Faculty Bio

Name: Colleen McLaughlin McCue

Titles/Occupation:
Supervisor, Richmond Police Department Crime Analysis Unit
Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, MCV/VCU

Address:
Crime Analysis Unit
Richmond Police Department
200 West Grace St.
Richmond, VA 23220

Phone: (804)646-6862
Fax: (804)646-4223
Email: mccuecm@ci.richmond.va.us

Current Research Activities:
Dr. McCue has organized an ongoing collaborative effort between criminal justice and health care professionals within the Commonwealth of Virginia. This project has facilitated access to traditionally disparate subject populations and data resources, thereby permitting a comprehensive analysis of the causes and consequences of lethal and nonlethal violence. It also provides an opportunity to work with communities in an effort to promote a healthier environment through enhanced public safety. Her current research involves epidemiological, prevention, and treatment research on the relationship between substance use, drug selling, criminal offending, and lethal and nonlethal violence. The specific aims of this ongoing research program are to identify and characterize violent events in an effort to enhance investigative efficacy as well as community-based prevention. Dr. McCue is particularly interested in the identification of potential interactive variables operating between the victim and perpetrator which may yield critical risk factors and situational variables relating to the escalation of a behavioral interaction or dispute into a homicidal event.  She also has been actively involved in promoting the use of data mining and predictive analytics in law enforcement and intelligence analysis so that violent crime can be characterized, anticipated, predicted, and even prevented in some cases through the use of artificial intelligence and advanced computer modeling.

Current Professional Activities
Dr. Colleen McCue is the Supervisor of the Crime Analysis Unit at the Richmond Police Department. She also holds the appointment of Clinical Assistant Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. McCue serves as the developer and coordinator of the Cops & Docs Working Group and Program, and is an active member of the Virginia Homicide Investigators Association. She has published her research findings in journals and book chapters; lectures and provides training to health care providers, law enforcement professionals and academic groups on topics related to substance use and drug selling, trauma, and lethal and nonlethal violence; and has been an invited speaker at national conferences on violence, data mining and predictive analytics.

Selected Publications / Books:
Publications:

McLaughlin, C.R., Reiner, S.M., Smith, B.W., Waite, D.E., Reams, P.N., Joost, T.F. and Gervin, A.S. (1996). Firearm injuries among Virginia juvenile drug traffickers, 1992 through 1994 (Letter), American Journal of Public Health, 86, 751-752.

McLaughlin, C.R., Smith, B.W., Reiner, S.M., Waite, D.E. and Glover, A.W. (1996). Juvenile drug traffickers: characterization and substance use patterns, Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 24, 3-10.

McLaughlin, C.R., Reiner, S.M., Smith, B.W., Waite, D.E., Reams, P.N., Joost, T.F. and Gervin, A.S. (1996). Factors associated with a history of firearm injuries in juvenile drug traffickers and violent juvenile offenders, Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, Special Issue: Gangs, Drugs and Violence, 24, 157-165.

Oliver, J. and McLaughlin, C.R. (1998). Focusing on the other side of the crime scene tape: what happens when "normal" is the problem? The Police Chief, 65, 50-53.

McLaughlin, C.R., Reiner, S.M., Reams, P.N. and Joost, T.F. (1999). Intentional injury and adolescent parenting among incarcerated juvenile offenders, Adolescence, 34, 665-670.

Faggiani, D. and McLaughlin, C.R. (1999). A discussion on the use of NIBRS data for tactical crime analysis, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 15, 181-191.

McLaughlin, C.R., Daniel, J. and Joost, T.F. (2000). The relationship between substance use, drug selling and lethal violence in 25 juvenile murderers, Journal of Forensic Sciences, 45, 349-353.

McLaughlin, C.R., Yelon, J.A., Ivatury, R. and Sugerman, H.J. (2000). Youth violence: a tripartite examination of putative causes, consequences and correlates, Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 1, 115-127.

McLaughlin, C.R., Daniel, J., Reiner, S.M., Waite, D.E., Reams, P.N., Joost, T.F., Anderson, J.L. and Gervin, A.S. (2000). Factors associated with assault-related firearms injuries in male adolescents, Journal of Adolescent Health, 27, 195-201.

McCue, C. (2001). Addressing the cycle of violence, Journal of Emergency Nursing, in press (Dec, 2001), 27, 578-580.

McCue, C. and Parker, A. (2003). Connecting the dots: Data mining and predictive analytics in law enforcement and intelligence analysis, Police Chief, 70, 115-122.        

McCue, C., Stone, E.S. and Gooch, T.P. (2003). Data mining and value-added analysis, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 72, 1-6.

McCue, C. and Parker, A. Web-based data mining and predictive analytics: 24/7 crime analysis, Law Enforcement Technology, in press.

McCue, C. and McNulty, P.J. Guns, drugs and violence: Breaking the nexus with data mining, Law & Order, in press.

 

McCue, C. and McNulty, P.J. Gazing into the crystal ball: Data mining and risk-based deployment. Violent Crime Newsletter, US Department of Justice, September 2003, 1-2.

McCue, C, Diehl, R.L, Ivatury, R., and Oliver, J.A. Cops & Docs^SM: Working Handcuff-in-Glove to Reduce Violence. In, Managing Death Investigation. Arthur E. Westveer, Editor. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, in press.

McCue, C. Juvenile Murderers. In, Managing Death Investigation. Arthur E. Westveer, Editor. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, in press.

McLaughlin, C.R (2000). Prisoner rehabilitation: Feeling better but getting worse? In, Building Violence: How America's Rush to Incarcerate Creates Violence. John P. May, Editor. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 23-27.

McLaughlin, C.R., Faggiani, D., Daniel, J., and Dover, T.J. (1999). Bridging the gaps for the Virginia "cradle-to-grave" homicide project. Proceedings of the Homicide Research Working Group Meetings, 1997 and 1998 (NCJ-175709). Washington, DC: National Institute of Justice, 6,10-13.

McLaughlin, C.R. (1998). Re-injury prevention program for victims of intentional injuries. Proceedings of the 1997 Statewide Conference on Social Work Practice in Health Care. William Spitzer, Editor. Richmond, VA: Virginia Society for Social Work in Health Care, 7-15.

McLaughlin, C.R. (1996). Special issues: infectious diseases and violence. Criminal justice-substance abuse cross-training: working together for change (Module 13). Virginia Addiction Training Center, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Reiner, S., Joost, R., King, M., McLaughlin, C. and Smith, B.W. (1996). Treating substance abuse among Virginia's juvenile offenders. Correctional issues: juvenile justice programs and trends. Lanham, MD: American Correctional Association, 71-77.

Courses Taught:

Education:
B.A.: 1985, Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Ph.D.: 1989, Psychology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Fellowship: 1989-1994, Dept. of Pharmacology, MCV/VCU

Additional Training:
Behavioral Analysis of Violent Crime, Virginia State Police
Managing Death Investigation, US Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing