Criminal Justice Paper

Assignment 2

Essay Questions:

1.        Record the verbal cues that people generate and provide the listener (interviewer) and the responses the interviewer should (or should not) make when these cues are given.

2.        As a police investigator, how do you handle a suspect that is being interviewed who is overly courteous? Do you rebuke them to stop? Encourage it? Let him/her know you are on to them? Believe they are truthful? Write up your suggestions by answering each of the situations mentioned.

3.        According to the text, what kinds of religious objects may be displayed in the interview room and describe how the interviewer can use them to get truthful responses.

4.        Outline the practicality of decoding speech characteristics indicating the current stress response of the victim, witness, or especially the suspect and tell how these can be used to help bring about a confession or the truth.