1. Big question: what are the best ways of interviewing witnesses and suspects?

2. Interviewing witnesses and suspects
Ethical interviewing

3. Ethical interviewing
Police have historically made a distinction between interviewing (an attempt to obtain useful information from a witness) and interrogation (an attempt to induce a suspect to confess to a crime).

4. Police interrogation tactics (Inbau et al, 2013)
Widely used in US and elsewhere but NOT UK (or at least, shouldn’t be used due to PACE).
Custody and isolation.
Confrontation (accuse; block denials).
Minimisation.

5. Comparison: interrogation v. ethical interviewing
Group:
Use our routine for generating comparisons.
Individual:
Write a comparison between ‘interrogation’ and ‘ethical interviewing’.

6. Application and analysis
We are going to listen to a recorded police interview.
Identify the ways in which the officer acts according to the ethical interviewing model.

7. Developing evaluation skills
Use the information from the studies to construct an evaluation of ethical interviewing.
Remember:
What CLAIM are you making?
What REASONS & EVIDENCE are you offering?
Is your evidence VALID?
What ALTERNATIVE VIEWS are there?

8. Outside class
Review what you have learned about interviewing witnesses and suspects.
Check and update your notes on the topic.
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