Waypoint sequencing: simplifying behaviour sequence analysis for criminal cases

David Keatley is based at the School of Law, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Chair of Crime Science at Murdoch University, Australia. David is also the Director of Researchers in Behaviour Sequence Analysis (ReBSA) and Cold Case Review (CCR@). He collaborates on a number of international research projects into violent crime, including atypical homicide, sexual assault and rape cases and interpersonal violence. This has resulted in over 50 academic publications and case reports for police departments around the world. As part of the growing ReBSA network, David has written two books on using temporal methods to investigate crime: Pathways in Crime and The Timeline Toolkit. Dave is also a cold case consultant and a member of Vidocq Society and regularly provides assistance to Law Enforcement worldwide.

David D. Clarke is based at the Department of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and former Head of School at the University of Nottingham, UK. He holds doctorates from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, has given lecture courses at Oxford, Cambridge and Nottingham, and has supervised forty-eight successful PhDs. Having started his career in medical sciences, he mainly researches pathways into and out of dangerous situations, using behavioural sequence analysis to study road traffic collisions, evacuations, fights, rapes, relationship breakdowns and mental disorders. He has held research grants and contracts from the ESRC, MRC, NERC, Leverhulme Trust, Transport Research Laboratory, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Department for Transport, Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, Transport for London, Higher Education Innovation Fund, National Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage and the Department for Health. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and is also a Chartered Psychologist.