Fresno, California
Dr. Eric Hickey serves as an Honorary Board Member and is an Executive Board Advisor for Project Meridian Foundation.
Dr. Hickey is the Dean of the California School of Forensic Studies at Alliant International University where he oversees the growth and development of the largest forensics studies program in the United States. At Alliant he currently teaches courses in profiling sex offenders and sexual predators as well as a course in criminal psychology at California State University, Fresno, CA. Dr. Hickey has taught many courses in criminal personalities, sex crimes and paraphilia, homicide, and psychopathology in universities and colleges, as well as for jail and prison staff. He supervises theses and dissertations involving forensic and criminal psychology. Dr. Hickey has considerable field experience working with the criminally insane, psychopaths, sex offenders and other habitual criminals. He has also served as an adjunct instructor for the American Prosecutor's Research Institute at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina profiling stalkers and cyber-stalkers.
He publishes books, articles and lectures extensively on the etiology of violence and serial crime. His book, Serial Murderers and Their Victims, 2009, 5th ed., Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers, is used as a teaching tool in universities and by law enforcement in studying the nature of violence, criminal personalities and victim-offender relationships. Another of his books, The Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime, Sage Publishers, explores the phenomenon of murder and violence through the eyes of some of the world’s most noted experts. In 2006 he published Sex Crimes and Paraphilia (Prentice-Hall Publishers), a comprehensive examination of sexual perversions, sex offending and sexual predators. His latest coauthored book, The Myth of a Psychiatric Crime Wave, (Carolina Academic Press) examines the misperceptions and reality of the mentally ill and mentally disordered as criminals. His current research focuses upon the development of his theory of relational paraphilic attachment (RPA). His expertise is regularly sought by the media including appearances on CNN, Catherine Crier Live, NPR, Larry King Live, 20/20, A&E Biography, Good Morning America, True TV, Discovery and TLC.
He consults with private agencies and testifies as an expert witness in both criminal and civil cases. He is a court qualified expert in paraphilia including pedophilia, child molestation, fetishes; stalking; adult rape and sexual assault; violent criminal behavior including robbery, burglary and homicide (solo and serial).A former consultant to the FBI's UNABOM Task Force, Dr. Hickey currently assists local, state, and federal law enforcement in training and investigations. This includes assisting Peace Officer Service Training (POST) in developing course material and job aids for investigators. He also conducts seminars for agencies involving the profiling and investigating of sex crimes, arson, robbery, homicide, stalking, workplace violence and terrorism as well as workshops for mental health practitioners. Internationally recognized for his research on multiple homicide offenders, Dr. Hickey has conducted seminars in countries throughout Europe, Asia and North America. He has also trained VIP protection specialists in Israel in profiling stalkers. His research involving hundreds of victims of stalking examines the psychology and classification of stalkers, victim-offender relationships, intervention, and threat assessment.
PROFESSIONAL OR ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Italian Investigative Psychology Association, Forensic Mental Health Association of California, Homicide Research Working Group, American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
CURRENT CONSULTANT
Picore & Associates: an international threat management and counter-terrorism agency.
California Peace Officer Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.) 2004-present
Law enforcement: training seminars in serial crime and criminal personalities.
Jury Selection Consultant
Fresno and Madera County District Attorney Offices involving cases of sexual assault, child molestation, stalking, homicide and other serial or violent crimes.
The Fresno County Fire Department: Juvenile Fire-Setter Program 1995-present.
FORMER CONSULTANT
Institute of Criminal Profiling and Analysis, (IPACC), Paris, France, 2004-2005.
Police Promotion Board, Fresno Police Department, 2003.
Minors with Dangerous Traits Task Force, Office of the District Attorney, Juvenile Division, Fresno County, CA. 2001.
Crime Victims with Disabilities, California Department of Mental Health. (Speakers Bureau). 2001.
Department of Justice: National Institute of Justice Peer Reviewer. 2001.
Department of Justice: Former UNABOM Task Force.
Consultant for the United States District Attorney's Office, Baltimore, Maryland. Spring 1998-1999.
Board of Governors. The Violence Immunization Program. Based at Valley Children's Hospital. Fresno, CA 1998-1999.
The Fresno County Domestic Violence Core Planning Committee.
The Fresno Grand Jury.
California Association of Arson Investigators
