An Examination of the Prevalence of Temporally Leading Questions in Child Witness Interviews

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Guadagno, Belinda L
Powell, Martine B
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2014
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Leading questions are generally defined as those that raise details not provided by the witness. Leading questions can raise content details (eg, actions, objects, persons) or can refer to the time when details occurred. The latter questions are referred to as temporally leading. Study 1 compared the incidence of content and temporally leading questions in field interviews conducted by police officers when eliciting accounts from children about repeated, or a single episode of, abuse. Study 2 extended the analysis to use standardised mock rather than field interviews, where there was a precise record of what events occurred. In both studies, temporally leading questions were more frequent than content-leading questions, but only in situations in which multiple occurrences of the event were being discussed. The implications of these results are discussed.

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International Journal of Police Science & Management

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16

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1

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Criminology

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Guadagno, BL; Powell, MB, An Examination of the Prevalence of Temporally Leading Questions in Child Witness Interviews, International Journal of Police Science & Management, 2014, 16 (1), pp. 16-25

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