➡️ A former detective, post-graduate in Forensic & Legal Psychology. ➡️ Author, Lecturer, Guest speaker, Freelance Forensic Criminologist Advisor. ➡️ Interests include applied applications and knowledge transfer; subject areas include crime linkage; serial crime; firesetting/arson and investigation processes.
✴ Book Author - examinination from a fresh perspective on the Whitechapel murders, titled 'Rewriting Whitechapel’s Legacy: An exercise in Behavioural Science'.
❇ PhD research area - Firesetting within Domestic Violence (male offenders / female victims). Address: UK.
With deliberate firesetting an issue for international fire and police services, a theoretical in... more With deliberate firesetting an issue for international fire and police services, a theoretical investigative framework to illustrate the evolution of deliberate firesetting and its application in fire crime investigations is discussed. Defined typologies are considered in lieu of findings and developments in affiliated criminal behavioral investigations, with the framework seen as a blueprint to open up pathways for practitioners to engage with and better understand serial firesetters.
This paper is an example of applying modern day investigative techniques and behavioural evidence... more This paper is an example of applying modern day investigative techniques and behavioural evidence analysis to a well known and highly discussed cold 'serial' case, from an honest and objective perspective.
The crime linkage techniques utilise the Jaccard co-efficient to produce comparisons between individual offences in a quantifiable format. The results question the established and accepted findings of the true number of victims.
With diverse investigative information streams between European Union (EU) states, commentary is ... more With diverse investigative information streams between European Union (EU) states, commentary is made on the absence of a unified statistical based system across member states to analyse undetected linked violent crimes and unidentified transient serial offenders. With the free movement of persons being a guaranteed fundamental right granted to EU citizens by the Treaties, it brings into consideration the movement of serial offenders across member states, the continuation of their offending behaviour and investigative strategy.
Rewriting Whitechapel's Legacy: An exercise in Behavioural Science., 2021
This paper is an excerpt of 37/115 pages from a recently self published book on Amazon.
The Whit... more This paper is an excerpt of 37/115 pages from a recently self published book on Amazon.
The Whitechapel legacy from the late 1880’s has conjured a vast number of solutions to many questions such as ‘Who was killed?’ and ‘Who was Jack?’. It is a classic cold case but one that regularly fails to include perspective, verified investigative techniques and logical deductive thinking. Much has been written about the district of Whitechapel but in considering the question of ‘Who was the killer?’, one must go back to the start and consider who was killed by the same person.
Life and living was hard in Whitechapel. Overcrowding, object poverty and illness were factors that inflicted the residents. It has been described as seedy and crime ridden, but Whitechapel was not alone as a London district to suffer these problems; and not every resident was regarded as poor. Whitechapel may have been viewed as a hard place to live, but before 1888, the district had deaths like any other but none as a result of homicide. Mortality rates were high but causes were recorded as natural, illness/disease, accidental or suicide. One night in August 1888 changed that…
‘Rewriting Whitechapel’s Legacy’ provides the opportunity to apply Behavioural Science to this lasting cold case and present an intelligent investigation of the events. One supported by techniques and evidence that identifies a new figure whose verified background makes him a very significant person. It provides answers to who was killed, who was Jack ‘in name’ and who was Jack ‘the person’.
With deliberate firesetting an issue for international fire and police services, a theoretical in... more With deliberate firesetting an issue for international fire and police services, a theoretical investigative framework to illustrate the evolution of deliberate firesetting and its application in fire crime investigations is discussed. Defined typologies are considered in lieu of findings and developments in affiliated criminal behavioral investigations, with the framework seen as a blueprint to open up pathways for practitioners to engage with and better understand serial firesetters.
This paper is an example of applying modern day investigative techniques and behavioural evidence... more This paper is an example of applying modern day investigative techniques and behavioural evidence analysis to a well known and highly discussed cold 'serial' case, from an honest and objective perspective.
The crime linkage techniques utilise the Jaccard co-efficient to produce comparisons between individual offences in a quantifiable format. The results question the established and accepted findings of the true number of victims.
With diverse investigative information streams between European Union (EU) states, commentary is ... more With diverse investigative information streams between European Union (EU) states, commentary is made on the absence of a unified statistical based system across member states to analyse undetected linked violent crimes and unidentified transient serial offenders. With the free movement of persons being a guaranteed fundamental right granted to EU citizens by the Treaties, it brings into consideration the movement of serial offenders across member states, the continuation of their offending behaviour and investigative strategy.
