Reviewing Crime Psychology - Paperback

by David Canter (Editor), Donna Youngs (Editor)

The recent explosion of research and practice relating to offending and the related investigative and legal processes makes it extremely difficult for anyone to master these emerging areas of research. This book will help readers to navigate through this rapidly expanding area of scholarship and practice by bringing together a number of recent reviews on key topics by leading experts in the field.

Contributions to the volume discuss developments in the study of interviewing and the detection of deception together with explorations of victims and offenders. The psychological background and consequences of school bullying, child sexual abuse and male rape are also explored, as are the challenges of collecting information about crimes as varied as burglary and serial killing.

This book will be a valuable resource for criminologists, crime and forensic psychologists, students of socio-legal processes and all those involved in legal and investigative activities.

The chapters in this book were originally published as review articles in Crime Psychology Review.

Author Biography

David Canter is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool, UK. Internationally known for developing the emerging field of Investigative Psychology, he has published widely on many aspects of social, environmental and forensic psychology. His book Criminal Shadows (1994) was awarded the Golden Dagger and Anthony Awards for crime non-fiction. He also wrote and presented a six-part TV documentary series on his work in geographical offender profiling, which was later published as his book Mapping Murder (2003).

Donna Youngs is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK, where she directs the doctoral program in Investigative Psychology. She has published on many aspects of criminality and criminal psychology. Her particular interests are in criminals' personal narratives and their experiences of crime.