The Mindful Interview Method

Table of contents

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