Chp 5 Flashcards
Goal to obtain insights and observations from persons who may have personally witnessed or gained knowledge about criminal matter
Interview
Determines guilt or innocence of persons suspected of involvement of criminal activities by using specialized information gathering techniques and technology
Interrogation
What are the three types of witnesses and which is the most challenging
Friendly
Neutral
Hostile( most challenging)
What type of witness Establishes rapport ask open ended questions close ended questions
Friendly witness
What type of witness is similar to friendly? usually interview first because they may forget facts because they are not emotionally attached
Neutral
What witness would you asked closed then open questions?
Hostile witness
This question can be something simple as “can you tell me what happened?”
Open ended question
This type of question may either require a simple yes or no response or asked witness to recall specific details of a crime
Close ended questions
This interview type is an alternative to standard interview procedures incorporate scientific research findings on memory recall from the field of cognitive psychology
Cognitive interviewing
What are the three steps of the cognitive interview
1) establish rapport, The interview begins by asking a witness to recall all that can be remembered about the contexts of the crime scene
2) The CI process is to assess the witness to recall all the details no matter how trivial
3) The final step is remembering everything in reverse order
This type of memory is very detailed and vivid
Flashbulb memory
What are the names of special witnesses
Mentally impaired witnesses intoxicated witnesses elderly witnesses physically disabled witnesses juvenile witnesses confidential informant witnesses gang and drug trade witnesses
Transporting witnesses to where suspected offenders are being held so they can briefly view them for identification purposes
Show up
This is a legal exception to the fifth amendment right to confront Ones accusers in a court of law
Dying declaration
Our verbal or written statements in which a person states that they are guilty of a particular criminal act
Confession
This allows inference of suspects guilt to be made ;that is,they fall short of a full confession of guilty conduct
Admission
One of the most widely used and effective interrogation techniques developed in 1947 by John Reed and his associates
Reid nine-step technique
What are the nine steps and Reid’s technique
- Direct positive confrontation
- Theme Development
- handling denials
- Overcoming excuses
- Keeping the suspects attention
- suspect submission
- Offering choices
- Obtaining crime details
- The confession
Assumes that certain involuntary verbal reactions from suspects as well as body and eye movements can be used to identify when suspects are being deceptive during an interrogation session
NLP
Neurons linguistic programming
Procedures for NLP
1) identify The suspects sensory modality
2) establish rapport
3) analyze baseline movements
4) Lie detection
What are three possible modalities within the NLP
Visual(sight)
Auditory(sound)
Kin esthetic (feeling)
Is often referred to as the human lie detector method because it employs many of the same interrogation principles as a polygraph examination
Behavioral Analysis interview
What are the two purposes of the behavioral analysis interview
1) subject verbal and behavioral reactions can be analyzed
2) suspects who fail to display distinctive lying behaviors during pre-interrogation are let go
Profiles the offender and then uses psychological manipulation based on the criminal profile
Interrogation profiling
What are the four types of interrogation profiling
Real need
Lifestyle
Impulsive
Esteem
The analysis of body movements
Kinesics analysis
The following our categories of various indicators of deception discovered by those who study in person practice kinesics as interrogation tolls
Face
Gestures
Body movement
Voice
Can be any tactic including props ,question statements ,or body language that causes deceptive suspects to trip up when providing false information during an interrogation
Baiting the suspect
What are the three types of false confessional
Voluntary
Coerced-complaint
Coerced internalized
What amendment protects the suspect from self incriminating
5th
Is questioning initiated by law-enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody and otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way
Custodial interrogation
