Remit of Expert Evidence
Expert Investigative Psychological testimony is relevant to three broad areas, for all types of crime:
- The nature of the defendant/ likely perpetrator, including issues of linked offences
- The integrity of the investigative process including the interview
- The credibility of evidence and testimony, incl. questioned authorship, jury decision-making
Recent types of Expert Evidence given by Prof Canter
- Offender Profiling/ Defendant Profiling with personality & other psychometric assessment
- Forensic Psycholinguistics/ Authorship Attribution
- False Rape Allegations
- Equivocal Death/ Psychological Autopsy
- Interviewing techniques; Identification Parades
- Entrapment
- Harassment /Stalking Assessment
- Evaluation of Legal Testimony: Eyewitness Evidence
- Environmental Conditions in Prisons: The "Slopping Out" cases