Just a Normal Conversation: Investigative Interviews in a County Jail

2021 ◽  
pp. 009385482199350
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Kelly ◽  
Nathan Meehan ◽  
Michael Mcclary ◽  
Elizabeth M. Jenaway
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Investigative Interviewing ◽  
County Jail ◽  
Component Score ◽  
Investigative Interviews ◽  
Questioning Strategies ◽  
Correctional System ◽  
Level Variable

The majority of research on investigative interviewing has been on police attempting to solve a crime by obtaining a confession or gathering information, and comparatively fewer studies have examined interviewing at points “downstream” in the process, such as in the courts or correctional system. Furthermore, the focus of the research has been to measure the variable techniques or questioning strategies that produce confessions or information at the expense of analyzing factors related to the interview itself. Thus, we analyzed a sample of 50 corrections-based interviews for “dynamic” interviewing methods and interviewee responses that were measured at three points throughout the interview, and we measured 10 “static” interview factors. In the final multilevel model, we found that productive questioning methods increased a component score that combined interviewee cooperation, engagement, and forthcomingness, the several measures of accusatorial interrogation methods decreased the outcome measure, and the case-level variable of interviewee-initiated interviews increased it.

Multilevel Twin Models: Geographical Region as a Third Level Variable

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zenab Tamimy ◽  
Sofieke T. Kevenaar ◽  
Jouke Jan Hottenga ◽  
Michael D. Hunter ◽  
Eveline L. de Zeeuw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Phenotypic Variance ◽  
Environmental Variance ◽  
Twin Model ◽  
Snp Data ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Twin Models ◽  
Regional Clustering ◽  
Level Variable ◽  
Variance Explained

AbstractThe classical twin model can be reparametrized as an equivalent multilevel model. The multilevel parameterization has underexplored advantages, such as the possibility to include higher-level clustering variables in which lower levels are nested. When this higher-level clustering is not modeled, its variance is captured by the common environmental variance component. In this paper we illustrate the application of a 3-level multilevel model to twin data by analyzing the regional clustering of 7-year-old children’s height in the Netherlands. Our findings show that 1.8%, of the phenotypic variance in children’s height is attributable to regional clustering, which is 7% of the variance explained by between-family or common environmental components. Since regional clustering may represent ancestry, we also investigate the effect of region after correcting for genetic principal components, in a subsample of participants with genome-wide SNP data. After correction, region did no longer explain variation in height. Our results suggest that the phenotypic variance explained by region actually represent ancestry effects on height.

scholarly journals Investigative interviewing, dissociative identity disorder and the role of the Registered Intermediary

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan M. O’Mahony ◽  
Becky Milne ◽  
Kevin Smith
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽  
Investigative Interviewing ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Investigative Interviews ◽  
Limited Experience ◽  
The Many

Purpose Intermediaries facilitate communication with many types of vulnerable witnesses during police investigative interviews. The purpose of this paper is to find out how intermediaries engage in their role in cases where the vulnerable witness presents with one type of vulnerability, namely, dissociative identity disorder (DID). Design/methodology/approach In phase 1, data were obtained from the National Crime Agency Witness Intermediary Team (WIT) to ascertain the demand for intermediaries in DID cases in England and Wales within a three-year period. In phase 2 of this study four intermediaries who had worked with witnesses with DID completed an in-depth questionnaire detailing their experience. Findings Referrals for DID are currently incorporated within the category of personality disorder in the WIT database. Ten definite DID referrals and a possible additional ten cases were identified within this three-year period. Registered Intermediary participants reported having limited experience and limited specific training in dealing with DID prior to becoming a Registered Intermediary. Furthermore, intermediaries reported the many difficulties that they experienced with DID cases in terms of how best to manage the emotional personalities that may present. Originality/value This is the first published study where intermediaries have shared their experiences about DID cases. It highlights the complexities of obtaining a coherent account from such individuals in investigative interviews.

scholarly journals Multilevel Twin Models: Geographical Region as a Third Level Variable

