We have posted a new Investigator Tip, "Why the Reid Technique is so Successful."

From the Tip, "One of the primary reasons that the Reid Technique is so successful in helping investigators resolve criminal investigations and to secure an acknowledgment of guilt from the offender is that the process is built on an understanding of human nature.

The core of the Reid interrogation process is “theme development” in which the investigator presents a moral or psychological excuse for the subject’s behavior. The interrogation theme essentially reinforces the subject’s own rationalizations or justifications for committing the crime.

As part of an offender’s decision to commit a crime or, in the case of a spontaneous crime, following it, it is natural for him/her to justify or rationalize the crime in some manner. Psychologists refer to this internal process as “techniques of neutralization.”

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