Social Science Space

David Canter considers the psychological bases of violent jihad.

Professor David Canter comments on Britain’s downward trend in violence and examines some of the factors that may underlie it besides a more expensive pint.

With one eye on Ukraine, David Canter comments on the social psychology of protest in an Age of Social Protest.

David Canter considers the growing pressure on Social Scientists to ensure their work has an impact.

David Canter explores psychological aspects of why hiding the face in a niqab is so significant. The recent debates about […]

David Canter reveals the plague that is infecting education.

Some criminal investigations resonate over the years. Even if you’ve only had peripheral involvement with them, as in my case, […]

Recent 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.

The 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.

With 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.

When 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.

Although 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.