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2023-2024 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CJS 1450 - Interview and Interrogation Workshop


Credits: 1

This course provides a basic introduction to interview and interrogation. Students will be introduced to a variety of interview and interrogation techniques and strategies as well as ethical and legal considerations in interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects. The course will introduce students to the stages of an interview and focus on how to overcome suspect denials and objections in order to elicit confessions from those individuals involved in criminal behavior. Topics include how to build rapport, how to calibrate a subject’s individual normative behaviors and how to detect deception. Students will perform mock interviews and interrogations in application of principles and best practices covered in the course.

Prerequisite: None
Prerequisite/Corequisite: None
Corequisite: None
Previous CJS* 145