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Professor David Victor Canter | |
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Born | 5 January 1944 |
Known for | Forensic psychology, investigative psychology and environmental psychology |
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Discipline | Psychology |
Sub-discipline | Forensic psychology, architectural psychology and investigative psychology |
Notable works | Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer Mapping Murder: The secrets of geographical profiling ContentsInvestigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action Experiments in Anti-social Behaviour: Ten studies for students |
David Victor Canter (born 5 January 1944) is a British psychologist [1] known for his contributions to the field of architectural psychology over multiple decades, beginning in the late 1960s. He is currently emeritus professor at the University of Liverpool, publishing in the fields of environmental and forensic psychology.[ citation needed ]
Canter was a pivotal figure in the creation[ citation needed ] of the British, 'bottom-up'[ clarification needed ], approach to criminal profiling. [2] This approach uses the evidence left at the crime scene and witness testimony to create a profile of the offender to help with criminal investigations. [2]
He began his career in the late 1960s as an architectural psychologist, publishing and providing consultancy on the designs of offices, schools, prisons, housing and other building forms, as well as exploring how people made sense of the large scale environment, notably cities. He established the Journal of Environmental Psychology in 1980.
His work in architecture led to studies of human reactions in fires and other emergencies. He wrote about investigative psychology in Britain. He helped police in 1985 on the Railway Rapist case.
He was the professor of psychology at the University of Surrey for ten years, where he developed investigative psychology, described in detail in Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action and a course curriculum. He set up and was director of the Centre For Investigative Psychology, which is based at the University of Liverpool. From 2009 he was at the University of Huddersfield, where he directed the International Research Centre in Investigative Psychology. He retired in 2018.
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