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NSU Alumni Spotlight: Michael L. Bourke, Ph.D.
Michael L. Bourke, Ph.D. (M.S.’96, Ph.D. ’00)
Michael L. Bourke, Ph.D. (M.S.’96, Ph.D. ’00), is the chief psychologist for the United States Marshals Service and heads the USMS Behavioral Analysis Unit, a component of the National Sex Offender Targeting Center. The partnership acts as an international intelligence and operations center supporting the identification, investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of noncompliant sex offenders. Prior to joining the Marshals Service, he worked as a clinical psychologist for the federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, as well as the Dallas, Texas, Police Department. He also is a graduate of the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute.
Bourke is frequently asked to speak on topics related to Internet child exploitation and sex offender typology at national and international conferences. He has been invited to teach at the FBI Academy, as well as several divisions of the Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Secret Service, and INTERPOL, to name a select few. He is a consultant to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU-3) and serves on the editorial boards for two professional journals. His clinical and research interests include the assessment of sexual offenders, the
art of interviewing and interrogation, the detection of deception, secondary stress among law enforcement personnel, and investigative profiling.
Bourke has received a Special Recognition Award from the United Kingdom’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre and the Pro-Humanitate Literary Award from the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare, among other awards. His published research includes articles on parent training, issues and strategies for working with juvenile sex offenders, and reducing traumatic stress among those who investigate sexual crimes.
He earned both his Master of Science in Psychology and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University. Through NSU’s Interpersonal Violence Program, he served as a coordinator for police training strategies.