Adrian Raine

Career

Raine spent four years in two high-security prisons in England working as a prison psychologist. He was appointed lecturer in Behavioural Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham in 1984 and in 1986 became director of the Mauritius Child Health Project, a continuing longitudinal study of child mental health following a group of 1795 people form Mauritius from the age of three onward. Raine moved to the United States in 1987 to become an assistant professor in psychology at the University of Southern California (USC). His motives for moving from Britain to the United States were twofold: first, he believed that American scientists were more open-minded about the potential role of genetics in crime than their British counterparts, and second, there were more murderers in the United States for him to study. He was promoted to tenured associate professor there in 1990. In 1999, he was given the endowed chair of Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology at USC. In 2007, he made the move to serve as Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology & Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as the university's fourth Penn Integrates Knowledge professor.

He frequently gives public lectures about his work, for example, at events like TEDxVienna.