ABSTRACT
Interviewing and interrogation practices depend upon the system of rules that govern trials and investigations. In a civil law system of rules (as opposed to a common law system), parliament develops and enacts statutes to regulate criminal procedure. In Italy in 1988, a new Codice di procedura penale1 (Gazzetta Ufficiale, 1988) came into force, based upon the adversarial system and inspired by the Anglo-American system. An entirely new set of rules control interrogation and witness statements, but some aspects of the inquisitorial tradition still influence the way oral statements are collected during trial or pre-trial investigations.
