Interview and Interrogation Workshop

Description

A (3) three-day customized course, primarily focused on Prescriptive Interview and Interrogation methods. This course will be specifically defined for law enforcement investigators, and prosecutorial agents. Course topics will deal with prescriptive investigatory interviewing techniques of victims and witnesses and unique interrogation methods of suspected criminals, etc.

Topics that participants can be expected to learn and later master:

• Distinguish between interview and interrogation.
• Define and understand the difference between prescriptive interviewing and traditional forms.
• Identify the elements in the interpersonal communication model from both victim and offender perspective.
• Identify the elements of the interpersonal violence model from both victim and offender perspectives.
• Identify the elements of the behavioral model from both victim and offender perspective.
• Will understand the elements of a personality assessment for both victim and offender and relationship to the prescriptive interview.
• Will be able to conduct a personality assessment and develop a prescriptive interviewing approach for victim and offender.
• Understand victim’s perspective on personal violation from a criminal act.
• Understand the psychodynamics of being a victim of a crime.
• Understand the emotional perspective from both the victim and offender regarding crimes of violence.
• Preparing for the interview.
• Treatment of victims.
• Treatment of offender.
• Define and understand profiles of distinctive personality / types of offender motivations.
• Define, construct and apply the behavioral analysis interview.
• Understand the principles of the behavior analysis interview and its relationship to prescriptive interviewing.
• The interrogation room.
• Opening an interrogation.
• Taking statements.
• Video taping of statements.
• Taking the confession.
• Learn by doing!
• Multidisciplinary approach: TEAM!