The Mindful Interview Method: Retrieving Cognitive Evidence

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Section I: Perspectives
	Chapter 1 Introduction
	Chapter 2 A Different Path
		The Art of Policing
		Enhancing the Investigative Process
		Eyewitness Interviews Take Center Stage
		Real Beauty
		Students and Eyewitness Interviews
		Understanding Cognitive Evidence
		For Your Consideration
Section II: Establishing Principles
	Chapter 3 Cognitive Evidence
		Guidance on Eyewitness Interviews
		Cognitive Evidence
		Considering Confidence of Recollection
		The Discretion to Search for More
		Understanding How Eyewitness Memory Works
		Reliable Not Accurate
		Estimator Variables and Cognitive Evidence
		System Variables in Eyewitness Interviews
		How Precise Can Eyewitnesses Be?
		Did He Have a Beard?
		Tell Me Exactly Where This Feature Goes on the Face
		Experiments and Practitioners
		Accountability for Cognitive Evidence
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 4 The Detective Mind
		Eyewitness: Systems 1 and 2
		Where’s the Drug Money?
		Focus on the Bounce
		Serial Robbery Case
		Be Mindful of the Detective Mind
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 5 Heuristics of Interviewing Eyewitnesses
		Similarities in Interviews and Interrogations
		The Heuristics for Investigations
		Heuristics in Forensic Art
		Qualitative Research and Eyewitness Interviews
		Semi-Structured Interview
		Breaking Habits
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 6 Investigating Mindfulness
		Mindfulness
		The Spiritual Laws of Success
		Mindful Opportunities
		Driving Mindfully
		Practicing Being Present
		We’ve Heard It Before
		That Is All There Is
		Are You Really Present?
		Attention to Detail
		Being Mindful before the Interview
		Awareness
		Try It before You Knock It
		For Your Consideration
Section III: How We Interview Eyewitnesses
	Chapter 7 Mindful of the Innocent
		Mindful of DNA
		Innocence Project
		Reforms
		Transparency and Adherence to the Guide
		Excerpt from Case Study #1
		Excerpt from Case Study #2
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 8 Mindful of Interrogations
		Interviewing Eyewitness and Not Interrogating Them
		We Should Treat Eyewitness Memory Like Trace Evidence
		Don’t Be Suspicious of Your Eyewitness
		Objective Perspective
		The Unreliable Eyewitness
		Stay with the Interview Process
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 9 Empathetic Strategy
		Establishing Rapport
		Integrating Empathy and Compassion
		For Your Consideration
Section IV: Mindful Interview Method
	Chapter 10 Principles behind The Mindful Interview Method
		Behind the Mindful Interview Method
		The Mindful Interview Method Principles
		The Mindful Interview Method Standards
		Mindful Reset
		Mindful Interview Method Probing Framework Standard
		Intentional Listening Standard
		Practicing Mirror Probe Questions (MP)
		Mindful of Cognitive Evidence Standard
		Mindful Interview Method Conclusion Standard
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 11 How to Perform the Mindful Interview Method
		Practicing the Mindful Interview Method
		Topic 1
		Topic 2
		Mindful Interview Method Analysis
		For Your Consideration
Section V: Meta-Eyewitness Interviews
	Chapter 12 Eyewitness Interview Paradigm
		A Framework for Interviewing Eyewitnesses
		Special Note
		Investigating the Eyewitness Interview Paradigm
		The Cognitive Interview in Brief
		Cognitive Interview Introduction and Mindful Interview Method Mindful Reset
		Rapport Building
		A Cognitive Interview Framework
		Open-Ended Narration Phase and Narrative Recall versus Suspect Description and Element of the Crime
		Probing Images and Concept Codes Phase versus Accessing Topic 2
		Review and Closing Phases
		The Conversation Management Approach in Brief
		Respect for the Eyewitness
		Looking for Triggers or Being Mindful of That Is All There Is
		Expecting Too Much from Investigators When They Aren’t Trained?
		The Approach Can Be Judgmental
		Preparing for a Certain Type Of Interview
		Embracing the Positives
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 13 Eyewitness Interview Training
		Eyewitness Interview Training
		Forensic Art and Eyewitness Interview Training
		Eyewitness Interview Training Is Optional
		Why Aren’t All Law Enforcement Personnel Receiving Eyewitness Interview Training?
		Lack of Understanding
		Supplemental Training for Certain Officers
		Scrutinizing Eyewitness Interviews
		For Your Consideration
	Chapter 14 Measuring the Noise
		We Didn’t Hear the Noise at the Forensic Art Workshop
		Shadow Sketching
		Measuring Noise Excerpt [Question Types in Brackets]
		Studies Focused on Eyewitness Performance
		Measuring Noise and Cognitive Evidence
		Performance Focused on the Interviewer, Not the Eyewitness
		Anatomy of Establishing a Benchmark for a Mindful Interview
		Method
		Data Collection for Benchmark
		Applying the Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview Assessment to the Interview Session
		Obtaining Actual Eyewitness Interview Transcripts from Law Enforcement
		Reviewing the Transcript and Coding Exchanges
		Entering the Data into the Question Category Matrix
		Confirming the Topic Sequence
		Interpretation of Data and the Reliability of Cognitive Evidence
		Summary Report for Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview Assessment
		The Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview Assessment Summary Report and Mindful Interview Method Standards
		Reliability Scale Changes
		Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview Assessment Narrative Report
		Assessing the System Variables
		For Your Consideration
Section VI: Analyzing Case Studies
	Chapter 15 Case Study #1
		Looking at Noise in an Eyewitness Interview
		Case Study #1
			Topic 1
			Topic 1
			Topic 1
			Topic 3
			Topic 5
		Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview AssessmentSM
			Narrative Report for Case Study #1
	Chapter 16 Case Study #2
		The Cooperative Eyewitness
			Topic 3
		Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview AssessmentSM Narrative Report for Case Study #2
	Chapter 17 Case Study #3
		Our First Mindful Interview
		Case Study #3
			Topic 1
			Topic 2
			Topic 3
			Topic 4
			Topic 5
			Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview AssessmentSM
			Narrative Report for Case Study #3
	Chapter 18 Case Study #4
		An Interview of Complexity
			Topic 1
			Topic 2
			Topic 3
			Topic 4
			Topic 5
		Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview AssessmentSM
			Narrative Report for Case Study #4
	Chapter 19 Case Study #5
		A Mock Interview
			Topic 1
			Topic 2
			Topic 3
			Topic 2
			Topic 3
			Topic 4
			Topic 3
			Topic 4
			Topic 4
			Topic 3
			Topic 4 (Narrative Summary)
			Topic 3
			Topic 4
			Topic 2
			Topic 4 (Narrative Summary)
			Topic 5
		Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview AssessmentSM
			Narrative Report for Case Study #5
Section VII: Expectations
	Chapter 20 Expectations and Future Research
Appendix A: Category of Comments and Questions
Appendix B: Sample Mindful Interview Method Script
Appendix C: Forensic Art Indexing
Appendix D: List of All Case Studies
Appendix E: Case Study Transcripts and Efficacy of Eyewitness Interview Assessment Reports
Bibliography
Index