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October 14, 2009
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Kim Rossmo’s latest book, Criminal Investigative Failures, takes a hard look at why police work doesn’t always succeed. The Simon Fraser University adjunct criminology professor will give some insights into such failures (from well-known miscarriages of justice such as the Donald Marshall case to the Downtown Eastside murdered women investigation), and share his latest research findings when he returns to SFU for a lecture – part of SFU’s new police studies program – on Friday, Oct. 16, 12:45 – 2:20 p.m. at the Burnaby campus (room SSCB 9200).
Rossmo completed his master’s degree and PhD at SFU on his pioneering geographic profiling research. He is currently applying geographic profiling to counter-insurgency, a study of the geospatial structure of terrorist cells, and even animal foraging (including great white sharks off the coast of South Africa). His team has also tested the model on infectious disease data to see if a disease origin can be detected, such as analyzing cases of malaria to determine the most likely mosquito breeding pool.
Rossmo holds the University Endowed Chair in Criminology and is the director of the Centre for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation in the Department of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. He is available for interviews before and after his talk. To arrange, contact him in advance at krossmo@austin.rr.com.
Rick Parent, criminology (for messages) 778.782.8418; rparent@sfu.ca
Kim Rossmo’s latest book, Criminal Investigative Failures, takes a hard look at why police work doesn’t always succeed. The Simon Fraser University adjunct criminology professor will give some insights into such failures (from well-known miscarriages of justice such as the Donald Marshall case to the Downtown Eastside murdered women investigation), and share his latest research findings when he returns to SFU for a lecture – part of SFU’s new police studies program – on Friday, Oct. 16, 12:45 – 2:20 p.m. at the Burnaby campus (room SSCB 9200).
Rossmo completed his master’s degree and PhD at SFU on his pioneering geographic profiling research. He is currently applying geographic profiling to counter-insurgency, a study of the geospatial structure of terrorist cells, and even animal foraging (including great white sharks off the coast of South Africa). His team has also tested the model on infectious disease data to see if a disease origin can be detected, such as analyzing cases of malaria to determine the most likely mosquito breeding pool.
Rossmo holds the University Endowed Chair in Criminology and is the director of the Centre for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation in the Department of Criminal Justice at Texas State University. He is available for interviews before and after his talk. To arrange, contact him in advance at krossmo@austin.rr.com.
Rick Parent, criminology (for messages) 778.782.8418; rparent@sfu.ca