Interviewing

This week in Writing for the Disciplines Class, I learned many things about conducting an interview. The two groups in class had a different approach on how to conduct an interview. The two groups had different crimes that they were given. The first group to conduct the interview was more relaxed. That might have had something to do with the answers having nothing to do with what crime occurred. Therefore it was hard for the interviewer to ask anymore follow up questions. The other group had better luck. The interview caught the suspect in a few lies. Also a point that was brought up was during the first interview the suspect answered quickly and maintained eye contact. In the second interview the suspect was pausing a lot. Overall I think that this exercise was very helpful and I would not mind doing it again.  

The Interview

In the this week’s article called The Interview, by Douglas Starr explains about his experience at a basic Reid & Associates training course, in Boston. He went into great detail about his experience there. This training camp was to teach people how to properly interrogate someone. However, some of the points that this person made I felt went against what the book for the writing class was saying. For example the article explains that the key of the interview is to shut the client up and the book was explaining that the key is to get to the truth. How can one get to the truth if the client is supposed to be kept quiet? Even though this this was kind of confusing at times I still learned a few things. I learned that to get someone to confess often times you should downplay the offense. Even though the article went against some of the book’s teachings I still think there is much to be learned from The Interview.

Sweet Beginnings

In this week’s article called How Beekeeping Jobs are Giving Ex-cons in Chicago a Second Chance, by Casey Tolan explains how having ex-cons work for Sweet Beginnings decreases the recidivism rate. In fact the recidivism rate in Illinios is fifty five percent. The ex-cons that work for Sweet Beginnings only have a recidivism rate of four percent. After reading this article I realized that there are a lot of positive things about this program. Some of the ex-cons that work here have never had a job before. Putting Sweet Beginnings on a resume will help find another job. The employees feel like the other employees at Sweet Beginnings are like family. This is important because many people in jail feel like they do not have any family. When they get out of prison and work at Sweet Beginnings it is a good experience to realize that there are people that care about them. Another positive about Sweet Beginnings is that it is profit about. In fact it makes about nine thousand a year. I realize that nine thousand a year is not a lot, but at least it is something. Especially when most of the programs only spend money. There are so many positive outcomes because of the Sweet Beginnings and I believe that there should be so many more opportunities like that.