Tameka Romeo is a Legal Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Informed Practitioner in Investigative Psychology, adjunct lecturer, and consultant. She received a Joint Doctorate in Legal Psychology from Maastricht University in The Netherlands and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. The findings from her studies have been presented at multiple international conferences in The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Czech Republic, and Jamaica. In 2019, she received the award for Best Paper for 2019 in the Journal of Memory & Cognition by the Psychonomic Society. An alumna of The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, she read for the degree of Master of Science in Clinical Psychology (distinction).
For over a decade, Tameka has contributed a significant portion of her expertise towards multiple social passion-projects, including offender rehabilitation, gender-based violence (GBV) awareness, and her non-governmental organisation (NGO), Mothers of the Missing and Murdered (MOMM).
Deportees/criminal deportees, Female genital mutilation/circumcision/FGC,, Forced marriage, Gang-related violence/non-state actors, gender-based violence/domestic violence, mental illness, Military/police service, Prison conditions, Risk of retaliation, Sexual abuse/assault, Sufficiency of protection, Violence against children/child abuse
Law enforcement training, law enforcement decision-making, at-risk youth, child-oriented sexual offenders, wrongful convictions, violent offenders (child and adult), offender profiling, psychopathy, legal decision-making, preventing and countering violent extremism, and criminal responsibility.
Romeo, T. The Utility of Community-Based Services as a Response to Juvenile Delinquency in Ukraine (2022).
Romeo, T., Otgaar, H., Landström, S., Boerboom, D., & Smeets, T. (2019). The impact of lying about a traumatic virtual reality experience. Memory & Cognition, 47, 485-495. Recipient of the 2019 Best Article Award in Memory & Cognition.
Otgaar, H., Romeo, T., Ramakers, N., & Howe, M. (2018).
Forgetting having denied: The ‘Amnesic’ Consequences of Denial. Memory & Cognition, 46, 520-529.
Romeo, T., Otgaar, H., & Landström, S. (2018). Coping with sexual abuse. Psychological Research on Urban Society, 1, 46-54.
Romeo, T., Otgaar, H., Smeets, T., Landström, S., & Jelicic, M. (2018). The memory impairing effects of simulated amnesia for a mock crime. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33, 983-990.
Romeo, T., Otgaar, H., & Landström, S. Swedish lay-judges’ perception of CSA victim credibility. Manuscript under revision.