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From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say?
Most countries compile evidence from witnesses and victims manually, whereby the interviewer assimilates what the interviewee says during the course of an interview to produce an evidential statement. This exploratory research examined the quality of evidential statements generated in real world inv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8868373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222145 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.774322 |
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author | Milne, Rebecca Nunan, Jordan Hope, Lorraine Hodgkins, Jemma Clarke, Colin |
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description | Most countries compile evidence from witnesses and victims manually, whereby the interviewer assimilates what the interviewee says during the course of an interview to produce an evidential statement. This exploratory research examined the quality of evidential statements generated in real world investigations. Transcribed witness/victim interviews (N = 15) were compared to the resultant written statements produced by the interviewing officer and signed as an accurate record by the interviewee. A coding protocol was devised to assess the consistency of information between what was said by the interviewee in the verbal interview and what was reported in the written statement. Statements contained numerous errors including omissions, distortions, and the inclusion of information not mentioned in the verbal interview. This exploratory work highlights an important area for future research focus. |
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spelling | pubmed-88683732022-02-25 From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say? Milne, Rebecca Nunan, Jordan Hope, Lorraine Hodgkins, Jemma Clarke, Colin Front Psychol Psychology Most countries compile evidence from witnesses and victims manually, whereby the interviewer assimilates what the interviewee says during the course of an interview to produce an evidential statement. This exploratory research examined the quality of evidential statements generated in real world investigations. Transcribed witness/victim interviews (N = 15) were compared to the resultant written statements produced by the interviewing officer and signed as an accurate record by the interviewee. A coding protocol was devised to assess the consistency of information between what was said by the interviewee in the verbal interview and what was reported in the written statement. Statements contained numerous errors including omissions, distortions, and the inclusion of information not mentioned in the verbal interview. This exploratory work highlights an important area for future research focus. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8868373/ /pubmed/35222145 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.774322 Text en Copyright © 2022 Milne, Nunan, Hope, Hodgkins and Clarke. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Milne, Rebecca Nunan, Jordan Hope, Lorraine Hodgkins, Jemma Clarke, Colin From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say? |
title | From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say? |
title_full | From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say? |
title_fullStr | From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say? |
title_full_unstemmed | From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say? |
title_short | From Verbal Account to Written Evidence: Do Written Statements Generated by Officers Accurately Represent What Witnesses Say? |
title_sort | from verbal account to written evidence: do written statements generated by officers accurately represent what witnesses say? |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8868373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35222145 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.774322 |
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