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Tamimy ◽  
S. T. Kevenaar ◽  
J. J. Hottenga ◽  
M. D. Hunter ◽  
E. L. de Zeeuw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Phenotypic Variance ◽  
Environmental Variance ◽  
Twin Model ◽  
Snp Data ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Twin Models ◽  
Regional Clustering ◽  
Level Variable ◽  
Variance Explained

AbstractThe classical twin model can be reparametrized as an equivalent multilevel model. The multilevel parameterization has underexplored advantages, such as the possibility to include higher-level clustering variables in which lower levels are nested. When this higher-level clustering is not modeled, its variance is captured by the common environmental variance component. In this paper we illustrate the application of a 3-level multilevel model to twin data by analyzing the regional clustering of 7-year-old children’s height in the Netherlands. Our findings show that 1.8%, of the phenotypic variance in children’s height is attributable to regional clustering, which is 7% of the variance explained by between-family or common environmental components. Since regional clustering may represent ancestry, we also investigate the effect of region after correcting for genetic principal components, in a subsample of participants with genome-wide SNP data. After correction, region no longer explained variation in height. Our results suggest that the phenotypic variance explained by region might represent ancestry effects on height.

scholarly journals It Takes Two: The Round-Robin Methodology for Investigative Interviewing Research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte A. Hudson ◽  
Liam Satchell ◽  
Nicole M Adams-Quackenbush
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Round Robin ◽  
Investigative Interviewing ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Questioning Strategies ◽  
Performance Accuracy ◽  
Legal Psychology ◽  
Typical Performance ◽  
Sources Of Variation ◽  
Interview Performance

This is the post print of the paper accepted in Frontiers in Psychology: Forensic and Legal Psychology on 22nd October 2018. Investigative interviews are complex, dyadic, social interactions typically studied by evaluating interviewers’ questioning strategies. In field settings, interviewers naturally vary in their interviewing practice. Thus, it is important to conduct research reflective of idiosyncrasies in witnesses, interviewers, and the resulting unique pairings. This study explored sources of variation in an interview by using a ‘round-robin’ design. Each session of the study involved five witnesses observing five separate events. Witnesses were then simultaneously, but independently interviewed by four different interviewers, or completed a self-administered written interview. This sequence was repeated until each witness had seen every event and had been interviewed by each interviewer. Over nine sessions (N = 45) this produced 225 total interviews. Individual interview performance (accuracy and level of detail) as well as experience (subjective ratings) were then analysed in relation to the typical performance of the interviewer, the witness, the event, and the unique paring. We found that witnesses and interviewers could have an effect on statement quality, however the unique interview experience variance had the greatest influence on interview performance. This study presents the round-robin methodology as a useful tool to study realistic variation in interviewer, witness, and dyad behaviour. The preprint of this paper is available at psyarxiv.com/tv5gz/, and materials and data are available at osf.io/ef634/files/.

The performance-level model of hospital decontamination preparedness

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scot Phelps, JD, MPH ◽  
Garrett Doering, MS
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Multiple Level ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Realistic Assessment ◽  
Level Model

Objective: Describe a multilevel model of decontamination capacity for hospitals.Design: Descriptive model.Setting: Acute care hospitals with decontamination responsibilities.Patients, Participants: None.Interventions: None.Main Outcome Measure(s): NoneResults: This multilevel model of defining decontamination capacity would allow more realistic assessment of current capacity, allow for fluctuating service levels depending on time of day, incorporate realistic ramp-up and ramp-down of decontamination services, allow for a defined fall-back decontamination model should decontamination processes fail, allow hospitals to define long-term decontamination service level goals, and allow better understanding of when and why to focus on low-risk/low-resource patients rather than high-risk/high-resource patients.Conclusions: This multiple-level model would allow for more realistic and effective hospital-based decontamination service models and should become part of the national decontamination paradigm.

scholarly journals A Theory of Ethics to Guide Researchers’ Formulation of Psychological Investigative Interviewing Methods

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Neequaye
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Investigative Interviewing ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Psychological Techniques ◽  
Investigative Interviews ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Interviewing Techniques

