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Dickinson, J. J. (2019). Evidence-based investigative interviewing: Applying cognitive principles / edited by Jason J. Dickinson [and four others]. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Textbook discusses the use of cognitive interviewing to recall events.

Grimes III, J.E. (2021). Investigative Interviewing: Adopting a Forensic Mindset (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170150
Assignment.
Ch. 1: Due Process and Case Law
Ch. 3: Confessions
Ch. 4: False Confessions
Ch. 5: Investigative Interviewer Desired Qualities
The following are discussed: Miranda violations, custodial questioning, exceptions to Miranda; Confessions and case law; False confessions and hazards and solutions; the characteristics of an investigative interviewer

Innocence Staff. (2020, April 15). How Eyewitness Misidentification Can Send People to Prison. Innocence Project.
Discusses why eyewitness identification endangers innocent people, leading cause of wrongful convictions

Morgan, C. A., III, Southwick, S., Steffian, G., Hazlett, G. A., & Loftus, E. F. (2013). Misinformation can influence memory for recently experienced, highly stressful events. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 36(1), 11–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.11.002
Exposure to misinformation can affect memory after highly stressful event

Stanton, I. and Ewin, R. (2022). Criminal Investigation: The Professional Policing Curriculum Practice. Critical Publishing.
Chapter 5: Investigative Interviewing
Investigative interviewing method, evidence gathering

Brimbal, L., Roche, S. P., & Martaindale, M. H. (2024). Interviewing and interrogation practices and beliefs, 20 years later: A national self-report survey of American police. Law and Human Behavior, 48(4), 247–261.
Current study found US law enforcement officers have made progress in applying the knowledge and practices informed by research over the past two decades on interviewing and interrogation. The study explores officers’ current interrogation practices and beliefs about false confessions.

JUSTIA U.S. Supreme Court. California v. Beheler, 463 U.S. 1121 (1983)
Suspect right to be informed of the voluntary nature of a police interview. Landmark case: Miranda Warnings; Facts and case summary

Leo, R. A. (2013). Why Interrogation Contamination Occurs. Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 11(1), 193–216.
Seminal author: Problem of police interrogation contamination; disclosing or leaking of non-public facts and false confessions leading to wrongful convictions

Meissner, C. A., Redlich, A. D., Michael, S. W., Evans, J. R., Camilletti, C. R., Bhatt, S., & Brandon, S. (2014). Accusatorial and information-gathering interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions: a meta-analytic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 10(4), 459–486. Seminal author: Assessing the influence of accusatorial and information-gathering methods of interrogation in eliciting true and false confessions

Narchet, F. M., Meissner, C. A., & Russano, M. B. (2011). Modeling the Influence of Investigator Bias on the Elicitation of True and False Confessions. Law and Human Behavior, 35(6), 452–465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10979-010-9257-x
Seminal authors: Investigative biases and what occurs in the interrogation room; perceptions of guilt and interrogation tactics

O’Brien, S. D., O’Brien, Q. C., & Cook, D. (2022). Put down the Phone! The Standard for Witness Interviews Is in-Person, Face-to-Face, One-on-One. Hofstra Law Review, 50(2), 339–360.
Professional standards for investigative interviewing, supporting in-person interviews Importance of face-to-face interviews

United States Courts. Facts and Case Summary – Miranda v. Arizona. Landmark case: Miranda Warnings; Facts and case summary

Wilson, L. (2025, Feb 27). Your Words Only Tell a Fraction of the Story-Here’s Why Tone and Body Language Actually Matter More. Entrepreneur.
Communication: Message is mainly conveyed through tone and body language.