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David Canter is Emeritus Professor of Applied social psychology at the university of Liverpool. He was also the creator of Investigative psychology. David Canter specialises in Environmental psychology, offender profiling and Forensic Psychology. After having read- Forensic psychology, a very short introduction, I was introduced to new concepts and a much clearer understanding of the role that forensic psychologists play in murder investigations. The book details, the court procedures in gaining a conviction for murder cases, additionally it also establishes the fundamental role of forensics, which arguably is to collect scientific evidence and to establish what is and isn’t there to either prove someone’s guilt or innocence in the context of the courtroom. Chapter two titled ‘how to make a criminal’   details physical and biological traits which have been used to construct a psychopath and murderer, this is for forensic psychologists to use as a stepping ladder to streng...

Geoffroy Wansell is a leading playwright and political author. He taught British Politics at the University of Sheffield. In 2011, he published ‘the bus stop killer’ this book is all about Levi Bellfield now identified as Yusuf Rahim. The book details a heavy focus upon his victims, their personalities and characteristics which made them targeted to be battered, raped and murdered by Levi Bellfield. The context is very verbally graphic, detailed and emotive. Throughout reading the book, I became disturbed by what I was reading on the account of what Bellfield did to his numerous victims. The stalking, the verbal sexual confrontation of young girls, his fascination of young school girls, and the ‘image’ of a school girl. Arguably he is a paedophile. Not only this, details of how he treated his numerous sexual and committed relationships which were evidently controlling, toxic and abusive. Many thoughts ran through my head as to why the women in question stayed by his side. Was it...

Murderous Minds by Dean A Haycock- A book review.  Dean A Haycock is an author who I highly recommend for anyone studying Criminology, Psychology, anthropology, and Neuroscience. He specialises in Science and Medicine. This is shown through his PhD research in Neuroscience from the Brown University in Rhode Island. I thoroughly enjoyed reading his book ‘murderous minds’. It is important to note that the research displayed in the book does acknowledge the separation between psychopathy and violence.   This book does explore the minds of a subsection of psychopaths. They have been classified as ‘criminal psychopaths’. This is the distinction between those who have ‘successful psychopathic tendencies’ such as struggling to comprehend and adapt to social situations, reading body language and emotional cues, but do not act on these lacking abilities in a criminalising manner. Encompassing the ‘criminal psychopath’ Dean explains that there are characteristics which could m...

After having previously read ‘Terrorist Hunter’ written by Tamer Elnoury, it left me feeling even more intrigued as to what defines terrorism in a modern global political era, how can terrorism be even possibly defeated, and what factors attracts individuals to wage war on the West? These questions were answered by Aimen Dean, who has now written a book titled – ‘Nine lives. The book goes into fascinating detail about Aimen’s story having signed up to wage Jihad in the 1980s in Bosnia, with the original intentions of liberating Bosnian Muslims, who were being persecuted by the Serbs in a mass genocide. Aimen as a young boy fell under the spell of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. He declared an oath of allegiance and loyalty to Bin Laden; however, he soon came to realise that Al-Qaeda was not about liberation and freeing persecuted Muslims, it was however about waging war against the United States and encouraging as well as plotting the murder of innocent civilians. He eventually wante...

Terrorist Hunter is written by a non-fictional FBI Agent called Tamer Elnoury. He narrates his incredibly moving story of his work undercover, posing as an Al-Qaeda sympathiser. His ultimate mission, to take down one of the biggest terrors plots the world has ever seen at the hands of Al-Qaeda. Throughout the book, as a reader, I learned about the regime and inside nature of an Al-Qaeda operative, actively capitalising on his misinterpretation of the teachings of Islam and the Quran.  I learned about the differences between American and Canadian undercover systems, for example how the Canadians would typically keep their own agents in the dark, whereas the US has a much higher rate of intel sharing amongst their most trusted political allies. They have the same motivation- to protect the Homeland, but they often differ in their approach. Tamer Elnoury also describes how the issue of national jurisdictions can cause complications for when the legal process begins once the terror...

After having read the Anatomy of Violence by Adrian Raine, I first felt an immense sense of accomplishment. This Is because even though, I take a keen interest in Biology and the natural sciences, I do not study them full time, and I was able to understand the underpinnings of Raine’s arguments for the Biological roots of crime.   Adrian Raine was born in Darlington 1954, he is currently Professor of Criminology at the Richard Perry University Pennsylvania. His current research is based around Biological interventions for Anti-social behaviour, part of this research involves structural brain scanning to identify patterns in the brains of violent offenders. Raine also specialises in Neurocriminology and is in my opinion, the future of the movement of the discipline along with his previous PhD supervisor Peter Venables.   Throughout the book, Raine would talk about a leading argument and weigh it with substantial evidence. Much of this evidence I did agree would be a f...