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What is Investigative Psychology?

Parts 1 to 7 of the ‘What is Investigative Psychology?’ series

What is Investigative Psychology?

Whole series, interactive video version is on the main website

This video covers the following questions: What is investigative psychology? How do you use investigative psychology? How can we make inferences from crime scene behaviours? How does it all work? How can you use it yourself?

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Books shown for further reading if you’re interested:

'Investigative Psychology - Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action' by David Canter & Donna Youngs

‘Forensic Psychology: A very short introduction’ by David Canter

‘Forensic Psychology for Dummies’ by David Canter

‘Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling’ by David Canter & Donna Youngs

‘Mapping Murder – Secrets of Geographic Profiling’ by David Canter

‘Criminal Shadows – Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer’ by David Canter

‘Criminal Psychology’ by David Canter

‘The Forensic Psychologist’s Casebook: Psychological Profiling and Criminal Investigation’ by Laurence Alison

Part 1: What is Investigative Psychology ? Part 1 of 7-part series 'What is investigative psychology?'

This video covers the following questions: What is investigative psychology? How do you use investigative psychology? How can we make inferences from crime scene behaviours? How does it all work? How can you use it yourself?

Music: ‘Prudential Mix’ by James Hesford; ‘Memory Rain’ by Yung Logos; ‘Water Lillies’ by Destiny & Time;

Part 2: What is Offender Profiling? Part 2 of the 7-part series ‘What is investigative psychology?’

This video covers the following questions: What is offender profiling? How does offender profiling work? How can offender profiling be used? How can I use offender profiling?

Music: ‘Starcatcher’ by James Hesford featuring Andy Garbi ;

Part 3: Investigative Interviewing

This video covers questions such as: Why do people provide false confessions? How to avoid false confessions? How to get the truth out of a suspect? How do you interview best? How to interview a rape suspect? How to interview a rape victim?

Music: ‘Unused’ by Susan Cay; ‘White Hats’ by Wayne Jones; ‘Shabnan’s enlightenment’ by James Hesford

Part 4: How reliable is Witness Testimony?

This video covers questions such as: How is memory retrieved? How reliable is witness testimony? How can you get the most out of a witness?

Music: ‘Dreamer’ by DivKid

Part 5: Crime Linkage – part 5 of 7 of ‘What is Investigative Psychology Series’

This video covers questions such as ‘What is crime linkage’? ‘How to link crimes?’, and ‘What is the most reliable factor to use for crime linkage?’.

Music: ‘Halos’ by Yung Logos

Part 6: Geographic Profiling – part 6 of 7 of ‘What is Investigative Psychology Series’

This video provides an introduction to geographic profiling. What is geographic profiling? What is geographic profiling based on? How to use geographic profiling?

Music: ‘October Zero 4’ by James Hesford  (Cellorhythmics)

Part 7: Investigative Psychology vs. Forensic Psychology + recap

This last video in the ‘What is investigative psychology’ series video covers the following questions: What is investigative psychology? What is forensic psychology? What is the difference between the two? It closes with a recap of all 7 videos in this series.

Music: ‘Mother and Erin’ by James Hesford; ‘Silkworm’ by Quincas Moreira

Subtitling: Laura Thöling

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