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 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 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.

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The study of meaning in architecture (1968) Publisher: D.V. Canter
Scales for the evaluation of buildings (1971) Strathclyde University
People and buildings: A brief overview of research (1972) Council of Planning Librarians
Psychology for Architects (1974) London: Applied Science ISBN 0-85334-590-2
The Psychology of Place (1977) Architectural Press ISBN 0-85139-532-5
Studies of human behavior in fire: Empirical results and their implications for education and design (1983) University of Surrey

Criminal Shadows - Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer (1994) Harper-Collins ISBN 1-928704-21-2
Criminal shadows - Inner Narratives of Evil (2000, Paperback) Authorlink ISBN 978-1928704218
Psychology in Action (1996) Dartmouth ISBN 1-85521-365-6
Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling (2003) Virgin Books. ISBN 1-85227-078-0
Criminal Psychology: Topics in Applied Psychology (Topics Applied Psychology) (27 June 2008) Hodder Arnold ISBN 978-0340928929

Collaborations

Architectural Psychology (ed.) (1970)
Psychology and the built environment (1974) (ed. with Terence Lee.) ISBN 978-0470521496
Environmental Interaction: Psychological Approaches to Our Physical Surroundings (1975) (ed. with P. Stringer) ISBN 978-0823616855
Designing for Therapeutic Environments: A Review of Research (ed. with S. Canter) (1979)
Psychology in Practice: Perspectives on Professional Psychology (ed. with S. Canter) (1982)
Facet Theory: Approaches to Social Research (ed.) (1985)
The Research Interview: Uses and Approaches (ed. M. Brenner and J. Brown) (1985)
Environmental Social Psychology (ed. with J.C. Jesuino, L. Soczka and G.M. Stephenson) (1988)
Environmental Perspectives (ed. with M. Krampen and D. Stea) (1988)
Environmental Policy, Assessment and Communication (ed. with M. Krampen and D. Stea) (1988)
New Directions in Environmental Participation (ed. with M. Krampen and D. Stea) (1988)
Football in its Place: An Environmental Psychology of Football Grounds; with M. Comber and D. L. Uzzell
Fires and Human Behaviour (ed.) (1990) Fulton ISBN 1-85346-105-9
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
Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap (Psychology, Crime and Law) (Ed.) (2008); with Zukauskiene, Rita (Ed.). Ashgate ISBN 978-0754626602
Environmental Psychology; with Bonnes, Mirilia and Hartig, Terry. (28 April 2008) Ashgate ISBN 978-0754625308
The Investigative Psychology of Serial Killing; with Youngs, Donna. (28 Sept 2008) Ashgate ISBN 978-0754625483
Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action (3 Oct 2008, Paperback); with Youngs, Donna. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-0470023976