Office: Room # 280 Chrysler Hall South
Phone: (519) 253-3000 ext. 2249
Email: clangton@uwindsor.ca
Dr. Langton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. He completed Ph.D. degrees in Medical Science at the University of Toronto (2003) and in Clinical Child Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (2010). In between doctorates, he was a Research Associate at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, and a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK. Before joining the University of Windsor, he was on faculty at Ryerson University, Toronto. Dr. Langton is registered as a clinical and forensic psychologist in Ontario and is also a Chartered Psychologist in the UK. He works with children, adolescents, and adults.
Dr. Langton’s research is on applied and theoretical issues relevant to clinical work with clients across the age range in the areas of interpersonal aggression, crime, recidivism, and personality disorders. Topics include causes and correlates of sexually exploitative and assaultive behaviours, risk and protective factors for types of interpersonal aggression, and various assessment and treatment issues with adolescents involved in the youth justice and children’s mental health systems as well as adults in the correctional and forensic mental health systems. Recent projects within Dr. Langton’s research lab have involved both community and adjudicated samples and included work on child maltreatment, attachment styles over time, emotional intelligence, and personality traits associated with the Dark Triad. He has served on the editorial boards of various academic/professional journals, including 13 years on the editorial board of Criminal Justice and Behavior and 17 years on the editorial board of Sexual Abuse, of which he was most recently an Associate Editor. He is the lead editor of Facilitating Desistance from Aggression and Crime: Theory, Research, & Strength-Based Practices, published by Wiley in 2022, and the forthcoming What Works with Adolescents who have Offended: Theory, Research, and Practice, to be published by Wiley.
Dr. Langton does not anticipate taking on new graduate students for the 2024-25 academic year.