1. First Announcement: An IA-IP event in collaboration with London South Bank University and The International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology (IRCIP), Huddersfield University, UK The 9th International Investigative Psychology Conference of the IA-IP (ia-ip.org) UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL ACTION AND ITS PERPETRATORS: Towards Psychological & Social Science Contributions to Investigations and the Courts With leading international keynotes London, UK Thursday and Friday 21st and 22nd January 2010 • Submissions, as individual, symposia or posters, welcomed on any area of investigative psychology, including: • Investigative Interviewing • Sexual and Violent Crime • Analysing Volume Crime • Legal and Court Psychology – Jury Decision-Making; Expert • Psychological Testimony • ‘Offender Profiling’ and Crime Linking (CCA) • Detecting Deception • Eyewitness Testimony • Geographical Profiling; Crime Mapping and Environmental • Criminology • Applied Forensic Science • Police Decision Making and the Investigative Process • Psychology of Terrorism Email all submissions as abstracts of up to 150 words to d.youngs@hud.ac.uk no later than 19th October 2009 Sponsored by the International Academy for Investigative Psychology (www.ia-ip.org)