Plenary Session:
Invited Address by D. Kim Rossmo, PhD—

Geographic and Psychological Profiling: Complementary, Contradictory, or Incongruous? (2177)

Friday, Aug. 7, 12:00–12:50 p.m., Room 717A D

Kim Rossmo, PhD, is the Texas State University–San Marcos Endowed Chair in Criminology and director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation in the Department of Criminal Justice. He has a PhD in criminology from Simon Fraser University and has researched and published in the areas of environmental criminology, policing, and offender profiling. Previously, Dr. Rossmo trained the first U.S. federal law enforcement agent in geographic profi ling while a management consultant with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and was director of research for the Police Foundation in Washington, DC. Before that, he served as detective inspector in charge of the Vancouver Police Department’s geographic profi ling section, which provided investigative support for the international law enforcement community. Dr. Rossmo is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Advisory Committee for Police Investigative Operations and the South Carolina Research Authority Integrated Solutions Group Advisory Board. He is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, sits on the editorial boards of Homicide Studies and the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, and is a full fellow of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. Recently, Dr. Rossmo completed projects on the applications of geographic profiling to insurgency problems in Iraq and illegal border crossings in Texas. He is currently conducting research on the geography of terrorism and is working with biologists in the study of the spatial dynamics of animal foraging. He has just completed a book on criminal investigative failures.

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