Forensics lec 1

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Crisis resolution
- Hostage and barricade situations:
  - Hatcher et al. (1998)
    - Hostage
      - known location
      - Held against will
    - Barricade
      - no hostages
      - refuse to surrender
  - Vecchi et al (2005)
    - Hostage
      - Clear reason for captivity
      - Used to bargain
    - Non-Hostage
      - Expressive or emotive cause
- Crisis and Conflict
  - Crisis situation
    - No clear goals
    - High emotional distress
    - e.g., a prisoner barricaded in his room, threatening to end his life
  - Conflict situation
    - Instigator (criminal) has clear purpouse and goals
    - e.g., a prisoner takes another prisoner hostage with a demand to speak to the governor
- Crisis and Conflict resolution
  - The "hard" approach
    - military style intervention in conflict/crisis seeks to:
      - Disincetivise further incidents of this type by refusing to negotiate
      - Take initiative/power away from the perpetrators
  - Positional v Principled Negotiation (Fisher & Ury, 1981)
    - Positional bargaining is "position based"
      - A series of demands and counter offers
        Agreement= split difference between the 2 parties
        
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    - Principled negotiation is "interest based"
e.g., a prisoner takes another prisoner hostage with a demand to speak to the governor

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