Amber's Bio
Associate Professor. Amber McKinley (B.LibS, MCJ, Ph.D.) is Larkley Pty Ltd's Director and Chief Researcher. She is a Clinical and Forensic Victimologist and a senior lecturer at Charles Sturt University's (CSU) Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security (AGSPS).
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She holds a Bachelor of Liberal Studies from the University of Western Sydney, a Master of Criminal Justice from Monash University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Bond University. Her doctoral thesis was completed with the NSW Police Force on "Homicide Solvability and Applied Victimology in New South Wales, 1994-2013”.
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Her current research includes: victimological study of risk of death by suicide through the lens of thanatology. recidivistic behaviour of sexual offence perpetrators; the impact of Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence (TFSV) on victims, temporal aspects for interpersonal violence; Subject precipitated homicide in Australia; Australia’s non-imputable killers: not guilty by reason of mental illness; Conditional vulnerability: sexual violence; Victim vulnerabilities of Serial Homicide; Role of women as offenders in Human Trafficking.
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ASPRO McKinley works with the Australian Defence Force, Joint Military Police Unit, the Australian Federal Police and for state police forces and coroners.​