David Victor Canter is a psychologist. He began his career as an architectural psychologist studying the interactions between people and buildings, publishing and providing consultancy on the designs of offices, schools, prisons, housing and other building forms as well as exploring how people made sense of the large scale environment, notably cities. He set up the Journal of Environmental Psychology in 1980. His work in architecture led to studies of human reactions in fires and other emergencies. He wrote about investigative psychology in Britain. He helped police in 1985 on the Railway Rapist case. He was the Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey for ten years, where he developed investigative psychology described in detail in Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action and a course curriculum. He set up and was Director of the Centre For Investigative Psychology which is based at the University of Liverpool. From 2009 he was at the University of Huddersfield where he Directed the InternationalResearch Centre in Investigative Psychology. He retired from there in 2018. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool and continues to publish in Environmental and Crime/Forensic Psychology.
Books
The Study of Meaning in Architecture Publisher: D.V. Canter
Scales for the Evaluation of Buildings Strathclyde University
People and Buildings: A Brief Overview of Research Council of Planning Librarians
Architectural PsychologyPsychology and the Built EnvironmentEnvironmental Interaction: Psychological Approaches to Our Physical SurroundingsDesigning for Therapeutic Environments: A Review of ResearchPsychology in Practice: Perspectives on Professional PsychologyFacet Theory: Approaches to Social ResearchThe Research Interview: Uses and ApproachesEnvironmental Social PsychologyEnvironmental PerspectivesEnvironmental Policy, Assessment and CommunicationNew Directions in Environmental ParticipationFootball in its Place: An Environmental Psychology of Football Grounds . Introduction by Sir Oliver Popplewell. Taylor & Francis. Fires and Human Behaviour Fulton Empirical Approaches to Social Representations ; with Breakwell, Glynis. Oxford University Press. Criminal Detection and the Psychology of Crime ; with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate/Dartmouth. Interviewing and Deception - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. I ; with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate. Profiling in Policy and Practice - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. II ; with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate. The Social Psychology of Crime: Groups, Teams and Networks - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. III ; with Alison, Laurence. Aldershot: Ashgate. Profiling Property Crime - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. IV ; with Alison, Laurence. Alderhost: Ashgate. Profiling Rape and Murder - Offender Profiling Series, Vol. V ; with Alison, Laurence. Alderhost: Ashgate. Profiling: Principles, Processes, Practicalities ; with Keppel, Robert. London: Prentice Hall. Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap ; with Zukauskiene, Rita. Ashgate Environmental Psychology; with Bonnes, Mirilia and Hartig, Terry. Ashgate The Investigative Psychology of Serial Killing; with Youngs, Donna. Ashgate Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action ; with Youngs, Donna. John Wiley and Sons. Becoming an Author: Advice for Academics and Professionals ; with Fairbairn, Gavin. Open University Press Biologising the Social Sciences: Challenging Darwininan and Neuroscience Explanations'' ; with Turner, David Routledge
