Considering Juvenile Age and Individual Peculiarities in Interrogation

Authors: Neupokoeva I. A., Grogoleva O. Yu.

Citation: Neupokoeva I. A., Grogoleva O. Yu. Considering Juvenile Age and Individual Peculiarities in Interrogation. Psychopedagogy in Law Enforcement. No 3(74). 2018. Pp. 78–83. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2018-13014.

Для цитирования: Неупокоева И. А., Гроголева О. Ю. Учет возрастных и индивидуальных особенностей личности несовершеннолетнего при проведении допроса // Психопедагогика в правоохранительных органах. 2018. № 3(74). С. 78–83. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2018-13014.

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Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of taking into account age and individual peculiarities of juvenile participant of criminal  proceedings for effective interrogation. The authors estimate conditions of the investigator’s qualified preparation for interrogating  a juvenile: comprehensive study of the juvenile, his life conditions and background; determining the time for this investigative activity,  means of summoning, narrowing a range of people for interrogation; developing a plan of interrogation, detailing the number of  and formulating the main and test questions. The paper reveals negative consequences of interrogation conducted without considering  juvenile age and individual peculiarities: lack of contact, misrepresentation of the happening, failure to obtain proofs, tactical and  other investigative faults. The importance of studying psychology-pedagogical aspects of interrogating juveniles is proved by results  of the questionnaire conducted in 2017 among thirty investigators of Omsk region. Thus, 66,4% of them talk with juveniles on extraneous  matters, 30% of the respondents sometimes do it to remove tense, 58% have knowledge of psychology of different juvenile age  groups. All the investigators respond that they try to take into account juvenile psychological peculiarities in interrogation.

Keywords: interrogation of a juvenile, pre-school children, elementary school students,  juveniles,  tactics of interrogation, processes of cognition, individual peculiarities.

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Submitted: 08.02.2018