Hershkowitz Irit, Horowitz Dvora, Lamb Michael E, Orbach Yael, Sternberg Kathleen J
School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
Child Abuse Negl. 2004 Apr;28(4):423-38. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2003.09.021.
To introduce and evaluate a structured interview protocol designed for investigative interviews of youthful alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse.
Seventy-two alleged perpetrators ranging from 9 to 14 years of age (M = 12 years) were interviewed by 1 of 13 experienced youth investigators, employed by the Israeli Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, about incidents that had been reported by alleged victims. All interviews were conducted as part of the investigators' regular work and followed the structured interview guide appended to this article.
Interviewers questioned older and younger children similarly, but addressed fewer invitations, directive questions, and option-posing prompts to suspects who denied the allegations than to those who partially or fully admitted them. The total number of details provided by the suspects did not vary depending on their age or whether or not they fully or partially admitted the allegations. In both cases, more information was elicited using invitations rather than suggestive or option-posing prompts.
Contrary to expectations, suspects who at least partially admitted their involvement provided considerable amounts of information and were very responsive to free recall prompts, although interviewers used more risky (potentially error-inducing) prompts when interviewing suspects rather than alleged victims.
介绍并评估一种专门为对涉嫌实施儿童性虐待的青少年进行调查性访谈而设计的结构化访谈方案。
以色列劳动和社会事务部聘请的13名经验丰富的青少年调查员之一,就据称受害者报告的事件,对72名年龄在9至14岁之间(平均年龄12岁)的涉嫌犯罪者进行了访谈。所有访谈均作为调查员日常工作的一部分进行,并遵循本文所附的结构化访谈指南。
访谈者对年龄较大和较小的儿童提问方式相似,但与部分或全部承认指控的嫌疑人相比,向否认指控的嫌疑人提出的邀请、指导性问题和提供选项的提示较少。嫌疑人提供的细节总数并不因其年龄或是否全部或部分承认指控而有所不同。在这两种情况下,通过邀请而非暗示性或提供选项的提示能引出更多信息。
与预期相反,至少部分承认其参与的嫌疑人提供了大量信息,并且对自由回忆提示反应非常积极,尽管访谈者在询问嫌疑人而非据称受害者时使用了更具风险(可能导致错误)的提示。