General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | Interrogation in Polish criminal procedure – the methods of questioning and deception detection |
Language | English |
Module lecturer | dr Jagoda Dzida |
Lecturer's email | jd69197@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | |
Faculty | Faculty of Law and Administration |
Semester | 2024/2025 (winter) |
Duration | 30 |
ECTS | 6 |
USOS code | - |
Timetable
Tuesday, 3 pm. - 4:30 pm., room 4.5, Collegium Iuridicum Novum (Al. Niepodległości 53)
Classes start on Tuesday, October 15.
Module aim (aims)
General:
- To inform students about general rules of interrogation in Polish criminal procedure (including the articles of Polish Code of Criminal Procedure and their meaning)
- To describe the methods of interrogation
- To let students develop their deception detection skills by presenting them scientific methods of deception detection
- To present scientific methods of statement validity and credibility assessment and to explain how to use them
- To practise gathered knowledge in a simulation of interrogation
Specific:
- Learning effects:
Having completed the course, the student is able to:
- Define goals and list the types of interrogation in Polish criminal procedure
- Describe the methods of interrogation
- Define the credibility of statements and its possible criteria
- Define the deception (lie) and explain both verbal and non-verbal cues to deception
- Identify the techniques of deception detection
2. Understanding information:
Having completed the course, the student is able to:
- To differentiate the types of interrogation in Polish criminal procedure
- To describe briefly the course of interrogation
- To illustrate with examples different types of deception (lie)
- To differentiate the terms: credibility, honesty and the truth of a statement
- To explain the different techniques of deception detection
3.Using information in typical situation:
Having completed the course, the student is able to:
- To compare the methods of interrogation
- To define the role of statement credibility assessment in the criminal procedure
- To describe the limitations of deception detection (in both verbal and non-verbal methods of deception detection)
- To solve a case pertaining the methods of interrogation
- To choose the proper interrogation method for the case
4. Using information in problematic situation:
Having completed the course, the student is able to:
- To analyse, which one of the methods of interrogation is the most suitable for the case
- To assess the credibility of witness’ statements using one of the methods of assessment
- To analyse the possible flaws of the assessment of credibility of the statements
- To predict the most effective deception detection method for the case
- To predict the limitations of the use of the chosen deception detection technique
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
None
Syllabus
Week 1: Interrogation in Polish criminal procedure – legal framework: part 1.
Week 2: Interrogation in Polish criminal procedure – legal framework: part 2.
Week 3: Interrogation in Polish criminal procedure – methods and techniques.
Week 4: How does the witness perceive the reality? – part 1 (introduction).
Week 5: How does the witness perceive the reality? – part 2 (theory and practice).
Week 6: The influence of the interrogation on the witness and his statement.
Week 7: Credibility of statements – methods of assessment; theory and practice: part 1 (introduction).
Week 8: Credibility of statements – methods of assessment; theory and practice: part 2 (SVA – Statement Validity Assessment).
Week 9: Credibility of statements – methods of assessment; theory and practice: part 3 (RM -Reality Monitoring).
Week 10: Credibility of statements – methods of assessment; theory and practice: part 4 (MASAM – Multivariable Adults' Statements Assessment Method).
Week 11: The truth about lie and how to detect deception (Paul Ekman’s method): part 1.
Week 12: The truth about lie and how to detect deception (Paul Ekman’s method): part 2.
Week 13: Simulation of the interrogation: part 1.
Week 14: Simulation of the interrogation: part 2.
Week 15: Simulation of the interrogation: part 3.
Reading list
- Books and articles in English:
- Ekman, Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage, W. W. Norton & Company, 2009;
- Vrij, Detecting Lies and Deceit: Pitfalls and Opportunities, Wiley-Interscience, 2008;
- Bogaard, E. H. Meijer, A. Vrij, H. Merckelbach, Scientific Content Analysis (SCAN) Cannot Distinguish Between Truthful and Fabricated Accounts of a Negative Event, Frontiers in Psychology, 243, 7, February 2016, www.frontiersin.org.
