Selected psychological characteristics of interaction and communication in criminal investigation of violent criminality

The work is focused on selected aspects of interaction and communication between investigator and investigated person in investigation of serious criminality. The primary social-psychological point of view on this interaction tries to stay within the applied focus to the field of investigative psychology. At the beginning the work is focused on important investigative conditions and also social-psychological context. After that it 5 moves to specific conditions on the side of investigated person, to motivation of participation in criminal investigation, to the topic of suggestibility and its role in testimony, importance of psychological disorders in the interaction with the investigator and context of investigation. Another topic is testimony as a result of interaction between investigator and investigated person, this chapter is more specifically focused on problem situations and a question of deceitful testimony. Following is the topic of social pressure in investigation and its different manifestations. The attention is devoted more thoroughly to different approaches of persuasive information processing as a bases for deeper understanding of specific interviewing techniques. In the following chapter we are concerned with the conditions on the side of the investigator, to see closer the demands of his..