
Undercover Pressures
Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, […]
8 years agoA space to explore, share and shape the issues facing social and behavioral scientists
Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, […]
8 years agoRecent publications have encouraged me not to keep quiet about this any longer. Now is the time to explain why I find the term ‘profiling’ so problematic yet get stuck with using it.
8 years agoThe referendum on Scottish independence, scheduled for 2014, may be regarded as an amusing abstraction for those outside Scotland but within it raises many questions about Scottish identity and what is special about Scottish society.
8 years agoWith the exponential expansion even over the last few months of Web 2.0 it is important for social scientists to get a grip on the wide-reaching implications of these developments.
8 years agoWhen some journalist awards a case a sobriquet like The Railway Rapist, or the Moors Murderers that the media has got its teeth into the case and will shake as much life out of it as possible.
8 years agoAlthough the value of Randomised Controlled Trials in very specific contexts cannot be denied, any imperialist claims for its universal applicability and its use as a bench mark against which all other studies must to be measured needs to be challenged.
8 years agoYou can hardly open a newspaper or listen to a factual broadcast without some reference to neuroscience or evolutionary explanations of things that people do, feel or think.
8 years agoApparently Luka Rocco Magnotta made videos of himself killing cats and eating parts of his murdered victim, making the videos […]
9 years agoThe challenge of writing popular psychology came home to me recently when I accepted the invitation to write Forensic Psychology for Dummies
9 years agoSocial Science research is changing our understanding of the police and policing. This is raising fundamental questions about how police officers are recruited, trained and organised
9 years agoThe ability of people to keep their most desperate, innermost thoughts hidden from those around them is surely something that juries ought to be reminded of in cases where a death could be suicide or murder…
9 years agoThe ponderousness, and consequent unnecessary expense, of many legal processes was brought home to me yet again with my recent […]
9 years ago