Editor-in-Chief

Scott Johnson

Scott A. Johnson, MA, LP, has a Master’s Degree in Counseling & Psychological Services from St. Mary’s College. He is a Licensed Psychologist (Minnesota) and a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychological Specialties in Forensic Psychology. He has over 28 years-experience addressing sexual predators as a forensic psychologist, author, educator, and police tr...

Biography | Research Interest

Advisory Board

Dr Andrew Brown

Robert Gordon University
UK

Biography | Research Interest

Biography

Andrew B Brown has served as Chief Inspector in Police Scotland for over 29 years and is currently the Head of Leadership Development Delivery for Police Scotland. A Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, he is also an editorial board member of the Criminal Psychology & Criminal Investigations International Journal. A former Area Commander of Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross, he was responsible for overseeing the response to criminal incidents throughout a vast geographical area and revising the armed security arrangements for the protection of his Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales to Caithness. Through his experience he has special interest in dealing with maritime incidents, both hostage taking and crisis intervention; a subject on which he lectures both nationally and internationally. He has taught hostage/crisis negotiators since 2002 and has participated in a number of the highest UK Government level counter terrorism exercises in key roles and was deployed to the recent Algerian Hostage Crisis. As an Associate Lecturer, he is one of the founding members of the Police (Special Operations) Research Group at the Robert Gordon University and in 2009, he was awarded a Practitioner Fellowship from Scottish Institute for Policing Research.

He is conducting doctoral research into the effectiveness of police negotiators’ deployment to incidents of deliberate self-harm. As the 2011/12 Scottish Fulbright Police Research Fellow he conducted doctoral research and lectured in maritime terrorism & negotiation as a visiting Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York and at Texas State University. He introduced negotiation skills to the United States Marshal Service Fugitive Task Force, New York and has critiqued the NYPD Hostage Negotiator programme. Internationally, he lectures extensively to both the Oil & Gas and Shipping Industry on maritime terrorism, hostage taking & negotiation and has co-edited Modern Piracy & Maritime Terrorism: The Challenges of Piracy for the 21^st Century and contributed a chapter to the 5th Edition Crisis Negotiations: Managing Critical Incidents and Hostage Situations in Law Enforcement & Corrections. He co-designed with Emeritus Professor David Alexander, Hostage Negotiation Skills to selected officers at the School of Military Intelligence, Murree, Pakistan. Additionally, he has also designed and delivered negotiation & de-escalation skills training to The Royal Regiment of Scotland, prior to their deployment on Op HERRICK 18 to combat ‘Green-on-Blue’ attacks, the success of which has now informed military doctrine on Communication, Negotiation & Mediation and Behaviour Detection (CNBD) and which he has extended to Spanish & Swiss Militaries.

Research Interest

International Hostage Taking & Resolution, De-escalation & Negotiation Skills to combat the Insider Threat (Military Conflict), Modern Piracy & Maritime Terrorism.

Honorable Editors

	Dr Ashraf Mozayani Texas Southern University USA
	Dr Alice R Berkowitz Clinical and Forensic Psychologist USA
	Dr Larry Stewart Forensic Scientist USA
	Dr Tony Fletcher Forensic Psychologist USA
	Asst. Professor Larry Presley Liberty University USA
	Assoc. Professor Mark Winton University of Central Florida USA
	Prof. Dr Richard H Martin Mercer University USA
	Dr Ronald Hunter Georgia Gwinnett College USA
	Dr David Pryor Forensic Scientist UK
	Dr Elke Devroe Universiteit Leiden Netherlands
	Prof. Dr. Hakan Hakeri Istanbul Medeniyet University Turkey
	Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elkassem Beni-Suef University Egypt
	Assoc. Professor Teresa Aileen Dalton University of California USA
	Assoc. Professor George Richards Edinboro University USA
	Professor John Walker Nottingham Trent University UK
	Dr Sandra Taylor University of South Wales UK
	Professor Robert J Louden Georgian Court University USA
	Dr Henry Richards Forensic Psychologist USA
	Dr Anthony H Normore California State University USA
	Professor Phil Rumney University of the West of England UK
	Prof. Dr. Gert Vermeulen Ghent University Belgium
	Assoc. Professor Zuzanna Brozek Mucha Institute of Forensic Research Poland
	Dr Wayne Jeffery Forensic Toxicologist Canada
	Professor Issam Mansour Academic University for Non-violence and Human Rights Lebanon