From Offender Profiling to Investigative Psychology
The astonishing success of the early profiles he developed opened David Canter's eyes to the potential psychological and other social sciences had to offer police investigations as well as the legal process.
Canter's conviction has always been that these had to be systematic, empirically based contributions leading him on to develop a science-based approach to helping police investigations that he called "Investigative Psychology".
His account of this work with the police and the development of the new discipline of Investigative Psychology was published in 1994 in his award winning book Criminal Shadows and Mapping Murder.
