The evolution of the print mass media in the United Kingdom and the United States in the latter half of the 19th century was crucial in popularising crime fiction and related genres. Literary ‘variety’ magazines like Strand, McClure’s, and Harper’s quickly became central to the overall structure and function of popular fiction in society, providing a mass-produced medium that offered cheap, illustrated publications that were essentially disposable.

Like the works of many other important fiction writers of his day—e.g. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens—Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in serial form in the monthly Strand magazine in the United Kingdom. The series quickly attracted a wide and passionate following on both sides of the Atlantic, and when Doyle killed off Holmes in The Final Problem, the public outcry was so great, and the publishing offers for more stories so attractive, that he was reluctantly forced to resurrect him.

Later a set of stereotypic formulae began to appear to cater to various tastes.

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Dr. Kirkham has been called upon more often than any other criminologist in the nation to provide expert witness testimony in cases involving police, jail and private security issues.

He is nationally and internationally known as “the professor who became a cop” for taking leave of his university post to study crime and the police in a way that no criminology professor had before: after attending and graduating from a police academy, Dr. Kirkham spent six months as a patrolman on a high crime beat in a major American city. After rejoining the faculty at Florida State University, he continued working as a fully-sworn police officer on a part time basis throughout his academic career, ultimately serving with four different law enforcement agencies in assignments as diverse as uniformed patrol, crisis intervention, vice & narcotics, criminal investigation and undercover work as part of an organized crime strike force.

Over the years, his observations on the police have appeared in research and law enforcement journals in many other countries, including England, Canada, Germany, India, Australia and Russia. He has authored 23 law enforcement training films and video tapes which are used to instruct police officers and administrators throughout the nation. Under grants from the U.S. Department of Justice, Dr. Kirkham’s award winning film series, “Police: The Human Dimension” was distributed to the law enforcement training directors of all 50 states and the F.B.I. Academy. This series is also used at Peel Centre in London to train the British Metropolitan Police.

Dr. Kirkham has served as a consultant to over 50 law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local level. His experience as an expert witness for plaintiffs and defendants in civil actions, and prosecution and defense in criminal matters, encompasses over 1,500 cases in nearly every state.

In addition to receiving widespread professional recognition, Dr. Kirkham’s work has also been the subject of considerable attention by the mass media and the American public: he was the subject of a CBS 60 MINUTES segment entitled “Ivory Tower Cop,” and has made numerous national television and radio appearances to discuss the subjects of crime and the police, including ABC’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA, FOX NEWS, MSNBC, and BBC WORLD RADIO. His article “A Professor’s Street Lessons” was serialized in newspapers throughout the nation and has been read by more police worldwide than any article ever published by the F.B.I. during the eighty year history of its LAW ENFORCEMENT BULLETIN. Dr. Kirkham’s best-selling personal autobiography, SIGNAL ZERO, was selected by Book-of-the-Month Club as one of its alternates and his views on the police have appeared in publications ranging from NEWSWEEK, TIME, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, READER’S DIGEST and PEOPLE MAGAZINE, to the UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL RECORD and INTERPOL.

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Dr. Kirkham’s experience as a consultant and expert witness in police litigation encompasses over 1,000 cases in nearly every state in the nation. He has testified extensively in federal and state courts in behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in civil actions, as well as in criminal cases for prosecution and defense.
Private Security/Crime Prevention

As a criminologist and former law enforcement officer, Dr. Kirkham has been called upon hundreds of times in states throughout the nation to provide expert witness testimony in behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants in private security related litigation involving the following offenses:

Custodial Facilities

Dr. Kirkham has been called upon many times by plaintiffs and defendants throughout the nation to evaluate and provide expert testimony in civil actions arising from incidents in jails and prisons. As a criminologist, his experience includes having worked in both prison and jail settings. He has been through a major riot at one of the nation’s most violent prisons, where his supervisor was murdered in a cellblock. Two of his three degrees in the field of criminology involved an emphasis on the study of problems in custodial facilities and his master’s thesis, written while he was a counselor at Soledad State Prison, dealt with sexual assaults by inmates.

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