tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1168018501532843082024-02-20T09:50:53.990-09:00Forensic VictimologyForensic Victimology as a field is the scientific study of victims for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues. It involves the skeptical investigation of facts and a thorough examination of victim related evidence. We will discuss issues related to education, training, casework, and courtroom testimony.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-10426407235491580492015-02-21T12:07:00.002-09:002015-02-21T12:10:02.923-09:002015 - SEX CRIMES ACADEMY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forensic Solutions, LLC and the <a href="http://www.profiling.org/">International Association of Forensic Criminologists</a> are pleased to sponsor this three day training event, April 27-29, 2015. It is a basic sex crimes academy for those working in the criminal justice system as investigators or legal professionals (e.g., mandated reporters, attorneys, nurses, and mental health professionals). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b><b>Course Text:</b> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373671441&sr=1-2">Rape Investigation Handbook</a></i>, 2nd Ed. by Savino and Turvey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: The book for this course is, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373671441&sr=1-2">Rape Investigation Handbook</a></i>, 2nd Edition, by Savino and Turvey. Registrants will need to purchase their own copy, available at the door ($60.00 USD), or online at Amazon.com.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Topic:</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Offender</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lic. Manuel Esparza </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Manuel Esparza was a Prosecutor and Investigator at the Chihuahua Attorney General's Office</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">from November 1992 to November 2004. He also headed the Organized Crime Homicide and Women's Homicide Investigation Units between 1998 and 2004 in Juarez, Mexico.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He was assigned to Special Investigations by the Attorney General, focusing on Sexual</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Homicide, Domestic Homicide, Multiple Homicide, Serial Rape and Homicide where case</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">linkage and crime analysis was required. He also handled Missing Persons Cases and headed</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program Initiative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He worked as a private defense attorney from 2006 to 2010, both in the Inquisitorial and Adversarial</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">Judicial System, handling cases in State Federal Court, and Juvenile Court, as well as the</span> <span style="font-family: Arial;">appeals and Habeas Corpus process when required.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">He is a Diplomate of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling, and is currently a Junior Partner in Forensic Solutions, LLC involved in research, instruction and casework.</span></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brent E. Turvey, Ph.D.<br />Forensic Scientist/ Criminal Profiler </span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brent Turvey holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, with an emphasis on Forensic Psychology, and an additional Bachelor of Science in History. He went on to receive his Masters of Science in Forensic Science after studying at the University of New Haven, in West Haven, Connecticut. He also holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from Bond University.<br /><br />Since graduating in 1996, Brent has consulted with many government agencies, law enforcement agencies, and private attorneys in the United States, Australia, China, Canada, Barbados, Korea and Scotland on a range of rapes, homicides, and serial/ multiple rape/ death cases, as a forensic scientist and criminal profiler. This includes cases under investigation, as well as those going to trial. He has also been court qualified as a forensic expert in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic science, victimology, and crime reconstruction, providing expert examinations and courtroom testimony in legal jurisdictions throughout the United states since 1996.<br /><br />He is the author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Profiling-Fourth-Introduction-Behavioral/dp/0123852439/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673442&sr=1-1">Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis</a></i>, 4th Ed. (2011); and co-author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373671441&sr=1-2">Rape Investigation Handbook</a></i>, 2nd Ed. (2011); <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Reconstruction-Second-Jerry-Chisum/dp/0123864607/ref=la_B001IOH19A_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673467&sr=1-6">Crime Reconstruction</a></i>, 2nd Ed. (2011); <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forensic-Victimology-Second-Examining-Investigative/dp/0124080847/ref=la_B001IOH19A_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673524&sr=1-13">Forensic Victimology</a></i>, 2nd Ed. (2013); and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Justice-Criminal-Students-Professionals/dp/0124045979/ref=la_B001IOH19A_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673546&sr=1-12">Ethical Justice</a></i> (2013) - all with Elsevier Science.<br /><br />Brent is currently a full partner, Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Forensic Solutions, LLC (<a href="http://www.forensic-science.com/">http://www.forensic-science.com</a>), as well as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Justice Studies at Oklahoma City University. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial;">He is a Diplomate of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and serves on the board of directors for the International Association of Forensic Criminologists.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.pjcinvestigations.com/home.htm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul J. Ciolino</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is an internationally known investigator who has specialized in catastrophic civil and high profile murder investigations for over thirty years. He has appeared on network and cable television stations as commentator, analyst, panel member, and expert on sex and murder cases on over one hundred occasions. He is also a paid investigative consultant for CBS News.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Mr. Ciolino is the author of<i> <a href="http://www.pjcinvestigations.com/investigative-books/in-the-company-of-giants.htm">In The Company of Giants</a>: The Ultimate Investigation Guide For Legal Professionals, Journalists and The Wrongly Convicted</i>. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is also a co-author of the best selling and critically acclaimed textbook</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.pjcinvestigations.com/investigative-books/advanced-forensic-civil-investigations.htm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Advanced Forensic Civil Investigations</i></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, published by Lawyers and Judges Publishing Company. And he is the co-author of</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Forensic-Criminal-Defense-Investigations/dp/0913875554/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373669867&sr=1-1&keywords=Advanced+Forensic+Criminal+Defense+Investigations">Advanced Forensic Criminal Defense Investigations</a></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In cases where victim actions, history, or demeanor are relevant to legal proceedings, forensic examiners may be asked to examine victim-oriented behavioral evidence and contextualize it before the trier of fact. This is the forensic aspect of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forensic-Victimology-Second-Examining-Investigative/dp/0124080847/ref=la_B001IOH19A_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378793412&sr=1-1">forensic victimology</a> [fn12]. ...the rules of admissibility vary from state to state, court to court, and judge to judge — as the admissibility of victimology evidence is made by the court on an individual basis and based on a sometimes-unique interpretation of the law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[fn12] The single feature that distinguishes forensic examiners from all others in the field is the expectation </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that they may be asked to provide expert testimony regarding their findings in a court of law. If they </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">conduct examinations and render findings without this expectation hanging over their work, it is not </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">being done in a forensic context, and subsequent conclusions may not be prepared with the same </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">standards of confidence or certainty. Worse, findings may be overly confident, without the required </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scientific restraint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Bad information can create a snowball effect: errors and omissions in the original information provided to police lead to errors in the investigation; leading to problems in the case assembled against the accused; leading to mistakes in the charges handed down and how the case is brought by the prosecution; leading to false perceptions by the judge, jury, and media. All these can have influence over whether or not a defendant is convicted and how he or she is sentenced. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Generally speaking, one purpose of forensic victimology is to help prevent this snowball effect from happening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Victimological information should be gathered objectively and consistently, and then used to describe or evaluate the victims and their circumstances so that judges and juries are privy to information that may be relevant to their decisions. In this context, direct questions must be asked: was the victim using drugs; does the victim have a history of falsely reporting crime; what was the extent of the victim’s physical injuries; was the victim conscious during the attack; does the victim have a history of taking rides from strangers or letting strangers into his or her home; does the victim lock his or her door at night? The judge, who determines what is legally admissible, decides the issue of relevance for these and similarly themed questions. Then, as already discussed, the judge makes a ruling: sometimes everything about a victim is admissible, sometimes nothing, and sometimes the court “splits the baby” by admitting a percentage of victim information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The more accurate and complete the victim information provided, the clearer the context of the crime. This is an investigative axiom. During an investigation, everything about the victim must be learned and documented, with nothing treated as trivial. Unfortunately, there is a tendency on the part of some investigators to avoid gathering some or all of the victimology, to deprive the court of contextual information that might sway their findings against prevailing case theories. The court should view this practice with dismay, as informed decisions about what to admit and what to keep out cannot be made in the absence of a complete investigative effort and record.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In late 2012, Dominique Strauss-Kahn reached a financial <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2246033/Dominique-Strauss-Kahn-reaches-settlement-New-York-hotel-maid-Nafissatou-Diallo.html">settlement</a> with the hotel maid who claimed that he had sexually assaulted her. The former head of the IMF was accused of rape but then later <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/dominique-strauss-kahn-rape-dismissed-_n_934143.html">the prosecution was dropped</a> in 2011 when the victim was determined to be unreliable. She was not charged with making a false report, and sued him in civil court along with the <a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/strauss-kahn-accuser-sues-n-y-post-charging-libel/?_r=0">New York Post</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">“There were many inconsistencies throughout the investigation into Ms. Haraway's disappearance, many of which help our case for post-conviction relief for Karl,” Tiffany Murphy, the Oklahoma Innocence Project director, said during the July 24 news conference. “We firmly believe an innocent man has been in prison for nearly 30 years for a crime he did not commit."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">And Ward, also convicted of Harraway's murder, awaits a similar brief to be filed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">His attorney Mark Barrett said he has been working on Ward's case for several years and anticipates that a brief will be filed for Ward. It will outline issues similar to what can be found in the Oklahoma Innocence Project brief, although it won't likely be identical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">Barrett said he believes that Ward and Fontenot are both innocence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">“You can expect something that will be filed on Tommy Wards' behalf not too far in the distant future,” Barrett said. “Exactly when, we're not sure.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">The state has 30 days to respond to the Innocence Project's brief, but Ross said he plans to ask for a one-year extension to respond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">But Murphy said she believes a year is too long of an extension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">“I have no disagreement that an extension can be had, and the statute allows for an extension of another 30 days,” she said. “So he's entitled to at least 60 days under the statute. The statute was built to accommodate the need for additional time. The statute was never built to accommodate a year.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">Fontenot and Ward were tried in court in September 1985. Both men were found guilty and sentenced to death. They were scheduled to die in January 1986. Fontenot's case was appealed, and he was granted a new trial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">During the time span of Fontenot's appeal, Haraway's remains were found about 30 miles east of Ada. In 1988, Fontenot was retried, convicted and sentenced to death a second time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">The brief outlines “substantial evidence not presented during (Fontenot's) trial or appeals establishing not only his innocence but the incompetence of the police investigation which led to his false confession and violations of his state and federal constitutional rights.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">But after reading the brief, Ross is left with a growing Microsoft Word document with red notes throughout it, explaining how and why he disagrees with the Innocence Project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">“I have extreme confidence that nothing that they have presented in their brief would have changed a jury's verdict,” Ross said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">For one, Ross disagrees on how the Oklahoma Innocence Project presents Fontenot's alibi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 15px;">“Both OSBI and Ada Police Department were aware of this party based upon several witness reports, dispatch records, and police reports,” the brief reads. “However, not only did this evidence not eliminate Mr. Fontenot as a suspect, it was impermissibly withheld from his trial attorney, George Butner, to use in building his defense.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">While this is an even handed article, it misses many of the important forensic issues in the case, or perhaps avoids them entirely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em;">For the Forensic report by the author (Brent E. Turvey, PhD) filed with Fontenot's application for relief, see: </span><a href="http://www.forensic-science.com/Turvey_Haraway_Report_060313.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span style="line-height: 1.2em;">Investiga</span>tive and Forensic Assessment: Abduction and Homicide of Donna "Denice" Haraway</a><span style="line-height: 15px;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">For the complete filing by attorney Tiffany Murphy, see: </span><a href="http://works.bepress.com/tiffany_murphy/5/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em;"><i>Karl Fontenot v. State of Oklahoma</i>, District Court of Pontotoc County State of Oklahoma, No. CR-88-43. Brief in Support of Application for Post-Conviction Relief</a><span style="line-height: 15px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forensic Solutions, LLC and the <a href="http://www.profiling.org/">International Association of Forensic Criminologists</a> are pleased to sponsor this three day training event, in conjunction with Elgin Community College in January of 2014. It is intended to be a basic sex crimes academy for those working in the criminal justice system as investigators and legal professionals. </span><br />
