Interrogations

Today, the fact that interviews and interrogations of criminal investigation contain more differences than similarities is being completely ignored. This lack of knowledge impedes us to recognize the important and worthwhile effort police officers make for our community on a daily basis. When conducting a criminal investigation, police officers must either perform an interview or an interrogation. Interviews and interrogations allow officers to detect lies and deception by displaying their…

confession because they believe that if they comply with the police, it will benefit them and help them prove their innocence in the future. The most popular way of getting confessions is through the Reid Interrogation method. This nine step interrogation technique has…

the wake of terrorist activity around the world and threats of violence at home, the interrogation of prisoners has become a controversial issue in both international and domestic politics. In interrogation procedures, interrogators have enlisted physicians to caring for prisoners and to assist extracting information. Yet, defining the role of physicians in these interrogations is controversial. In the interrogation process, physicians are confronted with competing loyalties of patriotism and…

Sigurdardottir & 2014). Issues with Interrogation Methods Many memory researchers have theorized that police interrogators use certain tactics that may lead individuals to recall crimes that never occurred, then leading to false confessions. Police interrogators often use certain memory retrieval techniques to allow individuals to confess to crimes that they did often did not commit. It has been found…

physical pain until the individual if willing to cooperate but in recent decades the use of psychological, or “no-touch”, torture has become the go to interrogation method when trying to persuade enemy combatants to cooperate (Welch, 2009)). Due to this “no-touch” method it is hard for human rights organizations to prosecute this new form of “interrogation” as torture. Therefore many psychologists, with the backing of the APA and US government, have faced little to no repercussions for their…

that one forsakes everything about themselves, and takes on an identity cultivated by war. Within Huddle’s, “The Interrogation of Prisoner Bung”, the reader is able to see into each character’s psyche, and this ability allows the reader to distinguish what their truth was, and the truth that now remains. Mister. Hawkins, or The American as he is commonly referred to, detests the interrogation process because he does not truly like violence. “He wishes things were less complicated, and he dreads…

When a crime has been committed, the police and investigators are working together towards the crime being solved and making the criminal pay for their actions. Mistakes in interrogation can through the whole case you are building under the bus. Interrogation sessions between the investigators and the suspect vary in the process based on the suspect’s age. For an adult suspect, the individual who is being interrogated needs to be made aware of their rights prior to being asked any questions…

“I worked for George Bush. I’m proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did , that people didn’t like and- and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.” -Dick Cheney. Cheney had been in congress for six terms before running for vice-president with George Bush. He served for two terms with president Bush. Defense, energy use, and the Middle East he…

Interrogations are set when law enforcement officers are trying to get a specific set of answers and or confessions from one or several suspects. There are several approached to how officers’ conduct these types of events. The approaches start with verbal communication, and the second step is the non-verbal communication aspect of this. To establish the rapport with the suspect’s officers must use these types of communication. The point is to be able to ask probing questions, listening closely,…

From a long time, effective aids of interrogation are sought after. Studies have shown that uncooperative accused or subjects do no give up information about cases vey easily. The most common and impatient way is torture, which in todays times is not at all preferred. In various cases police investigations direct methods of interrogation have produced better results than physical coercion which has proved to be painstaking and time consuming. When manipulative and hardened offenders are…