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DOI: 10.4324/9781003263173-21

Looking at Noise in an Eyewitness Interview

In 2021, a fascinating podcast called On Our Watch (Dirks & Lewis, 2021) featured investigative audio recordings of interviews that gave true crime audiences amazing access to interrogations that were centered on misconduct by law enforcement officers. In Chapter 8 we discussed how interviewing people mindfully would lead to gathering evidence with integrity instead of considering them deceitful and switching to a format of interrogation. The idea of conducting the interview with a suspicious mind is counterintuitive to a mindful interview session and so we ask practitioners to consider abandoning this option. When we can take advantage of a more mindful ...

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