How To Establish Rapport in Investigative Interviews

Professor Alison is Director of the National Unit for Critical Incident Decision-Making and leads the University of Liverpool’s Psychological Resource Network and Chair in Forensic and Investigative Psychology at the university's Institute of Population Health.

He has done a lot of work in critical incident decision-making and interviews of high-value detainees (e.g. terrorism suspects). He developed a unique interviewing technique that embeds motivational interviewing, which has its background in addiction therapy, to create a safe space for guilty suspects to open up about what they've done.

 

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