You Decide Wk3
Channelle Gardner
JADM-400-64288
July 26, 2015

You Decide Wk3 Detective Jones used the traditional style for interviewing Mr. Jones. I think he used this style because the interview was conducted at Mr. Jones own home, so that would be in the field. When your conducting interviews in the field you have limited time. So this technique is best used for these situations. This style of interviewing allows Detective Jones to get straight to the point and to get straight to the point answers. He used the guidelines that follow this approach which is the five W’s and how. Asking who, when, where, what why and how lets the interviewee, in this case Mr. Jones give yes or no straight forward answers without having to go to much into detail. If I were to do anything differently it would have to be asking a few more questions. I agree with the style he used because he had limited time and he could call Mr. Jones in for a more formal interview where he can use a different approach to get more detailed answers. I would have asked a couple more questions having to do with the encounter Mr. Jones had with Mrs. Nelson the week before about yard work. And if I wanted more detailed answers from the start I would have called him into the office instead of the home interview. * A forensic hypnosis or cognitive approach would have been better for more detailed answers in an office setting where they had time to conduct this type of interview. The forensic hypnosis approach could have been good for making Mr. Jones remember details of that night during his walk. He said he was distracted so probably didn’t think much of anything if he saw something, therefor didn’t remember when asked using the traditional style. "The goal of forensic hypnosis is memory enhancement and retrieval for use in a specific civil or criminal case.”