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5 results foundAuthor: Justice Project Title: Electronic Recording of Custodial Interrogations in Tennessee: A Review of Current Practices Summary: "The application of readily available technology to police work can lead to major benefits for law enforcement agencies. Many jurisdictions across the country, for example, have benefitted from documenting the interrogations of suspects in custody with audio and/or video recording equipment. By creating a fully reviewable record of an interrogation, prosecutors get the best, most reliable evidence possible. Legislation has been introduced in the Tennessee General Assembly (HB 596 and SB 261) that would require electronic recording of custodial interrogations in homicide cases in Tennessee. Under the proposed law, if an interrogation is not recorded for some reason it would still be admissible in court, as it is today. The legislation would simply extend this valuable evidencegathering policy, already employed in many Tennessee jurisdictions, to law enforcement departments statewide. In order to understand the current use of electronic recording in Tennessee, The Justice Project conducted a statewide survey of law enforcement agencies and requested copies of any written policies on recording interrogations. The results indicate that a majority of Tennessee law enforcement agencies electronically record interrogations at least some of the time, and report that the practice strengthens the credibility and reliability of criminal investigations and prosecutions. This report presents the results of The Justice Project’s survey and details the advantages of statewide implementation of electronic recording of custodial interrogations." Details: Washington, DC: The Justice Project, 2010. 8p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 22, 2010 at: http://www.thejusticeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/er-in-tennessee-report.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.thejusticeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/er-in-tennessee-report.pdf Shelf Number: 119661 Keywords: Criminal InvestigationInterrogationInterviewing in Law EnforcementPolice Questioning |
Author: Schollum, Mary Title: Investigative Interviewing: The Literature Summary: This review provides an overview of investigative interviewing within policing. It may also be of interest to anyone who uses this type of interviewing on the job including insurance fraud investigators, lawyers, and government departments. The review outlines the efforts made by police and psychologists in recent decades to: convey the importance of investigative interviewing; understand what happens in an investigative interview; use psychological theories and research to find out what makes a successful interview; examine the effectiveness of various skills and techniques; find a basic framework and rationale to underlie investigative interviews; and produce guidelines on how to conduct interviews. The headings are designed so readers can easily look up topics they are interested in. Not all topics are mutually exclusive. For example, there are separate sections on body language and deception. Yet one of the ways thought to help in detecting whether someone is lying is through interpreting body language. Thus there is overlap between these two topics, and of course many others. Details: Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Police, 2005. 109p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed December 23, 2010 at: http://www.police.govt.nz/resources/2005/investigative-interviewing/investigative-interviewing.pdf Year: 2005 Country: International URL: http://www.police.govt.nz/resources/2005/investigative-interviewing/investigative-interviewing.pdf Shelf Number: 120626 Keywords: Criminal InvestigationsInterrogationInterviewing |
Author: Allen, Scott Title: Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality Summary: Following the enactment of the 2006 Military Commissions Act, PHR united the legal expertise of Human Rights First with PHR’s medical expertise to issue the report Leave No Marks in August 2007, demonstrating that ten "enhanced" interrogation methods purportedly used by the CIA amounted to war crimes. The report demonstrated that interrogation techniques are likely to cause severe or serious physical and mental harm to detainees, and that the authorization of these techniques, whether practiced alone or in combination, may constitute torture and/or cruel and inhuman treatment, and may place interrogators at serious legal risk of prosecution for war crimes and other violations. Details: Physicians for Human Rights, 2007. 57p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 15, 2012 at https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/leave-no-marks.pdf Year: 2007 Country: International URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/PHR_Reports/leave-no-marks.pdf Shelf Number: 124971 Keywords: CriminalityHuman RightsInterrogationTorture |
Author: Meissner, Christian A. Title: Interview and Interrogation Methods and Their Effects on True and False Confessions Summary: We conducted a systematic review of the published and unpublished literatures on the interview and interrogation of suspects. Our focus was to examine the impact of accusatorial versus information-gathering approaches on the elicitation of confessions. Two meta-analytic reviews were conducted: one that focused on observational and quasi-experimental field studies of actual suspects in which ground truth (i.e., veracity of the confession statement) was unknown, and another that assessed experimental, laboratory-based studies in which ground truth was known. To be eligible, field studies must have included 1) at least one coded and quantified interviewing/interrogation method and 2) data on confession outcomes tied to the questioning style. Experimental studies must have included 1) at least two distinct interviewing or interrogation styles (e.g., direct questioning and accusatorial approach) and 2) sufficient data on true and/or false confession outcomes. Following an exhaustive search, 5 field studies and 12 experimental studies were deemed eligible for inclusion in the analyses. Results revealed that while both information-gathering and accusatory methods were similarly associated with the production of confessions in field studies, experimental data indicated that the information-gathering method increased the likelihood of true confessions, while reducing the likelihood of false confessions. Given the small number of independent samples, the current findings are considered preliminary, yet suggestive of the benefits of information-gathering methods in the interrogative context. Details: Oslo, Norway: The Campbell Collaboration, 2012. 53p. Source: Internet Resource: Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2012:13: Accessed September 12, 2012 at: www.Campbellcollaboration.org Year: 2012 Country: International URL: https://www.campbellcollaboration.org/media/k2/attachments/Meissner_Interview_Interrogation_Review.pdf Shelf Number: 126317 Keywords: False ConfessionsInterrogationInterviewing Suspects |
Author: UK Cabinet Office Title: The Report of the Detainee Inquiry Summary: On 6 July 2010, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that the government was establishing an independent, judge-led inquiry - The Detainee Inquiry - to be chaired by Sir Peter Gibson, a former senior Court of Appeal Judge, that would: - look at whether Britain was implicated in the improper treatment of detainees, held by other countries, that may have occurred in the aftermath of 9/11. On January 18, 2012, the then Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Rt. Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP statement to the House announced: - following consultation with Sir Peter Gibson, the Inquiry Chair, we have decided to bring the work of his Inquiry to a conclusion. We have agreed with Sir Peter that the Inquiry should provide the government with a report on its preparatory work to date, highlighting particular themes or issues which might be the subject of further examination. The government is clear that as much of this report as possible will be made public. This is the report of The Detainee Inquiry on its preparatory work. It highlights particular themes and issues that the Inquiry Panel believe might merit further examination. The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP made a statement to Parliament about it on 19 December 2013. Details: London: Cabinet Office, 2013. 119p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 13, 2014. Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/267695/The_Report_of_the_Detainee_Inquiry_December_2013.pdf Shelf Number: 131753 Keywords: CounterterrorismCriminal InvestigationsInterrogationInterviewingPolice Interrogation |