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So… like… what is forensic psychology?

This has to be my favourite discipline within the forensic field, and one that i am personally very involved with (i am currently working towards my Master of Forensic Psychology degree). But for the ‘newbies’ the role a forensic psychologist actually plays in the real world can be somewhat confusing – partly due to Hollywood’s version of what a forensic psychologist does. Forensic psychologists are classed as scientist-practitioners as they are constantly applying their skills and psychological knowledge to the understanding and functioning of the criminal justice system as a whole.

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posted by Ewan Williams
November 8, 2009

Website Expansion

For those of you that frequent our site, it will come as no surprise to you that we have expanded the articles we were/are planning to write. We had always planned on running two individual websites – one dedicated to case files and forensics (lifetakers.com) and one dedicated to the psychology of killers and general abnormal psychological disorders (bloodsoaked-memories.com). This has proved harder to do than expected; in saying that, we have decided to merge both websites as we hadn’t even begun adding content to the second, and given the amount of time, effort, money and coding/design involved in ‘re-inventing the wheel’ we have decided to simply alter this website slightly and start adding the content here instead.

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posted by Ewan Williams
July 26, 2009

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler PortraitAdolf Hitler was a ‘special’ guy to say the least, and what we have on offer here is the book he wrote while in prison (long before he came to power). I doubt many of you have actually read it – and neither have I – but i’m hoping to find the time to do so in the near future in an attempt to understand more closely what drove him to commit the acts he did.

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posted by Ewan Williams
July 18, 2009

One Simple Word… Genocide

Genocide might be a simple word to remember, but the act of genocide is a despicable abhorrent behaviour, that unfortunately, exists and continues to exist the world over. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, genocide is the act of systematically killing or exterminating a group of people because they belong to a particular national, political, racial or cultural group.

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