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Although internationally known for introducing scientific psychology into ‘offender profiling’ and developing the field of Investigative Psychology beyond those origins, David has a wide range of interests including his continuing work in Environmental Psychology. Many of his publications and presentations are made available as well as his musical compositions, photographs and poems.
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Winner of GOLDEN DAGGER & U.S. ANTHONY awards for True-Crime.
Forthcoming Books
- Criminal Psychology 3rd Edition (Routledge)
- The Psychology of Place: Revisited (Routledge)
- Qualitative Structural Theory (Sage)
- Routledge Handbook of Geographical Offender Profiling

The Truth About Offender Profiling
Crime psychology expert David Canter describes how the search for scientific offender profiling became investigative psychology.
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