Forensic Interviews

Forensic Interview of Child Abuse Victims In any child abuse investigation, collecting as much information about the charges in question is key. This is accomplished with gathering evidence and conducting interviews with people associated with the child. This also includes interviews with the child. In this paper I will discuss the importance of this interview, called a forensic interview, and a widely used interview technique with children victims of possible child abuse. A forensic interview

Sommer also conducted a forensic interview with Ryan Boswell. The following is a brief summary of the forensic interview and not an exact transcript. Sommer started off the interview building rapport. Sommer asked if Ryan how old he is. Ryan told her he is 12 years old. Sommer asked Ryan to tell her about himself. Ryan said he likes school. He likes to read and play video games. Sommer asked Ryan to tell her why he was at Kids’ Space to talk to her. Ryan said he thinks the reason he is there is

To date, very few studies have investigated whether the interview style used in a forensic interview reveals verbal cues to deception (e.g. Vrij et al., 2007). This is not surprising since only recently, interviewing has been acknowledged as a key approach to deception detection and used in structuring forensic interviews (Vrij et al., 2008). ‘Interviewing to detect deception’ should aim to increase suspects ‘leakage’ of deception cues (Vrij, 2004). One approach to achieve this, is to increase the

Throughout time children have been sole witnesses of crimes either committed to them or in their presence. Leaving forensic interviewers with the burden of withdrawing reliable information in the hopes that these children can remember. Forensic interviewers are not completely aware of children’s capacities and limitations when it comes to communication, and therefore are faced to try to withhold as much information through techniques that will elicit testimony. Historically, when children are asked

AN INTRODUCTION INTO FORENSIC INTERVIEWING By: Kaity Doyle The Goal of Forensic interviewing is to “obtain a statement from a child in a developmentally-sensitive, unbiased & truth-seeking manner, that will support accurate & fair decision making in the criminal justice & child-welfare systems (Forensic, p. 1).” TWO MAIN PARTS INVOLVED IN FORENSIC INTERVIEWING  Hypothesis testing o When the interviewer prepares for the interview, they will come up with multiple reasons why the accusations of abuse

want to go into the interview and not know what questions to ask. Patience is one thing you have to have when giving an interview because if you get irritated because they are not answering the questions right or not quickly enough, the interviewee will not want to cooperate anymore. To cover all of your bases and have a written statement, the interviewee might say I did not say that. 2. Why are introductory questions so important to an interview’s success? When you interview someone, you want

division, the interview of a victim, witness, suspect or informant is a critical element of any investigation. Precious resources in the form of man power, money, time and equipment can be wasted because of the failure of the interviewer to conduct a complete interview and accurately evaluate the credibility of the information gained from the subject interviewed.      As a part of the three pillars of the criminal investigative process, a thorough and complete interview provides

regarding the process of electronic recordings of child interviews involved in child abuse and neglect. It would require that the electronic recordings be stored in a central location, via the Department of Health and Human Services. I recommend that Michigan Senators and the NASW-MI Chapter support HB 4298 now, because it proposes a solution to the ongoing social problem of added trauma caused by children being subjected to multiple or ineffective forensic

The child's interview selected has many strengths and limitations. As an objective expert, I will provide the court with scientific evidence of two significant problems with this interview. The two significant problems being identified and addressed today are the effects of a biased interviewer, and misleading and suggestive questioning techniques. Both of these problems are related to this forensic interview. Quality issues of the child's report, as well as how it could be improved will also be

up a forensic interview with Deja to be interviewed at Kids’ Space Child Advocacy Center. The interview took place after hours at approximately 9:00 PM. Deja was interviewed by a trained forensic interviewer, Megan Merrill. Due to the interview taking place after hours and the case not being assigned until the following day, I was unable to be present at the time of the interview. However, I have since observed a copy of that interview. The following is a summary of the forensic interview conducted