Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada |
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| Authors: | Brent Snook Todd Barron Laura Fallon Saul M. Kassin Steven Kleinman Richard A. Leo Christian A. Meissner Lorca Morello Laura H. Nirider Allison D. Redlich James L. Trainum |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada;2. Department of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, New York, USA;3. U.S. Air Force (retired), Washington, District of Columbia, USA;4. School of Law, University of San Francisco, California, USA;5. Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA;6. Legal Aid Society, New York, New York, USA;7. Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA;8. Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA;9. Metropolitan Police Department, Detective (retired), Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
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| Abstract: | The current article presents a series of commentaries on urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in Canada and the United States. Researchers and practitioners, who have devoted much of their careers to the field of police and intelligence interrogations, were asked to provide their insights on an area of interrogation research that they believe requires immediate attention. The submitted independent commentaries covered a variety of topics – from police recruitment, interrogation training, use of proper interrogation practices, and the treatment of confession evidence in court. Common concerns from the contributions pertained to the lag between scientific knowledge on interrogations and the application of such knowledge in the justice system, and the glaring disparity between the treatment of similar issues in the interrogation context versus other criminal justice contexts. A primary intent of this collection of commentaries is to serve as a resource pointing researchers in the direction of the fundamental areas that require immediate consideration and encouraging them to simultaneously pursue solutions to the overarching concerns that emerged from this project. |
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| Keywords: | information gathering intelligence interrogation interviewing policing reform |
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