Science-Based Interviewing: The Impact of Police Training

Send us Fan Mail We’ve all seen the movies in which a suspect is being interviewed by a bad cop and a good cop. The detectives badger or con the suspect to a point of offering a false confession just to stop the process. In the real world it is believed that false confessions make up 13% of wrongful convictions. In the realm of evidence-based policing a relatively new approach to conducting suspect interviews is something called science-based interrogations. The resear...