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SUMMARY:Practitioner Case Study: The Role of Intermediaries at Parole Board Oral Hearings
DESCRIPTION:Title – The Role of Intermediaries at Parole Board Oral Hearings \nAbstract: \nAn exploratory study about the use of intermediaries (communication specialists) at Parole Board Oral Hearings with the following aims: \n\nTo what extent are intermediaries used to facilitate communication with vulnerable prisoners giving evidence at oral hearings?\nTo what extent are intermediaries used to facilitate communication with vulnerable victims attending oral Hearings?\n\n 39 participants completed the research questionnaire. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis. \nResults: \n\nParticipants recognized a number of communication difficulties that persons attending an oral hearing may have including needs relating to learning disability; mental illness; personality disorder; ADHD; autism; dementia; head injury and trauma.\nParticipants had limited experience of intermediaries attending parole hearings for prisoners.\nParticipants had no experience of intermediaries attending parole hearings for victims.\nThere was support for using intermediaries at oral hearings.\nThere were some cautionary words of concern including awareness that oral hearings may take longer\, and the parole process be delayed\, causing unfairness\, if intermediaries were required.\n\nConclusions: \n\nIn the absence of a formal intermediary service for Parole Board Oral Hearings\, all Parole Board Members\, professional witnesses\, and legal representatives must be aware of adaptations that should be made to enable effective communication at Parole Board oral hearings.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/practitioner-case-study-the-role-of-intermediaries-at-parole-board-oral-hearings/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: Vanity Fair Syndrome in Japan: A Conviction without a Criminal
DESCRIPTION:Title: Vanity Fair Syndrome in Japan: A Conviction without a Criminal \nAbstract: \nIt is known that sometimes investigators unintentionally let defendants confess that he/she is a criminal in cases that should have been treated as ‘accidents’ not ‘crimes’. This is one of the types of false confession leading to the miscarriage of justice. \nCollecting such kinds of wrongful conviction cases in Japan\, we confirmed that police have a psychological tendency to regard a case as a crime rather than an accident even when they don’t have definite evidence. We named this ‘Vanity Fair Syndrome’ after the famous novel\, in which one of the main characters\, Ms. Rebecca Sharp\, made use of every people and chances to run up the stairs to the upper class’ society. \nIn this presentation\, based on this concept we will analyze a recent Japanese case with a false confession of murder of a patient given by a nursing woman\, although the death was actually by an accident. This case shows us very clearly the universal mistake the criminal justice system falls into. \nThe district court ordering a not guilty judgement in the retrial showed how the investigative interviewing of a vulnerable defendant could be dangerous through analysing the interview process on this case. The female defendant was 24 years old at the time when she was arrested and had developmental disability and attachment disorder. \n‘Vanity Fair Syndrome’ is seen not only in Japan but also in other countries and the lessons taken from this case should be shared with the investigators across the borders.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-vanity-fair-syndrome-in-japan-a-conviction-without-a-criminal/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: Police officers' perceptions and experiences of promoting honesty in child witnesses
DESCRIPTION:Title: Police officers’ perceptions and experiences of promoting honesty in child witnesses \nAbstract: \nWhen interviewing vulnerable witnesses\, such as children\, investigative interviewers in England and Wales are advised to follow the Achieving Best Evidence (ABE) in Criminal Proceedings guidelines (MoJ\, 2022). These guidelines recommend that practitioners engage in a truth-lies discussion with child witnesses at the end of the rapport phase of an interview. Such discussions aim to make children aware of the importance of telling the truth\, thus encouraging them to provide an honest and truthful statement. However\, there is no standardised procedure involving the employment of truth-lies discussions in practice and to date\, little is known about whether\, and how\, these discussions are employed in the field. This study will explore police officers’ perceptions and experiences of promoting honesty in child witnesses through interviewing strategies such as truth-lies discussions. Police officers\, trained in ABE guidelines and who regularly interview child witnesses\, will be invited to complete an online survey. Multiple choice and open-ended questions will explore (i) practitioners’ experiences of promoting honesty during interviews with children\, (ii) potential obstacles encountered\, and (iii) recommendations for alternative honesty-promoting strategies. The results will be discussed in terms of ideas for future research to inform evidence-based policing to facilitate honest and accurate accounts from child witnesses.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-police-officers-perceptions-and-experiences-of-promoting-honesty-in-child-witnesses/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220623T095000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220623T101000
