Invited speakers
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Ray Bull is a professor of Criminal Psychology at the University of Leicester (Great Britain). His research has been the subject of numerous publications primarily dealing with Investigative Interviewing. |
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Mireille Cyr , holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has held a position of teaching master with the department of psychology of the University of Montréal for the past 18 years. She is a member of the Interdisciplinary Center on Marital Problems and Sexual Assault (CRUIPCAS - Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les problèmes conjugaux et les agressions sexuelles) and also does research work with the Fondation Marie-Vincent Interuniversity Chair in sexual aggression of children. She is primarily interested in the sequels of sexual aggression of children and teenagers, determinant factors of parental support and in the interviewing of young children suspected of having been victim sexual aggression. This research, conducted in collaboration with police forces and children help centers, have lead to numerous publications in both French and English. |
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Samuel Demarchi is a psychologist, doctor in psychology, and researcher/lecturer. He specializes in information gathering in criminal and penal contexts. In particular, his research involves the optimization of cognitive interviews, description of criminals, and line ups. Every year, in collaboration with Jacques Py and Julien Allione, he holds a number of training seminars for law officers. |
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David Dixon is the Dean of the University of New South Wales (Sidney, Australia). Particularly interested by the relationship between police practices, his recent research has focused on police interrogation, the comparison of crime reduction strategies, police reform, and drug trafficking reduction. |
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Ron Fisher is a professor of Psychology at Florida International University (Miami) and the director of the Legal Psychology program. Co-founder of the Cognitive Interviewing Technique, he is also the author of numerous written works on this method which is designed to stimulate witness memory. |
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Jacques Landry is a retired lieutenant detective. Mr. Landry was a criminal investigator for the last 16 years of his career in the interrogation of suspects of major crimes. Moreover, he initiated and prepared various training methods in the field of filmed interviews and interrogations. He continues to pursue a career as a private investigator for various governmental and private organizations, and teaches Investigative Interviewing at the École nationale de police du Québec and the Université de Montréal. He is also behind a plan for interrogation approach and preparation. It will soon be 27 years that he has been using filmed interrogation to advance various investigations. Co-author of the book « Psychologie des entrevues d'enquêtes », he remains on the look-out for innovation in this field. |
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Jean-Roch Laurence is a professor with the Department of Psychology, Concordia University (Montréal, Canada). He was one of the first researchers to demonstrate the creation of memories through hypnosis. He is particularly interested in the problems associated with influencing autobiographic memory in the legal and therapeutic contexts as well as cognitive, emotional, social, and contextual influences on memory. |
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Elizabeth Loftus is a professor with the departments of Psychology and Social Behaviour, Criminology, Law and Society, Cognitive Sciences, and a Fellow of the Centre for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. A specialist on human memory, quality of witness testimony, and false memories, she has published twenty books and more than four hundred scientific articles on these subjects. |
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Becky Milne is a professor of Psychology at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth (Great Britain). She works closely with police services and other organizations within the Criminal Justice system. Her principle publications and field of expertise deal primarily with cognitive interviewing and vulnerable witnesses. |
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Stephen Moston is a professor with the Department of Psychology, James Cook University (Australia). His publications and field of expertise deal with police interrogation, witness interviewing, and the suggestibility of memory. |
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Christopher P. Norris , CFI a consultant and seminar speaker for Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates since 2000, has over 20 years of experience in the loss prevention and investigative fields. He has trained thousands of security and law enforcement professionals on the art of interview and interrogation and has conducted numerous investigations for both private companies and public agencies. Since employed with W-Z, Mr. Norris has presented at several national meetings including the National Retail Federation (NRF), The Retail Council of Canada (RCC) and American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) and has provided training for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). |
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Rob Parker has been a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 16 years and currently serves in the Province of British Columbia. He has been a member of the Provincial Interview Team since 2002 and is currently the Team Leader in charge of the program. He has been involved in and led numerous investigative interviews using the "Team Approach". These interviews, primarily, have been in relation to investigations such as homicide, serious crimes against adults and children as well as organized crime. Rob has provided police testimony/evidence in the Canadian Court System on numerous occasions concerning legal challenges to suspect confessions where the " Team Approach" was utilized. |
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Jacques Py is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toulouse. His works include research for the creation of tools destined for criminal justice professionals and designed to optimize witness testimony, the French language version of Cognitive Interviewing, an original method to facilitate the acquisition of human descriptions notably regarding composite artist renditions, preparation of photo ballots( line-ups), and the detection of deception. |
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John Tedeschini is a detective and a member of the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) in Alberta, Canada. John spent the first ten years of is career as a patrol officer where he realized his true passion was in the field of interview and interrogation. For the last five years John has have been assigned to the EPS Polygraph Unit where his responsibilities include forensic and pre-employment polygraph testing as well as developing, implementing and instructing interview and interrogation training to EPS members. Additionally, John has instructed for other police agencies, provincial government investigators and the private sector. |
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Aldert Vrij is a professor with the Department of Social Psychology at Portsmouth University (Great Britain). He is the author of more than 300 articles and books dealing with the behavior of deceptive people and the detection of deception. |
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