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<b>Course Text:</b> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373671441&sr=1-2">Rape Investigation Handbook</a></i>, 2nd Ed. by Savino and Turvey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elgin Community College<br />1700 Spartan Drive<br />Elgin, Illinois 60134</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Det. John J. Baeza, NYPD </span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />John Baeza is a retired NYPD Detective. He worked on patrol in Harlem's 32nd Precinct and then was transferred to Manhattan North Narcotics where he worked as an undercover police officer/ Detective. He then worked in the Manhattan North Narcotics Major Case Unit as both an investigator and undercover.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />He transferred to the Detective Bureau where he worked in the Manhattan Special Victims Squad. There Det. Baeza was involved in the investigation of thousands of cases and related crime scenes, including: sex crimes, rapes, serial rapes, sexual homicides, child abuse, false reports, and other felony crimes. He was also temporarily assigned to the Manhattan North Homicide Squad for six months.<br /><br />Now retired from the NYPD, John Baeza recently worked as the Director of Security for the Ron Paul 2012 United States Presidential Campaign. He served in this capacity, on the road, for fifteen months working with federal, state, local, and campus police.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Baeza is currently a Criminal Case Analyst, providing consulting on the investigative review of the following: Criminal Profiling, Criminal Investigative Procedures, Homicide, Rape, Child Abuse, False Reports, Linkage Analysis, and Proper Interview of Victims and Suspects. He is involved in both trial consultations and post-conviction review.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brent E. Turvey, Ph.D.<br />Forensic Scientist/ Criminal Profiler </span></b></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brent Turvey holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, with an emphasis on Forensic Psychology, and an additional Bachelor of Science in History. He went on to receive his Masters of Science in Forensic Science after studying at the University of New Haven, in West Haven, Connecticut. He also holds a Ph.D. in Criminology from Bond University.<br /><br />Since graduating in 1996, Brent has consulted with many government agencies, law enforcement agencies, and private attorneys in the United States, Australia, China, Canada, Barbados, Korea and Scotland on a range of rapes, homicides, and serial/ multiple rape/ death cases, as a forensic scientist and criminal profiler. This includes cases under investigation, as well as those going to trial. He has also been court qualified as a forensic expert in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic science, victimology, and crime reconstruction, providing expert examinations and courtroom testimony in legal jurisdictions throughout the United states since 1996.<br /><br />He is the author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Profiling-Fourth-Introduction-Behavioral/dp/0123852439/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673442&sr=1-1">Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis</a></i>, 4th Ed. (2011); and co-author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373671441&sr=1-2">Rape Investigation Handbook</a></i>, 2nd Ed. (2011); <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Reconstruction-Second-Jerry-Chisum/dp/0123864607/ref=la_B001IOH19A_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673467&sr=1-6">Crime Reconstruction</a></i>, 2nd Ed. (2011); <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forensic-Victimology-Second-Examining-Investigative/dp/0124080847/ref=la_B001IOH19A_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673524&sr=1-13">Forensic Victimology</a></i>, 2nd Ed. (2013); and <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ethical-Justice-Criminal-Students-Professionals/dp/0124045979/ref=la_B001IOH19A_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373673546&sr=1-12">Ethical Justice</a></i> (2013) - all with Elsevier Science.<br /><br />Brent is currently a full partner, Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Forensic Solutions, LLC (<a href="http://www.forensic-science.com/">http://www.forensic-science.com</a>), as well as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Justice Studies at Oklahoma City University. He is also the Secretary of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling, as well as a member of their board of directors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373089610&sr=1-2">Rape Investigation, 2nd Ed</a>., by Co-authors <a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/brent/brent_cv.html">Brent E. Turvey</a>, PhD and Det. John Savino, NYPD (ret).</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Few individuals can walk forward knowing that they have truly made a profound difference. Be one of those </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">individuals; strive to be a determined professional, relentless in the pursuit of justice for both victim and criminal </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">alike; be an individual with integrity and passion in pursuit of justice"</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John O. Savino</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each and every one of us will travel a different path to becoming an investigator. Our journey </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">down that path influences our investigative abilities and helps determine the type of investigator </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we will become. It is hoped that sharing my path, and my journey, will help others resolve issues </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in their own, and also shed some light on how this textbook came to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My particular journey as a Sex Crimes investigator with the New York City Police Department’s </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Manhattan Special Victims Squad, where I spent 18 1/2 years investigating sexual assaults and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">child abuse allegations, began innocently enough. In 1989, I was promoted to Detective and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">transferred from the Manhattan North Narcotics Division to the quiet and peaceful Central Park </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Precinct – or so I thought. Central Park is 840 acres located in the middle of Manhattan, visited </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by approximately 35 million people a year. It is also a home to squirrels, birds, fish and other </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">animals.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/the-central-park-jogger-case">The Central Park Jogger Case</a></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my first assignments was a sexual assault that occurred on a jogging path in Central Park </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">only a few weeks after: the now infamous "wolf pack" assault of a jogger which occurred in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April of 1989. It was a case that shock and enraged all of New York City. The NYPD quickly </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">arrested five teenagers in connection with the brutal beating and rape of the young investment </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">banker, who had been attacked while jogging. The five teens quickly confessed to the assault, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and rape, and admitted to leaving her dying in a ravine next to the jogging path.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Needless to say the pressure was on to solve this new sexual assault. The victim in the new </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">assault had been jogging when she was approached by several youths, who grabbed her and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">attempted to knock her to the ground before they attempted to sexually assault her. Because of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the heightened state of alert after the "wolf pack" assault, other joggers had chased the youths </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">away, and prevented the assault. In 1989 when these assaults occurred, video surveillance </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">equipment was not as prevalent as it is today, NYPD did not have databases available of known </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">offenders or photo databases of everyone arrested in the city available for viewing by victims, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DNA testing was still in its infancy and not available in New York City at the time. The NYPD </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">complaint system was not yet computerized and there were no manuals or booklets available on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how to investigate a sexual assault. There certainly were no instructions provided on how to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">conduct an investigation with New York City watching on the TV news and in the newspapers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The search for the bad guys began with an interview of the victim, whom I was able to convince </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to visit a Hospital to document any possible injuries she may have suffered after the assault. I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">visited the location of the assault the very next day at the same exact time of the assault in an </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">effort to locate any possible witnesses, because they may have used the same path the day before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I then began visiting each of the nine police precincts that surrounded Central Park and located </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">several youths who fit the general description of the assailants and who had been issued </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">summonses for a minor infraction by a uniformed patrol officer on the day of the sexual assault. I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">also decided to visit several of the youths who confessed to the sexual assault of the female </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">jogger. Several weeks after their arrest, I was transferred to the Manhattan Sex Crimes Squad </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and began my journey as a Sex Crimes Investigator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obviously, this was not the end of that story, but more about that shortly.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Manhattan Special Victims Squad</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After being assigned to the Sex Crime Squad, I quickly realized that sexual assault was a very </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">unique crime and with an extremely high recidivism rate. On my own time, I began reading </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">everything I could find about sex offenders, interviewing techniques, and books on homicide </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigations. At the time, there were numerous books available on how to run a good homicide </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigation, but none of these focused on the actual process of conducting sexual assault </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also began gathering intelligence on sex offenders and photographs of everyone arrested by the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NYPD for any type of sex crime. The photographs were placed in photo albums to bring to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">victims to view after they were assaulted. When the unit received its first Personal Computer, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">created a database that was used to assist with identifying similarities among assaults and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">offenders, which helped investigators to link those with similarities more quickly. I learned the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">difference between signature behavior and M.O. behavior, and incorporated that as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Complaint information was also entered into the database, and this helped identify victims who </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had filed multiple sexual assault complaints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beyond the database issues, I studied the different typologies of sex offenders in an effort to help </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with my interrogations when they were caught. I also began meeting with Rape advocates to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">explain what sex crime investigators do. I turn, learned what they do and how to enlist their </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cooperation to advancing my investigations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Around the same time, I made the decision to visit the police crime laboratory. I eventually </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">made friends with the laboratory personal, who taught me about the ABO/ secretor-non-secretor </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">blood typing method, which was used prior to DNA. Since 1989, the technological advances in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DNA and advances in policing have helped solve many investigations and exonerated the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wrongly accused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of these things were done to educate myself, to utilize every tool and resource at my disposal </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(and make them when they didn’t exist), and to make the squad more effective at the task of sex </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">crime investigations.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DNA Advances & Matias Reyes</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2002, Matias Reyes confessed to being solely responsible for the "wolf pack" assault of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Central Park jogger back in 1989. The five teenagers originally arrested had their subsequent </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">convictions vacated. As reported in Saulny (2002):</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thirteen years after an investment banker jogging in Central Park was savagely beaten, raped and left for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">dead, a Manhattan judge threw out the convictions yesterday of the five young men who had confessed to </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">attacking the woman on a night of violence that stunned the city and the nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In one final, extraordinary ruling that took about five minutes, Justice Charles J. Tejada of State Supreme </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Court in Manhattan granted recent motions made by defense lawyers and Robert M. Morgenthau, the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Manhattan district attorney, to vacate all convictions against the young men in connection with the jogger </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">attack and a spree of robberies and assaults in the park that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The judge ruled based on new evidence pointing to another man, Matias Reyes, a convicted murderer-rapist </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">who stepped forward in January, as the probable sole attacker of the jogger. He was linked to the rape by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">DNA and other evidence, as the reliability of the earlier confessions and other trial evidence was cast in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly reacted yesterday to the judge's decision with a bluntly worded </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">statement that underscored the breach that had opened in recent weeks between the Police Department and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the district attorney's office over the case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mr. Kelly challenged the credibility of Mr. Reyes's claim that he had acted alone. He also complained that </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the district attorney's office had denied his detectives access to important evidence needed for the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">department's own investigation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Technically, Justice Tejada's ruling made a new trial possible. But after the judge vacated the convictions, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Peter Casolaro, an assistant district attorney, immediately responded with a motion dismissing the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">indictments and forgoing a new trial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Justice Tejada replied, ''The motion is granted. Have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.''</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then the stuffy, crowded courtroom on the 15th floor of 100 Centre Street erupted in screams, cheers, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">applause, and weeping by family and supporters of the young men -- Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yusef Salaam, Kharey Wise and Raymond Santana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They were all teenagers at the time of the attack on April 19, 1989. Now they are 28 to 30 years old and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">have all completed prison terms of 7 to 13 years for the park offenses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite their initial confessions, which were later recanted as coerced, no physical evidence </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">associating the original group of teens with the crime scene had been found. Reyes’ DNA was </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the only DNA recovered from the crime scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As advancements are made in DNA and other evidence technology, this will undoubtedly </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">provide new tools available to the sex crimes investigator. But technology can sometimes make </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an investigator lazy. I am not sure where technology will take us in the future. Currently we have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigators running around with cotton swabs taking DNA samples from suspects, and we can </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">test keyboards, cell phones, and even eyeglasses for the DNA of the individuals that used them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We may even have portable DNA testing machines in the future. But technology alone cannot </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">solve a case. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The investigator cannot rely on technology or pre-written check lists to solve a case. For </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">example, in the current era of policing, the word "COMPSTAT" is tossed around by supervisors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"COMPSTAT" is short for "computer statistics", and is an accountability and management </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">process for police departments. The "COMPSTAT" process has created lists of "Investigative </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steps" to be followed during investigations, and too many bosses are more concerned with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">making sure these checklists are completed rather than with actually catching the right bad guy. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This kind of political concern protects careers but keeps the real bad guys on the street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My journey with the Manhattan Special Victims Squad ended in May of 2007, when I retired </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from the NYPD. My decision to leave the Special Victims Squad was difficult but necessary as </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my wife, Elaine, and children, Brittney, and Anthony had also become casualties of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigations I conducted. My dedication to the victims, my desire and drive to solve the case </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and lock up the bad guys required more than a 40 hour work week, and included missing many </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of family birthdays and holidays. After 251/2 years, the decision was made to end my career with </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NYPD and dedicate more time to my family.