 Laurence Alison
"Pragmatic solutions to investigative profiling and behavioural investigative advice" Laurence Alison is Professor of Forensic Psychology and director of the Centre for Critical Incident Research at the University of Liverpool. Through his research, frequently published in internationally recognized journals and volumes, he has rapidly gained the status of an international expert on policing and investigation. Working closely with police forces and organizations, he has educated numerous police officers, assisted with profiling and investigation expertise in a number of complex cases, and served as an advisor in a several major critical incidents.
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 Gerd Gigerenzer
"Heuristic decision making: Towards a positive legal psychology"
Gerd Gigerenzer is the Director of the Center for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin, Germany). His many research interests include bounded rationality, social intelligence and heuristics of scientific discovery. Owing to his extensive work on heuristics and bounded rationality, Professor Gigerenzer is considered one of the most influential psychologists of our time. He is the author of a number of highly acclaimed books, including the seminal Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart (1999) and recently Heuristics and the Law (2006). In this keynote lecture, he will share his ideas on how the ‘heuristics and decision-making’ program may translate to the legal arena.
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 Gail Goodman
"A positive approach to children's testimony"
Gail Goodman is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Davis. She is an internationally acclaimed developmental psychologist and was one of the first researchers to scientifically examine children's ability to act as eyewitnesses. Her pioneering research on children’s testimony in child sexual abuse cases – and the mechanisms underlying children’s memory and suggestibility – has contributed immensely to the field. Her studies have been cited in U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and her research, as well as her teaching, has received numerous prestigious awards.
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 Robert Hare
"Assessment of psychopathy: An international perspective"
Robert Hare is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has spent over 35 years researching psychopathy and is the developer of several well-established psychological scales designed to diagnose cases of psychopathy and predicting the likelihood of violent behavior, such as the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV), the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV), the P-Scan, and the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD). In addition, he has worked extensively with training law enforcement personnel and as consult to many North American and British prison services.
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 Saul Kassin
"The corruptive power of confessions"
Saul Kassin is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. With a background in personality and social psychology, he has made important and influential contributions in judicial decision making and the psychology of interrogations and confessions, making him one of the most frequently cited researchers in psychology and law. Owing to his theoretical and methodological innovations in the study of false confessions, he is recognized as a world-leading expert in the field.
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.jpg) Lorraine Sheridan
"Stalking: Positive applications of psychological research"
Lorraine Sheridan is a Chartered Forensic Psychologist at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. During a decade of pioneering research on the psychological aspects of stalking and interpersonal harassment, she has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers and four books on the topic, and thus has a unique expertise in this relatively recent area of psychology and law. Much of her research has an applied, interventionist approach, and she frequently trains legal professionals and gives case management advice on topics such as stalking, harassment, and risk assessment. |