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: Verbal cues to deception in autistic mock-suspects
DESCRIPTION:Title: Verbal cues to deception in autistic mock-suspects \nAbstract: \nInvestigative interviews present significant social and cognitive challenges to autistic people. Autistic witnesses often provide less detailed and accurate information during interviews than typically developing (TD) comparisons. Autistic suspects may similarly struggle to provide such information\, leaving them susceptible to appearing deceptive. However\, there is currently a lack of research to guide investigative interviewing and veracity judgements with autistic suspects. The present study aims to address these gaps in the literature. Thirty autistic and 30 TD adults (IQs > 85) were randomly assigned to a mock-crime (guilty) or non-criminal (innocent) task in an immersive virtual city environment. Subsequently\, participants were instructed to attempt to convince a mock-investigative interviewer of their innocence in the crime. Data collection is in the final stages. Inferential statistical analyses will test whether (i) autistic adults’ deceptive statements display verbal cues consistent with those of TD adults; and (ii) autistic suspects’ truthful statements inadvertently display verbal deception cues (e.g.\, contradicting available evidence and containing less investigation-relevant information). Analysis of participants’ post-interview questionnaire responses will examine interview experience (e.g.\, whether autistic adults experience greater levels of anxiety and difficulty understanding questions). Findings will have implications for interviewing autistic suspects\, as well as for understanding deception in autism.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-verbal-cues-to-deception-in-autistic-mock-suspects-2/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: How to talk to children when suspecting sexual abuse – Current practice in Schools in the North of Germany and recommendations for best practice guidelines
DESCRIPTION: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 \nAbstract: \nTeachers and other school professionals (e.g. school social workers\, school psychologists) are among the first contact persons for children to disclose experiences of sexual abuse. Equally\, if teachers suspect sexual abuse\, they may approach children and initiate a conversation or seek help from other school professionals for such conversations. In both cases\, the person dealing with the child faces the challenging task to conduct conversations in a manner encouraging disclosure\, yet avoiding suggestive influences.\nIn a pilot study up to twenty interviews with teachers and other school professionals will be conducted during Spring 2022 to collect indications on how to handle situations in schools and how to talk to children when suspecting sexual abuse. Furthermore\, up to twenty interviews with members of the judicial and help system (police officers\, prosecutors\, employees at youth welfare office or counselling services) are conducted to collect their suggestions for best practice guidelines for schools.\nPreliminary interview results concerning the current practice in schools will be presented and best practice guidelines will be discussed.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-how-to-talk-to-children-when-suspecting-sexual-abuse-current-practice-in-schools-in-the-north-of-germany-and-recommendations-for-best-practice-guidelines/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: The ViContact VR Training: Virtual Children and their Response Algorithm
DESCRIPTION:Title: The ViContact VR Training: Virtual Children and their Response Algorithm \nAbstract: \nIn this presentation\, the ViContact VR training will be introduced in more detail. The ViContact VR training is a virtual training environment in which participants can practice in an action-oriented way how to talk to children in suspected cases of child sexual abuse in order to find out whether and what happened to a child. \nFor this purpose\, virtual children aged about 10 years have been developed who have general knowledge about their own circumstances and knowledge about a stressful event. This could be a sexual abuse\, another event requiring intervention\, or some other stressful event with no need for intervention. \nThe presentation will focus on the algorithm developed to determine how virtual children respond to participants’ questions and comments. The basic idea of this complex probabilistic scheme is that children are more likely to reveal their knowledge when questioning is open and socio-emotionally supportive than when questioning is closed or suggestive. \nIn this way\, the algorithm supports the training goal\, as participants can only achieve it if they question the child appropriately. \n 
