What is Investigative Psychology? Entire ‘What is Investigative Psychology?’ series
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What exactly is investigative psychology?
Investigative psychology is a form of applied psychology. That means it is psychology that can be applied to solve real-world problems. investigative psychology tries to understand offenders’ behaviour and the decisions they took so that this understanding can be used to assist in the investigation of crimes. It is also about how best to investigate, and how the police make decisions when they deal with crime. So it looks at both the offender and the police.
The term was first coined by Professor David Canter in 1994, who had been studying environmental psychology and then found a link between an offender’s spatial behaviours and their cognitive map, which is a person’s awareness of where they live, frequent and pass through. I will take you through some of the main areas of investigative psychology in this series. Welcome! ...
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