FOR64020/FOR6402 - Interviewing and Evidence

(3 units)

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the rules of evidence, including physical evidence, testimony and scientific evidence. Explores concepts such as presumptions, exclusionary rules, admissions and confessions. Provides an overview of the history and the legal precedent associated with investigative interviewing. Examines current evidence-based practices in educing information from witnesses, victims and suspects as well as in providing scientifically sound, easy-to-understand expert testimony. Interpretation of verbal and physical behavior, memory, false confessions, deception detection, interviewing special populations, and ethical considerations are discussed. Emphasis is on criminal law applications; however, investigative interviewing in the workplace will be addressed.