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Interrogation or Questioning is interviewing as employed by officers of the Police, Military, and Inquisition.
The interviewed is also referred to as a "source".
Interviewing isn't necessarily to force a confession, but rather to develop sufficient rapport as to prompt the source to disclose valuable information.

Interrogation around the World

Britain

Ireland

USA Cold War War On Terror Torture is now officially banned from use at Guantanamo Bay and all other U.S. camps for illegal combatants. Army regulations state that such treatment during interrogation crosses the boundary between acceptable methods of gaining information and torture.
US Air Force General Jack L. Rives (Deputy Judge Advocate General) advised a US government task force that many of the extreme methods of interrogation would leave service personnel open to legal sanction in the US and foreign countries.
US officers were previously allowed interrogation techniques classified as torture including:

sleep deprivation
waterboarding
exposure to extremes of cold and heat
placing prisoners in "stress positions" for long periods of time

Nazi Germany

Inquisition

Japan

Japan is famous for marathon interrogations, and therefore a high amount of false confessions.

Resistance Training

Resistance training is often a prerequisite for some personnel since prisoners of war (POWs) routinely undergo military interrogation.

Interrogation Techniques

There are multiple possible methods of interrogation including deception, torture, increasing suggestibility, and using mind-altering drugs.

Suggestibility

The methods used to increase suggestibility are moderate sleep deprivation, exposure to constant white noise, and using GABAergic drugs such as sodium amytal.

Reid

One notable interrogation technique is the Reid technique. However, the Reid technique (which requires interrogators to watch the body language of suspects to detect deceit) has been criticized (External Link

) for being too difficult to apply across cultures and is impracticable for many law enforcement officers.

Deception

Deception can form an important part of effective interrogation. In the U.S., there's no law or regulation that forbids the interrogator from lying, from making misleading statements or from implying that the interviewee has already been implicated in the crime by someone else.

Torture

Interrogations may involve torture, which is judged to be ineffective at producing accurate information but is effective in getting false confessions which might be useful for political reasons for the officer and organization in question by raising the number of successful investigations.

Other

Good cop/bad cop

Movement for increased recording of interrogations in the US

Currently, there's a movement for mandatory electronic recording of all custodial interrogations in the United States. (External Link

) "Electronic Recording" describes the process of recording interrogations from start to finish. This is in contrast to a "taped" or "recorded confession," which typically only includes the final statement of the suspect. "Taped interrogation" is the traditional term for this process; however, as analog is becoming less and less common, statutes and scholars are referring to the process as "electronically recording" interviews or interrogations. Alaska, (External Link

) Illinois, (External Link

) Maine, (External Link

), Minnesota, (External Link

) and Wisconsin (External Link

) are the only states to require taped interrogation. New Jersey’s taping requirement started on January 1, 2006. (External Link

) (External Link

) Massachusetts allows jury instructions that state that the courts prefer taped interrogations. See Commonwealth v. DiGiambattista, 813 N.E.2d 516, 533-34 (Mass. 2004). Commander Neil Nelson of the St. Paul Police Department, an expert in taped interrogation, (External Link

) has described taped interrogation in Minnesota as the "best thing ever rammed down our throats." (External Link

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