Cederborg A C, Orbach Y, Sternberg K J, Lamb M E
Department of Education and Psychology, Linköping University, Sweden.
Child Abuse Negl. 2000 Oct;24(10):1355-61. doi: 10.1016/s0145-2134(00)00183-6.
To evaluate the structure and informativeness of interviews with 4- to 13-year-old alleged victims of sexual abuse in Sweden.
Seventy-two alleged victims of sexual abuse were interviewed by six experienced officers from one police district in Sweden. Our evaluation focused on the structure of the interviews, the distribution and timing of the investigators' utterance types, and the quantity and quality of the information provided by the children.
Content analysis revealed that the interviewers relied primarily on option-posing and suggestive questions--together, these comprised 53% of their utterances--when interviewing the alleged victims. As a result, most of the details (57%) obtained from the children were elicited by option-posing and suggestive utterances. Only 6% of the interviewers' utterances were open-ended invitations, and these elicited only 8% of the information obtained.
The reliance on option-posing and suggestive prompts may have reduced the accuracy of the information obtained, thereby interfering with the investigations, and reducing the forensic admissibility of the children's statements. This suggests a continuing need in Sweden, as in other countries, for interview practices that enhance the quality of information provided by young victims.
评估瑞典4至13岁性虐待指控受害者访谈的结构和信息含量。
瑞典一个警区的六名经验丰富的警官对72名性虐待指控受害者进行了访谈。我们的评估重点在于访谈的结构、调查人员话语类型的分布和时机，以及儿童提供信息的数量和质量。
内容分析显示，访谈者在询问性虐待指控受害者时，主要依赖提供选项和暗示性问题——这两类问题占他们话语的53%。因此，从儿童那里获得的大部分细节（57%）是由提供选项和暗示性话语引出的。访谈者的话语中只有6%是开放式提问，而这些提问引出的信息仅占所获信息的8%。
对提供选项和暗示性提示的依赖可能降低了所获信息的准确性，从而干扰了调查，并降低了儿童陈述在法庭上的可采性。这表明，与其他国家一样，瑞典仍需要改进访谈方式，以提高年轻受害者提供信息的质量。
