page_title: Interrogation
section_title: Techniques
hierarchical_section_title: Interrogation / Techniques
context_page_description: Interrogation is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, and intelligence agencies with the goal of eliciting useful information. Interrogation may involve a diverse array of techniques, ranging from developing a rapport with the subject to torture.
context_section_description: There are multiple techniques employed in interrogation including deception, torture, increasing suggestibility, and the use of mind-altering drugs.
caption: Interrogations in Jail, by Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1710
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "7848", "Image ImageLength": "4231", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image Compression": "Uncompressed", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "28", "Image YResolution": "28", "Image PlanarConfiguration": "1", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2010:03:08 10:03:45", "Image ExifOffset": "252", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "28", "Thumbnail YResolution": "28", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "390", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5297", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1771", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "936"}