ORBIT: The Science of Rapport-Based Interviewing for Law Enforcement, Security, and Military

Laurence J. Alison; Emily Alison; Neil Shortland; Frances Surmon-Bohr

ORBIT: The Science of Rapport-Based Interviewing for Law Enforcement, Security, and Military

Laurence J. Alison, Emily Alison, Neil Shortland, and Frances Surmon-Bohr

Abstract

ORBIT is an evidence-based approach to the analysis and training for interviewing high-value detainees by law enforcement, security services, and the military. Although its origins go as far back as 2005, it gained considerable traction after 2012, when the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, formed by the Obama Administration in the United States, funded work for assessment of its application in the context of interviews with high-value targets. Since then, the authors have collected the largest corpus of data anywhere in the world on real suspect interviews with terrorist detainees. This book shows what they found—that rapport-based methods work and that coercion, persuasion, and threats do not. Outlining the development of their own unique stance on rapport and its influences drawn from humanistic psychology, the authors show, through real-life examples and careful analysis, the reasons why “harsh methods” must be rejected and why compassion and understanding work in interrogation.

Keywords: interrogation, investigative interviewing, military, rapport, interpersonal behavior, humanistic psychology

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Dec 2020

Print ISBN-13:: 9780197545959

Published online:: Nov 2020

DOI:: 10.1093/med-psych/9780197545959.001.0001

Authors

Laurence J. Alison, author Professor of Forensic and Investigative Psychology, University of Liverpool

Emily Alison, author Research Associate, University of Liverpool

Neil Shortland, author Director for the Centre for Terrorism and Security Studies (CTSS), University of Massachusetts Lowell

Frances Surmon-Bohr, author Research Associate, University of Liverpool

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Front Matter
1 A Blighted History: From the Lancaster Witch Trials to 9/11Laurence J. Alison, Neil D. Shortland, Frances Surmon-Böhr, and Emily K. Alison
2 Rapport, Resistance, and ReactanceEmily K. Alison, Laurence J. Alison, Frances Surmon-Böhr, and Neil D. Shortland
3 ORBIT: The Basics Laurence J. Alison, Emily K. Alison, Frances Surmon-Böhr, and Neil D. Shortland
4 The Interpersonal Management of Difficult BehaviorLaurence J. Alison, Emily K. Alison, Frances Surmon-Böhr, and Neil D. Shortland
5 Impact on Counter-Interrogation and YieldNeil D. Shortland, Frances Surmon-Böhr, Laurence J. Alison, Emily K. Alison, and Paul Christiansen
6 Under Pressure: Imminent-Threat Interviews with Terrorist SuspectsFrances Surmon-Böhr, Laurence J. Alison, Neil D. Shortland, and Emily K. Alison
7 ORBIT Outside the RoomLaurence J. Alison, Geraldine Noone, Frances Surmon-Böhr, Neil D. Shortland, Emily K. Alison, and Paul Christiansen
8 How to Build Rapport: Assessing the Effectiveness of ORBIT Training with Police InterviewersLaurence J. Alison, Chloë Barrett-Pink, Frances Surmon-Böhr, Neil D. Shortland, Emily K. Alison, and Paul Christiansen
9 Out of ORBITLaurence J. Alison and Emily K. Alison
End Matter
- References
- Index

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