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Last Case</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In April of 2007, I worked my last sexual assault investigation with a detective newly assigned to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Manhattan Special Victims Squad. I was assigned to help guide him on his first high profile </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rape investigation. He had the distinction of being assigned to investigate the most heinous crime </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reported to the unit during my eighteen-year career in the sex crime squad, and possibly the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">history of the Manhattan Special Victims Squad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My journey was about to come full circle; I was now going to walk the path with a new detective </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as he began his journey, and help him avoid any pitfalls he might encounter. This would also be </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">done under the microscope. The New York City press and the “brass” of the New York City </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Police Department would be watching every move we made. The brutality of this case had, once </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">again, shocked New York City and brought all the political pressure a major investigation can </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An offender had forced the victim, a 23-year old Columbia University student, into her </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">apartment. She was held captive there for 19 hours while he both sexually assaulted and tortured </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her, repeatedly. This offender was keenly aware of forensic technology, because he poured </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bleach on the victim's genitalia in an effort to destroy his semen. He also used scissors to slash </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the victim's eyes so that she could not identify him, and tried to kill her by forcing the ingestion </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of different medications. He then poured scalding water on her body in an effort to wash away </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">any evidence he may have left. The offender even went so far as to glue the victim’s mouth shut </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">before he bound her to a futon bed, leaving her for dead. As reported in Newman (2007):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The woman was returning to her apartment on Hamilton Terrace near West 141st Street on April 13 at 9:30 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">p.m. when a man who had gotten into the lobby entered the elevator with her and forced his way into her </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">apartment, [Police Commissioner Raymond] Kelly said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Over the next 19 hours, Mr. Kelly said, the man tied the woman to her bed with computer cables and taped </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">her mouth closed, raped and sodomized her repeatedly, burned her with hot water and bleach, slit her </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">eyelids with scissors, and force-fed her an overdose of ibuprofen or a similar pain reliever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At one point last Saturday afternoon, Mr. Kelly said, the assailant took the woman’s A.T.M. card, withdrew </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">$200 at a bodega on West 141st Street and returned to her apartment. A few hours later, he set fire to the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">woman’s futon and left her, unconscious, to die, Mr. Kelly said. She woke up to the smell of smoke, used </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the flames to melt the cable that bound her to the bed frame, and escaped, Mr. Kelly said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The offender had set the apartment on fire in an all out effort to destroy any physical evidence, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">including the victim herself. He wanted nothing left to chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The victim regained consciousness before the apartment was completely engulfed. She was able </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to direct her bindings into a flame, releasing her from the futon. Partially blinded, she escaped </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the burning apartment and sought refuge with a neighbor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Technology played an important role in this investigation. In 2007, the New York City Police </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Department had a specialty unit called the "Real Time Crime Center", which had access to a </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">multitude of databases and police surveillance cameras positioned throughout the city. Also, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigators spread out in the neighborhood and located surveillance footage of the assailant </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">using the victim’s ATM card. Using surveillance footage and the victim’s description as a guide, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we were able to get a flyer with a sketch all over the New York television news reports.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bosses were carrying the "COMPSTAT" checklist around, and making sure all of the boxes were </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">checked off, but technology and checklists did not solve this case. We spent several sleepless </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">days processing the crime scene; we wanted to make sure the criminalist assigned did not miss </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anything. We actually made the crime scene unit come back several times to gather more </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">evidence we thought might help identify the offender.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also gathered the victim's personal belongings after the scene was completely processed – </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the ones that had not been damaged or destroyed by the fire. We did this because she and her </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">family told us they would never be able to return to the apartment again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eventually we were ordered to go home and get some sleep, but we did not leave. We were </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">running on adrenaline, and did not want to go home until we caught this guy. We spent our time </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reviewing the hundreds of tips that came pouring into the NYPD's tip line from our flyers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One tip stood out, and it eventually led us to Robert A. Williams, a homeless career criminal </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whose father lived only a short distance from the victim’s building. As reported in Newman </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(2007):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The attack set off a citywide manhunt, and the police released a sketch of the attacker based on the bodega </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">security video and descriptions by the victim and by people who had seen the man in the lobby…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On Thursday around 5:40 p.m., the police were called to 190-25 Woodhull Avenue in Queens on a report </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">of a burglary, Mr. Kelly said. A woman there told officers that she had seen a man leaving a vacant </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">apartment next door to hers as she returned home, then noticed that her own apartment had been </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">burglarized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Officers saw Mr. Williams leaving the building, questioned him and found his story wanting, Mr. Kelly </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">said, noting that the man was carrying a screwdriver and a hammer. He was arrested without incident, Mr. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Kelly said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the 103rd Precinct station house, Mr. Kelly said, officers checked Mr. Williams to see if he had scars on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">his abdomen like those of the rapist. “The scars matched the description,” Mr. Kelly said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mr. Williams, who is homeless, has a lengthy police record dating to his childhood, the authorities said. He </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">was charged in a murder as a juvenile, though the outcome of that case is sealed, a law enforcement official </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In 1996, Mr. Williams was convicted of attempted murder and served the maximum eight-year sentence, in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">part because he was found guilty of 28 disciplinary violations in prison, said Linda Foglia, a spokeswoman </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">for the state’s Department of Correctional Services. The infractions included assaulting prisoners and staff </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">members, harassment, lewd conduct and throwing bodily secretions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a strong suspect identified, we brought a photo array to the victim while she was still </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">recovering in the burn unit. We all had to wear hospital scrubs and surgical masks so we did not </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">contaminate her. We also used larger sized photographs in the array so that she could see them, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">even with the injuries in her eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the victim positively identified Robert A. Williams in the array, we could see the relief on </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">her face; we had identified the monster responsible for her suffering and he was not going to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">remain on the streets. Robert A. Williams was identified and apprehended only seven days after </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this brutal sexual assault, but not by technology, lists, or luck. This case was solved because of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the dedication of the investigators assigned, and their need to bring closure to this victim, who at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one point while being tortured during the attack had begged to be killed, to end her pain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eventually, DNA also linked Williams to the crime and confirmed what the victim had already </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">told us. But as I explained, DNA, technology, and computers were not the reason he was </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">identified and captured – they were the tools of dedicated and tireless investigators. Robert A. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Williams was convicted on July 24, 2008 with 44 counts, including attempted murder, arson, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">rape and sodomy and is currently serving life in prison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since leaving the NYPD in 2007, I relocated to Florida with my family where I have been </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">working as a detective with a large State Agency. I am currently conducting financial and fraud </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigations, and have been able to successfully apply the techniques described in this text </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during in my new career. I’ve always said that if you can work sex crimes, you can work </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anything, and it proves truer every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373089610&sr=1-2"><b>Rape Investigation Handbook, 2</b><b>nd </b></a><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373089610&sr=1-2">Ed</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Investigators have tremendous influence over the outcome of sexual assault investigations, and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">even the healing process of the victims. The victim, it must be remembered, is the most </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">important person in the investigation; without them we do not have a case. Once they have </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">determined that a crime has occurred, the investigator must obtain the victim’s trust and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">confidence. They must also help them overcome any feelings of guilt, embarrassment or shame </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in order to have a successful prosecution. This takes time, sincerity, and continued follow-up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The investigator's job and responsibilities do not end with an arrest; they require much more. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are among the main goals of the sex crimes detective: the determination of criminal </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">activity, the exoneration of the innocent, the identification and arrest of legitimate suspects, and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">their successful prosecution. This is justice, and it helps to heal both victims and communities.</span><br />
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<b>Det. John Savino (far left), Det. Fiol, and Sgt. </b><b>Crespo, </b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This book was created in an effort to provide the fledgling investigator, novice investigator, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">seasoned investigator and even students of criminal justice with the fundamentals of conducting </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">an investigation in the service of justice. During my career as a sex crime investigator, I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">discovered there was a need for this type of text, which makes available techniques and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">procedures discovered during many years spent conducting thousands of sexual assault </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These techniques can be used successfully during any investigation: from the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">initial report, to the collection and examination of physical evidence, and towards a successful </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">prosecution. However, we also detail the dynamics of a sexual assault, from both the victim and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">offender perspectives. It is a comprehensive case approach to sexual assaults; it draws from the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lessons we have learned in our casework, as well as from the experiences of our distinguished </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">contributors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would like to acknowledge and thank Brent Turvey, whom I’ve known and worked with now </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">over the course of the last 18 years. Without him this text would not be possible. His faith and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">patience is greatly appreciated along with our many philosophical cross-country telephone calls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brent and I are excited to present this updated text, and have enlisted the assistance of some of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the top experts in their fields to contribute, and provided their knowledge and expertise. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also needs to be said that I have been personally inspired by the victims that I came to know </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during my career with the Manhattan Special Victims Squad. They have exhibited extraordinary </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">strength, courage, determination and patience during the investigative process. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The victims I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">have worked for have placed their utmost trust in me during their investigations and it is for them </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that I participate in writing this text. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO9nZ6XP4tuD0dhzauNIu9h-DCtrqQJH3-xw6OG65hyphenhyphenPRUhmQId4VL1wlwPMSo-Hm1AdTZXo-vbXJ4ZXV4NCrINe7VsXT3fNX6S-R4fwXV_PFcZqiqumQ-vNKjOjzgMJFaiq3c7M5QvUxP/s1600/savino_rwilliams.tif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is my professional belief that a sex crimes investigator should always put </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forth their best effort, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because their actions, or lack thereof, have lasting effects on the lives of those they touch. The </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">investigator, after all, has the ability to leave the trauma in the office, or the case folder in the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">desk drawer. And they must, in order to meet the new challenges that they face every day. The </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">victim, however, does not have this luxury; each is uniquely burdened with their own injuries, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">every minute of every day for the rest of their life. Some learn to survive well and with dignity; </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">some do not; and many others fall in-between. The best chance they have at justice, and survival </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with dignity, is to be treated professionally and with respect by the investigator. This is shown </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">only by the efforts that are made to follow up on evidence, investigate all leads, and to ensure </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that any arrests made can result in a clean and certain prosecution.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is my hope that the readers of this text are attempting to become better investigators. If so, I </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">am certain that if they follow the information and guidelines we have provided they are on their </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">way to becoming a better investigator. There is no doubt about this, and about the fact that it will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">make a difference in someone's life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">-John Savino</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">References</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Newman, A. (2007) “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/21/nyregion/21rape.html">Man Is Arrested in Torture of Student at Columbia</a>,” <i>The New York Times, </i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">April 21.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Saulny, S. (2002) “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/20/nyregion/convictions-and-charges-voided-in-89-central-park-jogger-attack.html">Convictions and Charges Voided In '89 Central Park Jogger Attack</a>,” <i>The </i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New York Times</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, December 20.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-86613686661351701752011-10-23T10:11:00.002-08:002011-10-23T10:14:21.013-08:00AMERICAN CHIKAN<div><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/outing_the_gropers_dZIHh1RchP2Es7ZM4MiQtJ"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;">Outing the gropers</span></b></a></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;">What the Brooklyn sex attacks tell us</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div>By <a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/brent/brent_cv.html">BRENT E. TURVEY</a></div><div><a href="http://www.nypost.com">The New York Post</a></div><div>October 23, 2011</div><div><br /></div><div>Over the last two months, the number of reported cases involving women that have been groped or fondled in public places has increased dramatically in New York City.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some have referred to this as a rising crime wave -- but that may not be the case. Instead, the increase may be because more women are coming forward, no longer willing to tolerate the casual indignities with which some men think they can get away.</div><div><br /></div><div>We can see from other large metropolitan cities that groping is a common crime.