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      Witnesses and suspects in interviews
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      Witnesses and suspects in interviews

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      Witnesses and suspects in interviews book

      Collecting oral evidence: the police, the public and the written word

      Witnesses and suspects in interviews

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      Witnesses and suspects in interviews book

      Collecting oral evidence: the police, the public and the written word
      ByFrances Rock
      BookThe Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

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      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2020
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 15
      eBook ISBN 9780429030581
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter explores the language of police interviews with both suspects and witnesses through close consideration of a range of literature. It begins by considering the status of oral evidence which is gathered from suspects and witnesses. This necessitates examining first the significance which attaches to talk and its distribution in suspect interviews as a result of police cautions and Miranda warnings before secondly examining the ways in which witnesses’ spoken words assume a very different place because of the processes through which their statements are taken. The idea that aspects of interview process and context can influence interview outcomes is introduced. After exploring the notion of investigative interviewing, it focuses on elements which can be seen as crucial to the linguistic description and critique of police interviewing processes and context, including police training and interviewing methods, the relationship between question form and function, topic control and turn management, processes of accounting and narrativisation, processes of transformation and recontextualisation. The exploration of these ideas and concepts is driven by a focus on the key question of how process and context can influence interview outcomes. The chapter concludes by readdressing that question in the light of research presented.

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