Shilan Caman

Shilan Caman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (2023-2026), affiliated with the Centre for Psychiatry Research and Katarina Howner's Research Group. Her work bridges forensic behavioral neuroscience and clinical psychiatry within Sweden's legal-medical framework.

She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience in 2017, establishing her expertise in violence-related research through population-based Swedish studies.

Dr. Caman's research critically examines intimate partner violence, femicide, and homicide through intersecting lenses of forensic psychology, psychiatry, and criminology. Her methodology combines quantitative epidemiological analysis with qualitative perpetrator interviews, revealing gendered patterns in youth violence, mental disorder comorbidity, and treatment resistance. Key contributions include identifying boldness-meanness-disinhibition dynamics in psychopathy and exposing systemic gaps in femicide prevention.

Analysis of her 15 most recent publications (2015-2025) shows escalating focus on youth intimate partner homicide (2024) and voluntary help-seeking perpetrators (2024), while maintaining core investigation of Swedish homicide databases. Her work consistently employs controlled population studies, highlighting Sweden's unique forensic registry advantages and revealing cross-cultural applicability in perpetrator typologies.

Dr. Caman currently leads a Swedish Research Council-funded grant (2023-2025) evaluating social service interventions for intimate partner violence perpetrators through mixed-methods design. This project collaborates with Örebro County service providers (Social Services Örebro, Mansforum Örebro) to measure recidivism risk reduction and treatment accessibility barriers, directly informing national policy reforms following Sweden's 2021 Social Services Act amendment.

As a core member of Katarina Howner's Research Group, she contributes to the Centre for Psychiatry Research's mission of translating neuroscientific findings into forensic practice, particularly through psychophysiological assessments of empathy and criminal responsibility.