ABSTRACT
The President: Ladies and gentlemen, this evening we are honoured to have Professor David Canter with us, who has come from Liverpool. He is the Professor of Psychology at the University of Liverpool, and has been for almost the last 10 years, not quite 10 years. He has a long and varied CV. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association and a member of the Forensic Science Society. He has a PhD from Liverpool and is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist and is one of the first psychologists to be elected as an Academician to the Academy of Social Sciences. He is interested in a number of things, but he provided expert evidence in the case of prisoners, for example, in the Risley Remand Centre charged with riot, that their actions were an understandable response to the environment and the regime. I am not quite sure what he is talking to us about tonight. His recreations are listed as clarinet and musical composition. We are honoured to have Professor David Canter to speak to us this evening. (Applause.)
Professor Canter: What I quite unashamedly decided to do this evening was to talk through the theme of my new book Mapping Murder, which is available in all good book shops. (Laughter) When I was asked to give this talk about a year ago it was really quite fortunate that it coincided with the recent publication of the book, so I thought I would talk through the issues that are dealt with in the book, which grow out of the work I have done as a psychologist working with the police and then, moving on beyond that work, to carry out research work that is of relevance to police investigation.
