Investigative Interviewing
Between news stories of coerced confessions and the over-the-top interrogations shown in crime dramas, there seems to be no end of wrong ways to question suspects. And as wrong as these methods are, they are equally counterproductive when the resulting st
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Investigative Interviewing
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ISBN 978-1-4614-9641-0 ISBN 978-1-4614-9642-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9642-7 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014931575 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
In January 1998 in the High Court in London, England a man was awarded £ 200,000 compensation relating to his arrest and police interviews in 1987, and his subsequent years in prison. The Daily Telegraph (20 January 1998, p. 9) reported that “An innocent man . . . spent ‘five hellish years’ in jail after being beaten by a detective and forced to sign a confession. . . The court heard how (he) . . . was butted and punched by a detective and threatened with injection by a syringe.” One of the major assumptions underlying justification for the use of coercive interrogation techniques are the pervasive beliefs (as noted by Leo 2008) that “. . . suspects almost never confess spontaneously but virtually always in response to police pressure” (p. 162) and that Confessions, especially to serious crimes, are rarely made spontaneously.Rather they are actively elicited. . . typically after
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