Title: For the Record: Assessing force-level variation in the transcription of police-suspect interviews in England and Wales Abstract: Recordings of police-suspect interviews in England and Wales are rarely played in […]

In May 2021 Adam Strong was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Rori Hache (2017) and Kandis Fitzpatrick (2008) in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Although there was forensic […]

Title: For the Record: A collaboration to improve evidential consistency in the production of police  investigative interview records Abstract: This paper will present the findings of a pilot project being […]

Title: Suspect responses to questions during homicide investigative interviews: What are the effects of suspect veracity and culpability? Abstract: During a police investigative interview how a suspect responds is often […]

Title: (Not) for the record: Doing implicatures in police reports of domestic violence Abstract: Conversational implicature (Grice 1975) is a pragmatic strategy used in discourse to carry meaning(s) not encoded […]

Intrinsic and extrinsic factors of sexual aggressors’ associated with their confession in an investigative interviewing context Abstract Much is still yet unknown of individual, offense and situational factors allowing to […]

Title: It’s not “just like on TV”: A corpus analysis and examination of Miranda warnings on TV. Abstract: The American Miranda warnings are considered an “icon of constitutional law” that […]

Title: Interpreters’ Experiences and Knowledge of Child Forensic Interviews Abstract: Child forensic interviewers have expressed concerns regarding the quality of interpreter-mediated child forensic interviews, including limited access to qualified interpreters […]

Title: The Complex Trial Protocol, an innovative way to get to the truth Abstract: The P300 is a well-studied electrical brainwave which appears as a positive (P) deflection on an […]

Title: Transfer of Avatar Training Effects to Investigative Field Interviews of Children Conducted by Police Officers Abstract: Previous research with students and some professional groups (psychologists) have repeatedly demonstrated that […]

Title: Applying the Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique to insurance claims  Abstract: This study investigated the Asymmetric Information Management (AIM) technique’s ability to detect fraudulent insurance claims submitted online. The […]

Title: Investigative Interview Training using a Multimodal Child Avatar Abstract: Effective child investigative interview training is needed to bridge the gap between best-practice-guidelines and practice in field. We aim to […]

Title: Interviewing via the Model Statement: Examining the factors underpinning its effectiveness Abstract: Background The Model Statement (MS) is an audio-recorded detailed statement, on an unrelated topic to that of […]

Title: “ViContact” - an Interactive Seminar and Virtual Reality Training for Talking to Children about suspected Sexual Abuse Abstract: We introduce “ViContact” - a newly developed multi-method programme to train […]

Title: Sketching Routes to Elicit Information and Cues to Deceit  Abstract: Investigative practitioners are increasingly using sketching whilst narrating in investigative and intelligence-gathering interviews. The technique involves suspects describing the […]

Title: The ViContact VR Training: Virtual Children and their Response Algorithm Abstract: In this presentation, the ViContact VR training will be introduced in more detail. The ViContact VR training is […]

Title: Examining a new interview technique to gather information and elicit cues to deceit: The Ghostwriter Method Abstract: Background. This is the second experiment ever conducted to examine a new […]

Title: How to talk to children when suspecting sexual abuse – Current practice in Schools in the North of Germany and recommendations for best practice guidelines Abstract: Teachers and other […]