Ch 5 Interviewing And Interrogation Flashcards

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Interview :

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Conducted for the purposes of gathering information from people who have or may have knowledge needed in the investigation. It is a planned conversation with a specific goal.

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Elements common to both forms of obtaining info :

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  • Establishing rapport
  • Asking good questions
  • Listening carefully
  • keeping proper documentation
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Interrogation :

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Designed to match info to a particular suspect in order to secure a confession. It is the process of testing that info and its application to a particular suspect.

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Four commonly recognized objectives in the interrogation process :

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  • To obtain valuable facts
  • To eliminate the innocent
  • Identify the guilty
  • To obtain a confession
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Once witnesses are located :

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They should separated from one another and as mush as possible, isolated from the people who maybe loitering in the area.

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Most important factor while conducting an interview :

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Privacy

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Most unreliable form of evidence :

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Research indicates that EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY is the most unreliable form of evidence and causes more miscarriages of justice than any other method of proof.

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Best form of documentation :

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Electronic sound recording or sound/visual recording.

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Documenting an interrogation consists of three main phases :

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Note taking, recording, obtaining written statements.

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False statement :

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Admission of guilt followed by a narrative statement of what, how, and why the confessor committed the crime.

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3 types of false confessions :

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  • Voluntary
  • Coerced-complaint
  • Coerced-internalized
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Miranda V. Arizona :

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Supreme court decision that spelled out requirements and procedures to be followed by officers when conducting an in custody interrogation of a suspect.

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Custody -

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Occurs when a person is deprived of his/her freedom in any significant way or is not free to leave the presence of law enforcement.

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