</div><div><br /></div><div>In Tokyo, a 2005 estimate suggested that by age 30, well over 60% of women had been forcibly touched while riding on crowded trains and subways or at transit stations throughout the city.</div><div><br /></div><div>Victims, some as young as 9, would shout “chikan,” Japanese for molester.</div><div><br /></div><div>The persistence of the chikan problem, and the criminal subculture that has developed, actually lead to the development of female-only railroad cars so that women can travel unmolested.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the United States, there is a long history of inappropriate and forcible touching -- men slapping female waitresses on the behind, pinning and groping women at bars or in nightclubs, or rubbing up against them on crowded public transportation or during sporting events.</div><div><br /></div><div>Until recently in New York, however, these crimes were rarely reported by victims. When reported, they often went uninvestigated by law enforcement. As a result, many female victims considered it a nearly unavoidable fact of everyday life.</div><div><br /></div><div>Gropers are motivated by the same thing as any other sex offender: power.</div><div><br /></div><div>They want to elicit a response from their victim that may include a mixture of shock, shame, fear or perhaps silent humiliation. When the crime is not reported, or when police do not take the time to investigate, they are emboldened.</div><div><br /></div><div>In NYC, public and police attitudes began to change after the 2000 Puerto Rican Day Parade -- when several dozen women and girls said they were trapped, sexually taunted, groped and robbed by different groups of men. Responding to public outcry, forcible- touching laws were adopted to make it clear that this kind of behavior is an intolerable crime. These laws raised awareness of the problem and gave police a better tool for making arrests.</div><div><br /></div><div>Over the last couple of years, meanwhile, there has been the scandal brought to light by Brooklyn police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft. He blew the whistle on the NYPD’s intentional manipulation of sex-crimes reports by responding officers to downgrade or misclassify sex offenses.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since that time, new policies have been put into place to ensure more accurate reporting, and to require the response of a sex-crimes detective to any complaint of a sexual assault -- even misdemeanors.</div><div>And recently, in the wake of widespread media reporting on multiple attacks by a possible serial groper in Brooklyn, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly made a public plea to any and all victims: Come forward and report the crime.</div><div><br /></div><div>Websites, meanwhile, chronicle the efforts of women to catalog the perverts, publicly shaming subways gropers by taking cellphone pictures of them and posting them online.</div><div><br /></div><div>These events have combined to drag the reality of American chikan into more full public view.</div><div><br /></div><div>Law enforcement has a number of responsibilities here. Their first is to properly educate responding officers regarding the potential for serial gropers of any kind to escalate and become more sexually violent.</div><div><br /></div><div>Complaints should be not casually dismissed because they don’t seem like that big of a deal, or because they lack the appeal of a felony charge.</div><div><br /></div><div>Experienced investigators know that some gropers and peepers are just practicing and fantasizing in order to gain confidence with their approach. They do this over and over, until they are ready for more serious sexual assaults.</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s always disturbing to hear about any crime. But if the recent spate of fondling cases means that victims are fighting back -- and the police are taking this crime more seriously -- it will hopefully lead to a city where gropers understand they can’t get away with it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Brent E. Turvey, MS is a forensic scientist and criminal profiler in private practice. He is the co-author, with retired NYPD Detective John Savino, of the "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4">Rape Investigation Handbook</a>" (Elsevier Science, 2011). Mr. Turvey thanks his co-author for advice on this article.</div><div><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-14736269570065280242011-08-21T13:19:00.022-08:002011-08-21T16:25:16.850-08:00Evidentiary Issues in Sex Crimes: Preserving Evidence of Binding<img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 162px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj5iAAZb-dDoPx0S4fCzqQnAH1VmhsebNHy_AE9xrYaYHxUFaBpzclB1km2brVWIPVt800cazmc3RtEKFBTWsCzuS0dQ-E1FAUh93msgGhyphenhyphenznKqWOokCm2x62D2P_K754_zBG5iaViIXtw/s200/rih_2e_cover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643464927753352354" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Over the past 16 years, I've worked quite a few cases of sexual assault - either as a criminal profiler for a law enforcement agency or as a forensic scientist and reconstructionist for an attorney. Sometimes these are serial rape cases, where the victim count easily exceeds twenty. Sometimes these are cases involving people who know each other and have a prior relationship. Each involvement is different, with a particular set of questions that require a variety of different skill sets.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">With some exceptions, each individual case of sexual assault that I've examined has involved someone contacting the police and the police responding to someone in distress. In a percentage of these cases, police will be responding directly to the crime scene or a nearby location where the victim was discovered. When found, the victim may also be bound, blindfolded, gagged, or otherwise restrained. In these cases, the victim is going to have suffered physical injury from the bindings, has been traumatized by the attack, and can even be in shock - all requiring immediate medical attention, care, and comfort.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">When confronted with an injured and traumatized victim that is still bound from their attack, the first duty of care is to their health and safety. The preservation of physical evidence must come second (Savino and Turvey, 2011). That is to say, there is simply no reason to leave a victim in their bindings in order document whether and how these were used in the crime. This can be accomplished at later point, in part, with testimony from first responders, those who removed the bindings, and the victim. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Sufficient documentation can further be accomplished by a gloved officer cutting through bindings to remove them. This should be done while preserving any knots, fasteners, or areas of adhesion. In other words, cutting around these areas so that they can be photographed, examined, and processed for evidence associating it with the victim and the offender (e.g., fingerprints, epithelial cells from saliva, and hairs or fibers on tape; hairs, fibers, and blood, epithelial or skin cells on rope).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">The final pieces of documentation are going to be made during the sexual assault exam, where the victim is photographed head-to-toe in order to document all areas of injury, patterns, or transfer evidence associated with their attack and any bindings that were used. This requires deliberate and clear communication between responding officers and forensic examiners so that nothing is missed. It also requires talking to the victim about what happened during the attack, and developing a complete understanding of potential areas where evidence might be found. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">For the well-trained investigator or forensic examiner, this sounds basic and it really should. However, there are still officers and responders that do not understand the work-arounds available to them at the crime scene. This can result in decision about evidence collection and preservation that further traumatize the victim -- such as insisting on interviewing the victim at the location, in the room, or even on the bed or mattress where they were sexually assaulted. Or worse.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
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<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Consider the case of Col. Russell Williams, the senior air force officer who escalated from fetish burglary to rape and sexual homicide until his arrest in February of 2010. His crimes are described in Staff (2010):</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezomaKjpe7944gUZhu1QGLAjQ6t9UsszoVTV56BZuy1sYcuSZ17pgmi7O9KXnLvlBz1j9RBx32528YfqzpGCKtGIYdZxXq2ns23UPgKwhZ6JFOlcmnSwKRRWJi6iw739VlhfvNCeim0sM/s1600/470_williams4_101020_225128.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 126px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezomaKjpe7944gUZhu1QGLAjQ6t9UsszoVTV56BZuy1sYcuSZ17pgmi7O9KXnLvlBz1j9RBx32528YfqzpGCKtGIYdZxXq2ns23UPgKwhZ6JFOlcmnSwKRRWJi6iw739VlhfvNCeim0sM/s400/470_williams4_101020_225128.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643465894407124882" /></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="margin-top: 0px; "></p><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Williams, the former commander of CFB Trenton, was questioned by police in early February, days after he raped and strangled 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd and dumped her body outside Tweed, Ont...</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Williams came to investigators' attention when he was stopped at a roadside checkpoint on Feb. 4, when police were comparing tires on SUVs to treads found outside Lloyd's home. Unbeknownst to Williams, police matched the tires on his Nissan Pathfinder to the tread marks. Three days later he was brought in for questioning, with the entire 10-hour interrogation taped by police...</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Jessica Lloyd</span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">After expressing concern for his wife, Williams, in a matter-of-fact manner, detailed the gruesome late-January murder of Lloyd, a 27-year-old woman who worked at a bus company in Napanee.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">He described breaking into her home and attacking her in her bed.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">"I raped her," Williams said in the video.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">"A rape can mean a lot of things. What took place?" the investigator countered.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Williams then went on to describe in painstaking detail the various ways he assaulted Lloyd, how he threatened her and placed zip ties around her neck to control her. He also described to police how he made Lloyd model underwear, and photographed her as she did so.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Williams said he then took her to Tweed, where he lived. The day-and-a-half-long nightmare continued with numerous rapes, photo sessions and eventually with Lloyd suffering seizures, begging for her life.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Williams, after telling Lloyd he was taking her to the hospital, finally seemed to tire of the cruel game.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">"And as we were walking ... I hit her on the back of the head," he told investigators in the video, in which he often referred to her by her first name as though they were friends.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">"I was surprised that her skull gave way. She was immediately unconscious and I strangled her."</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">After that Williams explained that he hid Lloyd's body in his garage and went to work because he was flying a military plane to California early the next day. He later returned to get rid of her body and clean up the mess.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Cpl. Marie-France Comeau</span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">In the video shown to the courtroom, Williams also described the murder of Comeau, pronouncing her name with the correct French accent.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">He admitted breaking into Comeau's home and hiding in her basement, waiting for her to fall asleep, and how she came down to the basement in search of her cat.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">"So when she spotted me I had the same flashlight (and) subdued her, brought her upstairs and, uh, strangled her, well more suffocated her with some tape," he said.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Later in the video he admitted raping and photographing Comeau.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Williams explained in the video that he used duct tape to cover Comeau's mouth and nose, until she suffocated.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">"I had thought about strangling her earlier...it was a short-lived attempt because she struggled quite a bit. So I decided I had to suffocate her," he said.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The reason he murdered her, he said, was that there was an obvious link to an assault he had committed on a woman who lived near him in Tweed.</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; "></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">For more details regarding this case, see also: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: -1px; word-spacing: -1px; "><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/02/48hours/main20087171.shtml">Col. Russell Williams: Killer in command?</a>; CBS News/ 48 Hours</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Col. Williams'</span> surviving victims have taken legal action (Warmington, 2011). In specific, Laurie Massicotte plans a lawsuit against not only against the former Colonel (who is reportedly still receiving a military pension), his ex wife (to whom the former Colonel transferred some of his assets prior to his conviction), and the Ontario Provincial Police for failing in their duty of car. As detailed in Duffy (2010):</span>
<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg05jZAlqGU1-BIaa8lDeGfmruFWPnKtdSDAfYK139YHC2gO62oShe0NcPhCBkRL_pDhI_sdwDr3N6c0aygtU0rmlHvXf4xVYbLhiaa1hh5NgG6mkEr-OAuaoklq0n1WtHUnX1NUTlgqu70/s1600/1310795786908_ORIGINAL.jpg" style="font-size: medium; " onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg05jZAlqGU1-BIaa8lDeGfmruFWPnKtdSDAfYK139YHC2gO62oShe0NcPhCBkRL_pDhI_sdwDr3N6c0aygtU0rmlHvXf4xVYbLhiaa1hh5NgG6mkEr-OAuaoklq0n1WtHUnX1NUTlgqu70/s320/1310795786908_ORIGINAL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5643466811056245154" /></a></span></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Laurie Massicotte says Ontario Provincial Police officers told her they had to leave her in the harness, fashioned by Williams, until an OPP photographer arrived to take pictures of her in the restraint.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">“I was left for five hours, still in my harness, still tied up, naked, lying under a comforter,” Massicotte, 47, told the Ottawa</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Citizen in a telephone interview Friday.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">“Five hours, no medical attention. I was in total shock. I didn’t know what the heck was going on.”</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">The OPP, she said, treated her like a criminal in the early hours of the investigation. <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;">One officer told her neighbour, Massicotte said, that police suspected she was trying to “copycat” what happened to </span>another sexual assault victim in Tweed, Ont., 12 days earlier. <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;">“It was really, really, really bad,” she said.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The allegations, which have not been proven in court, will form part of a lawsuit that Massicotte intends to file against </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">Williams, his wife and the OPP.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">Massicotte, of Tweed, said she seeks “substantially more” than $2.5 million in damages.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 7px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Her lawyer, David Ross, already has given notice of the lawsuit to the Superior Court of Justice. A formal statement of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">claim will be filed within the next month, he said.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Ross said it appears the OPP initially did not believe her story, even though she was naked and bound. “I think the police </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">theory was that she was looking for some kind of compensation,” he said. <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;">The OPP did not respond to a request for comment on Massicotte’s allegations.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">According to the notice of claim filed in the case, Massicotte will argue that the OPP also breached its “duty of care” by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">failing to warn her that a sexual assault had taken place in her neighbourhood less than two weeks before she was attacked. <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;">Similarly, she will argue the police failed to inform her of nearby break-and-enters in which items of female clothing were </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;">taken. The incidents dated to September 2007.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Massicotte lived alone in a house three doors away from the cottage owned by Williams and his wife on the shores of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">Stoco Lake, north of Belleville, in eastern Ontario.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">Last October, Williams pleaded guilty to break-and-enter, sexual assault and confinement in connection with his attack on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">Massicotte.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">The ordeal lasted 3-1/2 hours. Williams left her in a makeshift straitjacket – her arms were cinched to her sides – but she still </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:medium;">managed to dial 911.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">The police told her she would have to stay in the restraint until the ident unit arrived. When photos were finally taken five </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">hours later, Massicotte said she was then allowed to put on a bathrobe, and taken outside for three more hours while police </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">combed her house for evidence.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">She went through a lengthy interrogation before an OPP officer “finally confessed to me that this similar situation </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman';">happened 12 days ago and we didn’t warn anybody about it.”</span></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">After the incident, Massicotte said she felt violated and terrorized by Williams, and “betrayed” by the police. She said she </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">now suffers from post-traumatic stress and anxiety. A mother of three – her children do not live with her – Massicotte told </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';">the Citizen: “I’m on the verge of a nervous breakdown.” <span class="Apple-style-span">She said she has been unable to work. “I’m basically now a prisoner in my own home. I’m afraid to go outside.”</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:100%;"></span></span></p><p></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Though Ms. Massicotte's allegations against the OPP have yet to be proven in court, they raise important questions. The issue of evidence protection vs. rendering victim aid should be a simple matter. For some, however, it is clear that a great deal more training is required before they should be allowed anywhere near potential crimes scenes. Unnecessarily detaining a witness or victim, bound or not, amounts to unlawful imprisonment. Especially if they have been sexually assaulted and are being detained without having been examined by a medical professional for injuries. Under similar circumstances, a victim with internal injuries could have suffered internal bleeding and even died while be held in wait. This is not just poor police work, it defies common sense given the multitude of avenues available for otherwise documenting the evidence.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Then there is the matter of whether the OPP failed in their duty of care with respect to protecting Ms. Massicotte or other potential victims by failing to advise them of the crimes occurring in their area in a timely fashion. In point of fact, many municipalities, when confronted with such lawsuits, claim that they owe no duty of care to a victim or the communities which their officers swear to protect and serve. This through legal representation of course. Perhaps, in such cases, it might be useful to have officers repeat, during sworn testimony, any oaths taken when receiving their police credentials. Or perhaps to have them read the OPP explanation of their community role in crime prevention as stated clearly on their website.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">See also my previous post: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://forensicvictimology.blogspot.com/2011/08/investigating-rape-taking-professional.html">Investigating Rape: Taking Professional Responsibility</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
