The Basics
A conversation in which persons are questioned and their responses are noted
What is an interview?
Introductory, informational, assessment, admission seeking, and concluding
A defense a suspect offers to support his/her assertion of innocence
What is an alibi?
Questions designed to collect information that is relevant to the investigation
What are informational questions?
This energy, commodities, and service company's CEO Jeff Skillings kept billions of dollars of debt off the balance sheet in 2001 resulting in shareholders losing over $74 billion
What is Enron?
Oral or written answers to questions that may indicate guilt and should be investigated
Recording the interview, taking notes, using written questions
What are types of interview techniques?
A feeling of connection that can be established by shaking hands with the interviewee
What is rapport?
What are introductory questions?
This telecommunications company inflated its assets by almost $11 billion in the year 2002, making it one of the largest accounting scandals ever
What is WorldCom?
What is an interrogation?
Sight, auditory (hearing), touch
What are types of senses?
A way interviewers establish rapport by mimicking subject's body language
What is mirroring?
Questions that confirm an interviewer's understanding of important facts collected and clarify meaning of any statements made in the interview
What are concluding questions?
This top healthcare company out of Alabama inflated earnings by over $1.8 billion in 2003 and CEO Richard Scrushy was acquitted of all 36 counts of accounting fraud
What is HealthSouth?
Physiology-based reactions to questions, statements, and physical evidence that are not spoken or written
What are nonverbal responses?
Close-ended, forced-choice, open-ended, connecting, position reaction, clarifying, confrontational, and secondary
What are types of question structures?
What are qualifiers?
Questions asked to determine whether the interviewee is a suspect
What are assessment questions?
This multinational insurance firm's CEO Hank Greenberg was found guilty of stock price manipulation in 2005, causing fraud of almost $4 billion
What is American International Group (AIG)?
A concise statement regarding the guilt of the perpetrator
What is a signed confession?
Direct, indirect, combined, everything is known, folder, silence, emotion, rapid questioning, change of location
What are types of persuasion approaches?
Occurs when an interviewer is fine-tuning his/her perception of a person's behavior when he/she is asked something nonsensitive
What is calibration?
Questions designed to encourage confession from someone strongly suspected of playing a role in the fraud being investigated
What are admission seeking questions?
This global financial services company based out of New York hid over $50 billion in loans during the 2008 financial crisis and was one of the largest investment banks in the US
What is Lehman Brothers?