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Prescriptive Interview and Interrogation Methods
This course will be modified
to the level of expertise in the audience and can be adapted in the
classroom for multiple levels of experience and understanding.
Training Goals and Objectives:
The goal of the training
program is to prepare the Investigator and Investigative Supervisor to
conduct, render, and manage suspects, victims, and witnesses in highly
prescribed methods and techniques to obtain statements and confessions
during a case investigation from initial response through needed
follow-up.
The course will be
directed at an approach to obtain confessions, witness and victim
statements while conducting an investigation. Several areas will be
addressed; each area by it self is an area of expertise requiring
detailed individual course instruction.
In addition, the course
will include an intense overview of criminal behavior and the
understanding of behavior as it relates to the traditional forms of
evidence, forensic, circumstantial, eyewitness, and confession. This
enables the student to determine a course of action in scripting the
interview or interrogation towards the behaviors analyzed from the
suspect, witness, or victim.
Training Audience, Format,
and Content
A (2) two-day course, focused upon
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.
This course is most
successful when taught and received with audiences of 50 officers or
fewer, but has been given in groups of 400 or more with successful
reviews. The smaller groups enable officers to have more direct dialog
with the instructors and the other students.
The course is designed in
2-day format (advanced training 3-day)
session
with day three involving practical application scenarios
so that the investigator / officer returns from the training with a more
concrete understanding of the application of the training material. The
course is designed to run 0830 to 1630 hours daily, but can be adjusted
for evenings and extended days as needed.
Course Description:
Topics that participants can be expected to
learn and later master:
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Distinguish between interview and
interrogation
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Define and understand the difference
between prescriptive interviewing and traditional forms
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Identify the elements in the
interpersonal communication model from both victim and offender
perspective
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Identify the elements of the
interpersonal violence model from both victim and offender perspectives
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Identify the elements of the behavioral
model from both victim and offender perspective
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Elements of a personality assessment for
both victim and offender and relationship to the prescriptive interview
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Conduct a personality assessment and
develop a prescriptive interviewing approach for victim and offender
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Understand victim’s perspective on
personal violation from a criminal act
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Understand the psychodynamics of being a
victim of a crime
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Understand the emotional perspective from
both the victim and offender regarding crimes of violence
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Preparing for the interview
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Treatment of victims
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Treatment of offender
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Define and understand profiles of
distinctive personality / types of offender motivations
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Define, construct, and apply the
behavioral analysis interview
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Understand the principles of the behavior
analysis interview and its relationship to prescriptive interviewing
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The interrogation room
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Opening an interrogation
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Taking statements
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Videotaping of statements
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Taking the confession
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Learn by doing!
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Multidisciplinary approach: TEAM!
Daily Schedule:
Day 1
·
Difference Between an
Interview and Interrogation
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Prescriptive Interviewing
verses Traditional Forms
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Elements of Interpersonal
Communication - Victim and Offender Perspectives
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Interpersonal Violence
Model
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Elements of Behavior
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Personality Assessments and
its’ Relationship to the Prescriptive Interview
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Conducting a Personality
Assessment
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Developing a Prescriptive
Interviewing Approach
Day 2
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Victim’s Perspective on
Personal Violation
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Psychodynamics of a
Criminal Act.
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Emotional Perspective of a
Victim and Offender
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Preparing for the Interview
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Treatment of an Offender
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Profiles of Distinctive
Personality / Sexual Offender Motivation
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Construction and
Application of the Behavioral Analysis Interview
Advanced Course:
Day 3
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Principles of the Behavior
Analysis Interview and Relationship to Prescriptive Interviewing
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The Interrogation Room
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Opening an Interrogation
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Taking Statements
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Video Taping of a Statement
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Taking a Confession
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Learn by Doing
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Multidisciplinary Approach:
TEAM
Evaluation
The evaluation process will consist of
class participation and dynamic practical, scenarios driven exercises.
Limitations / Special
Needs: None
Any audio/visual or
POSTC/Academy facility or staff needs will be addressed on a case-by-case
basis, but might include the use of an electronic projection unit, VCR,
audio or marker board materials.
This course is recognized by
various POST / POSTC organizations including:
South Carolina, Virginia, Colorado, Texas,
Arizona, California, Montana, Minnesota, Delaware, Tennessee, North
Carolina, Kansas, Arkansas, South Carolina, Idaho, and Utah
Student Materials
Student materials will involve copies of “Analyzing Criminal Behavior
II”, Cooper/King, IQ Publishing, Second edition 2002-2003
In addition, the instructors will supply
the student with copies of the FBI ViCAP form and other pertinent
information to include their own copy written investigative forms dealing
with Victimology Assessment, Offender and Offender Risk Assessment,
Evaluating the Initial Contact Site, the Crime Scene and the Disposal Site
as well as 6 other Major Case Investigative forms.
Depending on student understanding, a wide
range of video, audio, and PowerPoint presentations will be used in the
training session, and the instructors will come prepared with everything
they will need to make this an informative, fast-paced learning
experience. The materials will range from commercially driven video to
personal interviews conducted by the instructors with some of America’s
most dangerous murders, rapists, and violent offenders.
Detailed lesson plans are available as
needed, but copies of the PowerPoint presentations and crime scene
photographs cannot be supplied with this document.
Due to publishing restrictions, these
training materials are not enclosed for a review!
Evaluations of Past Courses
Evaluations of past presentations are
available upon request if this material and telephonic interviews are not
satisfactory.
In addition, we are happy to provide the
names of references from all across America to assist you in your
decision.
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