Associate Professor of Criminology
Department of Society and Design
Bond University
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Phone: +61 7 5595 1124
Email: wpetheri@bond.edu.au
Department of Society and Design
Bond University
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Phone: +61 7 5595 1124
Email: wpetheri@bond.edu.au
Immanuel Lutheran College | Maroochydore, Queensland | 1984 - 1988 |
Northpoint College of TAFE | Diploma of Business Administration (Justice Studies) (Incomplete) | 1992 - 1994 |
Queensland University of Technology (Carseldine Campus) | Brisbane, Queensland Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) | 1995 - 1997, awarded 1998 |
Bond University | Robina, Queensland, Master of Criminology | 1998 - 2000, awarded 2000 |
Bond University | Robina, Queensland, Doctor of Philosophy | 2002 - 2007, awarded 2007 |
Wayne is currently Associate Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Society & Design. Wayne teaches in the areas of Alcohol, Drugs, and Crime, Criminal Profiling, Applied Crime Analysis, Criminal Motivations, Crime and Deviance, Forensic Victimology, and Forensic Criminology.
Wayne is author, editor, or coeditor of three textbooks including Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues in Behavioural Profiling, now in its second edition, Forensic Victimology, and Forensic Criminology. These works are published by Elsevier Science, the oldest publisher in the world, who also published Galileo.
His research areas of interest include criminal profiling, with his doctoral thesis Criminal Profiling: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Methods and Content examining criminal profiles to better understand the nature of logic employed and the types of characteristics offered by the different approaches. Other areas include stalking, where he is developing a Response-Outcome model to better understand the response style of victims of stalking and how this may perpetuate the cycle of harassment. In other work, Wayne is also working on the relationship between self esteem, personality disorder, crime, and criminal (and victim) motivations.
In addition to his teaching and research work, Dr. Petherick also works on a variety of cases including homicides, threat and risk cases, and stalking.
My Master of Criminology thesis was on statement analysis, specifically examining whether there are differences between deceptive and truthful statements. My doctoral research examined the theory and process differences in criminal profiling methods. My current textbooks include Applied Crime Analysis, Profiling and Serial Crime, and Forensic Criminology. I am currently conducting research that expands on my previous research on statement analysis. I am interested in all aspects of decision making in applied crime analysis, such as the power and impact of satisficing hypotheses, the role of victim precipitation in offending and victimisation, the role of self-esteem in offending and victimisation, and the neurological correlates of offending and victimisation. Future work in the field will expand upon an applied crime analysis which I developed and involve the systematic and idiographic examination of a case to answer investigative and legal questions.
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