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<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Duffy (2010)"<a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/left+Williams+victim+naked+tied+says/5281313/story.html">OPP left Williams victim naked, tied up, she says</a>,"<i> </i><i>Postmedia News,</i> August 20.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Savino, J. and Turvey, B. (2011)<i> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_7">Rape Investigation Handbook, 2<sup>nd</sup> Ed</a>.</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; ">, San Diego: Elsevier Science.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; ">Staff (2010) "</span><a href="http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/W5/20101020/williams_confession_101020/">Williams describes murders in taped confession</a>,"<i> CTV News</i>, October 20.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">
<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:130%;">Warmington, J. (2011) "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/18/second-civil-suit-pending-against-killer-colonel">Second civil suit pending against killer colonel</a>", Toronto Sun, July 18.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; ">
<br /></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-52753439884689486102011-08-03T18:44:00.007-08:002011-08-04T16:13:10.519-08:00Investigating Rape: Taking Professional Responsibility<img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 259px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5jeE-Y3zWFZGLed3xmXWFF9DrdCG4krU5mPE4UBk3i8Dku8tmLeAjCMyIqbaZW0kwLv4OFxSfPntizMqWPEgYK7K9iMS8-UzzQm29gWhiz05Kfp1eAi7kVKjydoxyQN-zfmCwKei0-_Tq/s320/Savino2_1_24.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5636846661785011314" /><p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">Complex sex crime scandals are not hard to find these days. Especially high profile cases involving public figures, law enforcement officers, and investigations or evidence that just doesn't quite meet the standard required for the courtroom.<span> </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">For example:</span></span></span></p><p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">-Two former NYPD Officers, Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata, were recently found <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/kenneth-moreno-franklin-mata_n_867996.html"><span style="Times New Roman"">not guilty of raping a 27-year-old drunk woman</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "> due to a lack of physical evidence – according to jurors;</span></span></p><p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span style="color:windowtext;">-Lauren McAllister, a police detective</span> with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department was recently <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jul/19/encinitas-sheriffs-deputy-arrested/">arrested on suspicion of interfering with the arrest of a sexual assault suspect</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">;</span></span></p><p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">-A police detective in Staffordshire was recently fired for gross misconduct for having an affair with woman <a href="http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Rape-case-detective-sacked-affair/story-12955083-detail/story.html"><span style="Times New Roman"">while also leading the investigation into her alleged rape</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "> (a circumstance not at all unheard of in the United States);</span></span></p><p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">-A judge in Albuquerque, NM, accused of raping a woman agreed to retire and never to seek a judicial office <span style="color:blue;">in </span><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/26/3795683/nm-judge-arrested-for-rape-agrees.html"><span style="Times New Roman"">New Mexico under a disciplinary order issued Tuesday by the state</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "> Supreme Court. This subsequent to his arrest on charges of rape and intimidation of a witness while serving as chief criminal judge in the 2nd Judicial District.</span></span></p><p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span style="Times New Roman"">-The </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/dominique-strauss-kahn/"><span style="Times New Roman"">Dominique Strauss-Kahn</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span style="Times New Roman""> case/ fiasco is still unwinding with ongoing questions about the evidence and the state’s primary witness;</span></span></span></p><p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">-And even the <span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/bb8012d279b046e9b9de131aad46fc7b/NC--Duke-Lacrosse-Dismissal/">Duke University Lacrosse Team</a></span> scandal is back in the news again, as the forensic scientist who conspired with prosecutors to conceal exculpatory DNA evidence failed in his attempt to contest his subsequent termination.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">All of these cases need (or needed) the same thing from the sex crime detectives assigned: a comprehensive and impartial investigation. Whether or not this can or has happened becomes a contentious matter for litigation, and often an expensive one. Some of this is avoidable.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">The lack of thoroughness in recent high profile police investigations, as well as the partiality of those involved, has rightly caused some to question the way that such investigations are being handled, and what this means for <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gDc5eWAdGIZycrlJKyjO9IEYYSqw?docId=0ca7ba58600f47a2a02dc408df0f20e2">victims of sexual assault that are already under tremendous pressure and scrutiny</a> with respect to bringing criminal allegations forward.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">In order to address the issue of best practice in sex crime investigation, and the increasingly unclear responsibilities of the sex crime investigator when training is absent and leadership fails, I spent the better part of the last 12 months working with my co-author, Det. John O. Savino (NYPD, ret.), to update our Rape Investigation Handbook with a second edition. This because, in our estimation, the quality of sex crime investigators and their investigations has dramatically decreased in the last decade.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">For myself, this view was culminated in my work on the case of <i><a href="http://www.ktvz.com/news/25308280/detail.html">Oregon v. Kevin Driscoll</a> </i><span style="font-style:normal">– for the defense. In ruling on admissibility of evidence that tended to utterly discredit the alleged victim’s claims as well as demonstrating the bias and ineptitude of police investigation, the judge made some bizarre statements. Namely he stated that there is no duty on the part of law enforcement to perform a comprehensive investigation, to doubt the statements of alleged victims, or to consider alternate theories of the evidence – let alone collect evidence and have it tested. He also ruled that any evidence contradicting the statements of the alleged victim were a violation of Oregon’s Rape Shield Law and would not be admitted. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style:normal;font-family:arial;">Despite this help to the prosecution’s case, the jury acquitted. But the stain of unprofessional conduct remains, as does its endorsement by too many in the courtroom scrambling to protect bad investigators and bad cases that should never have come to trial.</span></span></p> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">The following is an excerpt from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Investigation-Handbook-Second-Savino/dp/0123860296/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_7">Rape Investigation Handbook, 2<sup>nd</sup> Ed</a>. (Savino & Turvey, 2011 – Elsevier Science) that deals with the issue of investigator responsibility in sex crime investigation, and the duty of care that law enforcement has with respect to these cases:</span></p></div> <p class="Pa7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="Times New Roman";color:black;">Among the primary responsibilities of the sex crime investigator is the determination of whether or not a crime has occurred. Many complaints will have the appearance of a crime, but not every complaint is founded or necessarily results in a criminal charge. This determi</span><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="Times New Roman";color:black;">nation requires a thorough investigation, as well as the ability to distinguish between crimi</span><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="Times New Roman"; color:black;">nal and noncriminal sexual behavior. In other words, investigators must be capable of distinguishing whether a crime has actually occurred, and to do this competently they must know what sex crimes are.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:black;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:black;"><b>PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;">The authors have observed a great deal of organizational confusion regarding the actual responsibilities of law enforcement investigators as they approach criminal investigations. Sex crimes are particularly susceptible to disorganization, and the resulting investigative inaction, for three reasons:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>1. </b></span><span style="color:black;">Some investigators are often uncomfortable dealing with sex crimes victims because of the intimate nature of the crime or because of their own unresolved personal issues.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>2. </b></span><span style="color:black;">Some investigators have been trained inappropriately to think that any contact with a victim may result in changes to their story—so they limit contact with the victim and under document the statements that they are able to get—to preserve any future efforts to arrest or prosecute suspects.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>3. </b></span><span style="color:black;">Some investigators have been trained inappropriately to think that physical evidence is their enemy because it might contradict the statements of the victim—therefore they conduct their investigation as though it is best to leave some or all of the evidence uncollected or untested.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">These conditions can result in a culture of sexual assault case avoidance, where investigators willfully deprive themselves of the experience they must accumulate in order to put any good training to work and become better at their job. They also result in a failure of investigators to meet their duty of investigative care and nurture investigative apathy.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">This is not some remote or hypothetical notion. For example, a culture of apathy and avoidance with respect to victims of sexual assault has been acknowledged in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Police Chief Edward A. Flynn, as reported in Barton (2010b):</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Dozens and perhaps hundreds of Milwaukee police officers may not have been adequately trained in how to deal with victims of sexual assault, Chief Edward A. Flynn acknowledged Friday.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Assertions by women that they were mistreated by police after being sexually assaulted by the same man, Gregory Tyson Below, were echoed in a state-funded report released in April and distributed at Flynn’s Friday news conference.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">“At least in some segments of our victim population, there is a sense that this police department is less than responsive at the point of first report,” he said.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">As a result of the women’s complaints, the department plans to improve its training of rank-and-file officers, he said.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The department provides recruits with 12 hours of training in sexual assault investigation, eight hours in interviewing victims, and 15 hours in cultural competency, some of which addresses the way members of different groups view and react to sexual assault, according to the Police Department. But that training has not always been in effect.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">“We have a generation of officers who weren’t exposed to that training,” Flynn said. Further, the department has never provided annual refresher courses in sexual assault investigation for street cops, he said. “Clearly that’s a shortcoming,” he said.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Now that the problem has been identified, annual in-service training will be required for all officers starting in the fall, he said. MPD will work with other police departments and with the city’s Commission on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault to develop the curriculum, he said.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Members of the department’s Sensitive Crimes Division generally investigate sexual assaults and deal with victims long-term. They receive two days of in-service training every year. Neither the April report nor victims in the Below case criticized sensitive crimes personnel….</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">But training of rank-and-file officers also is important because usually they are the first ones to talk with victims of sexual assault. Three of the women who accuse Below, who was charged Monday with 32 crimes in connection with assaults against seven different women on the city’s south side, said in a criminal complaint that the police didn’t help them when they first reported assaults:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">• One woman said she went to three different MPD district stations in October 2008 to report multiple assaults by Below, but officials kept telling her to go somewhere else.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">• In October 2008, police arrived in the middle of an assault against a second woman. While the woman—naked from the waist down and bruised—waited for detectives to return after taking the assailant outside, one of the officers returned and asked her if the incident was a “dope date.” The officer had discovered a drug charge against the woman and seemed not to believe her.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">• A third woman said she called police two different times after Below raped her on five separate occasions in 2004 but does not believe the assaults were investigated.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">… In another case, records indicate that an officer responded, but there is not a corresponding report on file, Flynn said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">While police officers walk a fine line between being sensitive to victims and trying to get the truth, experts agree that judging a victim’s credibility based on her criminal record or giving victims the runaround is a bad idea….</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">If street officers don’t treat victims compassionately, a case can fall apart quickly, said Debra Donovan, supervisor of the sexual assault treatment center at Aurora Sinai Medical Center.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Unfortunately, the culture represented by these complaints has persisted with some Milwaukee officers, even after this highly publicized admission from their chief, as discussed in the case example in the next section. Milwaukee is not alone, however. In response to complaints from those representing victims, the New York City Police Department has announced that patrol officers will no longer be allowed to respond first to sex crimes (Parascandolar, 2010):</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Patrol officers will no longer be the first to respond to reported sex crimes, leaving the initial interviews to detectives from the special victims unit.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">The NYPD, in response to complaints from advocacy groups and rape counselors, also will increase the number of available SVU investigators. Some complained that victims’ allegations too often were ignored or classified as less serious crimes.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">In response to the criticism, the Police Department conducted an internal review of how it handled such crimes. The review turned up problems in only 19 of the 1,922 cases. Still, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly decided to make changes. One of the most persistent complaints from advocates was that patrol officers who interviewed victims at hospitals often weren’t sensitive enough.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style=" ;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">“I think that’s a valid concern,” Kelly said Wednesday.