Biography

Dr C. Gabrielle Salfati 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 joined the Department of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2003, from the International 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 currently the Director of the Investigative Psychology Research Unit, and also holds the position of Associate to the Dean of Research in the Office for the Advancement of Research at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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, trains homicide investigators for the Detective Bureau of the New York Police Department (NYPD), the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), and other national, federal and international police organizations. She 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, Homicide Studies and the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and is on the Board of Editors of a number of other key academic journals, is a member of the International Homicide Investigators Association, sits on the Center for Homicide Research Advisory Panel, and is the elected Vice-President of the Homicide Research Working Group.

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