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Resources
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Police Science Websites
Courses
How Best To Interview Suspects
A short course by Professor Ray Bull himself, who was involved in creating the PEACE model of interviewing in the early 1990s.
Learn about the PEACE model and what works and what doesn't when it comes to interviewing suspects.
An online exercise to explore values, thoughts and beliefs - For law enforcement, military, and the general public, by Professor Laurence Alison MBE.
The labours (stories) can be used in two principal ways:
(i) conducting them on your own as a piece of self-reflection or
(ii) in a group (led with a group facilitator).
Behavioural Science in Policing
A free introductory course on Behavioural Science in Policing by Dr Susanne Knabe-Nicol
An online coaching program by Police Stress expert Ginny McKenna, ex-cop turned coach, to build up resilience to stress, traumatic experiences, anxiety and depression in law enforcement
How To Do Evidence-Based Policing in 4 Steps
A free introductory course on Evidence-Based Policing by Dr Susanne Knabe-Nicol
Policing to Reduce Serious Violence:
Cambridge Online EBP Leaders’ Short Course
10 weeks of online learning, with three1-on-1 sessions with a Cambridge tutor, completed by an online assessment
Targeting Risks of Serious Violence: Cambridge Online Course for Police Analysts
10 weeks of online learning with exercises, with four 1-on-1 sessions with a Cambridge tutor, completed by an online assessment.
Books
'Criminal Psychology’ by David Canter
'Criminal Shadows – Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer’ by David Canter
'Environmental Criminology' by Paul & Patricia Brantingham
'Evidence-Based Investigative Interviewing' edited by Dickinson, Schreiber Compo, Carol, Schwartz, McCauley
'Evidence-Based Policing' by Renée Mitchell & Laura Huey
'Evidence-Based Policing: Translating research into practice' by Cynthia Lum & Christoper S. Koper
'Eyewitness Testimony’ by Elizabeth Loftus
‘Forensic Psychology: A very short introduction’ by David Canter
‘Forensic Psychology For Dummies’ by David Canter
'Geographic Profiling’ by D. Kim Rossmo
‘In Control – Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder’ by Jane Monckton-Smith
'Investigative Interviewing: Psychology & Practice' by Rebecca Milne & Ray Bull
'Investigative Interviewing: The conversation management approach' by Eric Shepherd & Andy Griffiths
'Investigative Psychology - Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action' by David Canter & Donna Youngs
'Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling' by David Canter
'Memory-Enhancing Techniques for Investigative Interviewing - The Cognitive Interview' by Ronald Fisher & Edward Geiselman
‘Motivational Interviewing - Helping People Change’ - by William Miller & Stephen Rollnick
‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness’ by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
‘ORBIT – The Science of Rapport-Based Interviewing for Law Enforcement, Security and Military’ by Laurence Alison, Emily Alison, Neil Shortland & Frances Surmon-Böhr
‘Policing in the Era of AI and smart Societies’, edited by Hamid Jahankhani, Babak Akhgar, Peter Cochrane, Mohammad Dastbaz.
'Principles of Geographical Offender Profiling' edited by David Canter & Donna Youngs
'Professionalizing Offender Profiling' edited by Laurence Alison & Lee Rainbow
‘Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People’ by Emily Alison & Laurence Alison
'Reducing Crime: A companion for Police Leaders' by Jerry Ratcliffe
'Self-Selection Policing - Theory, Research and Practice' by Jason Roach & Ken Pease
'Targeting Domestic Abuse with Police Data' by Matt Bland
'The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror', by Judith Herman
The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policing: Innovations in Bridging the Research-Practice Divide - by Eric L. Piza and Brandon C. Welsh
'The Forensic Psychologist's Casebook: Psychological profiling and criminal investigation', edited by Laurence Alison
‘The Psychology of Criminal Investigation: From Theory to Practice’, edited by Andy Griffiths & Rebecca Milne
'The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook' by Gisli H. Gudjonsson
‘The Routledge International Handbook of Legal and Investigative Psychology’ edited by Ray Bull and Iris Blandón-Gitlin
‘The Whole Story: Investigating Sexual Crime – Truth, Lies and the Path to Justice’ by Patrick Tidmarsh
