6.1.3 Ethical Interviewing Flashcards
Why do we need ethical interviewing?
- Complaints about police standard interview
- Development of PEACE
Stage 1
Planning and Preparation
- Identify aims and outcome required
- Plan questions, set a time and date, how it will be recorded
Strength Stage 1
Clarke and Milne
- Compared post and pre PEACE interviews
- Improvement of ethics
Weakness Stage 1
Clarke and Milne
- Little difference between PEACE trained officers and untrained
Stage 2
Engage and Explain
- Build rapport
- Explain how interview will happen
Strength Stage 2
Roberts
- Using ethical interviews may improve the reliability of information given
- Improve police to community relationships
Weakness Stage 2
Criticism
- DV focussed on confessions
- Not enough research into ethics
Stage 3
Account
- Ask them to provide an account of behaviour
- Let them talk and explain
- Gaps unless they want to add more
Stage 3 Strength
Walsh and Bull
- Using PEACE can lead to full accounts and even confessions
Stage 4 Weakness
Criticism
- Gives a structure but doesn’t show police explicitly how to interview
- Lowers usefulness
Stage 4
Closure
- Bring to a good conclusion
- Maintain rapport incase 2nd interview
Stage 5
Evaluation
- Evaluate against required aims
- Look over material obtained