Fred E. Inbau (1909 to 1998) was an American lawyer and criminologist who helped develop the Reid technique of interrogation. He was director of the Scientific Crime Detection Lab.[1] He coauthored the influential textbook Criminal Interrogation and Confessions.
Inbau was from New Orleans. After a law degree from Tulane University, he moved to Chicago. He studied at the Northwestern University School of Law and, after a few years as a trial lawyer, become a teacher there for 32 years.[2] He was president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He founded Americans for Effective Law Enforcement.
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edit- Tributes in 1999 in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, by a Northwestern law professor, two district judges from Illinois and one from New York, and the CEO of Americans for effective law enforcement.
References
edit- ^ Wolffram, Heather (March 2021). "Teaching Forensic Science to the American Police and Public: The Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, 1929-1938". Academic Forensic Pathology. 11 (1): 52–67. doi:10.1177/19253621211002515. ISSN 1925-3621. PMC 8129488. PMID 34040685.
- ^ "Fred Inbau | Obituary | The Economist". web.archive.org. June 11, 1998. Retrieved 2024-09-15.