Milne Rebecca, Nunan Jordan, Hope Lorraine, Hodgkins Jemma, Clarke Colin
Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2022 Feb 10;12:774322. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.774322. eCollection 2021.
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 ( = 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.
大多数国家通过人工方式收集证人及受害者的证据，即访谈者在访谈过程中整理被访谈者所说的内容，以形成一份证据陈述。这项探索性研究考察了在实际调查中所生成证据陈述的质量。将转录的证人/受害者访谈记录（n = 15）与访谈官员生成的书面陈述进行比较，该书面陈述经被访谈者签署，作为准确记录。设计了一种编码协议，以评估被访谈者在口头访谈中所说内容与书面陈述中所报告内容之间信息的一致性。陈述中存在大量错误，包括遗漏、歪曲以及包含口头访谈中未提及的信息。这项探索性工作突出了未来研究重点的一个重要领域。
