Joanna Pozzulo, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. Her research and teaching broadly falls under the domain of forensic psychology (borrowing from developmental, social, and cognitive psychology). Dr. Pozzulo is focused on understanding the development of face memory and the procedures that police can use to increase the reliability of face identification from lineups. Dr. Pozzulo has authored the book Describing and Identifying Perpetrators: The Young Eyewitness, as well as several others. She also has co-edited several books, including Memory and Sexual Misconduct: Psychological Research for Criminal Justice. Dr. Pozzulo is a child clinical psychologist registered with the Ontario College of Psychologists.
Craig Bennell, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University, where he also serves as director of the Police Research Lab. He completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool, UK, under the supervision of Professor David Canter. Dr. Bennell's research focuses on evidence-based policing. He has particular interests in how research can be used to improve police use-of force and de-escalation strategies and the quality of police investigations. He conducts most of his research in collaboration with policing organizations in Canada and abroad. In addition to publishing in peer-reviewed journals, he has co-authored numerous books, including Criminal Behaviour: A Canadian Perspective; Crime Linkage: Theory, Research, and Practice; Police in Schools: An Evidence Based Look at the Use of School Resource Officers; and Criminal Investigations of Sexual Offences: Investigative Techniques and Operational Challenges (in progress).
Adelle Forth, PhD, is an associate professor of forensic psychology at the Department of Psychology at Carleton University. She completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia, studying criminal psychopaths, where she worked with Dr. Robert Hare to develop the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised; she is the senior author of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version. She is also the co-author on the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth, a risk scale for adolescent violence. In addition, with her forensic psychology colleagues at Carleton University, she has co-authored the textbook Criminal Behaviour: A Canadian Perspective.
