Dr Robin Bryant, will explore how modern investigative techniques would have helped solve old crimes, such as the ‘Jack the Ripper’ case, at Canterbury Christ Church University on Thursday, May 1.
At a public lecture entitled: ‘With the benefit of hindsight – new approaches to old crimes’, the head of the Department Crime and Policing at the University, Dr Bryant, will look at the role of uncertainty, chance and coincidence in criminal investigations.
Dr Bryant said: "During this lecture I will examine a number of cases including the Paddington rail crash, the Shipman case and the trials of Sion Jenkins. The lecture will then continue with a look at how a better understanding of chance, using the example of geographical profiling – which estimates the likely home location of an offender from the geography of their crimes – may help with investigations. The lecture will conclude with the application of geographical profiling to the case of ‘Jack the Ripper’ and the murders in the East End of London."
Dr Bryant’s lecture is free to the public and forms part of the university’s spring public lecture series. No advance reservation is required. The lecture runs at 6pm in the University’s Old Sessions House Lecture Theatre, Longport, Canterbury. The uni offers BA/BScs in Forensic Investigation, Applied Criminology, Legal Studies; and BSc (Hons) in Applied Criminal Investigation, Policing and Police Studies. There’s a postgraduate Masters degree programme in Policing with the Police Academy of the Netherlands); and a Foundation Degree in Policing (which received the ‘Skillsmark’ national award from Skills for Justice last year). The University also contributes to the training of Kent Police’s Crime Scene Investigation staff.
