Personal
- Name
- Associate Professor Geoff Dean
- Position(s)
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Law,
School of Justice - Discipline *
- Law, Criminology
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 7116
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 7123
- g.dean@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), MSocWk (University of Queensland)
- Keywords
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Cognitive Styles of Investigative Thinking, Criminal Entrepreneurialism, Criminal Profiling, Global Crime, Knowledge Management in Policing, Organised Crime, Police Investigations, Police Management, Police Psychology, Terrorism Profiling
Biography
Dr. Dean specialises in investigative psychology and policing, criminal/offender profiling, terrorism and international crime. His Doctoral research was on the Experience of Investigation for Detectives. Major publications include refereed journal articles on family therapy, child abuse, police education and training, domestic violence, policing by consent, reforming operational policing practices, investigative thinking, criminal profiling, and terrorism in particular suicide bombers.
He is a member of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology (SPCP) in America, an honorary member of the Italian Association for Investigative Psychology (AIPI) in Rome, an honorary member of the Institute for Profiling & Criminal Analysis (IPACC) in France, a visiting scholar with the Centre for Teaching and Research in Behavioural Analysis (CERPAC) in France; registered as an international expert with EUROPOL at the Knowledge Management Centre, The Hague in the Netherlands, and consults widely with various police services, institutes, and universities in Asia (Singapore, China), Europe (England, France, Norway, Germany, Italy), and North America (Canada and the US).
Dr. Dean is the Course Coordinator for the ‘International Policing’ program that forms the major component of the Bachelor of Justice Degree for the Singapore Police Force.
Research Interests
- Policing, Security & Terrorism
- Justice & Jurisprudence
- Criminology & Criminal Profiling
- Investigative Psychology
Teaching
Experience
Dr. Dean’s Professional Work Experiences Include
- Queensland Police Service, Senior Lecturer in Human Relations at Police Academy;
- Telstra Australia in Staff Welfare Services Unit;
- State Department of Family Services in the Child Protection Unit;
- State Department of Queensland Health in the Community Medicine Division.
Publications
- Dean GJ, Gottschalk P, (2008) Remarks by the guest editors, Police Practice and Research: an international journal p275-276
- Dean GJ, Fahsing IA, Gottschalk P, Solli-Saether H, (2008) Investigative thinking and creativity: An empirical study of police detectives in Norway, International Journal of Innovation and Learning p170-185
- Holgersson S, Gottschalk P, Dean GJ, (2008) Operational Knowledge of Patrolling Police Officers in Sweden: Management Implications, International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development p49-62
- Dean GJ, Fahsing IA, Glomseth R, Gottschalk P, (2008) Capturing Knowledge of Police Investigations: Towards a Research Agenda, Police Practice and Research: an international journal p341-355
- Berg ME, Dean GJ, Gottschalk P, Karlsen JT, (2008) Police Management Roles as Determinants of Knowledge Sharing Attitude in Criminal Investigation, International Journal of Public Sector Management p271-284
- Dean GJ, Gottschalk P, (2007) Knowledge Management in Policing and Law Enforcement p1-279
- Dean GJ, (2007) Criminal Profiling in a Terrorism Context, Criminal Profiling: International Theory, Research, and Practice p169-188
- Filstad C, Dean GJ, Fahsing IA, Gottschalk P, (2007) Newcomers' Use of Colleagues as Role Models: Research Propositions for Investigative Thinking Styles of Law Enforcement Detectives, Knowledge and Process Management (Print Edition): the journal of corporate transformation p71-80
- Dean GJ, Fahsing IA, Gottschalk P, (2007) Creativity as a Determinant of Thinking Style in Police Investigations, International Journal of Police Science and Management p112-121
- Dean GJ, Fahsing IA, Gottschalk P, (2007) In Search of Police Investigative Thinking Styles: An Exploratory Study of Detectives in Norway and Singapore, International Journal of Learning and Change p20-33
