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Academy of Behavioral Profiling

Officers

Board of Directors

W. Jerry Chisum, BS
Forensic Section
Board Member
Founding Member

William Jerry Chisum, now retired from teaching and active government service, started criminalistics practice in 1960. He studied under Paul Kirk at UC Berkeley where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry. He worked in San Bernardino, then set up the Kern County Laboratory in Bakersfield. After joining the California Dept. of Justice, he took a leave of absence (1971-73) to work at Stanford Research Institute.

Jerry has always been interested in evidence at the crime scene. He developed several methods that he shares with his students. He taught as a part time professor at the California State University, Sacramento for 4 years. He instructed with Joe Rynearson for over 25 years, in various locations in California, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, New Mexico, Washington DC and Nevada. He has lectured on Crime Scene Reconstruction at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, UC Berkeley, the University of New Haven, the Connecticut State Police Academy's First Conference on Serial Murders, Oklahoma City's Second Conference on Serial Murders, the Nashville Symposium on Crime Scene Reconstruction, Reno, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Los Angeles, the First Chinese-American Conference on Police Science in Tiawan, the Australian Forensic Science Society in Brisbane, Australia,and the Tri-State Annual Law Enforcement Conference in Great Spirit Lake, Iowa.

He has been President of the California Assoication of Criminalists three times, only one other person has served two terms. He served as President of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors and as President of the Stanislaus County Peace Officers Association.

Though now retired from government service, Jerry still is active in case consultation and accepts cases from throughout the United States. He can be reached via email at: wjchisum@comcast.net.

Stan Crowder, PhD
Criminology Section
Board Member

Stan Crowder is a retired U.S. Army Military Police Colonel.  During his 35 years of military service, Stan held in numerous positions including:  MP Commander, Chief of Investigations for the Inspector General of Georgia, Counterdrug Coordinator, Battalion Commander, and Chief of Personnel.  He also served seven years as a civilian police officer.  He currently teaches in the Criminal Justice Program at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, where he has been since 1999. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Betty Siegel teaching award.  Stan holds a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, as well as an MBA.  

He can be reached via email at: scrowder@kennesaw.edu.

Claire Ferguson, MCrim
Criminology Section
Board Member

Claire Ferguson holds her Bachelor of Arts degree in Honours Psychology from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and a Masters of Criminology from Bond University in Australia. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Criminology Department at Bond University where she is studying staged crime scenes. Claire worked for St. Leonard’s Society in 2006, writing a narrative to be used for training purposes about homicide cases. In 2007, she undertook an internship with Queensland Fire and Rescue in the Fire Investigation Unit. She completed a crime scene analysis internship with Forensic Solutions in 2008. Claire also works at Bond University as an adjunct teaching fellow in the Criminology Department.

Claire can be contacted via at: clfergus@staff.bond.edu.au.

Michael McGrath, MD
Behavioral Section
Past President
Chair, Ethics Committee
Board Member
Founding Member

Michael McGrath is a Board Certified Forensic Psychiatrist, licensed in the State of New York. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, and Medical Director & Chair, Department of Behavioral Health, Unity Health System, Rochester, New York.

Dr. McGrath divides his time among administrative, clinical, research and teaching activities. His areas of expertise include forensic psychiatry and criminal profiling. He has lectured on three continents and is a founding member of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling. He can be contacted at: mmcgrath@profiling.org.

Wayne A. Petherick, PhD
Criminology section
President
Board Member

Wayne Petherick, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast.  Here Wayne teaches criminal profiling, Behavioral Evidence Analysis, criminal motivations, forensic criminology and crime and deviance, among other subjects. He also consults to private clients on matters of risk and threat, stalking, miscarriages of justice and crime prevention.

Wayne is the author of Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioral Profiling, 2^nd Edition (2009), and co-author of Forensic Victimology (2009), both with Elsevier Science. He has also published numerous articles on profiling and stalking. Wayne is a board member of the Academy of Behavioral Profiling and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Profiling.  

He can be reached via email on wpetheri@staff.bond.edu.au.

Angela N. Torres, Ph.D.
Behavioral Section
Board Member

Angela Torres received her BA in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, and then her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Sam Houston State University. She also completed a one-year internship in clinical psychology at the Federal Medical Center, Federal Bureau of Prisons, in Rochester, MN. Subsequently, she completed a one-year fellowship in forensic psychology. Currently, Dr. Torres is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Forensic Evaluator at Central State Hospital, the maximum-security forensic hospital in Petersburg, Virginia. In this capacity Dr. Torres completes forensic evaluations for the Court such as competency to stand trial and mental status at the time of the offense evaluations. 

She may be contacted at Angela.Torres@csh.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov.

Brent E. Turvey, MS
Forensic Section
Secretary - Treasurer
Board Member
Founding Member

Brent E. Turvey spent his first years in college on a pre-med track only to change his course of study once his true interests took hold. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University in Psychology, with an emphasis on Forensic Psychology, and an additional Bachelor of Science degree in History. He went on to receive his Masters of Science in Forensic Science after studying at the University of New Haven, in West Haven, Connecticut.

Since graduating in 1996, Brent has consulted with many agencies, attorneys, and police departments in the United States, Australia, China, Canada, Barbados and Korea on a range of rapes, homicides, and serial/ multiple rape/ death cases, as a forensic scientist and criminal profiler. He has also been court qualified as an expert in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic science, victimology, and crime reconstruction.

He is the author of Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, 1st, 2nd , and 3rd Editions (1999, 2002, 2008); and co-author of Rape Investigation Handbook (2004), Crime Reconstruction (2006), and Forensic Victimology (2009) - all with Elsevier Science. He is currently a full partner, Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Forensic Solutions, LLC, as well as an Adjunct Professor of Justice Studies at Oklahoma City University. 

He can be contacted via email at: bturvey@profiling.org.

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