Police interviews in the judicial process

Haworth, Kate

doi:10.4324/9780203855607.ch12

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“…However, we do have the information that the Depositions are written records of spoken testimony, recorded by scribes with the authority of commissioners employed by the government. Thus, the issues arising from the transformation of lay people's speech into institutionally useful written documentation (see Rock 2001;Haworth 2010) must be taken into consideration. We might also want to consider any potential clashes between the expectations of the deponents and those of the officials who had been tasked with collecting the statements -in Wodak's (1996) terms, the "disorders of discourse" arising from "the gulfs that separate insiders from outsiders, members of institutions from clients of those institutions, and elites from the normal citizen uninitiated in the arcana of bureaucratic language…" (Wodak 1996: 2).…”

Section: Critical Discourse Analysismentioning

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Lexico-grammatical portraits of vulnerable women in war

MacLeod

Fennell²

2012

JHP

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The 1641 Depositions are testimonies collected from (mainly Protestant) witnesses documenting their experiences of the Irish uprising that began in October 1641. As news spread across Europe of the events unfolding in Ireland, reports of violence against women became central to the ideological construction of the barbarism of the Catholic rebels. Against a backdrop of women's subordination and firmly defined gender roles, this article investigates the representation of women in the Depositions, creating what we have termed "lexico-grammatical portraits" of particular categories of woman. In line with other research dealing with discursive constructions in seventeenth-century texts, a corpus-assisted discourse analytical approach is taken. Adopting the assumptions of Critical Discourse Analysis, the discussion is extended to what the findings reveal about representations of the roles of women, both in the reported events and in relation to the dehumanisation of the enemy in atrocity propaganda more generally.

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Lexico-grammatical portraits of vulnerable women in war

MacLeod

Fennell²

2012

JHP

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“…Para fazer uma avaliação adequada do nível de risco, o/a agente deve contribuir com a sua experiência pro ssional, nomeadamente no sentido de garantir a imparcialidade e a objetividade -princípios que devem ser garantidos na interação entre entrevistador e entrevistado (Artinopoulou et al, 2018); contudo, essa imparcialidade é relativa, na medida em que poderemos perguntar-nos se, caso fosse outro agente, o resultado da avaliação seria o mesmo. Por outro lado, o processo de recolha de informação bene ciaria seguramente de uma maior sensibilidade linguística por parte dos elementos das forças policiais, pois, como demonstrado por estudos prévios (Coulthard e Johnson, 2009;Holt e Johnson, 2010;Haworth, 2010;Rock, 2001), e como se mostrará nas próximas secções, as perguntas colocadas pela polícia apresentam problemas ao nível da simplicidade e da objetividade.…”

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Da “intimidação intencional” aos “ciúmes excessivos”: uma análise linguística forense das Fichas de Avaliação de Risco

Ferreira¹,

Sousa‐Silva²

2019

Language and Law

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Domestic violence and its legal processing involve language to a large extent. In Portugal, one of the resources used to handle accusations of domestic violence is the Risk assessment forms (Fichas de Avaliação de Risco) -a set of 20 questions asked by the police or legal o cer to the victim. This article presents the results of a forensic linguistic analysis of these questions. The analysis shows that these questions have several linguistic problems that may hamper the e ectiveness of the risk assessment forms at the level of syntax, semantics, lexis/terminology and pragmatics/discourse. Consequently, the victim may misinterpret the questions, and their answer can in turn be misinterpreted by the o cers. The level of risk for the victim can, as a result, be wrongly assessed and eventually jeopardise the victim's safety.

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“…The police interrogation, a question-and-answer process between police interrogators and suspects, is used to elicit confessions that, as unmediated access to the crime reality, are expected to provide powerful evidence for conviction (Inbau et al 1986;Underwager and Wakefield 1992;Baldwin 1993;Milne and Bull 1999;Leo 2008;Haworth 2010). Evans and Webb rightly argue that "the investigative task is the core aspect of policing today and what emerges from that core task is the key element of the ability to interview" (1991: 37).…”

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Exploring identities in police interrogations

Ye¹

2016

Semiotica

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Throughout a police interrogation, the identities of police interrogators and suspects are not fixed as simple questioners and answerers, but are dynamic with the changing communicative purposes in an interrogation process. At the opening and closing stages, the identities of interrogators are largely those of spokespeople and attentive listeners. At the information gathering stage, while the suspects are expected to ideally assume three simultaneous identities of animator, author, and principal, the identities of interrogators are more complicated when the interrogators attempt to construct an ideal interrogation pattern with an aim to show the voluntary nature of the suspect's confession. The identities the police interrogators attempt to construct include an institutional representative, a responsible professional, a fact verifier/lie detector, and a dominant professional. The shifting identities and positionalities of police interrogators and suspects are part of a delicate dance in an interrogation process, which will determine the effectiveness of an interrogation. The identity construction process this paper describes helps create patterns of interaction. The paper argues that the police's keen awareness of their identity construction in the interrogation will facilitate the achievement of their intended interrogative purposes.

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Police interviews in the judicial process

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Lexico-grammatical portraits of vulnerable women in war

Lexico-grammatical portraits of vulnerable women in war

Da “intimidação intencional” aos “ciúmes excessivos”: uma análise linguística forense das Fichas de Avaliação de Risco

Exploring identities in police interrogations

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