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">This move by the NYPD is an acknowledgment that they perceive cultural problems with their patrol officers that can only be addressed with drastic measures. This cannot truly solve the problem, however, as it is not being addressed directly. Patrol is not being removed from the equation, rather the responsibility of first response is being shifted somewhere else. It is hoped that this will not result in justice delayed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><b>Duty of Care</b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">The investigation of reported sexual assaults is the statutory and jurisdictional province of law enforcement agencies; the agency in charge depends on which laws have been reported broken and where. Nobody else has the legal authority to respond, interview witnesses and suspects, collect evidence, or make arrests in these cases. Consequently, responding law enforcement agencies have a duty of care—an obligation to be competent custodians of the criminal investigations they initiate and any evidence that supports or refutes allegations of criminal activity against accused suspects. If an agency or its officers and investigators do not hold or perceive a duty of care, then they are not fit to serve</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:black;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>Primary Responsibilities</b></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">The primary responsibilities of the sex crime detective, when responding to a criminal complaint, include:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>1. </b></span><span style="color:black;">Determining what happened<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>2. </b></span><span style="color:black;">Determining whether or not a crime has taken place<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>3. </b></span><span style="color:black;">Identifying and arresting any criminal perpetrators</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Investigators may not assume what happened based on the statements of one party, they may not assume that a crime has actually occurred until those facts have been established, and they must impartially place the cuffs on anyone they determine has broken the law. As explained in Bryden and Lengnick (1997, pp. 1230–1231):</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color:black;">As with all crimes, the police decide whether a reported rape actually occurred, and attempt to determine who committed it. If they want the case to go forward, they “found” the complaint and transmit the file to the prosecutor’s office…. The police must investigate, a task that cannot easily be combined with offering the emo</span><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="color:black;">tional support that the victim needs. The detective presumably wishes to avoid an injustice to a wrongly accused individual. In addition, for reasons of professional pride, he does his best to avoid looking naive by falling for a story that turns out to be false. Experienced investigators also know that many rape complainants ultimately decline to press charges, sometimes to the dismay of a detective who has worked hard to build a case.</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Meeting these responsibilities is best accomplished with a thorough, diligent, and comprehensive investigation. By comprehensive investigation, the authors mean a detailed review of the complainant and their statements; the careful consideration of witness and suspect statements; and the diligent collection and examination of any physical evidence. All of this must be attended prior to making final determinations regarding whether a crime has been committed, and whether probable cause exists to arrest any suspects.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Too often, these responsibilities are implemented in reverse—with suspects arrested first and investigations happening later, if at all. This is backward and may result in the creation of bias, missed suspects and evidence, and then doubt when results of the investigation begin to point away from the person that was initially arrested. Investigators have a duty to refrain from becoming invested in their suspects to the point where they consider making an arrest before a sufficient (or any) investigation has been undertaken. Failure to proceed with the investigation first, and ensure that any arrests are a natural result of that process, can lead to a miscarriage of justice (e.g., a failed prosecution of the factually guilty, or a successful prosecution of the factually innocent).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align: none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>Investigative Duties</b></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">Despite the attitudes and actions of some, the investigator’s goal is not to find reasons or means to dispose of their cases as quickly as possible in order to move on to the next com</span><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="color:black;">plaint or to get back to the station before the end of their shift or “tour.” Each investigation deserves, and must receive, comprehensive effort before any major decisions can be made. Not every case will receive a so-called “Cadillac investigation,” where everything is done, and done perfectly. Things will get missed and mistakes will be made. But each case can and should get the investigative basics, and every mistake must be corrected if possible.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">This section provides some of the basic duties that sex crimes investigators must perform when conducting their investigation. These must be done properly and to completion in order to represent the best investigative effort:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:black;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>1. Assume that the case will be going to court</b></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">The sex crime investigators should be thinking about and preparing for trial from the moment that initial notification is received. Specifically, they should assume that their case will result in a trial and that supervisors, forensic experts, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and juries will scrutinize every decision made. This means adopting a heightened sense of professionalism, thoroughness, and accountability.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"> </span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>2. Interview the officer who made the initial report</b></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">The investigator must obtain detailed information about the case from the officer who took the initial complaint. During this interview, the investigator should learn the name, address, and background information of the victim. If the suspect is known, the investigator should obtain background information on this individual as well. If the suspect is a stranger, the investigator should get a detailed physical description.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">The investigator must also get a detailed account of everything that the victim said to the responding officer during this initial contact—not in the officer’s words but the victim’s. The investigator must also learn what investigative steps, if any, have already been taken in order to follow up and avoid duplicating effort.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>3. Ensure sure the crime scene is secured; </b></span><span style="color:black;">determine if there are multiple scenes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">The investigator has the responsibility to make sure that each crime scene is being secured until a forensic team can get there and process it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>4. Respond to where the victim is located; </b></span><span style="color:black;">conduct a preliminary interview<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">The preliminary interview with a victim does not have to be extremely detailed. The investigator needs to learn enough to establish whether the elements of a crime are present and to identify any key evidence, suspects, and witnesses. As already men</span><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="color:black;">tioned, the investigator should attempt to uncover any details that will assist with processing the crime scene.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">Depending on the timing of the initial notification, this interview may take place at the crime scene, the hospital, the victim’s residence, or the residence of a friend or relative. A more thorough interview can take place at a later time in a more appropriate location. However, it is best to conduct this interview almost anywhere but the location where the attack occurred to prevent further emotional trauma and the destruction or alteration of evidence. Additionally, the crime scene unit should be instructed to hold off processing efforts until this interview has been conducted and the information learned can be relayed to them—to avoid missing evidence.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">The following information is crucial for effectively processing the scene and recover</span><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="color:black;">ing everything of value from it the first time:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Exact location of the alleged assault, for example, bed, couch, bathroom, kitchen, sidewalk, closet, alleyway, or in the bushes.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Circumstances of the alleged assault: This includes a description of the activities of the victim, for example, walking home from school, jogging in a park, or sleeping in her apartment.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Time of occurrence: This will assist when canvassing neighbors and nearby business as may be appropriate.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Victim injuries: Crime scene unit personnel should photograph all injuries, no matter how minor. If they refuse, the investigator should step in and take his or her own photos.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Items used during the attack by victim and offender, for example, weapons, ligatures, or sexual items and materials.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Items touched by the offender, for example, computers, purses, televisions, telephones, and toilets. These should be examined for trace evidence and seized to corroborate the victim’s story and help establish the identity of the offender if necessary.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Possible location of bodily fluids, for example, blood, semen, saliva, and excrement.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Point of entry into the scene, and exit, if applicable.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">• Detailed description of the suspect: This includes suspect physical characteristics, clothing, and smells such as alcohol, cigarette smoke, perfume, or cologne. This information should be distributed to area patrol units immediately.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">All of the information gathered should be relayed to crime scene unit personnel to educate their search for, and examination of, physical evidence associated with the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">It is likely that the investigator will be responding to a hospital or clinic where the victim is receiving medical care and undergoing forensic examination protocols (see Chapter 12: Sexual Assault Examination and Reconstruction). In these instances, the investigator must take the opportunity to confer with the medical staff examining the victim to ensure that all necessary exams will be conducted. Not every hospital is staffed properly to conduct a sexual assault examination, and not everyone holding the job title of “sexual assault nurse examiner” is necessarily knowledgeable or experienced regarding the tasks at hand. It is always best to confirm his or her intentions rather than to assume a proper job will be done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>5. Respond to the crime scene; </b></span><span style="color:black;">interview any witnesses and officers present<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">This presupposes that responding officers have met their obligations and maintained both the scene and any witnesses nearby. Regardless, there is no excuse for failing to attend the scene, secure or not. The investigator should interview everyone present and note the lighting conditions and location of any obvious activity or items of evidence. The investigator must also conduct a search for additional witnesses or surveillance cameras in and around the area where the crime occurred. Again, this will be covered in further detail in Chapter 5: Investigative Crime Scene Management. The investigator should also attempt to identify the first person that the victim told about the assault, commonly referred to as an outcry witness, and interview that person.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>6. Secure warrants; </b></span><span style="color:black;">confer with the forensic team<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">The sex crimes investigator has a responsibility to make sure any and all potentially related evidence is recovered. This carries with it the need to secure any search warrants before crime scene processing efforts can begin—when necessary. Conferring with the forensic team is therefore a requirement.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">At this point, the sex crimes investigator should be the one who possesses the most complete picture of the case, to include the details of the assault, the actors involved, and the evidence they may have left behind. The investigator must make the forensic team aware of any specific items of evidence to recover and any tests that should be performed. It is the investigator’s responsibility to make sure that pertinent evidence is recovered properly and to ensure that a proper chain of custody is maintained for each item. The investigator is also ultimately responsible for making sure that the evidence from his or her case is submitted to a laboratory for testing and for explaining what tests should be conducted. This will be explained in further detail in Chapter 6: Crime Scene Investigation in Sexual Assaults.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>7. Make a case book; </b></span><span style="color:black;">keep and maintain all tips and leads<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">The sex crimes investigator has a responsibility to keep and maintain a “book” that contains details on every interview conducted, every item of evidence tested, every tip received, and every lead that is developed. All of the information in this book must be continuously updated and reviewed. Every lead that is developed from the information within must be followed up on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>8. Ensure that appropriate identification procedures are used</b></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">When a good suspect is developed, the sex crimes detective will be held accountable for any irregularities or improprieties that may be found in subsequent identification efforts. See Chapter 9: Eyewitness Reports, Identifications, and Testimony.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>9. Keep accurate and legible notes during the investigation</b></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">Note taking is the foundation of a good investigation. It should be accurate, compre</span><span style="color:black;"></span><span style="color:black;">hensive, and chronological. Note taking helps coordinate the investigation, keeps it on track, refreshes the memory as needed, and helps structure the case for presentation in court.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;"><b>10. Keep the victim informed</b></span><span style="color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;mso-pagination:none; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">It is the investigator’s responsibility to keep and maintain a professional working relationship with the victim from the outset of a case to its conclusion. The investigator must respond to the victim’s questions in a timely fashion, keep him or her informed with respect to developments in the case, and make sure that he or she understands what will be needed from him or her at different points along the way.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">As already mentioned, the investigator’s most basic responsibility is to conduct a thorough and diligent investigation. To do this right, investigators must learn as much as they can about the crimes they have been assigned to investigate. The investigator should strive to become an expert in the field he or she has been assigned to investigate, whether it be a sex crimes squad, homicide squad, economic crimes, or general crimes. The victim, as well as the accused, is entitled to the best investigative effort that the investigator and agency can provide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">REFERENCES<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">Barton, G. (2010a). </span><span style=" ;color:black;"><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/103930314.html"><span style="Times New Roman"">Accused serial rapist faces 15 new counts</span></a></span><span style="color:black;">. <i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</i></span><span style="color:black;">, September 28.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">Barton, G. (2010b). </span><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/98133094.html"><span style="Times New Roman"">Police to improve sensitivity training</span></a></span><span style="color:black;">. <i>Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</i></span><span style="color:black;">, July 9.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">Bryden, D., and Lengnick, S. (1997). Rape in the criminal justice system. <i>Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology</i></span><span style="color:black;">, 87;1194–1384, Summer.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><span style="color:black;">Parascandola, R. (2010). <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-12-23/news/27085225_1_crimes-victims-patrol-officers">SVU investigators to be first on sex-crime scenes, NYPD says</a>. <i>New York Daily News</i></span><span style="color:black;">, December 23.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/brent/brent_cv.html">Brent E. Turvey, MS</a> (Forensic Science) is a senior partner with Forensic Solutions, LLC, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Brent-E.-Turvey/e/B001IOH19A">numerous forensic texts on the subject of crime reconstruction, criminal profiling, and forensic victimology</a>, and specializes in the examination of cases involving violent sexual behavior - including rape and sexual homicide. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:bturvey@forensic-science.com">bturvey@forensic-science.com</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-86275057872024488552011-03-11T14:47:00.005-09:002011-08-25T17:16:20.321-08:00Crime Scene Analysis & Criminal Profiling Seminar<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Forensic Solutions and the Academy of Behavioral Profiling are pleased to sponsor the following two day training event in conjunction with the Elgin Community College. College credit is available for ECC students.</span></div></div></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is a two (2) day session where students learn theory and practice through the structured examination of case study material. The first day will involve the theory and practice of an holistic approach to crime reconstruction. The second day will involve the theory and practice of crime scene analysis. Each day will culminate in group work with actual case material.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
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<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This workshop is open to the public, and is strongly recommended for students and professionals who are working or studying in areas related to:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
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<br /></span></span><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Criminology
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Criminal Investigation
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Criminal Justice
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• <a href="http://www.forensicnursing.org.">Forensic Nursing</a>
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Forensic Science
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Law Enforcement
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Legal studies
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Mental Health/ Counseling
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Psychology
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Sociology
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Women's studies
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">• Victimology</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span></span><hr style="font-family:Times;"><p style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "></span></b></p><b><div style="display: inline !important; "><div style="display: inline !important; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">LOCATION</span></span></b></div></div></b></span><b></b><p></p></b></div><div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Elgin Community College
<br />ATC Auditorium
<br />1700 Spartan Dr.
