 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 Nottingham University 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 assistant professor in psychology at the University of Southern California (USC).