Dr Craig Bennell
University of Carleton, Canada

Dr Bennell is currently conducting research that explores the various ways in which psychologists can contribute to police activities. This research incorporates three related areas:

1. Police training - evaluating existing training programs and developing new training programs (particularly in those areas where it is difficult to get satisfactory on the job training)

2. Police selection - identifying characteristics of effective police officers (across ranks and roles) and devising methods for selecting the most appropriate candidates to fill these positions

3. Police procedures - examining the validity of psychologically based investigative techniques (such as offender profiling)

Bennell, C. and Canter, D.V. (in press). Linking commercial burglaries using modus operandi: Tests using regression and ROC analysis. Science and Justice.

Snook, B., Canter, D.V. and Bennell. C. (2002). Predicting the home location of serial offenders. A preliminary comparison of the accuracy of human judges with a geographic profiling system. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 20, 109-118.