Linking crimes The term ‘Crime Linking’ is used to describe the practice of examining a series of crimes which are likely to be linked, and identifying which offences are likely to have been committed by the same offender or offenders. There are many terms...

Overview of Investigative Psychology Professor David Canter coined the term Investigative Psychology in discussion with Detective Constable Rupert Heritage, sometime in early 1990 at the University of Surrey, UK. It grew out of the recognition that there...

Overview of the FBI Behavioural Science Unit The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) moved the National Training Academy from Washington DC to Quantico in 1972 and named it the Behavioural Science Unit in response to a rising number of sexual assaults...

Offender Profiling and Investigative Psychology: Profiling criminal activities Crime fascinates and disgusts a great number of people. Many people are interested in true crime documentaries and programs on offender profiling. The main reason is that we...

There is a lack of consensus on the issue of behavioural consistency and mixed evidence for the existence or non-existence of it. Sullivan et al (2006) propose that the lack of evidence for consistency in criminal actions may be due to the way the various...

The field of Investigative Psychology (IP) integrates many well-grounded psychological theories to investigate crime and criminal behaviour. IP aims to develop an understanding of crime and criminal behaviour to aid all aspects of policing and court...