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Class 4: Question Types and When to Use Them
Don Rabon
Expert Investigator, Author, Instructor
dwrabon@msn.com
Introduction
Don Rabon
Don Rabon, CFE, author, speaker, instructor and former investigative
director, has more than 34 years of experience conducting training in
interviewing techniques, detecting deception and investigative disclosure
analysis. Rabon is the author of many books, including Interviewing and
Interrogation 2nd Edition and Fraud Related Interviewing. Rabon is
retired from the North Carolina Justice Academy, North Carolina
Department of Justice, where he served as Deputy Director.
Joe Gerard
Joe Gerard is the VP of Sales & Marketing at i-Sight, a leading provider
of web-based case management software for corporate investigations.
He’s worked with companies like Dell, Coke, Allstate, BP and more than
100 others to implement improved investigative processes that leverage
best practices and case management.
Aspects of Questioning:
Control
Levels of Control
Paycheck Control
Participant Alliance Control
Capability Control
Affecting Control
Aspects of Questioning:
Control
Plan
Aspects of Questioning:
Question Sequence
High Listening Level
Questioning:
The instruments of the
interviewing process
Type of Interviews
Directive
Nondirective
Combined
Directive Interview
Close-Ended Questions
• Gains information, but cuts off information
• Do, is, are, did
• Restrictive
• Limited answers
• Yes or no
Directive Interview
• Obtain Information
• Direct Verbiage
• Focus
• Restricted Discussion
• Topic Centered
• Impersonal
• Deters Discussion
Directive Interview
• Avoid Self-Disclosure
• Interviewer Centered
• Causes Subjects to Become Silent
• Attention Gaining
• Confirm Agreement
• Easy to Dominate
Directive Interview
• Less Time
• Centers the Issue
• Restricts Information
• Lost Information
• Intimidation
• Give Information Away
Non -Directive Interview
Open-Ended Questions
• Thought and Conversation
• What, How, Why, Could, Would
• Narration
• Expansive
• Freedom to Respond
• Opportunity to Talk
• Yes or No Will Not Suffice
• Self-Exploration, Discussion, Discourse
• They Talk – We Listen
• Non-Threatening
• Feeling Identified
• Reveals Importance
• Involves Subject
• Conversational
• Thinking Occurs
• Variety of Questioning Options
• Takes More Time
• Rambling
• Tabulation Difficulty
Connecting questions serve to
connect details and events
Positive Reaction Questions
Tag Questions
Gain Cooperation Identify
Barriers to Cooperation
Tag Questions
Clarifying Questions
Forced-Choice Questions
Requires an answer chosen
from among two or more
possible responses
Control Questions
No Additional Information
Evaluate Responses of Subject
Statement against self-interest
Provide rationale or damn the behavior
Opinion regarding punishment
Reaction to an expression of disbelief
Control Questions
No Additional Information
Evaluate Responses of Subject
Why?
Who?
What?
Happen?
Secondary Question
Encourage Continued Answers
Reflective Probe - PROCESS
• Normal eye contact
• Auditory confirmation
• Visual confirmation
• Repetition
Leading Questions
• Makes an assumption not confirmed
• Normally produces the most honest
answer
Attitude Statements
Affect the mood or feeling of the
interviewee
Additional Secondary Question
Summary Return
• Summarize
• “Own their narrative”
• Move interview forward
Interviewing Sequence
Details General
Inductive Sequence
Interviewing Sequence
DetailsGeneral
Deductive Sequence
Questions
If you have any questions, please submit them now.
Thank you for taking the time to attend today’s webinar.
If you have any questions about the information covered in the webinar,
please contact:
Joe Gerard
j.gerard@i-sight.com
Don Rabon
dwrabon@msn.com

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Class 4 - Question Types and When to Use Them