Applications
Improve Investigative Process and Detection Rates
- Suspect Identification and Prioritisation ("Offender Profiling", Canter Profiling Equations and Geographical Offender Profiling)
- Comparative Case Analysis (Linking);Identification TICs(additional offences)
- Offence Focusing: Identification Salient Features of Crime to direct investigative effort
- Prediction Offending: An offender's likely development (where, when, what)
- Criminal History Matching
- Police Investigative Decision-Making: Approaches to Improvement
- Criminal Network Analysis: Identify key-role offenders
Improve Investigative Interviewing
- Psychological Approaches to Interviewing of Suspects; Interviewing of Witnesses
- Psychological Evaluations of Evidence; assess credibility and validity, false allegations, false confessions
- Detection of Deception and Lying; Identification of false crime reports
- Psychological Assessments of Interviewee, including vulnerable interviewees
The Legal Case
- Psychological Evaluation of Testimony, eyewitness evidence weaknesses
- Defendant Profiling: Assessments of offence activity and likelihood perpetrated by defendant
- Authorship Attribution through Forensic Psycholinguistics
- False Rape Allegations
- Psychological Autopsy
- Entrapment: Assessments of appropriateness of Police investigative activity
- Jury Assessment
Risk/Threat Assessment and Reduction
- Predict Risk, particularly in relation to violent offending (including Domestic Violence, Stalking, Extortion) using scientific tools and software to improve investigative decision making
- Probity Profiling (Corporate context)
- Insurance Fraud: diversion/reduction, identification, investigation
- Terrorist Networks; Terrorist Radicalisation Processes; Suicide bombers