DR. C. GABRIELLE SALFATI

Topic: Criminal Profiling

Dr C. Gabrielle Salfati joined the Department of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2003, from the Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool in the UK, where she held the positions of Course Director for the Masters program in Forensic Behavioral Science and the position of Deputy Course Director for the Masters program in Investigative Psychology.

She is part of the first group of people who emerged within the new field of Investigative Psychology, and was instrumental in its development as an international research field on the empirical analysis of violent criminal behavior, in particular the advancement of the science of offender profiling. She has now continued the work started in the UK at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York where she is currently the Director of the Offender Profiling & Crime Scene Analysis Research Unit and Associate to the Dean of Research in the Office for the Advancement of Research.

Her main areas of expertise are homicide and sexual offences, in particular with reference to offender profiling, classifications of violent crime, linking serial crime, and cross-cultural comparisons. She is currently working on a number of interrelated projects dealing with various facets of violent crime and deviance. In particular, this work is now being developed within an international framework through collaboration with major research centers and law enforcement agencies internationally.

She has presented and published widely both nationally and internationally on her work, is a Founding Board Member of the International Association of Investigative Psychology, is an Associate Editor on the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, is on the Board of Editors of a number of other key academic journals, and is also actively involved with the US-based Homicide Research Working Group.