Publications

Multiple crime types / linking across crime types

Bennell, C., Gauthier, D., Gauthier, D., Melnyk, T., & Musolino, E. (2010). The impact of data degradation and sample size on the performance of two similarity coefficients used in behavioural linkage analysis. Forensic Science International, 199 (1-3), 85-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.03.017 Find on ResearchGate

Bennell, C., Woodhams, J., Beauregard, E., & Mugford, R. (in preparation). The use of iterative classification trees for crime linkage analysis. Law and Human Behavior.

Hering, A.S., & Kazor, K. (2013). A permutation test to identify important attributes for linking crimes of serial offenders. Stat, 2 (1), 211-226. DOI: 10.1002/sta4.30 Find on ResearchGate

Melnyk, T., Bennell, C., Gauthier, D., & Gauthier, D. (2010). Another look at across-crime similarity coefficients for use in behavioural linkage analysis: An attempt to replicate Woodhams, Grant, and Price (2007). Psychology, Crime, and Law, 17 (4), 359-380. DOI: 10.1080/10683160903273188 Find on ResearchGate

Tonkin, M., & Woodhams, J. (2015). The feasilibity of using crime scene behaviour to detect versatile serial offenders: an empirical test of behavioural consistency, distinctivenssm and discrimination accuracy. Legal and Criminological Psychology. Advance Online Publication. DOI: 10.1111/lcrp.12085 Find on ResearchGate

Tonkin, M., Woodhams, J., Bull, R., & Bond, J. W. (2012). Behavioural crime linkage with solved and unsolved crimes. Forensic Science International, 222 (1-3), 146-153. DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2012.05.017 Find on ResearchGate

Tonkin, M., Woodhams, J., Bull, R., Bond, J. W., & Palmer, E. J. (2011). Linking different types of crime using geographical and temporal proximity. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 38 (11), 1069-1088. DOI: 10.1177/0093854811418599 Find on ResearchGate

Tonkin, M., Woodhams, J., Bull, R., Bond, J. W., & Santtila, P. (2012). A comparison of logistic regression and classification tree analysis for behavioural case linkage. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 9 (3), 235-258. DOI: 10.1002/jip.1367 Find on ResearchGate