What are the similarities between an interview and an interrogation?

The similarities between interview and interrogations are that planning is important if not critical in both, control of the surroundings are important, privacy is desirable/critical, establishing a rapport is very important, as is asking good questions, careful listening and proper documentation.

What do you mean by interview?

An interview is essentially a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers. In common parlance, the word “interview” refers to a one-on-one conversation between an interviewer and an interviewee. An interview may also transfer information in both directions.

How do the purposes of interviewing and interrogation differ?

The major differences between interviews and interrogations are that the goal of an interview is to gain information from a person who may have personally witnessed a crime, or otherwise gained knowledge about the crime under investigation; an interrogation is aimed specifically at determining if the person suspected of the crime is guilty or innocent, by utilizing special information gathering techniques and technology.

What are the different stages of an interrogation?

The positive confrontation. The investigator tells the suspect that the evidence demonstrates the person’s guilt.

Theme development. The investigator then presents a moral justification (theme) for the offense,such as placing the moral blame on someone else or outside circumstances.

Handling denials.

Overcoming objections.

Is this an interview or an interrogation?

• Both interview and interrogation are tools to obtain true and accurate information, but whereas interview takes place in a cordial and non threatening atmosphere, interrogation takes place in a situation where the interrogator looks like an aggressor and the suspect a victim