PSYCH230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Offender Profiling, Reid Technique, False Confession

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

Psychologists have identified a number of key investigative task where psychology is particularly relevant one being the collection and evaluation of police interrogations. More psychologically based interrogation techniques include lying about evidence, implying threat to a loved one, promising lenient treatment. The reid technique consists of three parts including. Stage 1 gathering evidence related to the crime and to interview witnesses and victims. Stage 2 to conduct a non-accusatorial interrogation of the suspect to assess any evidence of deception. Stage 3 conduct an accusatorial interrogation of the suspect if he or she is perceived to be guilty in which a nine-step process is implemented. The goal of the reid technique is to reverse this state of affairs, by making the consequence of confessing more desirable than the anxiety related to deception. The peace model (planning and preparation, engage and explain, account, closure, and education) Police in england and wales have abandoned the name interrogation and swapped it for investigative interviewing.