Caroline Comerford

Background

About Caroline Comerford

Dr. Caroline V. Comerford is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Sacred Heart University in the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice. She also founded CVC Research & Consulting, LLC, which provides services specializing in Violent Serial Crime Cases and other forms of violence, with the overarching goal of reducing and preventing violent crime and offenders, including (but not limited to) the following areas of expertise: Serial Homicide, Serial Rape, Home Invasion Serial Killers, Residential Sex Offenders, and other Violent Serial and Non-Serial Offenders and Crime. Dr. Comerford's other areas of expertise include but are not limited to: Geographic Profiling, Environmental Criminology, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), Problem-Oriented Policing (POP), Situational Crime Prevention (SCP), & Crime Pattern Analysis. Caroline has published papers in the following journals: Homicide Studies; Victims & Offenders; Crime, Law, & Social Change; Psychology, Crime & Law; International Journal of Comparative & Applied Criminal Justice; and International Criminal Justice Review. She has presented numerous papers on Serial Homicide, Violent Offenders, & other Criminology-related topics at the American Society of Criminology and Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meetings. Dr. Comerford has also trained law enforcement throughout the U.S. regarding the offending and hunting patterns of violent serial criminals at various conferences & seminars. She has also interviewed violent serial offenders and consulted with law enforcement agencies on violent crime cases. Dr. Comerford is an active member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS); American Society of Criminology (ASC); Atypical Homicide Research Group (AHRG); Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG); and the New Jersey Homicide Investigators Association (NJHIA). She holds a Ph.D. in International Crime and Justice from Florida International University, an M.A. in Criminal Justice specializing in Criminology & Deviance from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a B.A. in Justice Studies from Montclair State University.