What is Investigative Interviewing? Part 3 of 7 of the ‘What is Investigative Psychology?’ series

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In the olden days, investigative interviews, also known as suspect interviews or interrogations, were

very coercive processes in which accusations were shouted at the detainee who was also sometimes

subjected to violence and intimidation by the interrogator. Whilst this is still the case today in

some countries and make sure you never get arrested there, interviewing practice in the UK is

much more evidence-based now, which means it employs methods that have been shown to work

better. By ‘work’ I mean not scaring innocent people into taking the blame for something they haven’t

done and enabling police interviewers to identify when someone seems to be lying, at least in

theory....