Background
Fred Edward Inbau was born on March 27, 1909, in New Orleans, into the family of Fred and Pauline (Boos) Inbau.
633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Fred came to Chicago to obtain a Master of Laws degree at Northwestern University in 1933.
6823 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Fred earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1930 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1932 from Tulane University.
(Introduces the fundamental laws governing personal and pr...)
Introduces the fundamental laws governing personal and property protection, examines the precise character of many criminal offenses, and discusses the citizen's civic responsibilitie.
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-law-layman-citizen-enforcement/dp/080195598X/?tag=2022091-20
1970
(Features casebook method of instruction to support crimin...)
Features casebook method of instruction to support criminal justice courses and sequences of courses covering substantive and procedural criminal law. Presents materials in three parts: substantive criminal law, basic concepts regarding proof of guilt, and legal limitation upon law enforcement practices. Affords the opportunity for discussions of wisdom of the law as it now exists and the direction into which it may, or should, be headed.
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Law-Administration-Fred-Inbau/dp/0882777246/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(A classic text for the Ried Technique of interviewing and...)
A classic text for the Ried Technique of interviewing and interrogation, offering an approach based around psychological principles. Examines interrogation as an easy nine-step process, with a chapter addressing the timely issue of distinguishing between true and false confessions. Also includes expert criticisms of contemporary techniques.
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Interrogations-Confessions-Joseph-Buckley/dp/0834217759/?tag=2022091-20
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Fred Edward Inbau was born on March 27, 1909, in New Orleans, into the family of Fred and Pauline (Boos) Inbau.
Fred’s father, a struggling shipyard worker, told him that lawyers made a lot of money. So, Fred earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1930 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1932 from Tulane University. Then he came to Chicago to obtain a Master of Laws degree at Northwestern University in 1933. There, he became acquainted with the law school’s Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory.
Inbau devoted his career to the study of law and interrogation techniques, including the polygraph (lie detector) test. Admitted to the Louisiana State Bar in 1934 and the Illinois State Bar in 1936, Inbau later directed the Chicago Police Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory after work at Northwestern. His experiences helped him become an authority in interrogation techniques.
Mr. Inbau helped develop an approach to interrogation that relied on presenting a mass of damaging facts to persuade criminals that they had no choice but to confess, and that used subtle psychology in dealing with crimes of passion. In 1941 he began four years in private practice with Lord, Bissell and Kadyk in Chicago. He returned to Northwestern in 1945, ultimately becoming the John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law in 1974 and professor emeritus in 1977.
Fred Inbau had worked with Professor Wigmore, who was the country’s most famous scholar in the law of evidence. Fred never lost his interest in forensics and served as president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. He also founded the Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, and served for many years as its Editor in Chief.
Inbau also urged the police to use artifice and deception to trick suspects into confessing. He was frequently called on to conduct interrogations in celebrated cases and was a master at applying his own techniques. Although he wrote eighteen different books, some in multiple editions, the interrogation textbook was the most influential. It was cited repeatedly by the Supreme Court in its famous Miranda decision. Inbau would become the leading scholarly critic of Miranda, and persistently called for the reversal of that holding.
In 1965 he asked the Ford Foundation for funding to train young lawyers in a career as police legal advisors. Three of its first graduates, Frank Carrington, James Manak and Wayne Schmidt, would later work with Fred in another of his creations, AELE. Although funding for the program ended in 1970, much of its work continues today through the Legal Officers Section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The IACP co-administered the Ford grant from 1970 - 1971 and established the legal section in 1971. For many years Inbau served as Vice-Chair of the IACP’s Criminal Law and Legislation Committee.
In 1966 he established Americans for Effective Law Enforcement and served as chairperson and on its board of directors. Inbau wrote or edited numerous books, among them “Lie Detection and Criminal Interrogation” (with John Reid), “Self-Incrimination: What Can an Accused Person Be Compelled to Do?”, “Medical Jurisprudence” (with Jon R. Waltz), “Evidence Law for the Police” (with Marvin E. Aspen and Frank Carrington), “Criminal Interrogation and Confessions” (also with Reid), “Cases and Comments on Criminal Law”, “Protective Security Law”, “Criminal Law and Its Administration”, and “Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases.”
Although Fred officially retired from the law school in 1977, he remained active at the law school until shortly before his death and continued to write books for lawyers, law students, police officers and security managers. Inbau also served as managing director of Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science for nearly twenty years, and he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Police Science and Administration during the 1970s.
(Introduces the fundamental laws governing personal and pr...)
1970(Features casebook method of instruction to support crimin...)
1989(A classic text for the Ried Technique of interviewing and...)
During his career, Inbau was an outspoken advocate of tough police and prosecutorial interrogation techniques. He criticized the Miranda ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966, which called for suspects to be informed of their right to remain silent before they are interviewed by police.
Fred’s greatest interest was in police interrogation. He developed an approach to that relied on presenting a mass of damaging facts to persuade criminals that they had no choice but to confess, and that used subtle psychology in dealing with crimes of passion.
Quotes from others about the person
A meticulous scholar, Inbau kept detailed notes on the various techniques he had used in the course of an interrogation. Then, to determine which had been most effective in obtaining the confession, he would interview the prisoner after his conviction, including one interview on death row three days before the execution." - New York Times
Fred Edward Inbau married Ruth L. Major on September 21, 1935 but she died. From that marriage he had two children - son William Robert who also died, and a daughter Louise. Fred later married Jane Hanchett Schoenewald on June 27, 1964.