ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses images of custodial interactions between detained suspects and the police found in the sample of 283 post-Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) cases committed for trial in the same Crown Court. The legislation makes possible an examination of the nature of the police-suspect dynamic as it appears in those records. It enables comparisons to be made with images of the interrogation process derived from the pre-PACE era. With respect to the great majority of defendants who, as suspected or accused persons, were detained and interrogated by the police under the PACE regime, the examination identified the following typologies. They are: the unequivocally guilty; the resolute; and the evasive, artful and uncooperative. Resolute class of detainee appears willing to cooperate with the police to the extent that its members generally answer the questions that are put to them.
