).

  • Treatment and Security Outside the Wall: Diverse Approaches to Common Challenges in Community Forensic Mental Health. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 6, 87-99.

  • Rodriguez, M, & Ellis, A. “Sex offenders and Drugs in NSW: A Survey of Psychotropic Medication Use and Recorded Psychiatric Diagnoses in Prisoners Receiving Sex Offender Psychological Treatment”. Presented at The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand, October 2007.

  • “Hello Hello Hello…Who ‘Ave We Got ‘Ere Now?” Findings from a Series of Men Charged with Internet Child Pornography Offences”. Presented at The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand, October 2007. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (2008) 42 (Suppl. 1).

  • Rodriguez, M. “Sexual Sadism and Infamous Sadists”. Presented at Justice Health’s Demystifying Forensic Mental Health Symposium, Sydney, March 2008. A neuropsychological study of first-time sex offenders over the age of 50: the possible contribution of cognitive deficits in sexual offending. Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry, The Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Conference, Hong Kong, September 2012.

  • Ellis A, Kumar V, Rodriguez M, et al. (2010) A survey of the conditionally released forensic patient population in New South Wales. Australasian Psychiatry 18: 542-546. Nielssen O, O'Dea J, Sullivan D, et al. (2011) Child pornography offenders detected by surveillance of the Internet and by other methods. Crim Behav Ment Health 21: 215-224.

  • Rodriguez, M. (2014). Is there an association between patients with behavioural FTD and elderly first-time sex offenders? Australian and  New Zealand Association of Psychology Psychiatry and Law conference November 2014.   

  • Rodriguez, M., Boyce, P., & Hodges, J. (2017). A Neuropsychological Study of Older Adult First-time Sex Offenders. Neurocase, 23, 2, 154-161.

  • Rodriguez, M., & Ellis, A. (2017).  The Neuropsychological function of Older First-time Child Exploitation Material Offenders: A Pilot Study.  International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology [DOI: 10.1177/0306624X17703406].