Liz Martinez
Liz Martinez is a consultant and expert witness in retail security, with a focus on organized retail crime, as well as in forensic linguistics. She is the Program Director of Administration of Justice and Forensic Science at Paradise Valley Community College. She is a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at Arizona State University with a research focus on false confessions, and she serves as the Programs Chair for the Phoenix chapter of ASIS International. She is the author of the book The Retail Manager’s Guide to Crime & Loss Prevention: Protecting Your Business from Theft, Fraud and Violence (Looseleaf Law, 2004) and the novel Sticks and Stones, as well as hundreds of articles and short stories. She can be reached via www.LinkedIn.com/in/LizCMartinez.