Rewriting Whitechapel's Legacy: An exercise in Behavioural Science., 2021
This paper is an excerpt of 37/115 pages from a recently self published book on Amazon.
The Whit... more This paper is an excerpt of 37/115 pages from a recently self published book on Amazon.
The Whitechapel legacy from the late 1880’s has conjured a vast number of solutions to many questions such as ‘Who was killed?’ and ‘Who was Jack?’. It is a classic cold case but one that regularly fails to include perspective, verified investigative techniques and logical deductive thinking. Much has been written about the district of Whitechapel but in considering the question of ‘Who was the killer?’, one must go back to the start and consider who was killed by the same person.
Life and living was hard in Whitechapel. Overcrowding, object poverty and illness were factors that inflicted the residents. It has been described as seedy and crime ridden, but Whitechapel was not alone as a London district to suffer these problems; and not every resident was regarded as poor. Whitechapel may have been viewed as a hard place to live, but before 1888, the district had deaths like any other but none as a result of homicide. Mortality rates were high but causes were recorded as natural, illness/disease, accidental or suicide. One night in August 1888 changed that…
‘Rewriting Whitechapel’s Legacy’ provides the opportunity to apply Behavioural Science to this lasting cold case and present an intelligent investigation of the events. One supported by techniques and evidence that identifies a new figure whose verified background makes him a very significant person. It provides answers to who was killed, who was Jack ‘in name’ and who was Jack ‘the person’.
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The crime linkage techniques utilise the Jaccard co-efficient to produce comparisons between individual offences in a quantifiable format. The results question the established and accepted findings of the true number of victims.
The Whitechapel legacy from the late 1880’s has conjured a vast number of solutions to many questions such as ‘Who was killed?’ and ‘Who was Jack?’. It is a classic cold case but one that regularly fails to include perspective, verified investigative techniques and logical deductive thinking. Much has been written about the district of Whitechapel but in considering the question of ‘Who was the killer?’, one must go back to the start and consider who was killed by the same person.
Life and living was hard in Whitechapel. Overcrowding, object poverty and illness were factors that inflicted the residents. It has been described as seedy and crime ridden, but Whitechapel was not alone as a London district to suffer these problems; and not every resident was regarded as poor. Whitechapel may have been viewed as a hard place to live, but before 1888, the district had deaths like any other but none as a result of homicide. Mortality rates were high but causes were recorded as natural, illness/disease, accidental or suicide. One night in August 1888 changed that…
‘Rewriting Whitechapel’s Legacy’ provides the opportunity to apply Behavioural Science to this lasting cold case and present an intelligent investigation of the events. One supported by techniques and evidence that identifies a new figure whose verified background makes him a very significant person. It provides answers to who was killed, who was Jack ‘in name’ and who was Jack ‘the person’.
The crime linkage techniques utilise the Jaccard co-efficient to produce comparisons between individual offences in a quantifiable format. The results question the established and accepted findings of the true number of victims.
The Whitechapel legacy from the late 1880’s has conjured a vast number of solutions to many questions such as ‘Who was killed?’ and ‘Who was Jack?’. It is a classic cold case but one that regularly fails to include perspective, verified investigative techniques and logical deductive thinking. Much has been written about the district of Whitechapel but in considering the question of ‘Who was the killer?’, one must go back to the start and consider who was killed by the same person.
Life and living was hard in Whitechapel. Overcrowding, object poverty and illness were factors that inflicted the residents. It has been described as seedy and crime ridden, but Whitechapel was not alone as a London district to suffer these problems; and not every resident was regarded as poor. Whitechapel may have been viewed as a hard place to live, but before 1888, the district had deaths like any other but none as a result of homicide. Mortality rates were high but causes were recorded as natural, illness/disease, accidental or suicide. One night in August 1888 changed that…
‘Rewriting Whitechapel’s Legacy’ provides the opportunity to apply Behavioural Science to this lasting cold case and present an intelligent investigation of the events. One supported by techniques and evidence that identifies a new figure whose verified background makes him a very significant person. It provides answers to who was killed, who was Jack ‘in name’ and who was Jack ‘the person’.