iIIRG-VIRTUAL 2021 We are thrilled to announce that the iIIRG will be hosting our first iIIRG Virtual in 2021. During the week commencing 6th September 2021, we will host sessions with international experts on topics of critical importance and relevance to the interviewing community. This year our event will focus on ‘Navigating Virtual Intervestigative Interviewing’. […]
We are pleased to announce that we have secured Winchester University for the Masterclass and Conference 2022 for the week beginning 20th June 2022. We look forward to welcoming you in Winchester and providing the iIIRG’s unique opportunity for collaboration and discussion to delegates once again.
Title: Cooperative or Representative Interviews in Japan: Multi-agency investigative interviews of alleged victims of child abuse Abstract: In Japan, it used to be the case that an alleged victim of child abuse was referred to the Child Guidance Center, where a social worker interviewed the child. If the case was serious, the child was sent […]
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 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 […]
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 evidence showing he had dismembered and disposed of Rori’s body, including the recovery of her body parts from Strong’s apartment, there was no direct evidence […]
Symposium: Demonstrations of the importance and benefits of collaborative international research: Anglo- Japanese research and networking Authors: Dave Walsh, Gavin Oxburgh, Takashi Terashima, Robin Orthey, Marina Okamoto, Graham Brooks, Makiko Naka, Akira Kyo, Liam Satchell, Joanne Rechdan, Ray Bull, Igor Areh, Tom Ellis, Masayuki Otake Interpreter-assisted interviews: Examining investigators and interpreters’ views on […]
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 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 […]
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 highly dependent on the questions used by the interviewer. Using appropriate types of questions is therefore of great importance. Appropriate question types are those that […]
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 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 […]
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 predict sexual aggressors’ confession to their crime. The objectives of this study are (1) to identify them and (2) to elaborate an interaction model helping […]
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 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 […]