CRJS 2013

Define the basic skills of communication

Understand countertransference and noise effect on communication

Understand the differences between perception and interpretation

Understand the importance of non-verbal interviewing cues

Understanding your own listening abilities

Understanding your own listening abilities

Understand the meaning of investigative interviewing and how it differs from other types of interviewing

Understand the dynamics of the police interview

Understand attending behaviour in the interview process

Outline your own limitations in the communication process

Richardson Family Murders (Case study)

• Officer spent nearly two hours interviewing an arrested 12 year old girl without her lawyer present

• Judge did not allow videotapes of the interview to be used as evidence in the case

Fundamental Skills of Communication

• Non-verbal communication

• Verbal communication

• Transference in communication

• Counter-transference in communication

• Noice effects in communication

What might distract you while being interviewed?

• As a suspect?

• As a victim?

• As a witness?

The Communication Process: Perception and Interpretation

• Perception

• Interpretation

• Cultural differences

  • Gestures

  • Touch

  • Eye contact

How is an investigative interview different from other types of interview?

Casey Anthony Trial (Case Study)

• Facts of the case

• Interviewing challenges

• Public perceptions of investigative interviewing

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Constituational entrenchment of basic rights and freedoms

• Section 24(2)

• R. V. Brydges

• Precedent

Dynamics of a Police Interview

• Challenges of police interviews

• Importance of developing rapport

• Differences between interviewing a victim, witness, and suspect

Attending Behaviour

• Hearing

• Active Listening

• Inactive Listening

• Attention

• Attending

SOLAR

• Sitting

• Open (Self-control, where your hands are)

• Inactive Listening (Trying sitting closer and see what the other person will do)

• Attention

• Attending

Knowing our own limitation

• Self-actualization

• Self-awareness