Communication in investigative and legal contexts : integrated approaches from forensic psychology, linguistics and law enforcement / edited by Gavin Oxburgh, Trond Myklebust, Tim Grant & Rebecca Milne
Published
Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons, 2015
Wiley series in the psychology of crime, policing and law
Contents
""Title page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Notes on Editors""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Series Preface""; ""1 Communication in Investigative and Legal Settings: Introduction and Contexts""; ""Introduction""; ""Forensic linguistics""; ""Professionalization of interviewing""; ""Global coherence""; ""Outline of book""; ""References""; ""Section I: Communication, Language and Memory""; ""2 Exploring Types and Functions of Questions in Police Interviews""; ""Introduction""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""3 Recall, Verbatim Memory and Remembered Narratives""; ""Introduction""
""What is episodic memory?""""Is the retrieval of episodic memory direct or generative?""; ""How are episodic memories validated and communicated?""; ""Practice""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Section II: Communicating with Victims and Witnesses""; ""4 Interviewing Child Witnesses""; ""Introduction""; ""Developmental Considerations""; ""Characteristics of Language""; ""Pre-substantive considerations""; ""Different Types of Interviewer Utterance""; ""Children and institutionalized legal language""; ""Putting theory into practice""; ""References""
""5 Interviewing Adult Witnesses and Victims""""Introduction""; ""The Cognitive Interview""; ""Building rapport""; ""Asking questions""; ""Memory retrieval""; ""Interviewer communication style""; ""Current training efforts""; ""Future directions for research""; ""References""; ""6 The Role of Initial Witness Accounts within the Investigative Process""; ""Introduction""; ""What are initial accounts and who elicits them?""; ""What should be considered when eliciting an initial account?""; ""How do the goals of initial accounts differ from the goals of subsequent interviews?""
""Does the format of the initial account matter?""""Does the quality of the initial account affect the quality of subsequent accounts?""; ""Does providing an initial account inoculate against the effects of misleading questions?""; ""Do inconsistencies between the initial and subsequent account(s) mean that the witness is unreliable?""; ""Summary and conclusions""; ""References""; ""Section III: Communicating with Suspects""; ""7 Interviewing Suspected Offenders""; ""Introduction""; ""Background and history of interviewing""; ""Models of interrogation and investigative interviewing""
""'Interview' versus 'interrogation'""""Questioning strategies""; ""Questions and answers""; ""Discussion""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""8 A (Nearly) 360° Perspective of the Interrogation Process: Communicating with High-Value Targets""; ""Introduction""; ""Interrogator Perspective""; ""Supporting Communication through Interpreters""; ""Supporting information elicitation through analysis""; ""A (nearly) 360° perspective""; ""Towards a learning organization""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""References""; ""Section IV: Communicating in the Courtroom""; ""9 Courtroom Questioning and Discourse""
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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