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-the-vicontact-vr-training-virtual-children-and-their-response-algorithm/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: “ViContact” - an Interactive Seminar and Virtual Reality Training for Talking to Children about suspected Sexual Abuse
DESCRIPTION:Title: “ViContact” – an Interactive Seminar and Virtual Reality Training for Talking to Children about suspected Sexual Abuse \nAbstract: \nWe introduce “ViContact” – a newly developed multi-method programme to train teachers how to talk to children about suspicions of sexual abuse. ViContact consists of a two-day seminar as well as exercises in a three-dimensional virtual reality scenario\, where teachers conduct verbal conversations with virtual children. Depending on the teachers’ conversational competences\, the virtual children will either disclose what they have experienced or withhold this information. After each conversation\, the teachers receive automated feedback with personalized advice on how to improve their conversational skills. In this presentation\, we give an overview of the program and present a study protocol for a randomized control trial investigating the effects of both training components on the conversational skills of teacher trainees. We expect an increase in open questions and rapport-building strategies. We also investigate effects of the training on self-efficacy\, as well as cognitive patterns and emotions regarding suspicions of sexual abuse. In case of a positive evaluation\, the training programme will be available open source and hopefully contribute to improving teachers’ abilities in dealing with suspicions of sexual abuse.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-vicontact-an-interactive-seminar-and-virtual-reality-training-for-talking-to-children-about-suspected-sexual-abuse/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: Investigative Interview Training using an AI-Driven Talking Avatar
DESCRIPTION:Title: Investigative Interview Training using a Multimodal Child Avatar \nAbstract: \nEffective child investigative interview training is needed to bridge the gap between best-practice-guidelines and practice in field. We aim to develop an empirically informed training system using dynamic multimodal child-avatars based on game engine and artificial intelligence (AI) methods including dialogue models trained on well-designed mock interviews with children aged 5-7. Multimodal avatars will enable interviewers to develop and maintain complex skills needed. Combining the dynamic avatar with feedback may be the future of training with availability and cost-efficacy. \nWe will present “Ilma”\, the avatar\, that recognizes interviewers’ verbal questioning\, automatically responding to prompts in turn-taking manner. Two user studies have been conducted. Prototype (i) with animated-based avatar using virtual reality (VR) was tested by CPS-experts and students finding support for further development. After investigating user’s perception of realism in multiple virtual child-avatars\, we will test prototype (ii) with best rated animated-based avatar and synthetic best-rated voice in April 2022\, running interviews with CPS-experts and students (n = 50) on text-only\, audio-only\, desktop monitor VR (2D) and VR (3D) in randomized order. Scenario description is given pre-training\, and post-assessment of user-experience (e.g.\, presence\, dynamics\, ease of use) and learning effects will be measured. Results from the study will be presented.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-investigative-interview-training-using-an-ai-driven-talking-avatar/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: Transfer of Avatar Training Effects to Investigative Field Interviews of Children Conducted by Police Officers
DESCRIPTION:Title: Transfer of Avatar Training Effects to Investigative Field Interviews of Children Conducted by Police Officers \nAbstract: \nPrevious research with students and some professional groups (psychologists) have repeatedly demonstrated that repeated feedback in simulated investigative interviews with computerized child avatars improves the quality of the interviews conducted with real children who have witnessed a mock event. However\, it is not known whether the avatar training effects would transfer to investigative interviews with real child victims or witnesses of physical and sexual abuse conducted by police investigators. Twenty two police investigators participated in the study. Half of the participants first received no feedback and then received feedback (control group) while the other half received feedback (experimental group) on their performance during repeated interviews with avatars. Investigators were asked to present a transcript of an interview with a real child victim or witness prior the avatar training and also after the avatar trainings (control group had to present two transcripts\, experimental group one transcript). Providing feedback to the avatar training increased the proportion of recommended questions both in avatar interviews as well as interviewing with real child victims and witnesses of sexual and physical abuse. The transfer effect of knowledge to practice was demonstrated by the first time in a sample of police investigators.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-transfer-of-avatar-training-effects-to-investigative-field-interviews-of-children-conducted-by-police-officers/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: Interpreters’ Experiences and Knowledge of Child Forensic Interviews
