Interviews with suspects are vital to criminal investigations. Globally, they are generally separated into either information gathering or accusatorial models. In England and Wales, while laboratory-based research has been increasingly undertaken, fewer studies examining actual police interviews have been conducted (despite interviews with suspects being mandatorily tape recorded there for 30 years). Research has tended to examine only certain aspects of such interviews (such as rapport, questioning strategies, and evidence disclosure). Despite the importance of each, interviews are the sum of these individual aspects. An analysis that examines the totality (and dynamic nature) of interviews is therefore required. Such a framework exists, being used to examine police interrogations in the USA, from the perspective of six domains, rooted in the relevant literature, that is, Rapport and Relationship Building, Context Manipulation, Emotion Provocation, Collaboration, Confrontation/Competition, and Presentation of Evidence. However, this taxonomy has not yet been used to assess overall interviewer performance in England and Wales. The present study examined 184 five-minute segments throughout 14 interviews with suspected sex offenders in this country, breaking new ground, by incorporating this taxonomy with interviewers trained in information gathering approaches. Our exploratory findings are that when suspects (whether innocent or guilty) offer resistance, interviewers abandon their initial efforts to build/maintain rapport, and become increasingly confrontational. Concerns also emerged regarding the frequency of those questions asked that do not yield much information. Nevertheless, the study affirms that the taxonomy of domain methodology can be used to provide in-depth and revealing analyses of overall interviewer performance.

与嫌疑人面谈对于刑事调查至关重要。在全球范围内，它们通常分为信息收集模型或指控模型。在英格兰和威尔士，虽然越来越多地开展基于实验室的研究，但对实际警察面谈的研究却很少（尽管对嫌疑人的面谈在那里被强制录音了 30 年）。研究倾向于仅检查此类访谈的某些方面（例如融洽关系、提问策略和证据披露）。尽管每个方面都很重要，但面试是这些单独方面的总和。因此，需要对访谈的整体性（和动态性）进行分析。存在这样的框架，用于从六个领域的角度审查美国的警察审讯，植根于相关文献，即建立融洽关系、情境操纵、情绪激发、合作、对抗/竞争和证据呈现。但是，该分类法尚未用于评估英格兰和威尔士的整体面试官表现。本研究通过将这一分类法与接受过信息收集方法培训的采访者相结合，检查了该国对性犯罪嫌疑人的 14 次采访中的 184 个五分钟片段，开创了新局面。我们的探索性发现是，当嫌疑人（无论是无辜的还是有罪的）提出抵抗时，面试官会放弃他们最初建立/维持融洽关系的努力，并变得越来越对抗。还出现了对这些问题的频率的担忧，这些问题并没有产生太多信息。