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The flawed interview of a psychopathic killer: what went wrong?

Author(s) -

Perri Frank S.

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of investigative psychology and offender profiling

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1544-4767

pISSN - 1544-4759

DOI - 10.1002/jip.128

Subject(s) - confession (law) , homicide , suspect , interview , psychology , law enforcement , legal psychology , flexibility (engineering) , criminology , economic justice , social psychology , law , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , management , political science , medicine , economics , environmental health

The flawed interview of convicted killer Christopher Porco illustrates what occurs when a suspect's psychopathic traits are not considered in formulating an interview strategy. Specific areas of the dialogue between Christopher Porco and law enforcement demonstrates that traditional methods of interviewing may not produce a confession or valuable information when it comes to psychopathic suspects. Although the traditional goal of an interview is to obtain a confession or valuable information, law enforcement will have to display flexibility in the interview process by implementing alternative interview strategies and redefining what a successful interview is composed of when these suspects are unwilling to confess to their crimes. Failure to remain flexible, as displayed in the Christopher Porco case, which yielded neither a confession nor valuable information, can jeopardise the strength of a homicide case that ultimately may go to trial. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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