What Is Investigative Psychology?
Investigative psychology is a branch of judicial psychology. Investigate the psychological activities and laws of investigators and various related parties, including suspects or defendants, offenders, victims, and witnesses, in investigation activities. Its main task is to use psychological knowledge and investigative methods to expose crimes and confirm crimes. The investigative psychology is divided into two parts in the system: (1) investigative psychology, including on-site psychology, investigative psychology, search psychology, identification psychology, follow-up psychology, arrest psychology, etc .; (2) pretrial psychology, including interrogation psychology, Psychology of witness testimony and confession. [1]
- Research object
- Psychological activities of investigators, suspects, defendants, criminals and victims, witnesses and other investigative subjects.
- Scene psychology.
- By analyzing the traces on the scene, you can understand the criminal's psychological activities.
- 2. Investigate the psychology.
- Including the psychology of the subject and the psychology of the investigator. The psychology of investigators includes the cognitive activities, intentional activities and their relationships of investigators, the personality and psychological characteristics of investigators, and the psychological qualities that investigators should possess. The psychological activity of the investigator refers to the characteristics of the perception, thinking, emotion, attitude, motivation, etc. of the investigator during the investigation of the case. The psychological activities of the interactions between investigators and investigators are also studied.
- 3. Psychology of arrest.
- The escape of criminals is based on their life experience and social relations. Criminals with different life experiences and social relationships will have different psychological characteristics of absconding. Investigative psychology should study the criminal's social relationship, the psychological changes after the crime, the ambivalence of non-premeditated crimes and the psychological trends of premeditated crimes, the psychology of the exposed crimes, the reasons affecting the psychological changes of criminals, and the escape of different types of arrested subjects Subconscious, the use of psychological offense by investigators in the process of arrest.
- 4. Interrogation psychology.
- Investigate the psychological characteristics of interrogation subjects and the process of psychological changes during the interrogation process. The objects of interrogation are various criminals and suspects. Because they know the direction and content of the interrogation, they have great volatility psychologically, and they are easily changed by the interference of hints or other factors. Investigate the psychological qualities that interrogators should have, the techniques of offensive warfare against interrogators, and the psychological laws of the interaction between interrogators and interrogators. Study witness psychology. Due to the special status of witnesses when they testify, their psychological activities will also change. This will have a certain impact on interrogation activities. [2]