ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the crucial joint work by Stephen Moston, Geoffrey Stephenson, and Tom Williamson which in the early 1990s not only revealed, like Baldwin, that police interviewing tactics seemed to have little effect on suspects but also that what seemed much more important to suspects was the weight of evidence the police had against them. It focuses on his 1999 paper with John Pearse which presents one of the best analyses of police interviews for the tactics used. The chapter then focuses on the joint work of Frans Willem Winkel and Aldert Vrij concerning how police interviewers may actually create in interviewees the very behaviours the police then take as crucial behavioural signs. Finally, it focuses on work designed to assist people to recall in police interviews as much as possible about what has happened. While Professor Ron Fisher's work has focused on the interviewing of witnesses, it is also clearly relevant to the interviewing of cooperative suspects.
