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- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by the Honourable Justice Peter Cory
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Notes on contributors
- List of figures and tables
- Part I Developments in Rights
- 1 Investigative interviewing and human rights in the war on terrorism
- Introduction
- Human rights, globalization and risk
- The undermining of human rights law and legitimizing of deviance
- The international legal regulatory framework
- The erosion of human rights through the militarization of justice: the UK experience
- Military interrogation techniques
- The limited influence of the judges
- Governments’ choice of legal frameworks for the war on terrorism: security state or democracy?
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 2 Al-Qaeda-related subjects: a law enforcement perspective
- Introduction
- Understanding contexts for interrogating subjects of al-Qaeda-related investigations
- Understanding motivation and the importance of relationship
- Understanding jihad and the history of Sunni extremism: the path to commitment
- Foundations of the rapport-based interview approach
- Preparing for the interview
- Operating with a translator
- Developing rapport
- Gathering information
- Developing themes
- Managing resistance
- Recognizing and managing deception
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 3 American interrogation methods in the war on terror
- Notes
- References
- 4 The interrogation of terrorist suspects: the banality of torture
- Introduction
- Terrorists: psychopaths and crazed fanatics?
- Adopting the perspective of the ‘other’
- Cultural considerations
- Interrogator bias
- The Stamford University prison experiment
- Psychological research on the impact of the physical environment
- Combining the roles of guard and interrogator
- Interrogation tactics at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay: the bridge to law enforcement
- Understanding and categorizing interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay
- Delivery
- Maximization
- Deprivation
- Manipulation
- Degradation
- The banality of torture
- Conclusion
- References
- Part II Developments in Research
- 5 The psychology of rapport: five basic rules1
- Introduction
- Keeping an open mind and remaining objective
- Impression formation
- The Rosenthal effect
- Presumption of innocence or of guilt?
- Building up rapport
- Transference and counter-transference
- Initiating good contact
- Paying attention
- Keeping a professional attitude: interviewing styles
- The concept of authority
- Knowing how to conclude
- Areas for further research
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 6 Confessions by sex offenders1
- Introduction
- The frequency of confessions made by sex offenders
- Factors associated with confessions
- Characteristics of the crime
- Modus operandi
- The sex of the victim
- Links between the offender and victim
- Characteristics of the suspect
- Age
- Ethnic group
- Marital status
- Criminal background
- Intelligence
- Sense of guilt
- The attitudes of the investigator
- The personality profile of the offender who confesses
- The submissive collaborator
- The reluctant collaborator
- The dormant collaborator
- Promoting confessions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 7 The psychology of interrogations and confessions
- Introduction
- Interrogation
- Police training manuals
- The interrogation of terrorist suspects
- Confessions
- Theoretical models of confessions
- The Reid model of confession
- A decision-making model of confession
- Psychoanalytic models of confession
- An interaction process model of confession
- A cognitive-behavioural model of confession
- The Ofshe–Leo model
- Comments on the models
- A model of the interrogative process
- How interrogation can go wrong
- Conclusions
- Note
- References
- 8 Towards greater professionalism: minimizing miscarriages of justice
- Introduction
- The local criminal justice context and a search for the truth
- The role of the police in criminal investigations
- The primacy of interrogation in detecting offences
- The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
- The important contribution of technology to regulating custodial questioning
- Developing a principled approach to investigative interviewing
- Disclosure of prosecution evidence
- Criminal Cases Review Commission
- Miscarriages of justice in the USA and Canada
- Public inquiries: similar recommendations
- Investing to develop investigative professionalism
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 9 Will it all end in tiers? Police interviews with suspects in Britain1
- Introduction
- A recent history of police interviews with suspects
- Tier 3: advanced suspect interview training
- Comparison of course content: PEACE and advanced training
- Does advanced training work?
- The Griffiths Question Map (GQM)
- Conclusions
- Note
- References
- 10 The Reid Technique of interviewing and interrogation
- Introduction
- Distinctions between interviews and interrogations
- Characteristics of an interview
- Characteristics of an interrogation
- Suggestions for setting up the interview/interrogation room
- Establish a sense of privacy
- Remove locks and other physical impediments
- Remove all distractions
- Minimize noise
- Arrange chairs properly
- The Reid nine steps of interrogation
- Step 1: the positive confrontation
- Step 2: theme development
- Step 3: handling denials
- Step 4: overcoming objections
- Step 5: procurement and retention of a suspect’s attention
- Step 6: handling the suspect’s passive mood
- Step 7: presenting an alternative question
- Step 8: developing the details of the offence
- Step 9: the written confession
- False confessions: the issues
- Juveniles/mental impairment
- Threats/promises
- Theme development
- Alternative questions
- Confession corroboration
- Factors to consider
- Notes
- References
- 11 A critical appraisal of modern police interrogations
- Introduction
- The pre-interrogation interview: a platform for bias and error
- Interrogation: a guilt-presumptive process of influence
- Narrative confessions as Hollywood productions
- The post hoc assessment of confessions
- Towards the videotaping of interrogations
- Note
- References
- 12 Investigative interviewing and the detection of deception
- The Improving Interpersonal Evaluations for Law Enforcement and National Security technique
- The basic assumptions of the IIE interview
- The basic processes of the IIE
- Awareness
- Baseline
- Changes
- Discrepancies
- Engagement
- Follow-up
- Research supporting the use of changes and discrepancies as hotspot indicators
- Cognitive clues
- Emotional clues
- How the expression mechanisms can betray deception
- How emotions can betray deception
- Fear of being caught
- Deception guilt
- Duping delight
- Cautions
- Conclusions about detecting deception
- Epilogue
- References
- Part III Developments in Regulation
- 13 Recovered memories
- The memory wars
- Three main ‘false memory’ methods
- The DRM method
- The misinformation method
- Parental misinformation method
- Limitations of parental misinformation studies
- Memory recovery techniques
- Hypnosis
- Guided imagery
- Imagination inflation
- Dream interpretation
- Use of family photographs
- Support groups
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 14 Investigative interviewing: suspects’ and victims’ rights in balance
- Moral judgment in general
- Éthique appliquée as an ethical framework
- Factors that generate ethical pressures on interviewing
- Political, economical and sociological factors
- The suspect’s status
- The confession’s importance
- Values to balance whilst interviewing a suspect
- Criteria to evaluate the interviewing method’s legitimacy
- International differences in enforcing individual rights’ protection
- Should obtaining a confession be a goal of suspect interviews?
- Criteria to evaluate the legitimacy of police interviewing methods
- Conclusion
- Reference
- 15 Regulating police interrogation
- Introducing regulation
- Why interrogate? Why regulate? Why deviate?
- Judicial control as regulation
- Regulating by rules
- Training as regulation
- Managerial and supervisory regulation
- Openness and audio-visual recording
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Reference
- 16 Conclusion
- References
- Index