I recently gave a talk to the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology. While there, I could enjoy a talk by another speaker on the state of the art of criminal interviewing and interrogation. It ...

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...

When cases stall and evidence runs dry, retired Texas Ranger James Holland is often called in as a last resort.

AMES, Iowa – An Iowa State University psychology professor is leading an international research team developing new interrogation methods designed to reduce false confessions and more effectively ...

WASHINGTON - A modern interrogation is psychology and head games, an effort to make an enemy prisoner volunteer what he knows. Sometimes a simple offer of cigarettes to a deprived chain smoker will do ...

The man accused of planning the attacks was waterboarded 183 times. The now outlawed “enhanced interrogation” technique is considered a form of torture. By Carol Rosenberg Lawyers for a Saudi prisoner ...