what is the difference between interrogation and interviewing?

Question

what is the difference between interrogating and interviewing?

Answer 1

When you are being interviewed, you are being asked questions to see if you are the right candidate for a job, school, club, etc.

When you are being interrogated, you are being asked questions because you are under suspicion of doing something illegal.

Answer 2

The difference between an interrogation and an interview is that an interrogation is used during an investigation, criminal, and is usually geared to intimidate the suspect into a confession.

Answer 3

The difference is determine by the frequency and intensity of the questioning and this is influenced by the level of prior knowledge of the intended objective by those seeking the information.

For those answering the questions, the frequency and intensity of the questions coupled with the level of insight they are afforded of the intended objective - will determine whether or not they have been subjected to an interview or an interrogation.

Sincerely

Kaizen

Answer 4

Interrogating you do to someone that might have commited a crime or been at the scene of it. Interviewing is more of something you would do to a movie star, singer, etc.

Answer 5

interrogation is much harder and usually implies guilt is already assumed. interviewing are just general questions some one might ask for you getting a job for example

Answer 6

Interviewing is done in a formal but matter-of-fact way, to gather information.

Interrogating is done in an intense, close, aggressive line of questioning to obtain information that is typically more critical to the information seeker.

Answer 7

1. Finger cracker.

2. Pen and paper.

Both are a means to some kind of end.:)