Arson
Using solved arson case records the aim is to develop a motive based model of firesetting behaviour.


Burglary
Looking at the classification of different types of burglar and developments in their criminal actions.


Child Pornography Rings
Organisational and group psychology is drawn upon to develop models of the creation and structure of child pornography and sexual abuse rings.


Criminal Narratives
Criminal accounts of their own lives are hypothesised to relate directly to their styles of crime. The implications are for the understanding of criminality and the progress of police investigations.


Fraud
The distinguishing behaviours of fraudsters are being examined in order to establish a statistically derived categorisation of this type of offender.


Homicide
Analysis of crime scene material has allowed a facet structure of homicide to be developed, linking different types of homicide to different characteristics of the offender.


Hostage Taking
This research aims to establish models of hostage taking behaviour from published accounts of aerial hijack, barricade-siege and kidnap. This has implications for the understanding of criminal behaviour at a group rather than individual level and is aimed at assisting in the negotiation of such events.


Psycho-Geography of Crime
Research on criminal spatial behaviour from solved crimes is used to test the predictive accuracy of geographical and psychological methods of establishing an offenders home base from crime scene locations.


Serial Murder
The focus is on deriving models to identify the drives which distinguish between American serial sex killers. These are linked with the characteristics of the offenders.


Serial Rape
Consistency and development in offender behaviour is being studied in order to develop principles for the linking of serial crime.


Stalking
A classification of stalking behaviour is currently underway in terms of differenting styles of stalking as well as types of offenders involved.


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