ABSTRACT
Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 263 Pertinent Legal Cases ................................................................................................................ 265
Fourth-Amendment Issues .................................................................................................. 265 Statement-Admissibility Issues............................................................................................ 265 Negotiator’s Promise Issues ................................................................................................. 265 Surveillance Issues ................................................................................................................ 265 Use-of-Force Issues ............................................................................................................... 265 Control-of-Media Issues ....................................................................................................... 266
Applied Ethics and Moral Considerations ............................................................................. 266 Empirically Based Methods and Applications ....................................................................... 267
Crisis Event Classifi cations .................................................................................................. 267 Crisis Event Databases .......................................................................................................... 270 Crisis Negotiation Technique .............................................................................................. 273
Basic Points to Consider ............................................................................................................ 279 Avoiding Evaluation and Consultation Errors ...................................................................... 281 Treatment Considerations ........................................................................................................ 282 Writing Forensic Reports and Testifying as an Expert ........................................................ 284 Novel Applications and New Directions ................................................................................ 284 References .................................................................................................................................... 285 Legal References ......................................................................................................................... 288
Th is chapter focuses on advances in hostage/barricade crisis negotiation. In particular, this chapter examines how mental health consultants can provide assistance to law enforcement negotiators. Th erefore, the following discussion concentrates, in part, on the ways in which a crisis incident can be classifi ed, discusses diff erent negotiation techniques and methods of negotiation analyses, explores the empirical bases that currently support these fi ndings, and, fi nally, examines the impact, on the victims, of being taken hostage and how best to ameliorate that impact.
