Interviewing and Deception
Published on 11. October 1999
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-1-85521-380-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text looks at psychology and investigation which draws upon a range of psychological principles relevant to the conduct of criminal or civil investigations. The issues covered by the area relate to the management, investigation and the ensuing legal outcomes of criminal cases. The issues examined reveal that what fuels the investigative process is the information upon which sequences of decisions are made. A basic example would be matching fingerprints found at a crime scene with a suspect. However many cases are not this simple, for example a murder scene disarray may infer that it was a burglar who was disturbed in the act. These inferences will either result in a decision to seek further information or to select from a possible range of actions including the arrest and charging of a potential suspect. This text looks at three psychological processes that may be of relevance - assessing the accounts of the crime, making decisions upon this information and developing an understanding of the actual actions of the offenders themselves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 158 mm
Width: 227 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85521-380-7 (9781855213807)
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Content
Assessing accounts of crime, David Canter and Laurence Alison; the effectiveness of the cognitive theory, Mark Kebbell and Graham Wagstaff; using cognitive interviewing to construct facial composites, Christine E. Koehn, Ronald P. Fisher and Brian L. Cutler; British and American interrogation strategies, Lydia Sear and Tony Williamson; social science perspectives on the analysis of investigative interviews, Nigel Fielding; statement validation, Bryan Tully; forensic application of linguistic analysis, Malcolm Coulthard; approaches to the scientific attribution of authorship, Joy Aked, David Canter, Tony Sandford and Nicky Smith; equivocal death, David Canter; the decision to die - the psychology of the suicide note, Adam Gregory; non verbal behaviour and deception, Robert Edelman; the psychophysiology of deception and the orienting response, Murray Kleiner; a comparative study of polygraph test and other forensic methods, Eitan Elaad; false allegations of child sex abuse, Ray Aldridge-Morris; psychologists as expert witnesses, Kathleen Cox.