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2 results foundAuthor: Bartels, Lorana Title: Police Interviews with Vulnerable Adult Suspects Summary: In this paper, some of the key issues police are likely to encounter when dealing with vulnerable adult suspects are considered and an overview of the Australian legislation and police policies governing police interviews in such circumstances is presented. This paper is concerned with vulnerable adults interviewed by the police as suspects. It is acknowledged, however, that many of the observations about good practice when interviewing witnesses continue to apply — perhaps to an even greater extent — when interviewing suspects. For example, interviewers’ questions need to be matched to respondents’ communicative abilities and suggestive/leading questions and other coercive practices should be avoided. Smith and Tilney (2007), and Bull (2010) have described the following steps as a means of achieving the best evidence when dealing with vulnerable witnesses: • establish good rapport, including establishing the ground rules and advising the interviewee that it is acceptable to say if they do not understand or know the answer; • obtain as much free narrative as possible, encouraging the interviewee with prompts and open-ended questions such as ‘tell me more about that’ and ‘what happened next?’; • ask questions of the right type in the right order. For example, open questions should precede specific questions and then closed questions. Leading questions should only be used as a last resort; • have meaningful closure, including a summary of the interviewee’s evidence and providing them with an opportunity to correct any errors; and • evaluate the interview, in terms of both the information obtained and the interviewer’s performance. This paper does not consider issues relating to court processes and the admissibility of evidence; nor does the paper explore the literature in relation to child witnesses or the specific issues of vulnerable witnesses as victims, for example, in the context of sexual assault matters, although these are all important linked areas of research. Details: Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 2011. 13p. Source: Internet Resource: Research In Practice, No. 21: Accessed July 13, 2011 at: http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/6/7/9/%7B67994F7E-4598-4CA8-A1A6-A003B4102D0B%7Drip21_001.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Australia URL: http://www.aic.gov.au/documents/6/7/9/%7B67994F7E-4598-4CA8-A1A6-A003B4102D0B%7Drip21_001.pdf Shelf Number: 122042 Keywords: Interviewing in Law EnforcementPolice Questioning (Australia)Suspects |
Author: Markov, Dimitar Title: Assessing the Impact of Criminal Proceedings on the Social Situation of Suspects and Accused Summary: This handbook offers practical guidelines to the law enforcement and criminal justice authorities on how to assess the impact of criminal proceedings on suspects and accused. It explains how the proceedings can affect the personal and social life of suspects and accused, provides summaries of court cases showing how criminal justice authorities are addressing this issue in practice, and offers references to research works for further reading. Enclosed in the handbook is an impact assessment questionnaire, which allows the law enforcement and criminal justice authorities to assess the degree to which the proceedings can affect the social status of suspects or accused. The English language edition of the handbook is available in two versions: one with examples from Bulgarian court cases and the other with summaries of court cases from Greece. Details: Mountain View, California: University of California, Center for the Study of Democracy, Assessing the Risk of Social Isolation of Suspects and Accused (ARISA), 2019. 68p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 28, 2019 at: https://arisa-project.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/publications_library/files/Handbook_ARISA_EN_WEB_03.2019.pdf Year: 2019 Country: International URL: https://arisa-project.eu/publications/publication/assessing-the-impact-of-criminal-proceedings-on-the-social-situation-of-suspects-and-accused/ Shelf Number: 156057 Keywords: Accused Individuals Criminal Justice Authorities Impact Assessment Law Enforcement Suspects |