Interrogation Flashcards
What is suggestibility?
A persons suggestibility is how willing they are to accept and act on suggestions by others.
What does interrogation mean?
Questioning with the goal of eliciting useful information.
What is deception?
The interrogator makes misleading statements or implying false accusations.
What is the good cop/bad cop technique?
The “bad cop” takes a negative stance on the subject. This allows the “good cop” to sympathize with and defend the subject.
What is pride-and-ego down?
Interrogating prisoners to encourage cooperation. Consist of attacking the source’s spence of personal worth.
What is the Reid technique?
A technique which require interrogators to watch the body language of suspects.
Define yelling.
Creates an uncomfortable atmosphere for the detainee.
Define sympathy?
Creates the allusion for detainees that they are being praised in which they would be cocky and brag.
Define controlled fear.
Controlled fear insures the detainee that they are not in control of the situation. This allows for the interrogator to get under the subjects skin and to get them to confess or to deny to the crime
Define alibi.
An alibi is when there is evidence proven that suggests the subject in question did not commit the crime.
