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What is Investigative Psychology?

Part 1 of the 7-part series

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    What is Investigative Psychology?

    Part 1 of 7 of the ‘What is Investigative Psychology?’ series


    This video covers the following questions: What is investigative psychology? How do you use investigative psychology? How can we make inferences from crime scene behaviours? How does it all work? How can you use it yourself?


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    Part 1 of 7 of the ‘What is Investigative Psychology?’ series


    Books shown for further reading if you’re interested:


    'Investigative Psychology - Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action' by David Canter & Donna Youngs


    Forensic Psychology: A very short introduction’ by David Canter


    Forensic Psychology for Dummies’ by David Canter


    Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling’ by David Canter & Donna Youngs


    Mapping Murder – Secrets of Geographic Profiling’ by David Canter


    Criminal Shadows – Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer’ by David Canter


    Criminal Psychology’ by David Canter


    The Forensic Psychologist’s Casebook: Psychological Profiling and Criminal Investigation’ by Laurence Alison


    Music: ‘Prudential Mix’ by James Hesford; ‘Memory Rain’ by Yung Logos; ‘Water Lillies’ by Destiny & Time;


    Subtitling by Laura Thöling


    Disclaimer: The above are affiliate links, which means that if you are using them, whilst you as a book buyer pay the normal price and the publisher gets the normal price, I would get a small commission from Amazon for getting the two of you together.


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