Dr David Walsh

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Job title: Subject Head of Criminology programmes. Head of School Research

Email: d.walsh@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591443
Room: E811

Recent publications

Shawyer, A. and Walsh, D. (2007). Fraud and PEACE: Investigative Interviewing and Fraud Investigation. Crime Prevention and Community Safety. 9, 102-117.
Walsh, D. and Milne, R. (2007) Giving PEACE a Chance. Public Administration.Vol 85 No2 525-540.
Walsh, D. and Milne, R. (2008) Keeping the PEACE? A study of investigative interviewing practices in the public sector. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 13 39-57.
Walsh, D. and Oxburgh, G. (2008) Investigative interviewing of suspects: Historical and contemporary developments in research. British Psychological Society: Forensic Update. 92 Winter 2007/2008 41-45.
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (2010). Interviewing suspects of fraud: An analysis of interviewing skills. Journal of Psychiatry and Law
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (2010). The interviewing of suspects by non-police agencies: What's effective? What is effective! Legal and Criminological Psychology, 15, 305-321
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (2010). Know your rights? A study comparing fraud investigators approaches to informing suspects of their rights and ensuring they are understood and observed. Cambrian Law Review, 41, 24-39.
Oxburgh, G.E., Walsh, D., and Milne, R. (2011). The importance of applied research in investigative interviewing: A real-life perspective. Editorial to the special edition of the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 8, 105-109.
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (2011) Benefit fraud investigative interviewing: A self-report study of investigation professionals' beliefs concerning practice. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 8, 131-148
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (2011) Still giving PEACE a Chance? An examination of the beliefs, attitudes and perceptions of benefit fraud investigation professionals Social Psychology Review 13, 1-15
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (2012) How do interviewers attempt to overcome suspects' denials? Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law, 19, 151-168.
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (2012) Examining rapport in investigative interviews with suspects: Does its building and maintenance work?Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 27, 73-84.
Walsh, D. and Bull, R. (in press) The investigation and investigative interviewing of benefit fraud suspects in the UK: Historical and contemporary perspectives. In B. Cooper, D. Griesel, and M. Ternes (Eds.) Applied issues in investigative interviewing, eyewitness memory, and credibility assessment.New York: Springer.
Brooks, G., Lewis, C., Walsh, D., and Kim, H. (in preparation) Preventing corruption: Investigation, enforcement and governance. Palgrave Macmillan

Experience in Industry

Employed for over twenty years in the area of government fraud investigations with a range of government departments as an investigator, trainer of investigators and as a criminal investigations manager

Current Activities / Links with Industry

Advising new police detectives and non-police investigators on the psychology of interviewing suspects.

Faculty: Business, Computing and Law

School: School of Law and Criminology

Subject Area: Criminology

I am the Subject Head of Criminology programmes at the University, which means that I'm responsible for the quality of these programmes (such as the BSc (Hons) Applied Criminology and the MSc Criminal Investigation, and the Criminology modules on the Joint Honours Scheme), and for ensuring that students gain a rich experience from studying these programmes.

Dave is also the Programme Leader for the MSc in Criminal Investigation which will be first delivered from September 2011.

Teaching responsibilities

Criminology
Criminal justice in England and Wales
Psychological understanding of criminal behaviour
Examination of the psychology of criminal justice processes.

Professional interests

Psychological aspects of criminal investigation, such as the investigative interviewing of victims, witnesses and suspects.
Psychological aspects of criminal justice processes and criminal justice systems.
Psychological explanation of criminal behaviour and control.

Research interests

Investigative interviewing of suspects and witnesses
I completed my PhD in 2011, which examined the interviewing of suspects of fraud. I am both enthusiastic and expert in the area of interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects. I encourage and welcome students at undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD level who wish to study and research this particular area.

International Experience

I have presented at numerous international conferences and I continue to collaborate on several international projects across the globe.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

Committee member of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (being Editor for the organisation's bulletin)
Editorial board member for the Canadian Journal of Police and Security Services

Recent Conferences

Investigative interviewing in non-police agencies: 2nd International Investigative Interviewing Conference: University of Portsmouth 3-7th July 2006.
Interviewing benefit fraud suspects: European Investigative Interviewing Conference: University of Teesside 2-3 April 2007
What's effective in fraud interviews with suspects?: British Psychological Society's Division of Forensic Psychology, University of York, 23-25 July 2007
Interviewing suspects. whats effective? What is effective! Poster presented at the 3rd International Investigative Interviewing Conference, Quebec, 16-18 June 2008.
Experiencing Investigative Interviews: Attitudes, Perceptions, Reality. 18th Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law,Maastricht University, 2-5 July 2008.
Power talks in interviews with suspects. 2nd Conference of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, University of Teesside, 14-16th April 2009
Eliciting true confessions, 19th conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law,Sorrento, 2-5 September 2009
Does collaboration affect the construction of elderly eyewitness remembering? 19th conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law,Sorrento, 2-5 September 2009
Examining the effects of tactics, attitudes, weight of evidence, and skills in investigative interviews with suspects, 20th conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Gothenburg University, 14-17th June 2010
Tactics and Confessions, 3rd Conference of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, Stavern, Norway, 21st-24th June 2010
Exploring rapport in in interviews with benefit fraud suspects,Brussels, 28th June -1st July 2010
Interviewing suspects of volume fraud. The Investigator Conference. Rothley, Leicestershire. 8th December 2010.
Is there an association between rapport building, rapport maintenance, and the interview outcome? 4th Conference of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, Dundee, 1st -3rd June 2011.
Interrogating suspects in the United States: Introducing a field study. 21^st Conference of the European Association of Psychology and Law, Nicosia, 13-16^th April 2012.
Questioning and evidence disclosure; The QED of investigative interviewing? 5^th Conference of the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, Toronto 28-31^st May 2012
On lying, questioning and thinking about thinking Northern and Eastern Local Authority Investigating Officers Group conferences. September 2012
Salduz: Lessons from the British experience of ethical interviewing. Talk to given to senior Belgian police detectives. Genk, 8th October 2012

Postgraduate qualifications

MBA, Sheffield Hallam University
MSc in Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth
Certificate in Training and Education, Leeds Metropolitan University

Research qualifications

PhD - Towards a framework for interviewing fraud suspects, University of Leicester

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