32.1192, Books: Police interviews with child witnesses: Jol

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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:04:30
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Police interviews with child witnesses: Jol

 


Title: Police interviews with child witnesses 
Subtitle: A conversation analysis 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/police-interviews-with-child-witnesses-a-conversation-analysis 


Author: Guusje Jol

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933349 Pages: 255 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

A lot is at stake when a police officer interviews a child as a witness of
sexual violence. In court, sexual violence cases often depend on one main
piece of evidence: the witness testimony by the victim. Therefore,
interviewing guidelines are in use for police officers; these guidelines
primarily aim at eliciting a reliable testimony from child witnesses. This
thesis reports a detailed examination of how the interaction unfolds in Dutch
police interviews with child witnesses and child victims, and how the
interactional dynamics are affected by the guidelines.

This thesis draws on insights from conversation analysis and focuses on three
main issues. First, it analyzes how police officers instruct children on what
to do when, for example, the police officer gives an incorrect version of what
the child has said. The analysis shows that the obligatory instructions
sometimes generate undesirable communicative effects. Second, this thesis
investigates spontaneous accounts provided by the children, and concludes that
they possibly reflect a normative system that is related to the ‘rape myth’.
It also shows that police officers’ attempts to be neutral can be
interactionally problematic. Finally, this thesis investigates how children
respond to questions about their sources of knowledge (how do you know that?).
Such questions are recommended by the guidelines to establish the quality of
the evidence, but they regularly lead to interactional trouble of various
kinds. The author offers several suggestions how to unite judicial demands for
truth-seeking and conversational practice.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis


Written In: English  (eng)

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