Obtaining psychological information about the identity of the unknown criminal during interrogation in terms of the adversarial criminal process

Abstract

The article is an analysis of the investigative (search) actions – questioning, as one of the most informative investigative (search) actions in conditions of the use of psychological knowledge and the ability to attract a skilled psychologist, with the aim of obtaining new knowledge about the identity of the criminal.

Investigators actions are actions aimed to obtaining (collecting) evidence or verification of already obtained evidence in a particular criminal proceeding. Interrogation is the most common investigative action, along with is complex.

Interrogation is a complex process of information exchange between the investigator and the interrogated person, during which the investigator must obtain from the interrogated the maximum of important information about the identity of the unknown criminal. It should be understood that, in order to model the identity of an unknown criminal, the subject of interrogation should include obtaining such information from the interrogated person, which directly indicate the physical, physiological and psychological characteristics of the identity of the unknown criminal. In our study, we pay attention to the interrogation of witnesses (eyewitnesses) and the victim.

Modeling the identity of an unknown criminal during the psychological forensic research is the construction of a model by a specialist psychologist or forensic expert psychologist, which reveals the psychological abilities properties, qualities and processes (motives, needs, motivations, feelings, emotions, representations, perceptions, orientations, intellectual abilities, etc.), that explains the essence of the behavior of a particular person, reveals such characteristics that reflect the attitude of an unknown criminal to the actions performed by him (inaction), to the environment and to himself during, as well as to the Commission of a crime and after its commission.