Alasdair Goodwill
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Department of Psychology
Toronto, Ontario
agoodwill@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 552150
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Bio/Research
Dr. Alasdair M. Goodwill is a dually registered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO), with over 20 years combined experience in behavioural investigative analysis, threat assessment, forensic risk assessment, and therapeutic services. He is a full-...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Alasdair M. Goodwill is a dually registered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO), with over 20 years combined experience in behavioural investigative analysis, threat assessment, forensic risk assessment, and therapeutic services. He is a full-time tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), (Toronto, Canada). Alasdair undertook his clinical internship at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH, Toronto, Canada) Sexual Behaviour Clinic (SBC) where he was responsible for forensic assessments, clinical diagnostic interviews and treatment services. He has served as the President of the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals (CATAP; 2017-2018), Vice-President (2016-2017) and on the Board of Directors from 2015 to 2018.
Dr. Goodwill is an Affiliate of the Forensic Psychology Research Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Associate Member of the Carleton Police Research Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada), an Associate Member of the Centre for Investigative and Forensic Psychology (Liverpool, UK), an Associate Member of the Centre for Critical Incident Research (Liverpool, UK), and have served as an adjunct graduate supervisor at Charité Universitätsmedizin (Berlin, Germany) and the University of Huddersfield (UK). He has also served on numerous academic journal editorial boards and published extensively in the criminological, investigative, forensic and threat assessment literature. I have also presented my research and case studies at numerous international academic and practitioner-focused conferences and invited talks.
Dr. Goodwill consults regularly with law enforcement, prison and criminal investigators (private and police) and has advised on several investigations relating to serial and individual homicide, sexual offending, violent offending, threat assessment, and risk assessment (please see c.v. for further details). Further, he has been trained on a number of threat assessment tools (e.g., HCR-20, TRAP-18 lone actor terrorism tool), risk assessment tools (e.g., STATIC-99, STABLE-2007, PCL-R) and several other investigative techniques (e.g., social media analysis, forensic linguistics, hostage negotiation).
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Dr. Goodwill is an Affiliate of the Forensic Psychology Research Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Associate Member of the Carleton Police Research Laboratory (Ottawa, Canada), an Associate Member of the Centre for Investigative and Forensic Psychology (Liverpool, UK), an Associate Member of the Centre for Critical Incident Research (Liverpool, UK), and have served as an adjunct graduate supervisor at Charité Universitätsmedizin (Berlin, Germany) and the University of Huddersfield (UK). He has also served on numerous academic journal editorial boards and published extensively in the criminological, investigative, forensic and threat assessment literature. I have also presented my research and case studies at numerous international academic and practitioner-focused conferences and invited talks.
Dr. Goodwill consults regularly with law enforcement, prison and criminal investigators (private and police) and has advised on several investigations relating to serial and individual homicide, sexual offending, violent offending, threat assessment, and risk assessment (please see c.v. for further details). Further, he has been trained on a number of threat assessment tools (e.g., HCR-20, TRAP-18 lone actor terrorism tool), risk assessment tools (e.g., STATIC-99, STABLE-2007, PCL-R) and several other investigative techniques (e.g., social media analysis, forensic linguistics, hostage negotiation).
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