ABSTRACT
The investigation of crimes may be supported by scenes of crime officers, who collect evidence at crime scenes, and forensic investigators and scientists who may be employed by the police force or by other organisations. While Miller met with resistance from the forensic science community, there is now much more widespread acceptance of the risk of bias in forensic evidence analysis. Cognitive forensics is a branch of psychology concerned with the application of knowledge about processes such as perception, memory, decision making and expertise to forensic science. Investigative psychology is not really a form of offender profiling; it is much broader than that, applying the methods of scientific psychology to the whole area of offending, police investigations and the prosecution of criminals. Oxburgh content analysed audio recordings of 59 police interviews with suspects of 'high-stakes' crimes. 'Standard interview procedure' and 'standard police interview' are terms used to describe the way untrained police investigators typically interview witnesses.
