Indirectness in police interviews

Interpersonal Stance in Conflict Conversation: Police Interviews

In this work we focus on the dynamics of the conflict that often arises in a police interview between suspects and police officers. Police interviews are a special type of social encounter, primarily because of the authority role of the police interviewer and the often uncooperative stance that the suspect takes: a conflict situation. The skill to resolve or reduce the conflict, to make an unco...

Interpersonal stance in police interviews: content analysis

A serious game for learning the social skills required for effective police interviewing is a challenging idea. Building artificial conversational characters that play the role of a suspect in a police interrogation game requires computational models of police interviews as well as of the internal psychological mechanisms that determine the behaviour of suspects in this special type of dialogue...

Police interviews of sexual assault reporters: do attitudes matter?

Sexual assault is underreported in the United States. Survivors are often reluctant to make police reports for various reasons; one is fear of revictimization by criminal justice professionals. Conversely, police officers often lack skills for interviewing crime victims. Posttraumatic stress reactions among victims can exacerbate the problem. Although some victims prefer female interviewers, it...

The Prosody of Suspects’ Responses during Police Interviews

This paper reports on the results of a pilot study on the prosody of Western Canadian suspects’ speech as it occurs during the course of investigative interviews with police. Suspects’ responses are categorizedaccording to the type of information they contain, and the prosodic characteristics of each response type are described. It will be shown in this exploratory study that the various respon...

Institutions and Indirectness in Intellectual Property