Investigative Interviewing

✍ Scribed by Ray Bull (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume reviews the latest research on investigative interviewing in order to provide insights on the psychological processes of the person being interviewed as well as to offer guidelines for conducting credible and useful interviews. Critical and controversial areas are highlighted (eg. false confessions, child interviewing) in order to bring clarity to how these interrogations are to be conducted. Chapters focus on these areas to provide comprehensive views of theoretical, evidence-based background, as well as practical considerations of interrogation settings and procedures. The contributors are internationally respected scholars in the field of psychology and law with particular expertise in the interviews that are critical to legal proceedings. And attention is given to the criminal justice system in international perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Investigative Interviewing in Suspected Sex Offences....Pages 1-18
Psychological Processes Underlying True and False Confessions....Pages 19-34
Cops and Kids in the Interrogation Room....Pages 35-61
Between Investigator and Suspect: The Role of the Working Alliance in Investigative Interviewing....Pages 63-90
Interview Techniques in International Criminal Court and Tribunals....Pages 91-101
A Training Program for Investigative Interviewing of Children....Pages 103-122
Success Within Criminal Investigations: Is Communication Still a Key Component?....Pages 123-146
Investigative Interviewing and Training: The Investigative Interviewer Apprentice....Pages 147-165
When in Interviews to Disclose Information to Suspects and to Challenge Them?....Pages 167-181
The Inconsistent Suspect: A Systematic Review of Different Types of Consistency in Truth Tellers and Liars....Pages 183-207
Human Intelligence Interviewing and Interrogation: Assessing the Challenges of Developing an Ethical, Evidence-based Approach....Pages 209-228
Prosecutors’ Perceptions on Improving Child Witness Interviews About Abuse....Pages 229-242
ERRATUM....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 243-245

✦ Subjects

Psychology Research; Psychological Methods/Evaluation; Cognitive Psychology