Developing a linguistically informed approach to police interviewing

MacLeod, Nicci; Haworth, Kate

doi:10.4324/9781315671765-9

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“…Grant 2010): it starts with eliciting a free narrative account in response to open-ended questions before restricting the interviewee to responding to closed questions which challenge their accounts; the final stage is then reserved for summarising the account elicited to ensure the interviewee and interviewer arrive at a consolidated version (cf. MacLeod and Haworth 2017). By comparison, the first pre-court stage in child arrangements proceedings requires court users to summarise their cases in response to questions in court forms and questions asked by a Cafcass officer over the phone.…”

Section: Discursive Practices In Child Arrangement Proceedingsmentioning

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Legal-Lay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts

Grieshofer

2024

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Focusing on adversarial legal settings, this Element explores discursive practices in court proceedings which often involve unrepresented parties – private family proceedings and small claims cases. Such proceedings present the main caseload of county and family courts but pose immense challenges when it comes to legal–lay communication. Drawing on court observations, alongside textual and interview data, the Element pursues three aims: (1) developing the methodological and theoretical framework for exploring discursive practices in legal settings; (2) establishing the link between legal–lay discourse and procedural justice; (3) presenting and contextualising linguistic phenomena as an inherent part of court research and practice. The Element illustrates how linguistic input can contribute to procedural changes and court reforms across different adversarial and non-adversarial legal settings. The exploration of discursive practices embedded in court processes and procedures consolidates and advances the existing court research conducted within the fields of socio-legal studies and forensic and legal linguistics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: Discursive Practices In Child Arrangement Proceedingsmentioning

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Legal-Lay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts

Grieshofer

2024

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“…The application of work in these areas has included the publication of handbooks for legal practitioners to assist in communicating with clients of particular backgrounds (e.g. Eades, 1992) and the delivery of research-based training packages to institutional agents such as police interviewers (MacLeod and Haworth, 2016), representing a direct and mutually beneficial engagement between professionals and researchers, and undeniable societal impact.…”

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Assuming Identities Online: How Linguistics Is Helping the Policing of Online Grooming and the Distribution of Abusive Images

MacLeod

Grant

2020

Rethinking Cybercrime

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In this chapter we seek to elucidate the potential of linguistic analysis in the undercover pursuit of criminals online. We examine the relationship between language and online identity performance and address the question of what linguistic analysis is necessary and sufficient to describe an online linguistic persona to the extent it could be successfully assumed by another individual. We compare the performance of trainee undercovers officers (UCOs) at online impersonation of a specific individual before receiving any linguistic training to their performance after such input.We also report on a series of experiments in which participants engaged with each other over Instant Messaging (IM), before an impersonation situation was engineered. Information was collected about what level of accuracy and confidence individuals can detect the substitution of one interlocutor with another, what linguistic criteria give rise to such suspicions, and how individuals prepare for impersonation tasks. We also draw on other data sets including from police training and operational settings where identity disguise is employed online in the context of investigations into child grooming and the distribution of abusive images.

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“…This is a world where language is constantly and everywhere at work -something to be controlled and crafted, something to be bought and sold. Language workers thus defined can be differentiated from people who use language as the medium of their work -most occupations fall into this category -and also from those who produce texts without that being the main objective of their work: for instance, police officers conduct and transcribe interviews (MacLeod and Haworth, 2016), but the main purpose of their work is law enforcement. In this paper, the focus will be on language awareness in professionals who work with language as the object and/or product of their work, and specifically on those who work outside academia.…”

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Language awareness and language workers

Koller

2017

Language Awareness

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This paper argues that linguistic awareness and skills are essential requirements for professionals whose work centres on language as a process and product. Brought about by the commodification of language in developed economies, language work such as brand consulting, text design or online marketing requires linguistic knowledge, resources and skills that many current teaching material do not provide. Extracts from interviews with a diverse group of language workers allow for first insights into their kind and level awareness, but also show that they are more concerned about what they perceive as a lack of language awareness in their clients and suggests a non-linear model of teaching and learning relations between academic linguists, language workers, clients and students. The paper further discusses the options that applied linguists in academia have if they want to work with/as language workers and argues that engaging with language work(ers) can be an opportunity to bring critical language awareness and discourse analytical skills to bear on professional practice and training.

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Developing a linguistically informed approach to police interviewing

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Legal-Lay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts

Legal-Lay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts

Assuming Identities Online: How Linguistics Is Helping the Policing of Online Grooming and the Distribution of Abusive Images

Language awareness and language workers

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