Lingwood, Jamie and Bull, Ray (2013) Interviewing young adolescent suspects: When to reveal incriminating information? The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context, 5 (2). pp. 141-146. ISSN 1889-1861
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Abstract
Recent research has demonstrated that the way in which interviewers reveal information/evidence to
interviewees/suspects can produce noticeable differences between truthful and deceptive verbal
statements. However, very little of this research has involved adolescents. In the present study, 12 to 14
year old adolescents were asked to commit (n = 26) or not to commit (n = 26) a mock crime, and at
interview to deny involvement in this crime. Prior to interview some information about each adolescent’s
behaviour was made available to the interviewer but this was not enough to enable determination of which
had committed the crime. The interviewer revealed such information either at the beginning of the
interview (the ‘traditional method’) or at the end of the interview (as pioneered by the ‘SUE’ technique) or
gradually. The interviews were analysed for interviewees’ ‘evidence omissions’ and ‘statement-evidence
contradictions’. As predicted, liars omitted more crime-related information/details and their statements
were significantly more inconsistent with the information/evidence known to/disclosed by the interviewer.
The timing of the interviewer’s evidence revelation had a significant effect on liars’ mentioning during
their free recall of some of this information and on the total number of details mentioned in free recall.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Jamie Lingwood |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2023 14:24 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2023 14:24 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3762 |
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