Investigative Interviewing Flashcards
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Cognitive interview
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- recommended for use with cooperative witnesses, victims or suspects
2
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Geiselman (1986)
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CIT enhanced memory recall and reduced the effect of leading questions
3
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4 stages
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- Witness reports everything
- Reinstate the context
- Witness recalls details of crime in different orders
- Witness recalls the event from various perspectives of others at the time
4
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Enhanced cognitive interview
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Cognitive interview combined with the technique from social psychology of communication
5
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Skills?
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- Interviewer helps relax witness and builds rapport
- Actively listens
- Encourages spontaneous recall
- Ask open ended questions
- Pause after response
- Avoid interrupting
- Request detailed descriptions
- Recreate original context
6
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Irving (1980)
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- police use of persuasive and manipulative tactics
- manipulating suspects self esteem
- pretending they had more evidence than they had
- Pointing out the futility of denial
- advising interviewees it was in their interest to confess
- minimising the seriousness of the offence
7
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Baldwin (1993)
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- officers were unprepared, nervous and lacked confidence
- used leading questions
- made assumptions of guilt
8
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Police interview training
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- aimed to enhance the effectiveness of investigative interviews
9
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PEACE (1992)
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Preparation and Planning Engage and Explain Account Closure Evaluation
10
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Effectiveness - Gudjonsson (1992)
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- some People are more likely than others to be coerced into giving false information during interrogation
11
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Gudjonsson suggestibility scale
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- measures how susceptible a person is to coercive interrogations
12
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Two different aspects :
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Yield
Shift
13
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Yield?
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Persons tendency to give in to leading questions
14
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Shift
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Persons tendency to change their response when put under interpersonal pressure
15
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Clarke and Milne (2001)
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Little evidence of rapport building
Time consuming
Expensive to train
Brief improvement
16
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PACE requirements - suspect interviews
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- audio recorded
- right to legal advice
- cautioned against self incrimination
- asked to recall crime but also explain intentions
- adult representation if under 18
17
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Victim/w interviews
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- recommended audio recording
- don’t have right to legal advice
- not cautioned against self incrimination
- if under 18 adult recommended but not entitled to be present
- asked to recall crime they’re involved in or observed
