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Katherine Brown

University of New Haven: Faculty

University of New Haven: Katherine Brown
Katherine M. Brown
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences
Dept: Criminal Justice
Phone: 203.931.2957
Email: kbrown@newhaven.edu
Office: 300 Boston Post Road
West Haven, CT 06516

Education

Ph.D., Sam Houston State University, 2008
M.A., San Houston State University, 2005
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1993

Published Books and Articles

Keppel, R. D., Weis, J. G., Brown, K. M., & Welch, K. (2009). The Jack the Ripper murders: A modus operandi and signature analysis of the 1888-91 Whitechapel murders.  In R. Keppel and W. Birnes (Eds.), Serial violence. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor and Francis Group.

Brown, K. M., Keppel, R. D., Weis, J. G., & Skeen, M. (2007). Investigative case management for missing children homicides: Report II.  In R. Keppel (Ed.), Offender profiling (2nd ed.). Mason, OH: Thomson Custom Publishing.

Keppel, R. D., Brown, K. M., & Welch, K. (Eds.). (2007). Forensic pattern recognition: From fingerprints to toolmarks. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Brown, K. M., & Keppel, R. D. (2007). Child abduction murder: An analysis of the effect of time and distance separation between murder incident sites on solvability. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 52(1), 137-145.

Keppel, R. D., Weis, J. G., Brown, K. M., & Welch, K. (2005). A modus operandi and signature analysis of the 1888-91 Whitechapel murders. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 2(1), 1-21. 

Courses Taught

CJ 201 Principles of Criminal Investigation
CJ 251 Quantitative Applications in Criminal Justice
CJ 450 Criminal and Deviant Behavior

Current Research Projects

Child Abduction Murder: An Analysis of the Effect of Victim Age, Victim Gender, Victim Race, Victim-Offender Relationship, Forensic Evidence, and Time and Distance Separation on Case Solvability (Principal Investigator).  Study examining child abduction murders from 1968 to present across the United States.

Other

Dr. Brown's research interests focus on child victimization, child abduction murder, forensic evidence and other solvability factors affecting murder investigations.  In addition, Dr. Brown serves as a Child Abduction Response Team (CART) consultant to law enforcement agencies across the country.

Dr. Brown's Curriculum Vitae