What False Confession Experts Say About the Reid Technique and Our Responses
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Joseph P. Buckley
Jun 16, 2023
The attached document, "What False Confession Experts, Defense Attorneys and Academicians Say About the Reid Technique and Our Responses," includes the following topics:
- The Purpose of an Interrogation
- "Guilt Presumptive" Process
- How Social Psychologists Describe the Interrogation Process
- The Use of Minimization Techniques
- Pragmatic Implication
- The Three Errors that Lead to False Confessions
- The Reid Core Principles
- Lying to a Suspect About Evidence
- Modifying Techniques When Questioning Juveniles and Individuals with Mental or Psychological Disabilities
- Courts and Attorneys Use Reid as the Benchmark for Proper Procedures, as do the Social Psychologists
- Causes of False Confessions
- Comments from the Courts
- Best Practices
- Behavior Symptom Analysis
- Research Supporting the Reid Technique
- How Reporters Oftentimes Present Erroneous Descriptions of the Reid Technique.
- Also please review the Investigator Tip:
The Disingenuous Testimony from Social Psychologists About the Reid Technique
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