This subject contains a 2 day Optional Residential School.
Two day residential school to demonstrate and assess the use of the interviewing models.
This subject examines interviewing as an investigative tool. The subject looks back at a number of miscarriages of justice which have served to shape contemporary interviewing models in use today. With a focus on memory and the factors that affect the reliability of evidence gained from vulnerable witnesses and other interviewees, the subject looks at the investigative interviewing core skills required to secure quality accounts from interviewees in an ethical and professional manner. Practically, the subject explores the PEACE model framework of investigative interviewing and looks at how the Free Recall and Conversation Management styles of interviewing can be used in interviews with witnesses, victims and suspects. Finally, the subject looks closely at how interviews with suspects can be enhanced through tactical planning and the strategic use of evidence.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security
Students must be enrolled in any of the courses served by this subject and/or possess appropriate occupational experience or interviewing experience.
At a theoretical level:
- Stages and types of memory
- Ethical issues which impact upon interviewing practice
- Legal issues relating to the admissibility of evidence
- Social and psychological factors relative to interviewing
- Interviewing techniques
- Reliability of eye witness evidence
- Cognitive interviewing
- Management of conversation
- Victims, Witnesses and Suspects
- Factors that affect eyewitness testimony
At a practical level -
- Preparation and planning
- Engagement and explanation
- Appropriate interviewing skills
- Closure and evaluation
This subject contains a 2 day Optional Residential School.
Two day residential school to demonstrate and assess the use of the interviewing models.
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.