Deck 8: Interviewing Suspects

Question 1

What was the 1984 UN Directive that puts boundaries on what can and cannot be carried out in the interrogation room?

Answer 1

The Convention Against Torture

Question 2

Accusatorial interview practices are marked by a symmetric power relationship between the interviewer and the suspect.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

How many steps are there in the Reid technique to interviewing a suspect?

A) 7
B) 9
C) 11
D) 13

Answer 3

9

Question 4

The Reid technique is based on what approach to interviewing?

A) Accusatorial approach
B) Information gathering approach

Question 5

What is the acronym of the five-stage information gathering interview that came out of the PACE?

Question 6

Which of the following is not a category included in Kelly et al.'s 2013 study of interview techniques?

A) Confrontation and competition
B) Rapport and relationship building
C) Emotion provocation
D) Intimidation and lie detection
E) Context manipulation

Question 7

Coerced-internalised false confessions are when innocent suspects confess to the crime and also incorrectly believe that they are in fact guilty of the crime.

Question 8

______ is the qualitative aspect of inter-personal relationship. It is constantly reported as one of the most used techniques and important aspects of police interviews.

Question 9

What is the tendency to insist on a choice of action once the option to pursue that action has been taken away?

A) Rapport
B) Reticence
C) Reactance
D) Reduction

Question 10

Later disclosure of evidence against a suspect is better for the interview and gaining a confession.

Question 11

What type of interview is broader and simply seeks to obtain useful information from the source?