ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the perceptions and experiences of real-life Muslim suspects when police interviewers undertake the task of interviewing them in connection with a crime. This chapter comprises semi-structured interviews conducted with 22 suspects who had previously been interviewed by police throughout England. Thematic analysis of interview transcripts revealed that two-thirds of the participants reported perceiving various forms of stereotyping by police officers during the interviews. Half of those participants indicated that the interviewers demonstrated racial and religious stereotypes through discriminatory behaviour.
