Interviewing and Deception David V. Canter Laurence Alison 1999

Description: Page contents very good condition. Some small page corner curling and bending. Cover with minor handling and small ding delamination lower corners. About the bookThis 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. OCR scan: 1 Interviewing and DeceptionDAVID CANTER AND LAURENCE ALISON collection,investigative actions. enguiry may evolve. Jnvestigative or police decision making involves the identification of andchoice between options from amongst a number of different possible linesof enguiry. We argue that this iterative process or feedback loop, theInvestigative Cycle', involves three continuous processes: informationinvestigative inferences and the implementation ofWithin this cycle we identify a sequence of fourstages of potential distortion in information processing: the collection,examination, evaluation and utilisation stages. These distortions includecognitive, presentational, social and pragmatic components. We arguethat errors at any of these stages will profoundly effect the other twoprocesses in the investigative cycle. The identification of these cycles,stages and types of distortion allow for the development of a moresystematic approach to uncovering where potential weaknesses in an David Canter is Director of the Centre for Investigative Psychology atthe University of Liverpool. He has published widely in Environmentaland Investigative Psychology as well as many areas of Applied SocialPsychology. His most recent books since his award winning "CriminalShadows" have been "Psychology in Action" and with Laurence Alison"Criminal Detection and the Psychology of Crime". Laurence Alison is currently employed as a lecturer at the Centre forInvestigative Psychology at the University of Liverpool. Dr Alison isdeveloping models to explain the processes of manipulation, influenceand deception that are features of criminal investigations. His research Offender Profiling Series: 1 - Interviewing and DeceptionEdited by D. Canter and L. Alison. O 1999 Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot. pp 1-21

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