David Canter

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David V. Canter is a psychologist. He began his career as an "architectural psychologist studying the interactions between people and buildings, 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 set up the Journal of Environmental Psychology in 1980. His work in architecture led to studies of human reactions in fires and other emergencies. He pioneered offender profiling in Britain. He was the Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey for ten years, where he developed Investigative Psychology and a course curriculum. He is currently the Director of the Centre For Investigative Psychology, which is based at the University of Liverpool, where he also maintains the MSc programme in Investigative Psychology.

[edit] Books

• Psychology for Architects London: Applied Science (1974) ISBN 0-85334-590-2
• The Psychology of Place Architectural Press (1977) ISBN 0-85139-532-5
• Fires and Human Behaviour (1990) Fulton ISBN 1-85346-105-9
• Criminal Shadows (1995) Harper-Collins ISBN 1-928704-21-2
• Psychology in Action (1996) Dartmouth ISBN 1-85521-365-6
• Mapping Murder (2003) Virgin Books. ISBN 1-85227-078-0

Collaborations

• Empirical Approaches to Social Representations (1993) with Breakwell, Glynis. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-852181-2
• Criminal Detection and the Psychology of Crime (1997) with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate/Dartmouth. ISBN 1-85521-454-7
• Interviewing and Deception - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. I (1998) with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 1-85521-380-X

• Profiling in Policy and Practice - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. II (1999) with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 1-84014-782-2

• The Social Psychology of Crime: Groups, Teams and Networks - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. III (2000) with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 1-84014-497-1

• Profiling Property Crime - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. IV (2000) with Alison, Laurence. Alderhost: Ashgate. ISBN 1-84014-787-3

• Profiling Rape and Murder - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. V (2008) with Alison, Laurence. Alderhost: Ashgate. ISBN 1-84014-495-5

• Profiling: Principles, Processes, Practicalities (2008) with Keppel, Robert. London: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-119276-0