Evaluation Of A Interview Or Interrogation

In the Criminal Justice system, the main goal is justice or in other words, a fair consequence to match a criminal action. An obvious, yet unmentioned underlying goal is to prevent injustice. Many times, justice prevails, and this is why our system prevails today. However, when justice fails, it is key to look at the information offered in order to better the system and to repay those that have been failed by it. One area that has shown itself as flawed is the area of interrogations though many other areas will be presented throughout this paper as well. By examining five cases involving questionable interrogation and showing other system flaws, I will enlighten others as to how our justice system handles its flaws, and hopefully I will

Many of today’s interrogation models being utilized in police investigations have an impact on false confessions. The model that has been in the public eye recently is the social psychological process model of interrogation known as the “The Reid Technique.” There are two alternatives used by the police today to replace the Reid Technique, one is the PEACE Model and the other is Cognitive Interviewing. These methods are not interrogation techniques like Reid but interview processes.

When a law enforcement officer or other public employee is accused of potentially criminal conduct, they may face three different kinds of interviews or interrogations. If an officer is interviewed as a criminal suspect, they have the absolute right to decline to answer any questions, or to insist that they have a lawyer of their choosing to attend the interview. The first is type is during a criminal investigation; the second is during a disciplinary investigation and finally during the course of civil litigation where there has been damages. During a criminal interview, there is no professional, ethical or moral duty to participate especially without the assistance of an attorney to represent the officer under investigation. It has come to a surprise that many experienced officers will waive their right to silence and give the investigators an audio recorded statement. Some of the inexperienced criminals do not make incriminating statements. The motive for cooperation is to avoid unfavorable publicity.

Some general information that the investigator must have knowledge of is The Model Penal Code. The definition for The Model Penal Code is a person is guilty of robbery if they inflict serious bodily harm on another person, threatens or intentionally puts victim in fear of serious bodily injury, or commits or threatens to commit any felony of the first or second degree. Because theft or attempted thefts are the elements of robbery the investigator must have the knowledge to define those elements properly to investigate the case in the proper manner. To thoroughly investigate a robbery and have a successful prosecution the interview must be carefully developed in terms, sequence of individuals involved, and the questions asked should be in sequence. A category plan is used to help determine the interview plan. Physical factors such as age, injury, and race; emotional/physiology factors such as ego and attitude toward police; are all part of the category used to determine the interview plan. Another ethical consideration when investigating robbery is conducting the investigation by the proper protection and search measures of the crime scene. Footprints, fingerprints and fiber traces, saliva, body secretions such as fibers on clothing, trace material from victim on the suspects clothing, physical evidence from where a weapon is recovered, blood samples

In order to meet the study objectives, in addition to the case study, a semi-structured interview was conducted using non-random sampling. As respondents of the interview had to have particular characteristics such as ability to value property and knowledge about the property market, estate agents were contacted. A total of 7 interviews were conducted with estate agents in the West Hampstead/Kilburn area. The interviews lasted approximately 10 minutes. The participants were as follows:

In a study conducted by Hartwig , M. Granhag , P. A. Strömwall , L. A. Kronkvist , O. (2006), police officers were trained to interview mock suspects either by using police training or not. Police strategies and counter-strategies were also analyzed; both those that use deceitful methods and those that do not. Those who were trained interviewers chose to use different strategies than those were untrained. Trained interviewers used the “statement-evidence consistency cue,” and achieved a significantly higher dishonesty detection accuracy rate (85.4%) than untrained interviewers (56.1%). Those who were interviewed by trained interviewers were more unreliable with their lying as opposed to those were untrained.

They also investigate an officer’s past behaviors to see if they can find any type of evidence to help assist them through the investigation.