This article examines ethical considerations relevant to the formulation of psychological investigative interviewing techniques. Psychology researchers are now devoting much attention to improving the efficacy of eliciting information in investigative interviews. Stakeholders agree that interviewing methods must be ethical. However, there is a less concerted effort at systematically delineating ethical considerations to guide the creation of interviewing methods derived from scientific psychological principles. The disclosures interviewees make have the potential to put them at considerable risk, and it is not always possible to determine beforehand whether placing interviewees under such risks is warranted. Thus, I argue that research psychologists aiming to contribute ethical methods in this context should ensure that those methods abide by a standard that actively protects interviewees against unjustified risks. Interviewing techniques should provide interviewees, particularly vulnerable ones, with enough agency to freely determine what to disclose. Researchers should explicitly indicate the boundary conditions of a method if it cannot achieve this benchmark. Journal editors and reviewers should request such discussions. The suggested standard tasks research psychologists to be circumspect about recommending psychological techniques without fully addressing the ethical boundaries of those methods in their publications.

scholarly journals Investigative Interviews with Suspects and Witnesses: A Survey of Perceptions and Interview Practices Among Malaysian Police

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Li Chung ◽  
Magdalene Ng ◽  
I Ling Ding
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Investigative Interviewing ◽  
Investigative Interviews ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Crime Investigation ◽  
Interviewing Techniques ◽  
Investigation Process

AbstractInterviewing of suspects, victims, and eyewitnesses contributes significantly to the investigation process. While a great deal is known about the investigative interviewing practices in the United Kingdom and the Nordic region, very little is known about the framework used by Malaysian police officers. A survey was administered to 44 Royal Malaysian Police interviewers serving in the Sexual, Women and Child Investigations Division (D11) of the Crime Investigation Department. Respondents were asked about the investigative interviewing techniques they use with suspects, witnesses, and victims; how effective they think these techniques are; and the training they had received. Findings revealed that many police officers currently possess limited knowledge of best practice investigative interviewing. More training, feedback, and supervision is needed and desired.

Investigative interviewing: Assessing questioning strategies employed to children in conflict with the law

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
Via Allison B. Del Rosario ◽  
Rachelle Ballesteros-Lintao
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Investigative Interviewing ◽  
Youth Offenders ◽  
Forensic Linguistics ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Questioning Strategies ◽  
The Law ◽  
Oxford University Press

Abstract As majority of criminal cases in the Philippines are often challenged by the plight to obtain voluntary narratives from Children who are in Conflict with the Law (CICL) (National Police Commission, Department of the Interior and Local Government, Republic of the Philippines 2009. Adoption of the police manual on the management of cases of children in conflict with the law (CICL) and the simplified rules in the apprehension and investigation of CICL, Resolution No. 415.), and Forensic Linguistics being a relatively new field in the local setting, it is timely to assess the questioning strategies heavily relied upon by law enforcement officers in the investigative process. However, questioning strategies geared to address purely the investigations of children in conflict with the law has so far been hardly formally investigated. This study was aimed at examining the questioning strategies used in by the authorities in investigating adolescents accused of crime against property. Fifteen transcripts of audio-recorded investigative interviews from selected law enforcement authorities in Manila and Quezon City were analyzed vis-à-vis (Shepherd, Eric. 2007. Investigative interviewing: The conversation management approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press). Forms of Questions and (Gibbons, John. 2003. Forensic Linguistics: An introduction to language in the justice system. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing) Cognitive Interview (CI) frameworks. Based on (Shepherd, Eric. 2007. Investigative interviewing: The conversation management approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press) Shepherd’s framework, results yielded reveal that most officers employed counter-productive questions, i.e. abusive, intimidating, and aggressive techniques to prompt controlled confession from alleged youth offenders. The study also found that the investigative officers did not follow a specific interviewing structure in handling cases of alleged youth offenders. As the use of appropriate questioning techniques have been presented in the study, it is recommended that a pivotal redraft be made in police CICL interviewing manuals.

The Aphasia Communication Outcome Measure

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Doyle ◽  
William Hula
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Measure ◽  
Communication Outcome
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