DESCRIPTION:Title: Interpreters’ Experiences and Knowledge of Child Forensic Interviews \nAbstract: \nChild forensic interviewers have expressed concerns regarding the quality of interpreter-mediated child forensic interviews\, including limited access to qualified interpreters and a high risk of suggestive influence stemming from misinterpretations. However\, research on interpreter-mediated child forensic interviews is limited\, and the perspective of interpreters has been overlooked. To improve the quality of interpreter-mediated child forensic interviews\, it is crucial to investigate whether the problems might depend on interpreters’ working conditions\, limited knowledge of child forensic interviews\, deficient communication between the interpreter and the child interviewer\, or other factors. The current study aims to explore interpreters’ self-reported experiences of child forensic interviews\, common and preferred practical conditions of interpreting in these interviews\, and the knowledge authorized legal interpreters\, authorized interpreters and non-authorized interpreters\, respectively\, possess of child forensic interviews. A digital survey was sent in March to Swedish interpreters. During the spring\, the data will be analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods. By giving interpreters an opportunity to share their experiences of how it is to interpret child forensic interviews\, the current study will contribute new insights regarding interpreter-mediated child forensic interviews. \n*Presenting and corresponding author: Linnea Koponen\, Department of Psychology\, University of Gothenburg\, E-mail: guskopoli@student.gu.se.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-interpreters-experiences-and-knowledge-of-child-forensic-interviews/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: It’s not “just like on TV”: A corpus analysis and examination of Miranda warnings on TV.
DESCRIPTION:Title: It’s not “just like on TV”: A corpus analysis and examination of Miranda warnings on TV. \nAbstract: \nThe American Miranda warnings are considered an “icon of constitutional law” that have been made “famous” by  television (Covey\, 2007). Similarly\, the US Supreme Court has also expressed the recognizability and prevalence of the Miranda warnings in American society (Dickerson v. United States 530 US at 443 (2000)). Perhaps unsurprisingly then\, excerpts from American police interviews demonstrate references to television representations in communicating Miranda warnings to suspects. Questioning officers’ reliance on pop culture’s representation of Miranda warnings warrants an investigation into how the Mirandizing process is actually presented on TV. This talk presents a review of arrests and custodial interviews in a popular American legal drama\, Law & Order: SVU which indicate that suspects are rarely adequately Mirandized on TV. That is\, they are either not Mirandized at all or read a partial (reduced) version. When fictional suspects are (partially) Mirandized\, a minimum component can be identified. Using this minimum component\, I present the results of a corpus analysis of TV subtitles using BYU’s TV Corpus which provides support the observation that Miranda warning are rarely provided in full in popular culture. As such\, these findings demonstrate that the Mirandizing process is not “just like on TV”.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-its-not-just-like-on-tv-a-corpus-analysis-and-examination-of-miranda-warnings-on-tv/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: (Not) for the record: Doing implicatures in police reports of domestic violence
DESCRIPTION:Title: (Not) for the record: Doing implicatures in police reports of domestic violence \nAbstract: \nConversational implicature (Grice 1975) is a pragmatic strategy used in discourse to carry meaning(s) not encoded explicitly in language. There are many reasons why explicitness is not the most appropriate route\, for example\, social politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987). Discourse participants often make sense of utterances in everyday interactions by ‘picking up’ implicatures. This is largely achieved by recourse to relevance (Sperber and Wilson 1986; Clark 2013). However\, because meanings generated through implicatures cannot be traced back to linguistic forms they can be easily denied. They are a good vehicle therefore\, for carrying meanings that discourse participants are reluctant to put on-record but wish to communicate nonetheless. \nIn this paper\, I adopt a relevance-theoretic approach to police MG3 reports (‘Management Guidance’ reports prepared for prosecutors to obtain charging decisions). The reports summarise domestic violence cases. All of the cases in the reports resulted in non-prosecutorial discharge decisions (i.e. a ‘simple caution’). I examine a) the ways in which investigating officers and their police gatekeepers present case information through implicature; b)  how receivers (police and prosecutors) can use relevance to derive additional meanings from the reports; and c) the potential impact of inferential information on case outcomes. Finally\, I argue that some implicatures (and their cooperative recovery by institutional agents) can be regarded as constituting victim-blaming (Lynn and Canning 2021)\, and by extension\, reflect institutional misogynistic ideologies about domestic violence crimes. \nReferences: \nGrice\, H. P. (1975). ‘Logic and conversation’. In Speech acts (pp. 41-58). Brill. \nBrown\, P. and Levinson\, S. C. (1987). Politeness: Some universals in language usage\, volume 4. Cambridge University Press. \nSperber\, D. and Wilson\, D. (1986). Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell Press. \nClark\, B. (2013). Relevance Theory. Cambridge University Press. \nCanning\, P.\, & Lynn\, N. (2021). ‘Additions\, Omissions\, and Transformations in Institutional ‘Retellings’ of Domestic Violence cases’. Language and Law\, 8(1): 118. \n 
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-not-for-the-record-doing-implicatures-in-police-reports-of-domestic-violence/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: For the Record: A collaboration to improve evidential consistency in the production of police  investigative interview records
DESCRIPTION:Title: For the Record: A collaboration to improve evidential consistency in the production of police  investigative interview records \nAbstract:  \nThis paper will present the findings of a pilot project being undertaken as a collaboration between  academic researchers and an English police force\, which applies linguistic research to the process of  producing written transcripts of investigative interviews with suspects (ROTIs). This process is of real  importance since these written records are the version of the interview which is routinely presented  in court as part of the prosecution evidence\, yet the original spoken data are (necessarily)  substantially altered through the process of being converted into written format. Our aim is to  develop methods of reducing this routine interference with interview evidence. \nThe project involves linguistic analysis of interview audio and corresponding transcripts\, focus  groups with transcribers and interviewers\, and psycholinguistic experiments to demonstrate the  differences in interpretation that can result from different formats and transcription choices. \nThe intended outcome is to produce transcription guidelines and training to assist transcribers in  producing ROTIs which encapsulate more of the meaning conveyed by the original spoken  interaction\, and to enable consistency of interpretation of features such as punctuation and pauses  for the reader (e.g. fellow investigating officers\, CPS\, courts). We are also seeking to recruit other forces to roll out the project more widely. \n  \nAuthors: Dr Kate Haworth\, Dr Emma Richardson\, Dr James Tompkinson\, Dr Felicity Deamer\, Dr Magnus Hamann
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-for-the-record-a-collaboration-to-improve-evidential-consistency-in-the-production-of-police-investigative-interview-records/
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SUMMARY:Oral Presentation: For the Record: Assessing force-level variation in the transcription of police-suspect interviews in England and Wales
DESCRIPTION:Title: For the Record: Assessing force-level variation in the transcription of police-suspect interviews in England and Wales \nAbstract: \nRecordings of police-suspect interviews in England and Wales are rarely played in court\, despite being a key evidence source. More often\, interviews are presented in the form of a ROTI (Record of Taped Interview) transcript. However\, research (Haworth\, 2018; Richardson et al\, 2022) has shown that significant alterations can occur as the interview is converted from audio into a transcript. Furthermore\, no knowledge exists as to how much variation exists between individual police forces regarding ROTI production.\nThis paper forms part of a wider project examining ROTI transcription practices. Freedom of Information requests were sent to all English and Welsh forces containing questions relating to current ROTI transcription practices and transcriber training. The questions facilitated an assessment of both the level of variation between forces\, and whether specific ROTI transcription problems can be linked to higher-level police processes. The findings illustrate that there are numerous differences between individual forces regarding both ROTI production and training procedures. The findings also suggest that differences in force-level approaches to ROTI transcription could produce substantially different evidence for courtroom use. The findings are used to suggest improvements in ROTI production and training procedures that could subsequently improve the consistency of interview evidence in court. \nReferences \nHaworth\, K. (2018). Tapes\, transcripts and trials: The routine contamination of police interview evidence. The International Journal of Evidence & Proof\, 22(4)\, 428-450. \nRichardson\, E.\, Haworth\, K.\, & Deamer\, F. (2022). For the Record: Questioning transcription processes in legal contexts. Applied Linguistics.
URL:https://iiirg.org/event/oral-presentation-for-the-record-assessing-force-level-variation-in-the-transcription-of-police-suspect-interviews-in-england-and-wales/
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