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The Reid Technique
What Exactly is the Reid Technique of Interrogation?
Jul 01, 2011
Part One
Despite the availability of specific information in books, training manuals and on our web site about the Reid Technique of interrogation, it is routinely mis-characterized. The following description...
Responding to Defense Experts' Characterization of Interrogation
May 01, 2010
In 1998 David Lykken wrote a book titled, "A Tremor in the Blood: The Uses and Abuses of the Polygraph Technique". In it, he advocated the use of his own "Guilty Knowledge...
Going Directly from an Interview Into an Interrogation
Jul 01, 2002
In the Reid Technique a clear distinction is made between interviewing and interrogation. The interview is non-accusatory, question and answer process that is designed to elicit information. An interrogation is accusatory in...