This groundbreaking work provides a detailed overview of Research Psychology, from early works to recent studies, including descriptions of internal reports that have not been previously published. Critically, it offers a framework for students to explore this fascinating field, combining Narrative Theory and a Distress Framework. It includes empirically researched models for Criminal Profiling and guidance for inquiries, as well as an agenda for research in Research Psychology.

Research Psychology covers:

• The full range of crimes, from fraud to terrorism, including theft, serial crime, arson, rape, and organized crime.
• Significant methodologies, such as multidimensional scaling and the Radex approach, as well as Social Network Analysis.
• Geographical Criminal Profiling, supported by detailed analysis of the underlying psychological processes that make this decision-support tool so valuable.
• All research activities, including effective information gathering, fraud detection, and the development of decision-support systems.

Each chapter includes real cases and excerpts from criminals and concludes with discussion and research questions, making this work valuable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Applied and Forensic Psychology, Socio-legal Study, and related sciences.