Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Karen Shalev-Greene

Dr Karen Shalev-Greene

Senior Lecturer

ICJS

University of Portsmouth
St George's Building
141 High Street
Portsmouth,
PO1 2HY

karen.shalev-greene@port.ac.uk

Profile

Director of the Centre for the Study of Missing Persons.

Qualifications

  • BA in Criminology and English literature from Bar Ilan University, Israel in 1997
  • MSc in Investigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool in 1999
  • PhD from the University of Liverpool in 2004.

Expertise

  • Property Offenders
  • Offenders' Spatial Decision Making
  • Offender Profiling
  • Missing Persons

The Centre for the Study of Missing Persons- http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/icjs/csmp/

Research Projects

  • Spatial Behaviour of Vulnerable Missing Persons (2007)
  • Young Runaways and Criminal Activity (2009-2011)
  • Cash in Transit Robbery (2008-2009)
  • Cost of Missing Persons Investigation (2012)
  • Frequent young runaways (2012)
  • Missing abroad (2012)
  • Missing from care (2012)

Publications

  • Shalev Greene, K., & Pakes, F. (2012) Establishing the cost of missing person investigations. Report submitted to West Mercia Police and Warwickshire Police.
  • Shalev Greene, K. (2011). Offender profiling in court. Open Doors. Israeli Bar Association (Haifa District), 42, pg. 16-17.
  • Shalev, K. (2011). Children who go missing repeatedly and their involvement in crime. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 13(1), 29-36.
  • Case, S., Ellis, T., Haines, K., Hayden, C., Shalev K. & Shawyer, A. (2011) A tale of two cities: Young people, anti-social behaviour and localised public opinion. Crime Prevention and Community Safety 13 (3) 153-170
  • Tracey, J. E., & Shalev, K. (submitted) Media induced stereotyped facial recall and its effect on a witness’s selection of a suspect in an identity parade. Legal and Criminological Psychology.
  • Shalev, K., Schaefer, M., Morgan, A. (2009). Investigating missing person cases: how can we learn where they go or how far they travel? International Journal of Police Science & Management, 11(2).123-129.
  • Canter, D. V., & Shalev, K. (2008). Putting crime in its place: Psychological process in crime site selection. In Canter, D. V., & Youngs, D. (Eds). Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling. Ashgate.
  • Ellis, T. and Shalev, K. (2008) An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Kainos Community ‘Challenge-to-Change’ programme in English prisons. Runcorn: Kainos Community.
  • Shalev, K. (2008). Sketch maps: an old technique with new applications. The use of sketch maps in studying offenders crime site selection. Issues in Forensic Psychology. The British Psychological Society. 8. 56-67.
  • Carson, D., Milne, R., Pakes, F., Shalev, K, & Shawyer, A. (2007) (Eds). Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice. Wiley.
  • Shye, S., Canter, D., & Shalev, K. (2001). Serial Rapist Crime Scene Behaviour: Multiple Scaling by POSAC/LSA. In Elizur, D. (Ed.) Facet Theory: Integrating Theory Construction with Data Analysis. Prague: MATFYZPRESS. Pg. 187-197