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Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions

Author(s): Fred E. Inbau
John E. Reid
Joseph P. Buckley
Brian C. Jayne
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763727284
  • ISBN-10:0763727288
  • Paperback    253 pages      © 2005
Price: International Sales $77.95 US List
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Practiced worldwide, the Reid Technique® is the leading approach to interview and interrogation practices. Since 1962, hundreds of thousands of investigators have received training in the Reid Technique through Criminal Interrogation and Confessions. Now for the first time, an abridged version of this best-seller is available from the experts at John E. Reid and Associates, Inc.

 

 

Essentials of the Reid Technique teaches readers how to spot and interpret verbal and nonverbal behaviors of both deceptive and truthful people, and how to move toward obtaining solid confessions from guilty persons. The Reid Technique is built around basic psychological principles and presents interrogation as an easily understood nine-step process. Separated into two parts, What You Need to Know About Interrogation and Employing the Reid Nine Steps of Interrogation, this book will help readers understand the effective and proper way that a suspect should be interrogated and the safeguards that should be in place to ensure the integrity of the confession.

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An abridged book covering the state-of-the-art technique of interviewing and interrogation

Includes real-world scenarios and examples

Contains fascinating insights into how people behave when they are trying to lie

Key Terms are highlighted and explained

Lessons are reinforced in chapter Key Points

Exercises are included to aid learning

Teaches proper and effective ways to interrogate and safeguards against false confessions

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Table of Contents

 

Preface

 

Part I What You Need to Know About Interrogation

 

Chapter 1. Distinctions Between Interviews and Interrogations

 

Chapter 2. The Importance of Obtaining and Evaluating Factual Information

 

Chapter 3. Privacy and the Interview Room

 

Chapter 4. Qualifications, Attitude, and General Conduct of the Investigator

 

Chapter 5. Preparation and Starting the Interview

 

Chapter 6. Formulation of Interview Questions

 

Chapter 7. Behavior Symptom Analysis

 

Chapter 8. Behavior Symptoms of Truthful and Untruthful Subjects

 

Part II Employing the Reid Nine Steps of Interrogation

 

Chapter 9. Overview and Preparation for the Reid Nine Steps of Interrogation

 

Chapter 10. Step 1: Direct, Positive Confrontation

 

Chapter 11. Step 2: Theme Development

 

Chapter 12. Step 3: Handling Denials

 

Chapter 13. Step 4: Overcoming Objections

 

Chapter 14. Step 5: Procurement and Retention of the Suspect’s Attention

 

Chapter 15. Step 6: Handling the Suspect’s Passive Mood

 

Chapter 16. Step 7: Presenting an Alternative Question

 

Chapter 17. Step 8: Having the Suspect Relate Details of the Offense

 

Chapter 18. Step 9: Converting an Oral Confession into a Written Confession

Part II Exercises

Appendix A False Confession Cases: The Issues

 

Appendix B Answers to Exercises

 

Index

 

 


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Fred E. Inbau

Fred E. Inbau is the Late John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law Emeritus, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

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John E. Reid

John E. Reid is the Late President of John E. Reid and Associates, Chicago, Illinois.

Joseph P. Buckley

Joseph P. Buckley is a forensic interviewer, detection of deception examiner, lecturer, and consultant. He is the President of John E. Reid and Associates in Chicago, Illinois and has been with the firm since 1971. Mr. Buckley is co-author of the books The Investigator Anthology and Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, as well as numerous articles and papers. He is a contributing author to the Encyclopedia of Police Science and the Encyclopedia of Security Management, a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the American Society for Industrial Security, the American Management Association, the Chicago Crime Commission, as well as numerous other professional organizations, and he has lectured extensively to law enforcement, government, and business groups.

Brian C. Jayne

Brian C. Jayne is a forensic interviewer, detection of deception examiner and lecturer. He is the director of research and development for John E. Reid and Associates, where he has been employed since 1978. Mr. Jayne is co-author of The Investigator Anthology, Criminal Interrogation and Confessions, Electronic Recording of Interrogations, and has published dozens of articles and studies in the field of detection of deception, including three sponsored by the National Security Agency. Mr. Jayne has testified as an expert witness in Military, Federal, and State trials in the areas of detection of deception, behavior symptom analysis, and interrogation.

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Essentials of the Reid Technique is designed for Criminal Investigation students, law school students, and practitioners, such as investigators with police and government agencies, and corporate security personnel. 

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