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International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology

Director: Professor David Canter

(from October 2009)

Associate Director: Dr Donna Youngs

A PhD in Investigative Psychology

MSc Investigative Psychology with professional applications to forensic & legal contexts

Home of Investigative Psychology, a problem-solving approach to scientific psychology with special relevance to criminal and civil investigations.

Since early work on ‘offender profiling’ it has expanded under the direction of Professor David Canter to cover all contributions that psychologists and other social and behavioural scientists can make to investigations, legal processes (topics) and beyond.

IRCIP Research Profile

IRCIP conducts studies to inform

  1. Investigative Inferences (e.g. Actions- Characteristics Equations, Offender Profiling, Geographical Profiling, Modelling Offence Styles, Psychological Correlates of Offence Style)
  2. Investigative & Legal Process (e.g. Investigative Strategy, Interviewing, Prediction of Violence, Detective Decision-Making)
  3. Assessment of Investigative & Legal Information (e.g. False allegations, Eyewitness Testimony, Detecting Deception, Psycho-linguistic analysis)
  4. The Full Range of Criminal and Offending Activity (e.g. arson, burglary, domestic violence, fraud, murder, rape, terrorism, etc.)
  5. Development of an Investigative (Problem Solving) Social Science

IRCIP researchers are based around the world from Barbados and India to USA and Japan, as well as at the highly respected UK centre, now at the University of Huddersfield, where much of the  ground-breaking research in this field has been carried out over the last 20 years (Key IP Publications; Journal of Investigative Psychology & Offender Profiling). IRCIP collaborates with the Applied Criminology Centre.

IRCIP studies extend fundamental understanding of crimes and criminals, growing out of responses to operational questions and potential practical applications. IRCIP is committed to the advancement of scientific knowledge in response to these questions but also, through academic excellence, to redefining the contributions that can be made.

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