Profiler / Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy
Min Hwan Jang
Dr. Min-Hwan Jang is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Rabdan Academy is a four-year institution dedicated to training Emirati nationals for high-ranking government positions. Affiliated with the Department of Police and Security Studies, Dr. Jang primarily educates prospective police officers dispatched from the Abu Dhabi and Dubai Police Departments.
In 2014, Dr. Jang was selected as a profiler through a special recruitment by the National Police Agency, where he served for eight years until 2022. During his tenure, he worked mainly in the Forensic Science Division, participating in major violent crime investigations.
In 2017, Dr. Jang was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the European Union. Subsequently, he took study leave and completed his doctoral training in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Upon finishing his studies, he earned dual doctoral degrees from two universities in 2022.
Practice Areas
Education and Career
· Earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
· Earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Portsmouth (UK)
· Appointed as a 4th Cohort Specially Recruited Profiler at the Scientific Investigation Bureau, · National Office of Investigation, National Police Agency (2014–2022)
· Former member of the Forensic Investigation Division, Jeonbuk Provincial Police Agency
· Former member of the Criminal Investigation Division, Seoul Yongsan Police Station
· Former member of the Forensic Investigation Division, Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency
· Former Adjunct Professor at the Central Police Academy
· Former Adjunct Professor at the National Police Investigation Training Institute
· Former Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Police and Judicial Studies, Dongguk University
· Former Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Psychological Services, Chung-Ang University
· Currently serving as an Assistant Professor at Rabdan Academy (UAE)
Achievements
*Jang, M., Luke, T. J., Granhag, P. A., Vrij, A. & Kim, M. (2025). Interrogation Tactics Influencing Suspect’s Perception of Police Evidence: A Survey Study with South Korean, Police Detainees, Prisoners and Laypersons. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Policing and Security, Rabdan Academy.
* Jang, M. (2025). Latent Fingerprint Recovery in a Simulated Café Setting: An Exploratory Study of Cyanoacrylate Fuming on Disposable Nonporous Plastic and Semiporous Paper Cups. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Policing and Security, Rabdan Academy.
* Jang, M. (2025). Examining the Perceived Reliability of Physical and Testimonial Evidence Among South Korean Police Investigators, Suspects, Prisoners, and Laypeople. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Policing and Security, Rabdan Academy.
* Jang, M., Sebire, J. & Stubbs, G. (in press). Detective Reasoning in Criminal Investigation: Integrating Abduction, Retroduction, Deduction, and Induction into the National Decision Making Model (NDMM). International Journal of Police Science and Management. International Journal of Police Science and Management.
* Jang, M., Luke, T. J., Granhag, P. A., Vrij, A., & Lee, W. (2025). Impacts of physical and testimonial evidence on South Korean Police interrogator’s selection of tactics. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2024.2427623
* Jang, M. (2024). Exploring the quantity and type of evidence collected during criminal investigations in South Korea. Forensic Science International: Synergy, 9(100544), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsisyn.2024.100544
* Jo, S., Lee, J., Jang, M., & Lee, J. (2022) The Exploratory Research on the Suggestibility of Eyewitness Identification Procedure with CCTV in Police Investigation, Journal of Korean Police Studies, 21(3), 203–226. https://doi.org/10.38084/2022.21.3.9 (published in Korean)
8* Jang, M., & Park, R. (2022). Reducing Police Investigators’ Confirmation Bias Using Evidence-Hypothesis Testing Matrix, Journal of Police Laws, 20(3), 125–152. https://doi.org/10.22826/jpl.2022.20.3.125 (published in Korean)
*Jang, M., Lee, Y., Lee, H., Moon, H., & Jo, Y., (2022). A study on implementing the Strategic Use of Evidence technique during police interrogation. Journal of Criminal Investigation Studies, 8(1), 25–46. https://doi.org/10.46225/CIS.2022.6.8.1.00 (published in Korean)
* Jang, M. (2021). Impacts of Evidence on Decision-making in Police Investigation (Doctoral dissertation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden). Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2077/68336
* Jang, M. (2021). Impacts of Evidence on Decision-making in Police Investigation (Doctoral dissertation, University of Portsmouth, UK). Available at https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/42751290/Final_thesis_Minhwan_Jang_UP876087_Psychology_Dept_Aug_24_2021_.docx.pdf
* Landström, S., Ernberg, E (Eds.). (2020). Interviewing Child Witnesses. Proceedings of the 2019 Theoretical Course (Jang, M., ‘Children in the South Korean Legal System’), Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. Available at https://gup.ub.gu.se/file/208078
* Jang, M., Luke, T. J., Granhag, P. A., & Vrij, A. (2020). The impact of evidence type on police investigators’ perceptions of suspect culpability and evidence reliability. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 228(3), 188–198. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000411
* Jang, M. & Park, J. (2016). Crime analyses from evolutionary perspectives: Applying the evolutionary forensic psychology, Korean Journal of Criminal Profiling (Korean National Police Agency), 1(1), 141–179.
* Ewens, S., Vrij, A., Jang, M., & Jo, E. (2014). Drop the small talk when establishing baseline behaviour in interviews. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 11(3), 244–252.
* Jenny Schell-Leugers, Saul Kassin, Melanie Sauerland, Anna van Achterberg, Tirza Ben Ari, Noa Kaesler, Fiona Wang & Minhwan Jang. (2022). Common Sense of Confessions: What do People Believe?A Decade later –Preliminary Data. A multinational survey study. Manuscript in preparation (after data collection and analyses).
* UK-SK eyewitness research project (run by Professor Heather Flowe & Professor Janghan Lee), funded by UK Research