<br />Elgin, Illinois 60134</span></span></div></span></b></div></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br />SEMINAR DATES & TIMES
<br />April 8-9, 2011; 9:00AM - 4:40PM
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<br />REGISTRATION COSTS
<br />ECC Students: $30 USD
<br />Non-ECC Students: $50 USD
<br />Non-Student/ Public: $100 USD
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<br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ECC STUDENTS</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
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<br />ECC students can concurrently enroll in PSY220.101 for course credit. See http://accessecc.elgin.edu, or contact Dr. Shawn Mikulay for more information.
<br /></span></span><hr style="font-family:Times;"><p style="font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">CONTACTS</span></span></b></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Brent E. Turvey, MS
<br />bturvey@forensic-science.com
<br />907-738-5121
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<br />Shawn Mikulay, PhD
<br />smikulay@elgin.edu
<br />847-214-7963</span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium; "><hr style="font-family:Times;"><p style="font-family:Times;"><img border="0" src="http://www.forensic-science.com/turvey_mikulay_Ohio_2010.jpeg" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="336" height="249" alt="Brent <span class=" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19" /></p></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">INSTRUCTORS</span></span></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Brent E. Turvey, MS</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br />Forensic Scientist & Criminal Profiler
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<br />Brent E. Turvey holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, with an emphasis on Forensic Psychology, and an additional Bachelor of Science in History. He went on to receive his Masters of Science in Forensic Science after studying at the University of New Haven, in West Haven, Connecticut.
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<br />Since graduating in 1996, Brent has consulted with many government agencies, law enforcement agencies, and private attorneys in the United States, Australia, China, Canada, Barbados, Korea and Scotland on a range of rapes, homicides, and serial/ multiple rape/ death cases, as a forensic scientist and criminal profiler. This includes cases under investigation, as well as those going to trial. He has also been court qualified as a forensic expert in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic science, victimology, and crime reconstruction, providing expert examinations and testimony for the last 15 years.
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<br />He is the author of Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ed. (1999, 2002, 2008, 2011); and co-author of Rape Investigation Handbook, 1st and 2nd Ed. (2004, 2011), Crime Reconstruction, 1st and 2nd Ed. (2006, 2011), and Forensic Victimology (2009) - all with Elsevier Science. For a complete list of titles, see Amazon.com.
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<br />Brent is currently a full partner, Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Forensic Solutions, LLC, as well as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Justice Studies at Oklahoma City University. He is also the Secretary of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling, as well as a member of their board of directors.
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<br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Shawn Mikulay, PhD</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">
<br />Associate Professor of Psychology
<br />Vice President, Academy of Behavioral Profiling
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<br />Shawn Mikulay received his BA, MA, and PhD in Psychology, and his MS in Industrial Management from Northern Illinois University. His published research is concentrated in the ara of employee deviance. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at Elgin Community College, and teaches courses in experimental, developmental, social, introductory, and forensic psychology, as well as human sexuality.
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<br />He is currently serving as the Vice President of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling.</span></span></div><div><hr face="Times"><p style=" ;font-family:Times;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">REGISTRATION</span></span></b></p></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Those interested in registering for this workshop may pay by check, money order, Visa, MC, or Discover.
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<br />Make all checks or international money orders payable to Forensic Solutions, LLC in US Dollars. Also, provide your name, employment/ student information, and contact information including phone and email so that we can contact you and send updates.
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<br />Mail to:
<br />ECC Seminar c/o
<br />Forensic Solutions, LLC
<br />P.O. Box 2175
<br />Sitka, Alaska 99835
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<br />Click on the appropriate link below.</span></p><blockquote style="font-family:Times;"><table border="0" width="55%"><tbody><tr><td width="59%"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">ECC Students: $30 USD</span></td><td width="41%" valign="middle" align="left"><b><a href="http://www.digital-evidence.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=courses&Product_Code=ecc1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">REGISTER NOW</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">!</span></b></td></tr><tr><td width="59%"><hr /><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Non-ECC Students: $50 USD</span></p></td><td width="41%" valign="middle" align="left"><b><a href="http://www.digital-evidence.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=courses&Product_Code=stu1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">REGISTER NOW</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">!</span></b></td></tr><tr><td width="59%"><hr /><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Non-Student/ Public: $100 USD</span></p></td><td width="41%" valign="middle" align="left"><b><a href="http://www.digital-evidence.net/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=courses&Product_Code=seminar"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">REGISTER NOW</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">!</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><hr /><p face="Times"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Web Page</span></u></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">: http://www.forensic-science.com/seminar_2011.html</span></p></div></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-662016387587886722010-06-27T10:30:00.003-08:002010-06-27T10:42:55.070-08:00ABP CONFERENCE & PROFILING WORKSHOP - 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlbn1FLcsmXPwF8_Igo4f29FH2NVnknzB0esV_Z7gXEndfqbeEdkCxIjWJU_fwZ0rdt2klxOL5SGqU2tpLaK1_faToADAC1jbzZwMTwZB324ha5nksdm0qW79shcGYGDODbV731Juz4kl/s1600/052008_ComColleges1_500.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYlbn1FLcsmXPwF8_Igo4f29FH2NVnknzB0esV_Z7gXEndfqbeEdkCxIjWJU_fwZ0rdt2klxOL5SGqU2tpLaK1_faToADAC1jbzZwMTwZB324ha5nksdm0qW79shcGYGDODbV731Juz4kl/s320/052008_ComColleges1_500.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487525798881473602" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The </span></span><a href="http://profiling.org/abp_meeting2010.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">11</span></span></a><a href="http://profiling.org/abp_meeting2010.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(ABP) will be hosted this year by </span></span><a href="http://www.owens.edu/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Owens Community College</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> in Toledo, Ohio on August 7th & 8th, 2010. Open to the public, thee meeting is a conference where members present papers regarding current cases and research, followed by a two day </span></span><a href="http://www.forensic-science.com/seminar_2010.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Criminal Profiling Workshop</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> (Aug. 9-10, 2010).</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Since its inception in 1999, the ABP has grown to almost 200 international members with diverse student and professional backgrounds. This includes forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, criminal investigations, criminology, and forensic science. The membership is unified by their forensic work, teaching and scholarly research related to crime, criminals, and forensic examinations.</span><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The schedule of presentations at this years meeting, which is open to the public, includes lectures on the subjects of criminal profiling, behavioral analysis, investigative strategy, crime reconstruction, false confessions, serial rape, sexual homicide, and victimology.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Those interested in attending should visit the ABP's website at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.profiling.org/">www.profiling.org</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, or contact Dr. Stan Crowder</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> at <a href="mailto:scrowder@kennesaw.edu">scrowder@kennesaw.edu</a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;">. All are welcome.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;font-size:medium;">Links:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">1. </span></span><a href="http://www.profiling.org/abp_meeting2010.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">http://www.profiling.org/abp_meeting2010.html</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">2. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.forensic-science.com/seminar_2010.html">http://www.forensic-science.com/seminar_2010.html</a></span></span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-88565161063645550522009-06-17T14:47:00.000-08:002009-06-17T14:48:15.191-08:00Criminal Profilers Meet at Grossmont CollegeThe <a href="http://profiling.org/abp_meeting2009.html">Tenth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling</a> (ABP) will be held this year at <a href="http://www.grossmont.edu/">Grossmont College</a> in El Cajon, California on August 8th & 9th.<div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3GCq93RnppzOzl2UOeR8UHucEPRTHMlcHbnKPwgP9EigmtTzljZuUtP11FiaS8mLXk9ewdmOHywBpYMEZjseEPCJEvOmGRkXut0puuqRjHMmghMLgHitPNYcu5dzbQrI8YgLI6KMq8LX/s1600-h/cp3_cover_sm.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ3GCq93RnppzOzl2UOeR8UHucEPRTHMlcHbnKPwgP9EigmtTzljZuUtP11FiaS8mLXk9ewdmOHywBpYMEZjseEPCJEvOmGRkXut0puuqRjHMmghMLgHitPNYcu5dzbQrI8YgLI6KMq8LX/s400/cp3_cover_sm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348426980883954706" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 115px; height: 150px; " /></a><br /></div><div>"Our first meeting was in Monterey, back in 1999," says <a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/brent/brent_cv.html">Brent Turvey</a>, a forensic scientist and criminal profiler in private practice, as well as the Secretary of the ABP. "We got a lot accomplished in that first year, including uniform terminology, a strong code of ethics and written practice standards. All of these have been published and regularly updated in the textbook<i><a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/fs_bookstore/cp/cp_index.html">Criminal Profiling</a></i>, in its third edition now, which our more senior practicing members have contributed to over the years."</div><div><br /></div><div>Since its inception in 1999, the ABP has grown to over 150 international members with diverse professional backgrounds such as forensic psychology, forensic psychiatry, criminal investigations, criminology, and forensic science. They are all bound together by their work in relation to crime, criminals, and forensic examinations.</div><div><br /></div><div>The upcoming meeting at Grossmont College promises to be among the most important, as changes are coming. "The profiling discipline has matured," explains current ABP President,<a href="http://www.profiling.org/abp_officials.html">Dr. Wayne Petherick</a>, a forensic criminologist and professor of criminology at Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia. "There are many different kinds of criminological assessments performed by our members, because the knowledge and skills developed for profiling can be used in other forensic examinations. The ABP is evolving to keep up with those kinds of advancements."</div><div><br /></div><div>"For our members the annual meeting is a chance for students and professionals to get together, share ideas, and remain current with methods and developments in recent cases," states <a href="http://www.profiling.org/abp_officials.html">Michael McGrath, MD</a>, a forensic psychiatrist and past President of the ABP, currently serving as its Ethics Chair. "For the other professionals and even the general public, it is an opportunity to learn about forensic casework from people who are actually doing it and know what they are talking about. There are a lot of misconceptions out there."</div><div><br /></div><div>The schedule of presentations at this years meeting, which is open to the public, includes lectures on the subjects of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0123750717?ie=UTF8&tag=brenturv-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0123750717">forensic criminology</a>, criminal profiling, homicide solvability, motivations of law enforcement offenders, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0123740894?ie=UTF8&tag=brenturv-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0123740894">forensic victimology</a>, ethics, and staged crime scenes.</div><div><br /></div><div>Those interested in attending should visit the ABP's website at <a href="http://profiling.org/abp_meeting2009.html">www.profiling.org</a>, or contact<a href="http://www.profiling.org/abp_officials.html">Dr. Stan Crowder</a> at scrowder@kennesaw.edu.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-34005865416722783912009-03-04T08:42:00.005-09:002009-03-04T09:47:36.526-09:00FALSE REPORTER HAS HISTORY<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Law enforcement investigators have a hard job, no doubt about it. They are required to make difficult decisions under stressful situations in a very short period of time which can have grave consequences. So there will be mistakes. One way reduce the number of those mistakes is by ensuring that decisions are as informed as possible. </span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To that end, prior to responding to any call, whether it is a domestic disturbance or a complaint of sexual assault, a preliminary assessment of the actors involved is necessary. It involves little more than a quick database search for wants, warrants, and criminal convictions - much like is done during an average traffic stop. This simple act can better inform decisions and determinations that must be made at the scene. This includes, but is not limited to: who was more likely the aggressor in a domestic disturbance by virtue of history; who has a history of being armed; who has a history of being under the influence of a controlled substance; and who might have a history of falsely reporting crime.</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Problems caused by the failure to investigate and establish the history of those involved in criminal complaints, on both sides, are discussed throughout <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0123740894/knowledgesolutioA/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Forensic Victimology</span></span></a> (2008; p.293):</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br /></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">False reporters span all ages, all walks of life, and are capable of staging both injuries and evidence to support their claims. A thorough investigation of the evidence has traditionally been the best way to reveal the false reporter, who is more likely to confess when confronted with logical inconsistencies in his or her statements and behavior. Unfortunately, law enforcement resources are drained away from actual victims by such cases. Innocent citizens are exposed to the possibility of false accusations and damage to their personal and professional lives. Legitimate victims of sexual assault are exposed to the possibility of encountering overtaxed law enforcement resources that are inadequate to the task of investigating their cases thoroughly or competently. Building owners, private companies, and insurance companies are exposed to the threat of costly liability lawsuits. As stated in Gross (1924, 14): "Not only must the self-made victim be exposed, but innocent people</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">who may be suspected must be protected."