Latest Books
David Canter has recently completed books on:
Forensic Psychology: A very short introduction - Lie detection, offender profiling, jury selection, insanity in the law, predicting the risk of re offending , the minds of serial killers and many other topics that fill news and fiction are all aspects of the rapidly developing area of scientific psychology broadly known as Forensic Psychology. Forensic Psychology: A Very Short Introduction discusses all the aspects of psychology that are relevant to the legal and criminal process as a whole.
Investigative Psychology - by David Canter & Donna Youngs. Offender profiling and the analysis of criminal action.
Faces of Terrorism - edited by David Canter. The different facets of terrorism, investigating what it means to be a terrorist and what terrorism means for society. The perspectives and views of terrorists.
Criminal Psychology - introduction to topics across this area from considerations of Domestic Violence and Serial Killers to competent reviews of the application of psychology to prisons and police investigations.
Psychology and the Law, which explores all aspects of the psychological consideration of evidence in court from eyewitness testing to lie detection and offender profiling evidence in court
Geographical Offender Profiling (Geographic Profiling) These 2 books- Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling and Applications of Geographical Offender Profiling pull together all the key papers in this area with authoritative introductory reviews of the current state of research and practice in this rapidly expanding field
Becoming an Author - Advice for academics and professionals.
