What DNA Evidence Reveals About Criminals: Cold Case Criminology
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Cold cases are resolved on an almost weekly basis by new investigative techniques and forensic technologies that can process DNA evidence from long dormant crime scenes. This DNA evidence revolution has unprecedented potential for locating missing persons, identifying crime victims, and bringing perpetrators to justice. Infamous figures in the annals of crime, including the Green River Killer, Boston Strangler, Golden State Killer, Grim Sleeper, Night Stalker, I-65 Killer, and Ted Bundy, are connected to the DNA revolution as investigators leverage brilliant technological innovations to analyze archival forensic evidence. The resolution of cold cases, which often takes decades to transpire, allows for a long observational period of the perpetrator and their conduct, thus the long shelf-life of cold cases offers a natural experiment to analyze how offenders behave as their crimes remained undetected. Cold cases resolved with DNA evidence has shed light on several important scientific facts about criminal offenders themselves and offers important criminological lessons, ones that this book details.
Drawing on his unparalleled criminological career, Matt DeLisi examines well over 100 cold cases recently resolved by DNA evidence. Behind each fascinating case of a long-dormant felony are scientific principles that are central to criminology including opportunity, self-control, noncompliance, versatility, specialization, continuity, intermittency, severity, and comorbidity. DNA evidence brings these facts fully to light.
Matt DeLisi is Distinguished Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice at Iowa State University. The author of 500+ scholarly publications, Dr. DeLisi is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Association for Psychological Science, the only scientist in the world so honored by all three organizations. His recent books include Criminal Naïveté with Matt Logan), True Crime America: The Functions of Our Murder Obsession, What DNA Evidence Reveals about Criminals: Cold Case Criminology, and Ted Bundy and the Unsolved Murder Epidemic: The Dark Figure of Crime.
Although he publishes in multiple content areas, Professor DeLisi is most known for his research on serious, chronic, violent, and pathological offenders. He has provided expert services and consultation on capital murder and multiple-homicide offender cases in multiple federal and state jurisdictions. In 2013, Professor DeLisi testified to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and consulted on criminal justice policy to a variety of federal stakeholders including the United States Attorney General, National Institute of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and others. Dr. DeLisi previously worked as a research specialist with United States Probation and Pretrial Services and engaged with scores of practitioners in the federal judiciary and correctional spheres. Prior to entering academia, Dr. DeLisi worked as a pretrial services officer for five years.
Cold cases are resolved on an almost weekly basis by new investigative techniques and forensic technologies that can process DNA evidence from long dormant crime scenes. This DNA evidence revolution has unprecedented potential for locating missing persons, identifying crime victims, and bringing perpetrators to justice. Infamous figures in the annals of crime, including the Green River Killer, Boston Strangler, Golden State Killer, Grim Sleeper, Night Stalker, I-65 Killer, and Ted Bundy, are connected to the DNA revolution as investigators leverage brilliant technological innovations to analyze archival forensic evidence. The resolution of cold cases, which often takes decades to transpire, allows for a long observational period of the perpetrator and their conduct, thus the long shelf-life of cold cases offers a natural experiment to analyze how offenders behave as their crimes remained undetected. Cold cases resolved with DNA evidence has shed light on several important scientific facts about criminal offenders themselves and offers important criminological lessons, ones that this book details.
Drawing on his unparalleled criminological career, Matt DeLisi examines well over 100 cold cases recently resolved by DNA evidence. Behind each fascinating case of a long-dormant felony are scientific principles that are central to criminology including opportunity, self-control, noncompliance, versatility, specialization, continuity, intermittency, severity, and comorbidity. DNA evidence brings these facts fully to light.
Matt DeLisi is Distinguished Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice at Iowa State University. The author of 500+ scholarly publications, Dr. DeLisi is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Association for Psychological Science, the only scientist in the world so honored by all three organizations. His recent books include Criminal Naïveté with Matt Logan), True Crime America: The Functions of Our Murder Obsession, What DNA Evidence Reveals about Criminals: Cold Case Criminology, and Ted Bundy and the Unsolved Murder Epidemic: The Dark Figure of Crime.
Although he publishes in multiple content areas, Professor DeLisi is most known for his research on serious, chronic, violent, and pathological offenders. He has provided expert services and consultation on capital murder and multiple-homicide offender cases in multiple federal and state jurisdictions. In 2013, Professor DeLisi testified to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and consulted on criminal justice policy to a variety of federal stakeholders including the United States Attorney General, National Institute of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and others. Dr. DeLisi previously worked as a research specialist with United States Probation and Pretrial Services and engaged with scores of practitioners in the federal judiciary and correctional spheres. Prior to entering academia, Dr. DeLisi worked as a pretrial services officer for five years.