Karen L. Vincent, MA CCIA
Karen L. Vincent practiced as a Crime Analyst and managed the Crime Analysis Unit at Hayward Police Department, Hayward, California for over five years. She has over a decade of GIS and graphics software experience in policing, research and economic development. Karen has additional experience with software and database development, criminal justice information systems, and web development.

Karen has an A.B. in Psychology from Augustana College in Rock Island, IL and an M.A. in Administration of Justice with a focus on Criminal Justice Research from the Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. While at SIUC, Karen assisted with a National Institute of Justice grant, mapping patterns of violence in Charlotte, North Carolina. She used Idrisi, MapInfo and ArcView with SPSS for the spatial analysis and developed a computerized animation for the raster images using the Corel Graphics suite. Her GIS and graphics work was featured on the NBC Nightly News. While working as a crime analyst, she obtained her California certification and served as Treasurer and President of her regional professional association (BACIAA).

Her specialties include: GIS, graphic design, web development, database applications, and statistical analysis. Her work is published in Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention, edited by D. Weisburd and T. McEwen, 1997, the Winter 2000 issue of Crime Mapping News (Volume 2, Issue 1), published by the Police Foundation, and in Geographic Information System: An Introduction, edited by Ravi Kumar Jain B and Pragati Saxena, 2007. She has presented papers on ArcExplorer and using Photoshop with GIS at the International Crime Mapping Research Conferences in 2000 and 2002, and she has trained GIS at the California Crime and Intelligence Analysts Association's 2002 Training Conference. She was invited to speak on School Mapping at the Regional Conference for the National Crime Prevention Council in September 2004 and on GIS for Anti-terrorism and the Protection of Assets at the October Meeting of the New York Metro Chapter of Infragard. Her work on GIS and the protection of assets has achieved international attention.

Karen has been training criminal justice technology, software, statistics and research methods for Curiosity Quest since 2000.

She can be reached at:
Karen L. Vincent
Curiosity Quest
2010 Crow Canyon Place, Suite 100
San Ramon, CA 94583
(925) 824-3122