Dr. Patricia L. Brantingham

Patricia Brantingham, A.B. (Barnard College), M.A. (Fordham), M.S. and Ph.D. (Florida State), a mathematician and urban planner by training, is Professor of Criminology, Director of the Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies and Co-Director of the Crime Prevention Analysis Laboratory (CPAL) at Simon Fraser University. She served as Director of Programme Evaluation at the Department of Justice Canada from 1985 through 1988. During 1991-92 she was one of the four members of the Government of British Columbia's special Task Force on Public Order.

Dr. Brantingham has been involved in the development and application of principles of environmental criminology and situational crime prevention for more than two decades. She worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the development of its standard training course on crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) and has recently worked with the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver in development of an environmental criminology course for architects and urban planners. She is internationally known for her work on offender target selection processes and on the geography of crime. Her mathematical work on the distribution of crime in relation to the structure of neighborhoods is fundamental to the field of environmental criminology.

Dr. Brantingham serves on the editorial boards of many professional and scholarly journals, including the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency and Criminometrica. She has held many offices in the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Brantingham is the author or editor of two dozen books and scientific monographs and more than 100 articles and scientific papers. Recent books of interest include Environmental Criminology (1991) and Patterns in Crime (1984). Recent research has looked at the patterns of crime at shopping malls and on transit systems, the distribution of crimes on road networks, and the location of crime in complex urban ecologies. She has been particularly interested in the problem of using computerized mapping techniques for crime prevention analysis. Patricia Brantingham is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the West, and American Men and Women of Science.

Dr. Paul Brantingham

Paul J. Brantingham, B.A. and J.D. (Columbia), Dip. Crim. (Cambridge), a lawyer and criminologist by training, is Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary at Simon Fraser during the early 1980's and served as Director of the Simon Fraser Centre for Canadian Studies during 1992. Professor Brantingham was Director of Special Reviews at the Public Service Commission of Canada from 1985 through 1987. He has been a member of the California Bar since 1969.

Professor Brantingham is author or editor of more than 20 books and scientific monographs, and more than 100 articles and scientific papers. His best known books include Juvenile Justice Philosophy (1974, 2d ed. 1978), and Environmental Criminology ( 1981, 2d ed. 1991) and Patterns in Crime (1984) both co-authored with Patricia Brantingham. Professor Brantingham has been involved in crime analysis and crime prevention research for more than 20 years. He is one of the co-developers of the primary/secondary/tertiary model of crime prevention now commonly used by criminologists and crime prevention specialists. He is well known for work on offender decision making and on the ways in which the physical environment shapes both the incidence and the fear of crime. He is an expert on legal aid and has served as a special consultant to the Canadian Department of Justice for more than a decade. Recent research has included study of victimization on university campuses, study of the geography of persistent offending, and study of crime in complex urban ecologies. In 1978 he chaired the national program committee of the American Society of Criminology and has served on that committee several times since. He is currently serving on the executive board of the Western Society of Criminology. He taught at Florida State University prior to joining the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. Paul Brantingham is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who in the West, and American Men and Women of Science.