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Dr Geoff Dean - School of Justice

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Associate Professor

MSW (Qld), PhD (QUT)

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Contact:

Room: X512 (Gardens Point)
Tel: (07) 313 87116
Fax: (07) 313 87123
Email: g.dean@qut.edu.au

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.

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, 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], 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.

Units currently taught:

Research interests:

  • Policing/Security/Terrorism
  • Justice/Jurisprudence
  • Criminology/Criminal Profiling
  • Investigative Psychology