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- Effective Term:
- Fall 2025
- Course Number:
- CJA 217
- Course Title:
- Interviewing and Interrogation
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Introduces legal issues and working knowledge of interview and interrogation techniques. Covers various forms of communications including verbal and written statement analysis. Covers appropriate interview techniques for victims and witnesses and interrogation techniques. Examines characteristics of the sociopath/psychopathic personality types. Audit available.
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- Interpret verbal and non-verbal behavior to help establish effective communication in an effort to assess truthfulness effectively.
- Assess interview and interrogation techniques for legality and constitutionality in preparation for courtroom testimony and cross-examination
- Apply non-confrontational interviewing and interrogation methods.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Examinations, projects and class participation.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
- The Lost Art of Interrogation
- Interrogation and the 4th Amendment
- Interrogation and the 5th Amendment
- Custody
- Interrogation and Its Functional Equivalent
- Giving the Warning (Advice of Rights) Miranda v. Arizona
- Invoking
- Waiver
- Interrogation and the 6th Amendment
- Interrogation and the 14th Amendment
- Objectives in interviewing and interrogation
- Suspect Evaluation
- Tactics and Strategies of interrogation