Question

What are the four commonly recognized objectives in the interrogation process?

Answer 1

Interviews:
- Objective: purpose is to obtain Information
- Minimal legal requirements; no rights warnings
- cooperative relationship between interviewer and subject likely
- no guilt
- moderate planning
- Most Important: private and semiprivate; distraction could cause witness to forget key info

- Interrogations
- Objective: purpose is to test information already obtained, obtain valuable facts; eliminate the innocent; identify the guilty; obtain a confession
- extensive pre interrogation legal requirements; rights required
- hostile relationship likely
- guilt suggested
- extensive planning
- absolute privacy