International Developments in Investigative Interviewing

✍ Scribed by Milne, Becky; Savage, Stephen; Williamson, Tom

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines international developments in investigative interviewing. It analyses the cases and other factors leading to the paradigm shift in a number of countries, it considers issues that are of current interest to practitioners and academics including the continuing calls for the use of torture, whether it is possible to detect deception and the contribution of investigative interviewing methods to concepts of therapeutic and restorative justice. The book responds to the recognition that there are currently no international human rights instruments that relate specifically to custod.  Read more...

Abstract: This book examines international developments in investigative interviewing. It analyses the cases and other factors leading to the paradigm shift in a number of countries, it considers issues that are of current interest to practitioners and academics including the continuing calls for the use of torture, whether it is possible to detect deception and the contribution of investigative interviewing methods to concepts of therapeutic and restorative justice. The book responds to the recognition that there are currently no international human rights instruments that relate specifically to custod

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
International Developments in Investigative Interviewing
Copyright
Contents
List of abbreviations
Figures and tables
Notes on contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1 Investigative interviewing and interrogation around the world
Chapter 1 Investigative interviewing of suspects in Australia
Chapter 2 Investigative interviewing in the UK
Chapter 3 Investigative interviewing in the Nordic region
Chapter 4 Police interviewing in France, Belgium and The Netherlands: something is moving. Chapter 5 Police interrogation in Canada: from the quest for confession to the search for the truthChapter 6 Interview and interrogation: a perspective and update from the USA
Part 2 Current issues in interrogation and investigative interviewing
Chapter 7 A critical analysis of the utilitarian case for torture and the situational factors that lead some people to become torturers
Chapter 8 Investigative interviewing as a therapeutic jurisprudential approach
Chapter 9 Increasing cognitive load in interviews to detect deceit
Chapter 10 Detecting deceit: current issues
Index.

✦ Subjects

Human rights.;Interviewing in law enforcement.;Police questioning.