Christopher E. Kelly, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA (USA) and the Director and Deputy Chair of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iIIRG).
For more than a decade, Dr. Kelly has been at the forefront of studying humane and effective interrogation methods, and translating his research into practice. With funding from the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security, Dr. Kelly has collaborated with law enforcement to examine emerging investigative interviewing approaches in the field, having worked with police departments in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas. In addition to his grant activity and presentations to academic and practitioner audiences, Dr. Kelly is a sought-after expert ranging from the United States Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in British Columbia to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Central Asia. He is currently part of a multinational collaboration of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working to implement science-based interviewing in countries that do not have the resources or access to expertise to do so (for more information, see the ImpleMendez website). Dr. Kelly has published dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and government reports, serves on the editorial boards of Psychology, Public Policy, and Law and Legal and Criminological Psychology, and he actively collaborates with undergraduate and graduate students interested in research.
