Wednesday, September 14, 2011

All in the Mind - Profiling the criminal profilers - the inside story

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This is an excellent episode of All in the Mind with Natasha Mitchell - she looks here at forensic psychology, better known as behavioral anaylsis, or profiling. I have always been fascinated with this realm of psychology. When I used to watch television, Criminal Minds was one of my favorite shows.

Profiling the criminal profilers - the inside story


Criminal profiling has captured the pop culture psyche - from CSI to The Silence of the Lambs, with star forensic psychologists who have an uncanny knack for getting inside the criminal mind. But what's profiling like in the real world - and does it really work?
Show Transcript

Guests

Detective Senior Sergeant Deb Bennett
Behavioural Analysis Unit, Victoria Police
http://www.police.vic.gov.au/content.asp?Document_ID=2

Professor James Ogloff
Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/psych/research/centres/cfbs/

Dr Michael Davis
Clinical Forensic Psychologist in private practice
Research Fellow
Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
Monash University, Australia.
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/michael-davis/2b/436/819

Associate Professor Wayne Petherick
Private profiler
Associate Professor of Criminology
Bond University, Queensland, Australia
http://works.bepress.com/wayne_petherick/

Professor Craig Jackson
Professor of Occupational Health Psychology
Birmingham City University, UK
http://www.hcc.uce.ac.uk/craigjackson/

Further Information

All in the Mind presenter Natasha Mitchell on Twitter
All in the Mind blog

Publications

Title: Core theory of differentiating power and anger rape typology as applied in the investigations of stranger-rapes.
Author: Bennett, D.
Publisher: PhD thesis, (2005)
School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Australia.

Title: Beyond offender profiling: the need for an investigative psychology
Author: Canter, D., & Youngs, D.
Publisher: Chichester, UK: John Wiley and Sons (2002)
In D. Carson & R. Bull (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts (2nd ed., pp. 171-205).

Title: Against the medical-psychological tradition of understanding serial killing by studying the killers: the case of BTK
Author: Professor David Wilson, Professor Craig Jackson and Dr Baljit Rana
Publisher: Amicus Journal, Issue 22 (2010)
URL: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/publish/amicus/amicus.htm

Title: The usefulness of criminal profiling
Author: Craig Jackson; David Wilson; Baljit Kaur Rana
Publisher: Criminal Justice Matters (2011)
URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09627251.2011.576014

Title: Criminal investigative analysis in the Australian context
Author: Michael Davis, Deb Bennett
Publisher: InPsych, December 2006, Australian Psychological Society
URL: http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/inpsych/context/

Presenter: Natasha Mitchell

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