Gisli Gudjonsson is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and Head of the Forensic Psychology Services at the Maudsley. He has published extensively in the areas of psychological vulnerability and false confession and has well over 200 scientific publications. He pioneered the empirical measurement of suggestibility and provided expert evaluation in a number of high profile cases, including those of the 'Guildford Four', the 'Birmingham Six', the 'Tottenham Three', the 'Cardiff Three', Judith Ward, David Mackenzie, Kenneth Erskine (the 'Stockwell strangler'), Derek Bentley, UDR Four and Patrick Kane (both in Northern Ireland), Henry Lee Lucas and John Wille (USA), and the Birgitte Tengs case (Norway). Gisli Gudjonsson testified at the 'Ashworth Inquiry' and at the arbitration of the Zeebrugge disaster. In December 1999, he acted as an expert for the Council of Europe on a CPT inspection visit to Northern Ireland.

He is the author of "The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony" (John Wiley & Sons, 1992), "The Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales Manual" (Psychology Press, 1997), "Forensic Psychology. A Guide to Practice" (Routledge, 1998, jointly written with Lionel Haward), and "The Causes and Cures of Criminality" (Plenum Press 1989, jointly written with Hans Eysenck). His recent book, "The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions. A handbook", will be published later this year by John Wiley (Chichester and New York). The unique feature of this book is that it provides a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of interrogation and confessions, the relevant English and American law, the psychological assessment relevant to disputed confessions, and leading judicial judgments.
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