Prof. David Keatley is the co-founder and Director of ReBSA and founder and Director of Forensic Linguistics Analysis Group (FLAG), and a Professor of Criminology at Murdoch University, Australia. He specialises in the areas of Forensic Psychology, crime, and Temporal Analysis, and Keatley's Winthropping. He is particularly interested in applied research, using timeline analyses to understand real-world issues (especially in the areas of crime and law). Prof. Keatley regularly analyses cases with Detectives and Cold Case Task Forces on a number of current and cold criminal cases around the world. Prof. Keatley also gives public talks on areas including: criminal investigation, investigative deception detection, forensic linguistics, and Winthropping.

 

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For more information please visit David Keatley's personal webpage: David Keatley

 

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Selected Publications (For a full list, please click HERE)

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Keatley, D. A.  & Clarke, D. D. (2019). Crime Linkage: Finding a behavioral fingerprint using the 'Path Similarity Metric'. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

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Keatley, D. A., McGurk, S., & Allely, C. (2019). Understanding school shootings with crime script analysis. Deviant Behavior

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Keatley, D. A., Arntfield, M., Gill, P., Clare, J., Oatley, G., Bouhana, N., & Clarke, D. D. (2019). Behaviour Tracking: using geospatial and sequence analysis to map crime. Security Journal.

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Keatley, D. A., Marono, A., & Clarke, D. D. (2018). Unmaking a murderer: behaviour sequence analysis of false confessions. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.

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Keatley, D. A., Golightly, H., Shephard, R., Yaksic, E., & Reid, S. (2018). Using behaviour sequence analysis to map the life history of serial killers. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

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Ellis, H. E., Clarke, D. D., Keatley, D. A. (2017). Perceptions of behaviours in stranger rape cases: a sequence analysis approach. Journal of Sexual Aggression.

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Marono, A., Clarke, D. D., Navarro, J., Keatley, D. A. (2017). A sequence analysis of nonverbal behaviour and deception. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.

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Taylor, O., Keatley, D. A., & Clarke, D. D. (2017). A behaviour sequence analysis of perceptions of alcohol-related violence surrounding drinking establishments. Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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Keatley, D. A., Barsky, A., & Clarke, D. D. (2017). Driving under the influence of alcohol: A sequence analysis approach. Psychology, Crime and Law.

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