International Developments in Investigative Interviewing

This book examines international developments in investigative interviewing. It analyses the cases and other factors leading to the paradigm shift in a number of countries, it considers issues that are of current interest to practitioners and academics including the continuing calls for the use of torture, whether it is possible to detect deception and the contribution of investigative interviewing methods to concepts of therapeutic and restorative justice. The book responds to the recognition that there are currently no international human rights instruments that relate specifically to custod.

Cover; International Developments in Investigative Interviewing; Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations; Figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1 Investigative interviewing and interrogation around the world; Chapter 1 Investigative interviewing of suspects in Australia; Chapter 2 Investigative interviewing in the UK; Chapter 3 Investigative interviewing in the Nordic region; Chapter 4 Police interviewing in France, Belgium and The Netherlands: something is moving.

Chapter 5 Police interrogation in Canada: from the quest for confession to the search for the truthChapter 6 Interview and interrogation: a perspective and update from the USA; Part 2 Current issues in interrogation and investigative interviewing; Chapter 7 A critical analysis of the utilitarian case for torture and the situational factors that lead some people to become torturers; Chapter 8 Investigative interviewing as a therapeutic jurisprudential approach; Chapter 9 Increasing cognitive load in interviews to detect deceit; Chapter 10 Detecting deceit: current issues; Index.