- Harvey, A. Vrij i in., Applying the Verifiability Approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol, Legal and Criminological Psychology, 2016, DOI: 10.1111/lcrp.12092, p. 1-3
- Shaw, A. Vrij i in., ‘We’ll Take It from Here’: The Effect of Changing Interviewers in Information
- Shaw, A. Vrij et al., Mimicry and Investigative Interviewing: Using Deliberate Mimicry to Elicit Information and Cues to Deceit, Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 12, 2015, p. 217–230; Warszawa, 2012;
- Vrij i in. & K. Sperry, Outsmarting the liars: The benefit of asking unanticipated questions, Law and Human Behavior, 33, 2009, p. 159–166;
- Vrij, G. Nahari, A. Vrij & Fisher, R. P., Exploiting liars’ verbal strategies by examining the verifiability of details, Legal and Criminological Psychology, 19, 2014, s. 227–239.
- Nahari, A. Vrij, & R.P. Fisher, The verifiability approach: Countermeasures facilitate its ability to discriminate between truths and lies, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 2014, s. 122–128.
- Dr J. Shaw, The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory, Random House UK, 2016.
Books and articles in Polish:
- Gruza, M. Goc, J. Moszczyński, Kryminalistyka - czyli rzecz o metodach śledczych, Oficyna Wydawnicza Łośgraf, Warszawa 2011;
- P. Krysiak, Przesłuchanie podejrzanego, Wyd. Wyższej Szkoły Policji w Szczytnie, Szczytno 2007;
- P. Krysiak, Przesłuchanie świadka, Wyd. Wyższej Szkoły Policji w Szczytnie, Sczytno 2007;
- Kulicki, V. Kwiatkowska-Wójcikiewicz, Kryminalistyka. Wybrane zagadnienia teorii i praktyki śledczo-sądowej, Wyd. Nauk. UMK, Toruń 2009;
- Arntzen, Psychologia zeznań świadków, PWN, Warszawa 1989;
- Gruza, Psychologia sądowa dla prawników, LEX, Warszawa 2012;
- Gruza, M. Goc, J. Moszczyński, Kryminalistyka - czyli rzecz o metodach śledczych, OW Łośgraf, Warszawa 2011;
- Kołakowska, M. Lach, Psychologiczne determinanty zeznań świadków i osób składających wyjaśnienia (wybrane zagadnienia), materiały dydaktyczne, Szczytno 1998;
- Kulicki, V. Kwiatkowska-Wójcikiewicz, L. Stępka, Kryminalistyka. Wybrane zagadnienia teorii i praktyki śledczo-sądowej, WN UMK, Toruń 2009;
- Marten, Psychologia zeznań, Wydanie 1, LexisNexis, Warszawa 2012;
- Psychologia zeznań świadków (w ćwiczeniach), (red.nauk.) J. M. Stanik, A. Roszkowska, WUŚ, Katowice 2009;
- W. Wojciechowski, Analiza i ocena zeznań świadków, GWP, Sopot 2016;
- L. Duprat, Kłamstwo – studium psycho-socyologiczne, nakład Gebethnera i Wolffa, Warszawa 1905;
- Kołakowska, B. Lach, Psychologiczne determinanty zeznań świadków i osób składających wyjaśnienia (wybrane zagadnienia), Materiały dydaktyczne, Szczytno 1998;
- W. Wojciechowski, Analiza i ocena zeznań świadków, GWP, Sopot 2016;
- Marten, Psychologia zeznań, Wydanie 1, LexisNexis, Warszawa 2012;
- Ustawa z dnia 6 kwietnia 1990 r. o Policji (Dz. U. z 2015 r. poz. 355 ze zm.);
- Wytyczne Nr 3 Komendanta Głównego Policji z dnia 30 sierpnia 2017 r. w sprawie wykonywania niektórych czynności dochodzeniowo-śledczych przez policjantów;
- Ustawa z dnia 6 czerwca 1997 r. Kodeks postępowania karnego (Dz.U.2016.1749-j.t.);
- Ustawa z dnia 6 czerwca 1997 r. Kodeks karny (Dz.U.2016.1137 -j.t.).