Investigative psychology describes the actions of offenders and develops an understanding of crime to support criminal investigation, prosecution and defense procedures, through the retrieval and interpretation of investigatively relevant information and support for police decision-making.
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Central QuestionHow scientific psychology can describe the actions of offenders, support the retrieval and inference of investigative information, and inform police decision making in solving crimes. 1 Key DebateWhether crime should be understood through investigative psychology's empirical, inference-based approach or through the more subjective approach used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which emphasizes thinking like the criminal. 1 Connections
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Eyewitness-memory reliability, tested in this study, is a core investigative-psychology concern.
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Source Wikipedia: Forensic psychology
Source Wikipedia: Police psychology
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1. Wikipedia: Investigative psychology
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In applied psychology, investigative psychology attempts to describe the actions of offenders and develop an understanding of crime.
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The inference processes at the heart of Investigative Psychology contrast with the approach used in the Federal Bureau of Investigation which emphasises subjective processes such as "thinking like the criminal".
View the Source Wikipedia: Forensic psychology
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At the University of Liverpool, David V. Canter is credited with the creation of the term investigative psychology, a sub-specialization of forensic psychology that pertains to of criminal behavior and the investigative process.
Wikipedia: Police psychology
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Investigative psychology has gained its own following.
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