Crisis and hostage negotiators are conflict resolution professionals who work toward
peacefully resolving tense and possible volatile incidents. These law enforcement …

Police negotiators respond to crisis and high-risk situations including mental health crises,
but little is known about the nature, frequency and characteristics of these events. This …

Police negotiators work in small units or teams. In a crisis negotiation, one of the team
becomes the 'primary'negotiator and talks with the person in crisis. However, because the …

Police negotiators provide leadership and expertise in the de-escalation and resolution of
critical incidents, including responding to individuals exhibiting suicidal behaviour. This …

Dieses Kapitel stellt die psychologischen Grundsätze vor, die die Mitglieder polizeilicher
Verhandlungsgruppen in die Lage versetzen, ihren Dienst auf Grundlage wissenschaftlicher …

This chapter provides a synopsis of the strategies, techniques, and approaches that are
utilised by police hostage and crisis negotiators when resolving critical incidents (ie, crisis or …

This thesis documents a series of consecutive investigations into predictors of empathy and
rapport during critical incidents in law enforcement and crisis intervention in general. First …

This book chapter synopsises the current literature base in relation to the communication
dynamics that are inherent to police crisis negotiations. Whilst crisis negotiation as an entity …

This chapter provides insight into the current position of hostage and crisis negotiation
training for police departments/law enforcement officers. It presents a synthesis of the brief …

We analyzed a data set containing 7,216 hostage and barricade incidents that had been
reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a 35-year period. From two subsamples …