Caroline V. Comerford

Sacred Heart University · Department of Criminal Justice

In March of 2011, several news media outlets published articles announcing the opening of a “pirate prison” in the northwest region of Somalia. Over the next five years, news articles about East African prisons holding piracy prisoners en masse were among the few ways in which the public came to know pirate prisons—what they look like, who they pun...

Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice: Public opinion studies concerning the International Criminal Court show that a majority of the U.S. public supports the ICC and U.S. participation with the Court. Yet, such studies provide no information to participants about the lack of protections...

The study of geographic mobility through geospatial analysis and journey-to-crime approaches has made progress in the field of environmental criminology, finding clear patterns that most offenders commit crime close to their residence. However, existing literature on serial homicide and geographic mobility is scarce, specifically lacking a comprehe...

The finding that offenders tend to commit crime within relative proximity to their own residence has been well established in nearly 80 years of research. The usefulness of this area of research extends not only to the validation of environmental crime theories, but also offers to improve crime analysis capabilities, police investigative practice,...

The criminal justice system has allowed serial homicide offenders (SHOs) to commit additional homicides by failing to identify them after their initial homicide. Recidivism has been possible in instances where the SHO benefited from the wrongful incarceration of an innocent person for one of their homicides. Data from the National Registry of Exone...

This dissertation seeks to address the research gap in serial homicide regarding Home Invasion Serial Killers (HISKs) and adds to existing policy by providing insight and approaches to assist in serial murder investigations of such killers. Data for the study was obtained from the 2019 Radford University/Florida Gulf Coast University Serial Killer...

The study of geographic mobility through geospatial analysis and journey-to-crime approaches has made progress in environmental criminology, finding most offenders commit crime close to their residence. However, extant literature on serial homicide and geographic mobility is scarce, specifically lacking a comprehensive appraisal of relative researc...

Descriptive analysis of home invasion serial killers vs. non-home invasion serial killers. Study 1 of doctoral dissertation. Violence Panel Link: https://youtu.be/aGJHFpFOOhE

“Sadism” is a term that originates from the eighteenth‐century French novelist, soldier, philosopher, and revolutionist Marquis de Sade (i.e., Donatien‐Alphonse‐François, Comte de Sade) whose literary works involved explicit depictions of sexual violence, torture, and cruelty against fictitious victims. Throughout de Sade's life, his sexually devia...

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a diplomatic treaty that established the ICC. The Rome Statute of the ICC was originally adopted at a conference held in Rome on July 17, 1998, and was formally implemented on July 1, 2002. The ICC is an autonomous international court with 123 current state members. It was the first perm...

The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in the International Criminal Justice Review, 24(4), January, 2014 published by SAGE Publishing, All rights reserved: http://icj.sagepub.com.ezproxy.fiu.edu/content/24/4/420