Examining Rapport in Investigative Interviews with Suspects: Does its Building and Maintenance Work?

Walsh, Dave; Bull, Ray

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“…Prior field studies (e.g. Clarke & Milne, 2001;Walsh & Bull, 2012 have hitherto tended to concern examining tasks and behaviours demonstrated within interviews (such as building/maintaining rapport, undertaking questioning strategies, disclosing evidence, and avoiding confirmation bias or false confessions). However, self-evaluation has been found by educators and clinicians to be a key factor in their enhancement of the skills required in their professions.…”

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Evaluating interviews which search for the truth with suspects: but are investigators’ self-assessments of their own skills truthful ones?

Walsh

King

Griffiths

2017

Psychology, Crime & Law

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Self-evaluation of one's own performance has been found in prior research to be an enabler of professional development. The task of evaluation is also a core component of a model of the investigative interviewing of victims, witnesses and suspects, being increasingly used throughout the world. However, it remains the case that there has been little research as to how practitioners approach the task itself. The present study examined the topic through the lens of observing how effectively 30 real-life investigators in the UK undertook evaluation of their interviews, representing almost the entire investigative frontline workforce of a small law enforcement agency in this country. Using an established scale of measurement, both investigators' and an expert's ratings of the same sample of interviews were compared across a range of tasks and behaviours. It was found that in almost all the assessed behaviours, requiring of the investigators to provide a self-rating, their scores tended to significantly outstrip those applied to the sample by the expert. Reasons are explored for the investigators' overstated assessments. Implications for practice are then discussed. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Evaluating interviews which search for the truth with suspects: but are investigators’ self-assessments of their own skills truthful ones?

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Griffiths

2017

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“…The present study used the definitions that had been used in prior studies (Walsh & Bull, 2010b;2012a;2012b).…”

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Interviewing suspects: examining the association between skills, questioning, evidence disclosure, and interview outcomes

Walsh

Bull

2015

Psychology, Crime & Law

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“…This type of interview calls on police officers to initiate and manage conversations that include asking personal and searching questions, which suspects are often reticent to answer, while seeking to maximize the disclosure of investigation-relevant information (e.g., Shepherd, 2007;Walsh & Bull, 2012).…”

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Empathy in the field: Towards a taxonomy of empathic communication in information gathering interviews with suspected sex offenders

Dando

Oxburgh

2016

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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a b s t r a c tResearch suggests that those suspected of sexual offending might be more willing to reveal information about their crimes if interviewers display empathic behaviour. However, the literature concerning investigative empathy is in its infancy, and so as yet is not well understood. This study explores empathy in a sample of real-life interviews conducted by police officers in England with suspected sex offenders. Using qualitative methodology, the presence and type of empathic verbal behaviours displayed was examined. Resulting categories were quantitatively analysed to investigate their occurrence overall, and across interviewer gender. We identified four distinct types of empathy, some of which were used significantly more often than others. Female interviewers displayed more empathic behaviour per se by a considerable margin. La empatía sobre el terreno: hacia una taxonomía de la comunicación empática en las entrevistas para recoger información de presuntos agresores sexuales Palabras clave: Delincuentes sexuales Entrevista de investigación Empatía Recopilación de información r e s u m e n La investigación indica que las personas sospechosas de agresión sexual podrían estar más dispuestas a revelar información sobre sus delitos si los entrevistadores muestran un comportamiento empático. No obstante, los estudios sobre la empatía en la investigación están aún en mantillas, por lo que aún no se entiende bien. Este estudio explora la empatía en una muestra de entrevistas en la vida real realizadas por agentes de policía en Inglaterra con presuntos delincuentes sexuales. Se analizó mediante metodología cualitativa la presencia y el tipo de comportamientos verbales empáticos mostrados. Las categorías obtenidas se analizaron cuantitativamente con el fin de investigar su aparición global y en función del sexo del entrevistador. Se identificaron cuatro tipos diferentes de empatía, algunos de ellos utilizados con más frecuencia que otros. Las entrevistadoras mostraron mayor comportamiento empático per se por un margen considerable. Interviews conducted by police officers with a person suspected of wrongdoing 1 are complex social interactions during which interviewers are tasked with gathering information about 1 From here on 'suspects' is used to describe people who are suspected of having committed an offence, and who are being formally investigated.http://dx

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Examining Rapport in Investigative Interviews with Suspects: Does its Building and Maintenance Work?

Cited by 147 publications

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Evaluating interviews which search for the truth with suspects: but are investigators’ self-assessments of their own skills truthful ones?

Evaluating interviews which search for the truth with suspects: but are investigators’ self-assessments of their own skills truthful ones?

Interviewing suspects: examining the association between skills, questioning, evidence disclosure, and interview outcomes

Empathy in the field: Towards a taxonomy of empathic communication in information gathering interviews with suspected sex offenders

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