Criminal Justice
Podcast: Behind The Scenes Look At Controversial Police Interrogation Method
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This IowaWatch Connection podcast takes you inside a police interrogation as we look at a controversial, coercive police investigation tool.
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This IowaWatch Connection podcast takes you inside a police interrogation as we look at a controversial, coercive police investigation tool.
The Reid Technique is used by police and government investigators, security and loss prevention experts. Before the interrogation, investigators conduct a behavioral analysis interview to identify signs of deception.
Why would people confess to a crime when they don’t think they committed it? We show you in a few bullet points.
Many researchers describe the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation as the gold standard for interrogating criminal suspects. But the fact that more than a fourth of wrongly convicted suspects gave false confessions has critics assailing the technique.
The PEACE interviewing steps are used throughout the United Kingdom and in many ways advocates techniques that are polar opposite to Reid techniques.