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  • The role of evidence in the interviewing of suspects: an analysis of Australian police transcripts

    Author(s)
    Sellers, Steven
    Kebbell, Mark
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kebbell, Mark R.
    Sellers, Steven T.
    Year published
    2011
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    Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of evidence in the interviewing of suspects. Design/methodology/approach - Analyses were made of 55 interview transcripts about the questioning of suspected sex offenders by officers of an Australian police service. Findings - In 22 per cent of these interviews the suspect actively attempted to discover what the evidence against them was and in 9 per cent the interviewer attempted to learn of the suspect's knowledge of this evidence. Interviewers tended to favour a strategy of first asking the suspect to provide a free account of their role in the alleged ...
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    Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to determine the role of evidence in the interviewing of suspects. Design/methodology/approach - Analyses were made of 55 interview transcripts about the questioning of suspected sex offenders by officers of an Australian police service. Findings - In 22 per cent of these interviews the suspect actively attempted to discover what the evidence against them was and in 9 per cent the interviewer attempted to learn of the suspect's knowledge of this evidence. Interviewers tended to favour a strategy of first asking the suspect to provide a free account of their role in the alleged crime. If this approach failed to elicit a confession, interviewers would then disclose at least some of the evidence against that suspect. In 93 per cent of the interviews some form of evidence disclosure was made by the interviewer; this was usually achieved by referring to the evidence indirectly rather than explicitly. Originality/value - Although such disclosures of information seemed to have little impact on suspects' decisions to confess, this study illustrates the important role of evidence in the suspect interviewing process.
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    Journal Title
    British Journal of Forensic Practice
    Volume
    13
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    http://pierprofessional.metapress.com/content/a638673524127281/
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/41887
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