Dr Ariel Stone

Biography

Dr Ariel Stone is a research fellow at the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science, where she obtained a PhD in 2022. Her research is focused on understanding how individuals' daily experiences and life histories relate to their ability to live crime-free in the community and using this information to improve community corrections (e.g., parole) and law enforcement practices. Her research on community corrections applies routine parole risk assessment procedures to guiding better interventions and risk management to improve outcomes for people returning to the community after periods of incarceration. Her research also includes youth justice, evaluating police intitiatives to reduce criminal involvement for the young people they encounter. 

Ariel's work has a strong quantitative focus. Key interests include establishing best practices for prediction modelling and making complex statistical methods more accessible to social science researchers.