</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A recent example illustrates the kind of problems that can averted by delaying action for just a few moments while stories are checked out and backgrounds are made clear. In involves </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Elisa LaCroix, a false reporter with a history.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;">________________________________________</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:16px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/01/27/21/306-4191422.6037.original.thumb.prod_affiliate.7.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/01/27/21/306-4191422.6037.original.thumb.prod_affiliate.7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; "><br /></p></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/708473.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Child's mother faces charges for making false report</span></span></span></span></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Attorney calls it a spur-of-the-moment plan that grew out of control.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By JULIA O'MALLEY</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">jomalley@adn.com</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">March 2nd, 2009</span></span></span></div><div id="story_text"><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Elisa LaCroix appeared in court Monday on charges related to what police say was the staged abduction of her 3-week-old son Saturday.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">LaCroix is charged with making a false report -- a misdemeanor -- as well as violating probation on a 2006 burglary conviction. She's also facing charges for faking a sexual assault in January.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">She blamed the rape and, at one point, the abduction on an ex-boyfriend, prosecutors say. He was later cleared in both cases.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Each charge carries the possibility of up to a year in prison, up to a $10,000 fine and up to 10 years of probation, according to her attorney, Rex Butler. Her bail was set at $5,000, he said.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">LaCroix has two children, including the 3-week-old, and both are in the custody of a family member, Butler said.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"That is what she wanted," Butler said.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He said she is also in counseling.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The abduction report led law enforcement to issue the state's first Amber Alert for a missing child overnight Saturday. The charges against her say that investigators later discovered that LaCroix handed her infant out a bedroom window to a friend because she was worried that her husband, who is due to deploy to Afghanistan, would try to take custody of him. The friend didn't know that she was part of a scheme and was not charged.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In a live interview on KTUU Channel 2 Monday evening, Butler said LaCroix, desperate to keep custody of her son, made a spur-of-the-moment plan that got out of hand. He called her a victim.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The public doesn't know the whole story," he said.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Attempts to reach LaCroix's husband, Kaid LaCroix, on Monday were not successful.</span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; ">________________________________________</span></span></span></span></p><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">Brent E.Turvey, MS, also author of </span></span><a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/fs_bookstore/cp/cp_index.html" style="color: rgb(34, 85, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">Criminal Profiling, 3rd Ed</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ">. with Elsevier Science (2008), can be reached at <a href="mailto:%20bturvey@forensic-science.com" style="color: rgb(34, 85, 136); ">bturvey@forensic-science.com</a>.</span></span></span><br /></p></div></div></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116801850153284308.post-32533034422424753872008-10-04T21:16:00.010-08:002008-10-09T10:38:21.072-08:00FORENSIC VICTIMOLOGY TEXT: VICTIM STUDY TOO POLITICAL; INVESTIGATIVE AND LEGAL OUTCOMES COMPROMISED<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKIOzUTsFG3ekBYZFgKDSxy25ot7eB5lmO6OAPrhPxhEnfpBpvyGBmHDqoKTwo8TsszOSQBPOhJXqrrChNW0CFX19biY4evUYwYsotGE5Gs954wINfNbo5QHVlHFOpJwOw7oqqfqNP4rP/s1600-h/513LmlaNlFL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PRESS RELEASE - </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com">Forensic Solutions, </a></span></span></span></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com">LLC</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Victims of violent crime are too often studied as stereotypical groups rather than as complex individuals. Investigators are too often pressured to accept or question victim statements based on </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">emotional and political considerations. And worse, the</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> justice system treats many victims as mere witnesses for the prosecution, rating their character with subjective moral standards, rather than perceiving them as real people who have suffered harm and need help. The result is less informed research, less informed investigations, and less informed legal outcomes. So argues the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">new textbook </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/716623/description#description"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Forensic </span></span></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Victimology</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span></span></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Elsevier</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Science, 2009) coauthored by forensic scientist and criminal </span></span></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">profiler</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/brent/brent_cv.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Brent </span></span></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Turvey</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> of Alaska, and </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://www.bond.edu.au/about/faculties/hss/staff/profile.asp?s_id=143"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Wayne </span></span></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Petherick</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, PhD</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, an Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University on the Gold Coast, Australia.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In part, the current state of academic affairs has to do with the way that different victim groups are regarded by the police and courts, and then researched and taught by theoretical criminologists. There is a tendency to avoid asking tough questions of culturally sympathetic victims, such as those who have been raped, and a desire to punish others who may be regarded as immoral or complicit, such as drug addicts and prostitutes, Dr. </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Petherick</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> explains.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“</span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, which is a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">sub-discipline of criminology, is meant to be the scientific study of victims. But it is taught at university almost exclusively through a narrow lens that involves feminist and restorative perspectives bundled with less than reliable victim crime data,” states Dr. </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Petherick</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. “Unfortunately, too many lecturers are there to push a particular agenda or ideology when neutrality is what’s needed. That tends to put a lot of our best students off. It’s at best naive and at worst politicized. This needs to change.”</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Turvey</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> agrees. “Science is skeptical. It asks questions. And it assumes nothing. Lose the freedom to doubt and we lose our ability to understand problems, let alone solve them,” he explains.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Turvey,</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> a court qualified forensic expert who has worked rape and homicide cases for law enforcement and attorneys since the mid 1990s, sees the current landscape of </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> as one overpopulated with advocates – some by job title and some by way of personal philosophy. “It seems as though much of </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> has become the property of those with social and even political agendas. There is more to </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> than that – substantially more.”</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Turvey</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and those like him, victim study is not about broad or obscure theory; it is applied and specific – a necessary component of investigating violent crime. “My job is to figure out what happened and why. That means getting the facts. And that means asking tough questions to victims and about victims in every case – no matter what. My experience has been that politics and personal beliefs immediately get in the way of that.”</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For more than ten years, </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Petherick</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> and </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Turvey</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> have collaborated on casework and teaching projects in both the United States and Australia. In their work, they have repeatedly been confronted by the same types of problems with respect to victims of crime: some witnesses lie about victims, some victims lie about what happened to them, and some people lie about being victims. And that’s when victim evidence is collected at all. In the current culture, the way that victims are investigated and studied, it is difficult to address this without offending someone – whether it be the victim, a victim’s advocate, an investigator, an attorney, or a judge.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They came to realize that the solution to these problems was already there, if buried beneath competing agendas. The solution was to reboot </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> as a truly scientific study with investigative and forensic implications.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Forensic </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> as a field is defined by the authors as the scientific study of victims for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues. It involves the skeptical investigation of facts and a thorough examination of the evidence. Forensic </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, explains </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Turvey</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, provides a scientific balance against the idealization or </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">demonization</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> of victims, a filter for deception and false reporting, and the means for identifying a threshold of relevance for victim information and opinions already at work in the criminal justice system.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They write: “the forensic </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimologist</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> is best conceived as an objective, dispassionate, and above all scientific examiner. They are critical and skeptical, and they put the establishment of fact before politics or any other consideration. To that end, they take nothing for granted, look for corroboration of any alleged victim’s statements, seek out collateral sources of information, and investigate alternate or contributing motives for victim behavior. Most importantly, the forensic </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimologist</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> is barred from assuming that alleged victims must have been victimized. For their purposes, </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimity</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> must be established unequivocally and may not be asserted simply for ideological purposes. They investigate as scientists, they report as educators, and they understand the gravity of their eventual courtroom testimony.”</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The result of their work and research is a </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">colloborative</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> textbook, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Forensic </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Victimology</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, published in October of 2008 by </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Elsevier</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Science out of San Diego, California, with chapters contributed by a range of professionals whose work involves </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">interpreting</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> victim evidence. “It gives students basic methodology, and professional </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimologists</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> the permission to think, teach, and act like scientists,” explains </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Turvey</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. Dr. </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Petherick</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> goes further, arguing “It moves </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">victimology</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> from the theoretical study of victim groups through the lens of radical agendas to an applied scientific discipline that helps solve crime and resolve legal questions. It is where criminology needs to be.”</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">__________________________________________________________</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL8078sANe0OUU9vtTymkioC_x6ZvkDOAYjQ3GiwBCrBLx145PAIs0mn3I_DOtklYL8POzxTLYdQMcN9TE-iFlZJZavS_M1FJ8NXUfzzpTHYm3HB6D6zaYtehPgwDBX-g8VWzppfAW6gC1/s1600-h/bturvey_sitka_082908-sm.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Brent E.Turvey, MS, also author of </span></span><a href="http://www.corpus-delicti.com/fs_bookstore/cp/cp_index.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Criminal Profiling, 3rd Ed</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">. with Elsevier Science (2008), can be reached at <a href="mailto:%20bturvey@forensic-science.com">bturvey@forensic-science.com</a>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Wayne A. Petherick, PhD, also author of </span></span><a href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/707024/description#description"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Serial Crime</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> with Elsevier Science (2005), can be reached at </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><a href="mailto:wpetheri@staff.bond.edu.au">wpetheri@staff.bond.edu.au</a>.</span></span></p></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05779324926345200925noreply@blogger.com0