David Canter

Professor

David Victor Canter

Born|  (1944-01-05) 5 January 1944 (age 79)
Known for| Forensic/Investigative/Environmental Psychology
Academic work
Discipline| Psychology
Sub-discipline| Forensic psychology, Architectural psychology, Investigative psychology
Notable works| Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer

Mapping Murder: The secrets of geographical profiling

Investigative 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 psychologist.[1] 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 wrote about investigative psychology in United Kingdom . 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 from there in 2018. He is emeritus professor at the University of Liverpool and continues to publish in environmental and crime/forensic psychology.

## Books

* 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
(won 1995 Anthony Award for Best True Crime book)[2](won 1994 Golden Dagger award for True Crime)
* Criminal Shadows – Inner Narratives of Evil (2000, Paperback) Authorlink ISBN:978-1-928704-21-8
* 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:978-0-340-92892-9
* The Faces of Terrorism: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Cross-disciplinary Explorations (ed.) (2009) WileyBlackwell ISBN:978-0-470-75381-1
* Forensic Psychology: A very short introduction (2010) Oxford University Press ISBN:978-0-19-955020-3 (also translated into Egyptian)
* Forensic Psychology for Dummies (2012) John Wiley and Sons Ltd ISBN:978-1-119-97738-4(ebk)

Collaborations

* Architectural Psychology (ed.) (1970)
* Psychology and the Built Environment (1974) (ed. with Terence Lee.) ISBN:978-0-470-52149-6
* Environmental Interaction: Psychological Approaches to Our Physical Surroundings (1975) (ed. with P. Stringer) ISBN:978-0-8236-1685-5
* 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 Miriam Comber and David L. Uzzell) (1989). Introduction by Sir Oliver Popplewell. Taylor & Francis. ISBN:978-0-415-01240-9
* 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:978-0-7546-2660-2
* Environmental Psychology; with Bonnes, Mirilia and Hartig, Terry. (28 April 2008) Ashgate ISBN:978-0-7546-2530-8
* The Investigative Psychology of Serial Killing; with Youngs, Donna. (28 September 2008) Ashgate ISBN:978-0-7546-2548-3
* Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action (3 October 2008, Paperback); with Youngs, Donna. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN:978-0-470-02397-6
* Becoming an Author: Advice for Academics and Professionals (2006); with Fairbairn, Gavin. Open University Press ISBN:978-0-335-20275-1
* Biologising the Social Sciences: Challenging Darwininan and Neuroscience Explanations (2014); with Turner, David (Ed.) Routledge ISBN:978-0-415-82480-4

## References

1. ↑ 'CANTER, Prof. David Victor', Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011  ; online edn, Nov 2011 Retrieved 31 Jan 2012
2. ↑ "Anthony Award Nominees and Winners". Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html. Retrieved 30 June 2014.

## External links

* Official web site
* Crimelibrary.com

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