Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions

by Fred E. Inbau, John E. Reid, Joseph P. Buckley, Brian C. Jayne

Overview

The updated second edition of best-selling Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions teaches readers how to identify 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781284061932
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	09/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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

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

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 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.

Table of Contents

Part 1 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 2 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
Chapter 19 Interrogation and Confession Legal Issue s