
Education
Bio
JJC Affiliations
Professional Memberships
American Psychological Association, New Jersey Psychological Association, Society for Personality Assessment
Course Taught
Psychological Profiles of the Homicidal Offender, Psychological Research and Crime Scene Analysis, Introduction to Forensic Psychology, Psychopathology and Criminal Behavior
Scholarly Work
Books
Schlesinger, L.B., 2004, Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides, CRC Press
Schlesinger, L.B., ed., 2017, Psychiatric Aspects of Criminal Behavior: The Collected Papers of Eugene Revitch, Charles C. Thomas
Articles
Schlesinger, L.B., et al, in press, "Foreign Object Insertions in Sexual Homicide," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Schlesinger, L.B., et al, 2017, "'Undoing' (or Symbolic Reversal) at Homicide Crime Scenes," Journal of Forensic Sciences
Schlesinger, L.B., et al, 2014, "Crime Scene Staging in Homicide," Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
Honors and Awards
Karl F. Heiser Presidential Award (APA), Psychologist of the Year (New Jersey Psychological Association), Distinguished Researcher Award (New Jersey Psychological Association)
Research Summary
Dr. Schlesinger's research involves extraordinary crimes, including serial and non-serial sexual murder, rape, homicide, mass murder and crime scene behavior. He is involved in a major research project with the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit studying the afore-mentioned subjects.