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Posted on: 09/23/2003

CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International) will host a special presentation, "History of Violence in America: Mass Spree & Serial Homicide, 1940 to the Present" on Sept. 26, 2003 at Cuyahoga Community College.

The presentation will be conducted by Robert K. Ressler, a criminologist in private practice and the director of Forensic Behavioral Services, a Virginia-based organization dedicated to training, lecturing, consultation and expert witness testimony.

Ressler is an expert in the area of violent criminal offenders, particularly in the area of serial and sexual homicide. He is a specialist in the area of criminology, criminal personality profiling, crime scene analysis, homicide, sexual assaults, threat assessment, workplace violence and hostage negotiation, and has innovated many of the programs that led to the formulation of the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime.

Ressler originated and directed the FBI's first research program of violent criminal offenders, interviewing and collecting data on 36 serial and sexual killers resulting in two textbooks, "Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives" (1988) and the "Crime Classification Manual" (1992). He also coauthored his autobiography, "Whoever Fights Monsters" (1992), "Justice is Served" (1994), and "I Have Lived in the Monster" (1997).

Source: The Cleveland Chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security