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Speaker: Professor
David Canter
Affiliation: Centre
for Investigative Psychology, University of Liverpool
Presentation Title:
Controlling Client Violence: Street Worker Strategies
Biography
David Canter is a Professor of Psychology at the University
of Liverpool where he is responsible for postgraduate studies and a wide
range of research projects. He is internationally known for his work in
environmental psychology. In broad terms this is concerned with the impact
of the built environment on people's lives. This work has involved him
in studies of many different types of buildings including offices and
hospitals, prisons and housing. His work has led to the development of
a general theory of how places influence people's lives, which has been
published in books and many journal articles. He has given advice to a
number of government enquiries and court proceedings on many aspects of
design. Over the past 10 years he has become involved in the study of
the behaviour of criminals and as part of this research he has contributed
to over 100 police investigations.
From these experiences he has developed the field of Investigative Psychology. The origins of this field are described in his book Criminal Shadows that won the Golden Dagger Award for non-fiction in 1994. This work is now being taken further in a variety of studies covering everything from arson to stalking. His MSc course in Investigative Psychology, which is the only one of its kind in the world covers this rapidly developing field and is attended by psychologists and police officers from all over the world.
