Summary
This book focuses on the interviewing of suspects, their decision-making, denial strategies, false confessions, and provides a model for interviewing terrorists. Investigative interviewing, and the information obtained from witnesses and victims all play a vital role in criminal investigations. Other topics include enhancement of person descriptions, recovered memories and both accuracy and consistency in witness accounts.
Contents
1. The psychology of suspects' decision-making during interrogation / Michel St-Yves & Nadine Deslauriers-Varin. – 2. A typology of denial strategies by suspects in criminal investigations / Stephen Moston & Geoffrey M. Stephenson. – 3. A structured model for investigative interviewing of suspects / Jannie van der Sleen – 4. Finding false confessions / Peter J. van Koppen. – 5. The investigation of terrorist offences in the United Kingdom: the context and climate for interviewing officers / John Pearse. – 6. From criminal justice to control process: interrogation in a changing context / David Dixon. – 7. Major Crime (Investigative Powers) Act 2004: the Chief Examiner and coercive powers / Damien B. Maguire. – 8. The relation between consistency and accuracy of eyewitness testimony: legal versus cognitive explanations / Ronald P. Fisher, Neil Brewer & Gregory Mitchell.
9. The cognitive interview: research and practice across the lifespan / Robyn E. Holliday & others. – 10. Investigative interviewing in the courtroom : child witnesses under cross-examination / Rachel Zajac. – 11. Recovered memories / James Ost. – 12. Obtaining and interpreting eyewitness identification test evidence: the influence of police-witness interactions / Neil Brewer & Gary L. Wells. – 13. Recent developments in eyewitness identification procedures in the United Kingdom / Tim Valentine, Carwyn Hughes & Rod Munro. – 14. A method to enhance person description : a field study / Samuel Demarchi & Jacques Py. – 15. Recent developments in North American identification science and practice / Steven D. Penrod & Margaret Bull Kovera. – 16. Truthfulness in witnesses' and suspects' reports / A. Daniel Yarmey. – 17. Evaluating truthfulness : detecting truths and lies in forensic contexts / Barry S. Cooper, Hugues Hervé & John C. Yuille.