Interrogation

activity around the world and threats of violence at home, the role of interrogation and torture has become a hot button issue in both domestic and global politics. In many interrogation procedures, interrogators have enlisted the help of physicians to provide support in caring for prisoners and assistance in extracting information. Yet, defining the role of physicians in the interrogation of prisoners is controversial. In the interrogation process, physicians are often confronted with…

A few months after Ben Red was put in prison for stealing a diamond, Judge Maria was relaxing in her mansion when she received a phone call with shocking news! Ben Red, after just a few months in prison, was astute enough to find a way to escape the heavily-guarded prison in Washington D.C! She really hoped that the information she had heard wasn't authentic and was just a figment of her imagination that her brain had conjured up. Judge Maria, prior to the escape, had put the criminal in a cell…

As a part of the general public that watches crime shows like “Law and Order” or “CSI”, we are led to believe that their interrogation techniques were always appropriate and that the means always justified the end because the bad guy would always be locked up by the end of the program. I cannot recall at any time the suspect was actually innocent, yet was still locked up. What I have learned is that it is more evident than not that false confessions have been made in most DNA exonerated…

Government plans to relocate refugees have continued to move ahead this week as immigration minister Scott Morrison has travelled to Cambodia to sign a memorandum of understanding which would allow refugees in detention on Nauru to settle Cambodia. The government has also begun to push for the reintroduction of temporary protection visas along with new 'safe haven enterprise visas'. This legislation would see around 30,000 refugees currently living in the Australian community outside of…

The question here is whether Bodie is under arrest or it is a non-custodial interrogation. Interrogation is a term that refers to the police questioning you in the context of a criminal investigation. So a custodial interrogation would be what occurs after the person has been arrested on the suspicion of a crime. On the other hand, an interrogation may occur because a person is being suspected of participating in or in some way involved in a crime, but the police need more information in order…

On August 01, 2014, President Barack Obama addressed in a press conference concerning the assigned Senate Committee 's report on the Central Intelligence Agency involving torture used in interrogation. “We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values.” (Obama) The report was completed and a summary was released to the public December 2014. Since then, the use of torture has been on the minds of Americans and discussed…

evidence relevant to the mens rea is the defendant 's state of mind, which only can be obtained by the police interrogation. Nonetheless, corruption among the police officers may not be avoided in such circumstances. In the well – known case of the ' 'Cardiff Three ' ' , the Court of Appeal quashed their conviction as they were proven to be innocent. It was the problematic interrogation that made Stephen Miller confess a crime which he and the other members did not commit. Lord Taylor suggests…

The interrogation room scene consists of a range of cinematography techniques which comprise of setting and lighting which serves the purpose of assisting in the knowledge of the audience’s interpretation of the scene. The scene commences with minimal lighting from the luminous light above the doorway and the lamp on the desk. This symbolises the darkness of the joker as the lamp casts a light which shows the Jokers' face but possesses the space behind him hidden in darkness, the significance…

needed to be gained. Torturing someone who doesn’t even have the information needed is wrong as its inflicting pain that can’t be stopped unless false confessions are given. For torture to be an effective way of saving others as well as a method of interrogation, it must be used on the correct person who can give truthful…

Interrogation has been used as a way of convicting suspicious criminals of their crimes and eliciting useful information since the medieval period. In addition, there are several methods that detectives and law officials can use to gain the needed information and question efficiently. However, one of the methods that is used is considered to be the most secretive and most intimidating of all: torture. Torture is defined by the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) as an “act by which…