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 ...

Psychologist tells ABC News: Senate report is "bull****." — -- The two psychologists contracted by the CIA to design the enhanced interrogation techniques used against al Qaeda suspects were paid ...

SPOKANE, Wa. (Reuters) - One of the chief architects of the CIA's harsh interrogation programme said on Thursday he had to quit as leader of his Mormon church in 2012 amid controversy about his role ...

A theoretical analysis by Iowa State University researchers resulted in the creation of benchmarks for those in the legal ...

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 ...

DECATUR - The police interrogation of Amanda Hamm days after her three children drowned in Clinton Lake fits the criteria of psychological coercion, according to testimony Tuesday at Hamm's murder ...

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 ...