Psychology of Interrogations

2. List the questions raised about this situation or that you think that the investigators should ask of

f. People are afraid because they do not know if or when they will be accused next (lines 300–301).

Instruct students to elaborate one of the crimes. They are to take the role of a police officer that has interviewed witnesses. They are to use this information to complete a police report this week.

Presenting an alternate form of questions to the suspect is the seventh step. The investigator will ask a question with a positive and negative choice. Both choices usually result in the suspect admitting some sort of guilt. An innocent suspect will listen to both choices and reject both of them. The alternative should be followed up with a statement of support in which the interrogator tells the suspect that they think it was done for a good reason. (Buckley, 2000)

Even if you are taken in for questioning, everyone has a right to silence and doesn’t have to speak if they don’t want to.

c. These situations made me feel confident that confidential information would not be shared and only he relevant people would know. Also made me feel good to see the young people having contact with their families. The young person feels happy to be seeing their families and also

Would any of the following actions cause a statement of a suspect to be involuntary?

2. List the questions raised about this situation or that you think that the investigators should ask of the

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques have their situational uses. One major claim is the lauded Ticking Time Bomb scenario in which the case is laid out in a needs of the many versus the needs of the one format. The premise as given by Bob Brecher is thus, “Suppose there is good reason to think that someone has planted a bomb in a public place. And suppose there is good reason to think that it is going to go off in the next two hours or so, and that it is going to kill and maim dozens of people, maybe hundreds. The question is all too real. Imagine, to bring the example closer to home, that the police or the secret services had known that bombs were shortly to go off somewhere in Bali, Madrid, Lonon or Sharm-el-Sheikh in the attacks of 2004 and 2005. But no one knows where the bomb is – except one person, who is already in custody. Naturally they have no intention of revealing where the bomb is. Maybe they have planted it themselves; maybe not. Either way, they remain silent. Should they be tortured to force them to reveal where the bomb is?”(Torture and the Ticking Bomb 1). In this scenario there is substantial moral justification for torture. Consider this, law enforcement believes that torturing the target will save

B. My purpose is to persuade my audience that police brutality should be regulated with greater strength and objectivity.

A.It is not the act itself, but the reaction of others to the act that makes it deviant.

All suspects are interrogated effectively. And within the laws so everything or at lease most will be able to use in court.

as are persons subjected to coercion or duress to such a degree as to render the

One of the best training programs to implement into the police department is the Reid interrogation techniques. Interrogation and interviewing techniques became popular in 1947 by John E. Reid and Associates. Joseph P. Buckley stated that “The Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation is now the most widely used approach to question subjects in the world (Buckley P. J., 2000).” There three- parts to the Reid process for solving a crime. The first stage that should be taking is to collect and analyze relative information from the crime scene thing that offers insight to the possible suspect and determine the direction an investigation should take. The second stage of the process interviewing people of interest using Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI) (Buckley P. J., 2000). The Behavior Analysis Interview is a non-accusatory process that allows detectives to interview a suspect using a question and answer procedure to provoke a suspect to show non- verbal truthfulness or deception. The third stage, if the offender has not admitted to the crime an accusatory interrogation is administered (Leave no marks, 2007). The Reid interrogation technique is believed to be a fail proof technique ,however, there are some reservations against using this technique on juvenile offenders (Constitutional Law(n.d). Implementing the Reid technique into the police departments learning curriculum will truly

Interviewers will ask subjects to look at a calendar and state whether or not they had committed a series of different crimes for the previous 12 months. Crimes listed are to include: break-in, theft, auto-theft, fraud, forgery, shoplifting, robbery, selling of drugs, and or prostitution. Subjects are asked to respond “yes” or “no” for each listed crime. Subjects are not asked to disclose number of times crime was committed, monetary amount of damages, and/or legal repercussions to better maintain anonymity of subjects and increase willingness to partake in the research study.