Alasdair M. Goodwill

Biography

Dr. Alasdair M. Goodwill is the Director of the Criminal Investigative Research and Analysis (CiR&A) Group (criminvestresearch.com). He is an Associate Professor of psychology at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, specialising in criminological, forensic and investigative psychology as well as threat and risk assessment. Dr. Goodwill is also a practicing clinician at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) Sexual Behaviour Clinic (SBC) where he carries out assessment and treatment services. He is on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP). Dr. Goodwill’s main interests is on delivering pragmatic methodologies for behavioural analysis, suspect prioritisation and decision making in criminal investigations and threat assessment. His private practice focuses on providing behavioural investigative advice in threat assessment and criminal investigations. Dr. Goodwill is a registered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist under supervised practice in Ontario, Canada, and a member of both the Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) and the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He is also a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol ; British Psychological Society, Division of Forensic Psychology, UK; 2006 to present), has a specialist Forensic Psychologist designation (Health Professions Council, UK; 2009-2012), Chartered Scientist (CSci; BPS Science Council, UK; 2006-2012), Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS), Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), and a Fellow of the International Association of Investigative Psychology (F-IAIP). Dr. Goodwill is also an Affiliate of the Forensic Psychology Research Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Associate Member of the Carleton Police Research Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada) an Associate Member of the Centre for Investigative and Forensic Psychology (Liverpool, UK) an Associate Member of the Centre for Critical Incident Research (Liverpool, UK), and has served as an external Professor at Charité Universitätsmedizin (Berlin, Germany) and the University of Huddersfield (UK).

Research Interest

forensic psychology; criminology; behavioural investigative advice; offender profiling; geographical profiling; risk assessment; threat assessment.