Criminal Psychology : a Beginner's Guide

a monopoly on policing and security, and the future of policing will involve many different agencies, transforming the way citi- ...

interviewing suspects and witnesses Societies expect that their police service will protect them from wrongdoers, especially dan ...

the confessor. Ongoing work in the USA called the ‘Innocence Project’ examines cases of people imprisoned for crimes that they c ...

psychological/mental disorders). However, such vulnerabilities are not enough to explain this phenomenon. Poor, or should we say ...

It is difficult to determine how often ethically and morally questionable procedures are used on those suspected of wrong- doing ...

police service. These are some of the reasons why British courts dissuade police officers from lying to suspects. However, in th ...

them played a role in this. A major tactic seemed to be to reveal at the beginning of the interview all of the evidence against ...

flexibility, open-mindedness and compassion/empathy. Thus the new national initiative seemed to have been successful. Of course, ...

If psychologically (and physically) coercive/oppressive techniques are not to be used in interviews with suspects to motivate th ...

On Video Recorded Interviews With Child Witnesses For Criminal Proceedings(MOGP). This extensive guidance document sum- marized ...

Some question types are more biasing (or suggestive) than others. Leading questions suggest the desired answer. For example, ‘Yo ...

up not by the use of further leading questions (as often happens in everyday conversations) but by the use of open questions. Fi ...

about an event, they remembered less and more frequently went along with misleading questions if the interviewer looked and beha ...

However, relatively few studies have been conducted on this par- ticular topic, probably because of the difficulties of doing so ...

in England who showed good awareness of the dangers of asking suggestive questions, but who still sometimes chose to use them. A ...

victims should be interviewed. However, such guidance is only being supported by Governments and other relevant organiza- tions ...

detecting deception A number of books have been published that claim to reveal behavioural cues to lying. Some have focused on t ...

indicators of nervousness. If liars are nervous then they may behave like this. Many of the beliefs about signs of deceit rest o ...

Most of the research that has just been reviewed above involved lie detectors who were not relevant professionals (e.g. they wer ...

investigative interviewing performed better. Interestingly, those officers whose beliefs about cues to deception fitted with lay ...