Dr. Gotham is co-author of Practicing Forensic Criminology (with Daniel Bruce Kennedy), a book that draws on examples from actual court cases and expert witness reports and testimony to demonstrate the different uses of criminological theories, methods, and data analysis techniques in the applied setting of civil law and the courts. He approaches premises security litigation using the research methods and theories of forensic criminology, which is the application of criminological knowledge to matters of immediate concern to various courts of law. The theories and perspectives that make up forensic criminology include environmental criminology, situational crime prevention approaches, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), situational opportunity perspectives, crime pattern theory, and place management theory. These theories are discussed in the book. These theories provide the analytical foundation for

o Crime Analysis and Foreseeability

o Appropriate Standards of Care

o Proximate Causation Analysis

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From the back cover:

Practicing Forensic Criminology draws on examples from actual court cases and expert witness reports and testimony to demonstrate the merits and uses of substantive criminological knowledge in the applied setting of civil law and the courts. Throughout the book, the authors provide a highly readable, informative discussion of how forensic criminologists can apply their research and teaching skills to assist judges and juries in rendering legal decisions. Engaging and lively, the chapters include excerpts from forensic criminological investigations, in-depth discussions of the methodological and analytical bases of these investigations, and important lessons learned from real litigation cases. Case examples are drawn from the forensic realms of premises liability, administrative negligence, workplace violence, wrongful conviction litigation, and litigation involving police departments and corrections facilities. Well referenced and thoroughly researched, Practicing Forensic Criminology serves as an introduction to the vast and heterogeneous field of forensic social science that is rapidly changing and expanding.

This unique and original book guides readers through the research work of expert witnesses working as consultants, researchers, and crime analysts and investigators. Offering expert criminological insights into litigation cases, the chapters reveal how forensic social science research can be an effective mechanism for reaching beyond the academy to influence public policy reform and legal proceedings. Practicing Forensic Criminology will appeal to a diverse audience, including social scientists, criminal justice students and researchers, expert witnesses, attorneys, judges, and students of judicial proceedings seeking to understand the value and impact of criminology in the civil court system.

Key features

• Introduces readers to the impact of evidence-based criminological theory and forensic social science investigations in the legal system

• Demonstrates the usefulness of forensic criminology as a research tool, revealing novel relational dynamics among crime events and the larger socio-spatial context

• Advances the development of a “translational criminology”—that is, the translation of knowledge from criminological theory and research to forensic practice—as an expedient to forming robust interactive relationships among criminological social scientists and policy makers

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Practice of Forensic Criminology

2. Criminology on Trial: Science, Law, and the Admissibility of Expert Testimony

3. Premises Liability for Negligent Security Litigation

4. Apartment Security I: Measuring and Analyzing Crime Foreseeability

5. Apartment Security II: Standards of Care and Causation

6. Crime and Business I: Negligent Security Litigation Concerning Parking Facilities and Hotels/Motels

7. Crime and Business II: Negligent Security Litigation Concerning Shopping Malls and Bars/Taverns

8. Administrative Negligence, Vicarious Liability, and the Doctrine of Respondeat Superior

9. Workplace Violence

10. Wrongful Conviction Litigation

11. Civil Litigation Involving Police and Corrections

12. Conclusions and Additional Practice Considerations

Related Publications

“Security Challenges of Formulating, Implementing, and Enforcing Parental/Youth Escort Policies in Shopping Malls.” Journal of Applied Security Research. DOI: 10.1080/19361610.2020.1762464

“Place or Character” of a Business: Environmental Criminology and Negligent Security Litigation. Journal of Applied Social Science. First Published January 9, 2020.

“Analyzing Crime Foreseeability: Premises Security Litigation and the Case of Convenience Stores / Gas Stations” (co-authored with Daniel B. Kennedy). Security Journal. First Published November 18, 2019.

“Criminalistics and Forensic Criminology.” Forensic Social Scientist. 3(1) Spring 2017.

“Debating Forensic Social Science: Social Framework Analysis and Lessons of Dukes v. Wal-Mart for Expert Witnesses.” Pp. 2-11 in the Forensic Social Scientist. 2(3) Summer 2017/Fall 2017.

“The Elusive Recovery: Post-Hurricane Katrina Rebuilding During the First Decade, 2005-2015.” Review Essay. Contemporary Sociology. 2017. 46(2): 138-145.

“Housing Policy” (co-authored with James D. Wright). Pp. 237-55 in Handbook of Social Policy. Edited by James Midgley, Michelle Livermore, and Martin B. Tracy. Sage Publications. Second edition. 2009.

“Ironies of Oversight: State Power, Democratic Legitimacy, and the Creation of Congressional Intelligence Committees.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology. 39: 33-65. 1995.

“Domestic Security for the American State: The FBI, Covert Repression, and Democratic Legitimacy.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology. 22 (2): 203-222. Winter 1994.

• Reprinted in Troubled Times: Readings in Social Problems. Chapter 2. 2000. First Edition. Edited by Robert H. Lauer and Jeanette C. Lauer. Oxford and Roxbury Publishing Company.