✍ Scribed by David A. Soskis; Clinton R. Van Zandt
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Hostage negotiation is perhaps the most explicitly psychological law enforcement discipline. The hostage negotiator attempts to form a trusting relationship with the hostage-taker, to foster a sense of mutual interest and concern in the surrounded group, and to act as a credible broker between the hostage-taker and the authorities. The technique has been applied to hostage situations involving trapped criminals, subjects with mental disorders, prison inmates, and terrorists. Although family members, friends, and helpingprofessionals can provide useful information to help the negotiators, on& law enforcement ofJicers who are not in a commund role should negotiate directly with the hostage-taker. Careful selection and training, including multiple role playing exercises, can prepare negotiators for the considerable stresses they must face. These include deadlines, victim precipitated deaths, and the potential involvement of the negotiator in a tactical resolution of the hostage incident. Recently, the principles of hostage negotiation have been applied in a growing range of crisis situations.
A hostage is a person given as a pledge or taken prisoner as an enemy until certain conditions are met. Although hostage negotiation is a new law enforcement specialty that has incorporated a number of behavioral science techniques, hostage taking itself is far from a new phenomenon. What may have been an ancient hostage incident is described in Genesis 14, where Abram's nephew Lot is taken prisoner by the armies of four kings. Abram's use of 318 selected men
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