Vincent Mousseau- Doctor of Philosophy
- Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Technology Sydney
Vincent Mousseau
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Technology Sydney
Postdoctoral Fellow in Forensic Science and Public Management (UTS & ENAP)
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Introduction
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Forensic Science (University of Technology Sydney) and the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Public Management (École nationale d’administration publique). My current research interests lie at the intersection of forensic science, public administration and criminology, focusing on tactic and strategic decision-making, education and training, and occupational cultures in both policing and forensic science.
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February 2024 - present
Education
September 2018 - January 2024
September 2015 - June 2018
September 2012 - May 2015
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Publications (36)
La conception dominante de la criminalistique semble à l’heure actuelle globalement orientée vers les analyses en laboratoire et la présentation de preuves devant les tribunaux, laissant ainsi de côté l’investigation de la scène de crime et les techniciens en identité judiciaire. Ces derniers jouant néanmoins un rôle de premier plan dans l’exploita...
De Sherlock Holmes à Dexter, la fiction policière moderne a
maintes fois mis au cœur de ses intrigues le recours à l’investigation
scientifique et à l’interprétation d’indices matériels. Propulsée
encore davantage par l’arrivée des séries télévisées de type CSI,
la criminalistique a vu l’intérêt que lui portait la sphère publique
augmenter de maniè...
What do policing leaders think and know of forensic science? Beyond crime scene investigators or detectives, how do police senior managers perceive the role, utility and limitations of forensic science? Very few empirical studies have addressed the issue. Forensic scientsts should be concerned about the perception that law enforcement senior manage...
Specialization in criminal activities generally refers to offenders that repeat the same or similar offenses over time. While some research has found support for offender specialization, most empirical studies suggest that most offenders engage in various forms of offenses during their criminal trajectory and fail to specialize in a specific offens...
Growing calls for better standards and quality assurance, particularly in crime scene investigations, have raised questions about the impact and suitability of these regulatory mechanisms on the forensic process. However, to date, debates on whether quality management strategies are “fit‐for‐purpose” have often overlooked how standards may influenc...
Despite extensive research on the expanding use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) in law enforcement, the perceived evidentiary value of the resulting images remains unclear. Previous studies have shown that images do not inherently ‘speak for themselves’, emphasising the need for a deeper understanding of the information these technologies may offer to...
Au cours de leur carrière, les policiers ont l’opportunité de s’orienter vers diverses spécialisations propres à la fonction policière, dont les services d’identité judiciaire, c’est-à-dire les unités regroupant les policiers spécialisés responsables de l’inspection et l’investigation des scènes d’incident. Cette fonction particulière requiert des...
Les inconduites policières sont-elles des « accidents de parcours », résultats de circonstances spécifiques à un moment précis, ou, au contraire, la manifestation d'un trait latent qui perdurera tout au long de la carrière? La réponse à cette question est cruciale puisqu'elle a de nombreuses implications allant de la sélection des futurs policiers...
Citizen views are, at times, in opposition to professional expertise. When it comes to policing, discussions surrounding the use of force often indicate a lack of understanding from the general population. In this study, police ( n = 1609) and social sciences ( n = 688) students were shown a video vignette of a fatal police shooting. Findings show...
To generate forensic intelligence from footwear impressions and link crime scenes, most law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories rely on a manual codification system based on pattern recognition and classification by human analysts. However, although they are commonly used in practice, to date we still know little about the reliability of...
Si les développements technologiques dans le domaine de la science forensique améliorent sans contredit les capacités de détection et la précision des appareils et des analyses effectuées, la qualité, l’intégrité, l’efficacité et l’efficience de l’exploitation des traces matérielles à des fins judiciaires et sécuritaires demeurent avant tout tribut...
L’utilisation du microbiome humain à des fins judiciaires comme objet d’étude implique divers enjeux allant d’une remise en question de notre conception traditionnelle de l’identité au respect de la vie privée, en passant par le type de consentement à recueillir lors du prélèvement d’un échantillon de microbiome. La particularité de cette étude néc...
Although it makes use of tools, techniques, and principles from the so-called exact sciences such as chemistry and physics, forensic science cannot be understood as a purely objective activity which can ignore the more global social context in which it is embedded. Such an observation, which has sometimes created strong negative reactions among cer...
De plus en plus d’études empiriques tentent de mieux comprendre les facteurs susceptibles d’influencer le travail d’investigation de la scène de crime. Pour ce faire, plusieurs ont opérationnalisé l’expertise comme une variable dichotomique, confrontant les décisions de techniciens en scène de crime expérimentés, considérés comme des experts, à cel...
The focus of the current study is to examine the collection and analysis of traces that are related to crime scene behaviors in sexual homicide cases as well as the factors influencing the solving of these crimes. Using 230 sexual homicide cases from the SHielD database, we computed two neural network models based on the multi-layer perceptron algo...
Les traces révélatrices de sources et d’activités à leur origine représentent inévitablement des données hautement pertinentes pour étudier le crime, la criminalité, le criminel et leur régulation (sans toutefois se limiter à ces thématiques), objets de recherche de la criminologie. En ce sens, le présent article vise à exposer différents contextes...
For many years now, debates have persisted regarding the nature of the training that crime scene examiners should have: should these professionals be police officers trained in forensic science or rather civilians, with a scientific background, subsequently trained in policing on the job? While some international law enforcement organizations hire...
Malgré le vaste potentiel de l’exploitation des traces matérielles pour assister les corps policiers et les tribunaux, bon nombre d’études empiriques réalisées depuis les années 1970 ont souligné la contribution somme toute limitée de la science forensique au processus judiciaire, questionnant dès lors sa véritable rentabilité. Une partie du problè...
Gunshot residues (GSR) are of interest whenever a crime involves the discharge of a firearm. They do not only inform about their source, but also about the suspect’s implication. In order to assess the existing knowledge on GSR in the literature and contribute to the creation of a structured database on transfer traces at the activity level, studie...
If transfer traces inform about the source from which they originate, they also have an informative potential on their generating activity. To help practitioners interpret such traces and assess their evidential value at the activity level, this research aims at producing a structured knowledge base on physicochemical transfer traces here defined a...
While police chiefs are the main managers in policing, this chapter also underlines their role in the provision of forensic science, hardly known to be able to help define policing. A recent survey of high-ranking officers of various police forces in Quebec showed that police managers tend to focus mainly, if not exclusively, on the ability of fore...
Cryptomarkets are online illicit marketplaces where drug dealers advertise the sale of illicit drugs. Anonymizing technologies such as the Tor network and virtual currencies are used to hide cryptomarket participants’ identity and to limit the ability of law enforcement agencies to make arrests. In this paper, our aim is to describe how herbal cann...
The illicit trade of tobacco products is a global phenomenon that has impacted the public health, the public finances and the security of nation states. A wide array of actors is involved in the illicit trade of tobacco, ranging from the individuals who bring home a few extra cartons of cigarettes while on a trip to the organized criminal organizat...
