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Latest Updates
Academy Group E-Learning
The Academy Group, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of unique e-learning training courses in criminal behavioral sciences in cooperation with the Institute of Criminological and Forensic Sciences at California University of Pennsylvania.
AGI practitioners Roy Hazelwood, Roger Depue, Jim Fitzgerald, Mike Napier, and Pete Smerick offer programs covering a wide array of behavioral topics including forensic linguistics, sexual assault investigation, interview and interrogation techniques, etc. Other AGI instructors and courses will be added in the coming months.
Click here to see a list of all AGI courses in Cal U’s Global Online program.
Napier Book on Targeted Interviewing Published
In his book, Behavior, Truth, and Deception , AGI practitioner Mike Napier introduces Targeted Subject Interviewing. This behavioral approach to the interview process uses the offender’s own criminal behavior to construct an appeal to his thinking that will lead him to recognize the benefit of providing information to the interviewer. This reference book is aimed at the working investigator. More
Date for Violent Crime Behavior Course
Violent Crime Behavior Part II, an advanced hands-on, workshop-style course, will be held July 19 - 23 in Manassas, Virginia. (AGI's VCB Part I is a prerequisite for VCB II.) More
Sackman Testifies in “Angel of Death” Case
AGI associate Bruce Sackman, a nationally-recognized “Angel of Death” expert, provided expert testimony for the defendant, Nocona General Hospital, in Ft. Worth, Texas. The families of the victims of convicted medical serial killer Vickie Dawn Jackson were attempting to prove negligence on the part of the hospital for Jackson’s actions. Sackman’s testimony was instrumental in proving the claim was baseless. Lawyer Linda R. Maloney stated that Sackman “was extremely helpful and professional and played a key role in the resolution of this matter. [His] assistance is greatly appreciated.”
New AGI Associates ~ Natalie Schilling and Jim Clemente
AGI is proud to announce two new associates who have joined our ranks.
Natalie Schilling is an internationally-recognized linguist and Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. She is currently conducting research in authorial attribution and author profiling, bringing scientific rigor to these areas vital to forensic linguistics. Schilling was a regular instructor in the FBI’s Forensic Linguistic Workshop for Law Enforcement Practitioners and is co-author of a definitive textbook, American English, and co-editor of the authoritative Handbook of Language Variation and Change.
Jim Clemente retired in October 2009 after 22 years with the FBI. The last eleven years he was a Supervisory Special Agent in the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. Clemente is qualified as an expert witness in the areas of child sex offender behavior, child sexual victimization, and child pornography. Prior to joining the FBI, Clemente headed the Child Sex Crimes Prosecution Team for the New York City Law Department.
Norfolk 4 Pardoned
On August 6, 2009, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine freed three men who had been imprisoned for 11 years for a brutal crime of rape and murder that they did not commit. At the request of defense counsel, AGI practitioner Larry McCann reconstructed the crime scene in 2005 and became convinced that the four men, known as the Norfolk 4, were innocent... continue
Fitzgerald Aids in Murder Conviction
AGI practitioner Jim Fitzgerald consulted with the Syracuse, New York, prosecutor's office in the successful prosection of Stacey Castor for the murder of her husband. Click here to continue.
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