Contents

Introduction
1 Psychology and investigations
- 1.1 Meet the psychological team
- 1.2 Fictional detectives
2Police briefing and timeline
- 2.1 Senior Investigating Officer – police briefing
- 2.2 Using timelines in investigations
- 2.3 Creating and using your own timeline
3 The initial witness interview
- 3.1 Introducing the police team
- 3.2 DS Sund interviews Neale Anderson
- 3.3 Evaluation of DS Sund’s interview
- 3.4 Observations about DS Sund and the witness
- 3.5 Credibility of the witness
4 Detecting deception
- 4.1 Psychological theory and research on detecting deception
- 4.2 Applying detecting deception research
5 New witness statements
6 Summary of Week 1
Introduction
1 Types of interview
- 1.1 The introduction of PACE in England and Wales
- 1.2 The PEACE model
- 1.3 The legal caution
2 Planning topics for Neale’s interview
3 How to talk to suspects in police interviews
4 The importance of rapport
- 4.1 Rapport – an introduction to the interpersonal circle
- 4.2 Diagnosis of behaviour using the interpersonal circle
- 4.3 How rapport is applied in criminal investigations
- 4.4 Adaptive and maladaptive variants of the interpersonal circle
- 4.5 Rapport principles
5 DI Bullet interviews Neale
- 5.1 Suspect interview by DI Bullet: Part 1
- 5.2 Rating DI Bullet’s interview skills
- 5.3 Expert analysis of the interview so far from
6 Summary of Week 2
Introduction
1 Suspect interview by DI Bullet: Part 2
- 1.1 Perceptions of guilt
- 1.2 Considering questioning techniques
- 1.3 Evaluating questioning techniques
2 Interrogation, suggestibility and false confessions
- 2.1 A look at real criminal cases: The Innocence Project
- 2.2 The psychology of false confessions
- 2.3 Interrogative suggestibility
- 2.4 Suggestibility and the Reid technique
3 Evaluating DI Bullet’s suspect interview
- 3.1 Evaluating Part 2 of DI Bullet’s suspect interview
- 3.2 The psychological team’s evaluation
- 3.3 Is Neale’s interview confession true or false?
- 3.4 Reporting back to the SIO
- 3.5 The expert view on the confession
4 New evidence and new suspects
- 4.1 Important new evidence
- 4.2 Three additional suspects
- 4.3 Route of enquiry
- 4.4 Biases
- 4.5 Biases in an investigation
5 Summary of Week 3
Introduction
1 Dealing with the new suspect
- 1.1 Evidence and testing the truthfulness of a suspects account
- 1.2 Return to the timeline
- 1.3 Planning what to disclose
- 1.4 The psychological team’s thoughts on what to disclose
2 Interviewing the new suspect
- 2.1 Planning for rapport with Mick Brough
- 2.2 Interviewer rapport strategies
- 2.3 DS Sund’s interview of Mick Brough
- 2.4 DS Sund interviews Mick Brough
- 2.5 Noting discrepancies on the timeline
3 Assessment of the suspect interview and case closure
- 3.1 Your assessment of the suspect Mick Brough
- 3.2 An assessment of Mick Brough as a suspect
- 3.3 SIO and the two detectives debrief the case
4 Conclusion of the case
5 Course summary
Where next?
References
Acknowledgements
Glossary

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