SIBERIAN LAW HERALD
ISSN 2071-8136 (print)
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Detecting lies and getting confessions on the example of service interview

Author(s)
Shaevich Anton Aleksandrovich, Larin Evgeny Igorevich
Abstract
The article clarifies the concept of in-house interview as an interview of employees or job candidates, organized by the security service of a private company, identifies the types of in-house interview, clarifies the concept of confession. The two-stage model of inquest and some indicators of lying, which are used by the authors during the in-house interview, are described. The indicators correlating with lying in the course of service interview - the latent verbal aggression, lying strategies, presence of textual bridges and lacunas, separate elements of mimic and kinetic behavior are offered. The two-step model of Reed’s inquest, known as “Reed’s Nine Steps to Getting a Confession”; the approach of domestic psychologist L. B. Filonov, the authors’ approach to organizing the process of getting a confession within a service interview are partially described. The psychological mechanisms that make it possible to obtain previously unknown information during in-house interviews, which can be used in any kind of interviews and interrogations, are considered.
Keywords
lie diagnostics, lie detection, detection of hidden information, confession taking, interrogation, in-service interview, Reed’s tactics, textual bridges, locus of affect
About the Authors
Shaevich Anton Aleksandrovich - Candidate of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminalistics, East-Siberian Institute of the MIA of Russia (110, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664071, Russian Federation); Associate Professor of the Department of Jurisprudence, Irkutsk National Research Technical University (83, Lermontov st., Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation), e-mail: saant@list.ru

Larin Evgeny I. - Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor, Moscow, е-mail: larin_e@mail.ru
For citation
Shaevich A.A., Larin E. I. Vyyavlenie lzhi i poluchenie priznaniya na primere sluzhebnogo interv'yu [Revealing a lie and obtaining a confession on the example of a service interview] Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2021, no 3(94), pp. 69–76. DOI 10.26516 / 2071-8136.2021.3.69. (in Russian).
UDC
343.985
EDN
COLOLY
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2071-8136.2021.3.69
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