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