Witness perception and recall can be a very tricky hill to climb. The goal of the investigator in interviewing a witness or an accused is to gather as much additional information as they can, while at the same time trying to mitigate their own influence in how the interviewee shares events. The interviewer should never be suggestive or manipulative in how they ask questions.Effective questioning on the part of the interviewer comes in 2 basic forms – closed and open-ended questions. Close ended questions are good for gathering exact details and asking clarifying questions. Often, they are questions that only have one specific answer. They do little in contributing to the natural flow of a conversation, though they serve well in the beginning of the interview to establish a routine and set expectations. On the other hand, open-ended questions are appropriate for getting the subject talking. These are questions that involve

The interview process is essential to an investigation. Before interviewing people, the investigator should have a thorough plan for whom he should interview, what kind of questions he should ask for each interviewee and when and where should the interviews take place. Investigators use a variety of interview techniques such as NeuroLinguistic Programming and Kinesic Mirroring. A successful interview can increase the chances for the investigator to build a better rapport.

When discussing the difference between an interview and interrogation it is important to understand the use of each. An interview can be used to get information from witness, when applying for a job, and can be used to obtain a confession from a suspect. The goals of an interrogation is to learn the truth of what happened, find admission of guilt, obtain all facts, and provide information for use in court actions. An interview is deemed as non-accusatory, meaning it is simply just a way of finding out the facts. Interrogations are done in a way to elicit the truth from an individual. Interrogations should be non-accusatory in order to prevent the individual from denying the

Unlike Television shows where attention is mostly concentrated on confessions, Carter's data highlights the fact that less than 5% of her 150 samples (taken over three years) include any form of a confession showing that despite the police officer's emphasis that the interview is source of confession it is rare to actually obtain one. Thus, rather than treating confession as the primary goal of the interview whuch puts the rights of the suspect at risk, it should be an open-ended session where the goal is to acquire evidence to bolster the case and not to presume guilt.

To gather the essential information that we as a group felt would be necessary to compile enough information to analyze the golf facility we contacted Gregory Doll, Head Golf Professional and Assistant General Manager at Huron Breeze. Three of us from the group were able to make the trip to Au Gres to conduct an interview and take a tour of the facility to gather any information that would help us with the human resource topics that we have chosen. To make sure that we received the necessary information that we wanted we took along our detailed research outline so we could touch on every topic we wanted to with Mr. Doll. The interview took approximately one hour, which was followed by a full tour of the facility. Some of

As an interviewee or a client in psychotherapy I have noticed several things that helped me to feel more comfortable and some that made me feel reserved. One of the things that I found beneficial was an intake assessment questionnaire about my current life and prior history, which allowed me to choose the degree of transparency that I was comfortable with. Disclosing certain information was, in a way, my permission for my therapist to talk about it much sooner in therapy, than waiting for it to eventually come out. I also appreciated the “matter-of-fact” demeanor of my therapist when discussing my experiences because it allowed me to think that they were commonplace and she has dealt with things

Joel Rifkin, a notorious serial killer had killed seventeen prostitutes from 1989 to 1993. On June 28, 1993 homicide detectives interviewed Rifkin and a year later he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life. During the investigation homicide detectives had interviewed him. Interviewing is a fundamental skill that all members in justice related professions must be equipped with. Knowing how to effectively interview a victim or offender in a criminal investigation can go a long way. It can help establish important details that have occurred through out the case and help law enforcement establish a modus operandi for the offenders. In any criminal investigation the best evidence in court is a confession from the offender. This paper will analyze an interview that Mark Safarkis, a profiler for the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted on Joel Rifkin. We will analyze and critique some of the approaches the agent used. This paper will examine techniques used throughout the interview such as: verbal following, close-ended questions, open-ended questions, paraphrasing, summarizing and remaining soler.

Interrogation is a form of questioning by law enforcement officers, the subject directed to this questioning must be in custody (Bloom and Brodin 2004). The authors referred the case of Rhodes Island v Innis (2001) which expanded the meaning of interrogation to include any words or actions on the part of the police that the police believe would lead to an incriminating response from a suspect. The court in Innis found that where a police engaged in a formal conversation about a murder weapon with a suspect it did not amount to an interrogation. Bloom and Brodin (2000) gives another meaning stating that, interrogation involves conduct with intention to get a confession, it also involves such actions that are foreseeable by the police officers