Background

Wayne spent five years in the Regular Australian Army driving Armoured Personnel Carriers. After a decision to change careers, he studied Psychology at the Queensland University of Technology where he attained his Bachelor of Social Science. After expressing a growing interest in Criminology, he accepted a place to study Criminology at Bond University, and was later bought on board as one of the teaching staff.

Expertise

Wayne has extensively studied criminal profiling throughout the course of his academic career, a pursuit he has broadened whilst at Bond. Wayne has been involved in expanding the courses available through the Criminology Department, where he has assisted to develop both courses now taught on the subject, along with being involved in the development of several other courses taught in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. On several occasions, Wayne has been invited to speak on Criminal Justice issues with the media and as a guest speaker. Mostly these appearances relate to aspects of the criminal profiling process however. He has been involved in the authoring of various articles relating to criminology, one such example is the Forde Commission of Inquiry examining the abuse of children in institutions.

Research Interests

Wayne has developed a research interest in the area of criminal profiling. This covers a wide range of areas including attitudes towards criminal profiling, the use and abuse of criminal profiling in investigations, and different profiling methods and their applications. Through conducting research in the area, Wayne hopes to be able to elevate the status of criminal profiling to make it more of a widely used tool in investigations, and to raise the general level of knowledge in the community about investigative aids such as profiling. In his career, he has also examined the interpersonal nature of stalking and is in the process of authoring a chapter on the new crime of Cyberstalking.

Wayne lectures in Media and Crime, Crime and Deviance, Criminal Profiling, Advanced Behavioural Evidence Analysis, Theories of Crime and the Criminal Justice System.

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