- Advantages of repeated interviews with children
- Behavioural consistency between training and non-training police suspect interviews
- Child protection
- Counter-terrorism
- Domestic abuse
- Developing opportunities to assist in training programmes and in the provision of an evidence-based approach to major investigation
- Detecting deception from written/oral accounts
- Detection of malingering and deception
- Effects of asking repeated questions in forensic interviews with children
- Emotional language
- Enhanced cognitive interviewing/cognitive interviewing
- Establishing credibility within police suspect interviews
- Eyewitness memory (recall, recognition and interviewing procedures)
- False confessions
- Forensic linguistics
- Fraud
RESEARCH AREAS
CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
Below is a short list of some areas of research our members are involved in.
In you would like to add your field of research to this list, please contact us.
- Individual differences
- Influence of life events on susceptibility to suggestion
- Interviewing vulnerable groups (including children and older adults)
- Investigative decision making
- Investigative interviewing of suspects and witnesses by law enforcement agencies other than the police
- Interrogative suggestibility
- Linguistic markers of effectiveness in police suspect interviews
- Major enquiry interview co-ordination, policy and procedure
- Organised crime, investigation of homicide, policing
- Reactions of ‘suspects’ to simulated police interviews
- Sexual offending
- Social cognition and the processes by which individuals make sense of ambiguous, complex or contradictory information
- Structured interviews with registered sex offenders in order to identify risk
- Training in advanced investigative interview techniques and its effectiveness