8 Quotes by T. Christian Miller

Trauma can warp the brain.

People say, 'Why do you work sex crimes and kid crimes?' I don’t enjoy it. But someone’s got to do it. And someone’s got to do it well.

A police interview is non-accusatory. It is an act of gathering information. An interrogation is accusatory. It is an act of persuasion. “An interrogation is conducted only when the investigator is reasonably certain of the suspect’s guilt,” according to Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions.

The Playboy Foundation provided $10,000 – and the use of Playboy’s offices as an assembly line, where volunteers, mostly senior citizens, were provided with foldout tables and free coffee and sandwiches while building the first of these revolutionary kits. “I took a lot of flak from the women’s movement – but too bad,” Goddard says. “If it was Penthouse or Hustler, no. But Playboy? Please, give me a break.

The victim’s response to the trauma of a sexual assault shall not be used in any way to measure credibility.” –.

Don’t be hostage to your expectations, she would teach. Sometimes trauma doesn’t look the way you think it should.

Research shows the more intimate the crime, the more people focus on the victim’s behavior, and of course, there’s no crime more intimate than sexual violence,” Archambault says.

End Violence Against Women International, the police training organization, has suggested that the most important factor in talking with victims is the engagement of the investigators. “What is absolutely clear is that an officer’s competence and compassion are far more important than gender in determining their effectiveness at interviewing sexual assault victims,” the organization emphasizes.