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Brent Turvey holds a BS in History; a BS in Psychology; an MS in Forensic Science; and a PhD in Criminology. Since 1996, he has performed casework as a Forensic Scientist, Crime Scene Analyst, Crime Reconstructionist, Forensic Criminologist, and /or Criminal Profiler for law enforcement agencies (police and prosecutors), attorney clients, and private entities all over the world. This includes consultations, forensic assessments, and expert testimony on both criminal and civil matters. These cases tend to involve sexual assault, false allegations, shooting incident reconstructions, serial rapes and homicides, mass homicides, sexual homicides, domestic homicides, staged crime scenes, and other violent crimes.
He also maintains a caseload of femicides (e.g., sexual homicides, gender motivated homicides), pre-femicidal violence, trafficking, and human rights cases in Latin America. Many of these are related to drug trafficking and human trafficking. This involves the implementation of the UN Model Protocol for Femicide Investigation in Latin America, with The Forensic Criminology Institute’s Behavioral Science Lab (BSL). In operation since 2019, the BSL collaborates with USAID (Mex), JAVA (Mex), The United Nations, and The Attorney Generals Office in Bogota DC, providing support and training to attorneys and investigators.
As a function of casework and research, he has served as a trial consultant, and has qualified in court as an expert witness, on the subjects of Criminal Investigation, Forensic Science, Crime Reconstruction, Wound Pattern Analysis, Shooting Incident Reconstruction, Firearms and Tool-marks, Interpretation of Presumptive Blood Test Results, Crime Scene Analysis, Crime Scene Investigation, Case Linkage/ Linkage Analysis (Motive, Modus Operandi and Signature Analysis), Criminal Profiling, Offender Deterrability, Offense Foreseeability, Offender Motivations, Staged Crime Scenes, Sex Crimes Investigation, False Allegations, and Forensic Victimology.
Brent has also been an author with Elsevier Science since 1998. He has published multiple articles in the Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences (Editions 1-3), as well as the following textbooks: Criminal Profiling (5th Ed); Forensic Investigation; Criminal Psychology; Crime Reconstruction (2nd Ed); Forensic Victimology (2nd Ed); Ethical Justice; False Allegations; Forensic Criminology, and The Rape Investigation Handbook (2nd Ed).
Brent is currently a Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with his private company, Forensic Solutions, LLC. He is also the Director of The Forensic Criminology Institute.
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