Crime Scene Analysis & Linking: Practice Informed Research and Research Based Practice

• In Event: Profiling & Linking - At the Intersection of Theory and Practice

Abstract

This talk will give an overview of research on crime scene analysis and linking done in collaboration with police organizations internationally. The focus will be on outlining how practical needs as experienced by investigators and crime analysts has informed the focus of the research, and identified key areas that need to be developed, and key theoretical questions that have been developed based on this. The talk also aims to discuss the implication of research done in these key areas on how it may inform practice, specifically in terms of prioritizing the most salient features for crime scene analysis and linking.

Author

• C. Gabrielle Salfati, John Jay College of Criminal Justice