Dr. Kim Rossmo
TOPIC: Causes and Prevention of Criminal Investigative Failures
Looking Back to Face Forward

Dr. Kim Rossmo is a professor and the Director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University.  He received his PhD from the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, and has researched and published in the areas of environmental criminology, the geography of crime, and criminal investigations.  He was formerly the Detective Inspector in charge of the Vancouver Police Department’s Geographic Profiling Section, the Director of Research for the Police Foundation, and a management consultant with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).  He is a member of the IACP Advisory Committee for Police Investigative Operations, sits on the editorial board for Homicide Studies, is a former Austin Public Safety Commission chair, and is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University.  Dr. Rossmo has received numerous federal grants to study such subjects as the geospatial structure of terrorist cells, the systemic causes of wrongful convictions, and offender decision-making and displacement.  His books include Geographic Profiling (translated into Mandarin and Japanese), Criminal Investigative Failures, and a Texas crime atlas.  He received Simon Fraser University’s Outstanding Alumni of the Year Award for Professional Achievement in 1999 and the Sterling Prize in 2005.  He has been awarded the Governor General of Canada Police Exemplary Service Medal.