MAC Interviewing Suspects

the purpose of an interview with a suspect is usually referred to as ____ and it's purpose is to establish a suspect's ____ or ____.

effective interviews will not only find truth but also...?

police need to be able to? and avoid?

a ____ is a device that measures changes in ____ ____ and ____ ____ when the suspect becomes tense (i.e. lying).

drugs like ____ ____ are advertised as "truth serums" but they only make the suspect ____ and ____.

due to ____ constraints, it is difficult to invesigate how ____ police detect lies. Under law, a suspect is ____ until proven ____.

to acknowledge initial assumption of innocence, before a suspect is arrested & interviewed, they are given the following caution:

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Aim?

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Method?

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Paricipants?

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Results?

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Conclusions?

since _ _ _ _ Act 1984 all interviews have to be recorded on machines that record in triplicate

record in triplicate?

record in triplicate ensures that a suspect is ____ from being ____ by the officers' interrogation techniques into making a ____ ____.

interrogations are ____ in nature and suspect often told no doubt of their guilt

interrogator begins with series of ____ to the suspects that require little or no response. often use a variety of ____ methods such as leaving suspect in ____ before interrogation

isolation likely to increase levels of ____ meaning could "___ __ ___" and confess to crime. this method is mostly used when officer is?

interrogation works on what two prinicples?

Inbau "The Reid's 'nine steps' of interrogation in brief" are?

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Direct Confrontation?

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Theme Development?

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Handling Denials?

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Overcoming object?

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Procurement and retention of suspects attention?

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Handling suspect's mood?

Inbau
Presenting an alternative question?

Inbau
Suspect orally confesses?

Inbau
Convert oral confession to a written one?

estimated more than __% of crimes are solved by confession. significant number of confessions result in wrong convictions obtained through ___ questioning

confessions regarded as most obvious evidence of ____, they relieve ____ for jury and judge more than other evidene

confessions possibly powerful due to observers misattributing cause of confession being due to person (e.g. ____) while discounting situational factors (e.g. ____)

in Great Britain, false confessions second to mistaken identities as case of wrongful confession, suggesting?

Kassin's 3 types of confession?

voluntary confession?

Coerced complaint confession?

Coerced internalised confession?

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Aim?

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Method?

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Background?

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Police Interviews?

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Psychiatric Examination?

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Conclusions?