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225 ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Robert Cencich was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and moved to the United States with his family as a young boy. He lived outside Detroit, Michigan, until he graduated from high school at the age of seventeen and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. He subsequently enjoyed a long and successful career in law enforcement. Trained by the FBI and Scotland Yard, he served for more than twenty-five years as a police officer, investigator, and special agent with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. His experiences include national security and counterintelligence investigations , protective service operations, violent crimes, undercover work, and traditional and nontraditional organized crime investigations. He also served a special attachment with the London Metropolitan Police. In 1998 he began a four-year appointment with the UN War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague. There he led one of the largest international criminal investigations in history, involving crimes against humanity such as murder, extermination, rape, torture, and persecution. Dr. Cencich is a tenured professor of justice studies at California University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as the director of the Pennsylvania Institute of Criminological and Forensic Sciences. He served previous appointments on the Organized Crime Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the Pennsylvania State Advisory Committee on Wrongful Convictions. The results of his work led to more than fifty commendations, including the Police Meritorious Service Award with Bronze “V” device, the Meritorious Service Medal from the U.S. government, and a formal resolution passed by the Senate of Virginia. He earned a doctorate in juridical science from the University of Notre Dame and an advanced law degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury. He also holds a master’s degree in criminal justice and a bachelor’s degree in organizational management. ...

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