1st Edition

Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects Safeguarding the Process

Edited By Jane Tudor-Owen, Celine van Golde, Ray Bull, David Gee Copyright 2023
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

This book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities. It provides an overview of current research, practices, and legal considerations for interviewing vulnerable suspects, incorporating guidelines regarding the identification of vulnerabilities, engaging with third parties in the interview, and training and supervision. It then goes on to cover... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I

Chapter 1 - Vulnerability: The bigger picture
Jane Tudor-Owen and Celine van Golde

Chapter 2 - Identifying vulnerability: The importance of planning and rapport
Jane Tudor-Owen and Celine van Golde

Chapter 3 - Interviewing with a third party
Jane Tudor-Owen and Celine van Golde

Chapter 4 - Training interviewers
Ray Bull and Becky Milne

Chapter 5 - Interview supervision and management
Ray Bull and Becky Milne

Part II

Chapter 6 - Interviewing intoxicated suspects
Celine van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David Gee

Chapter 7 - Interviewing older adult suspects
Celine van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David Gee

Chapter 8 - Children as suspects
Celine van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David Gee

Chapter 9 - Interviewing suspects with mental illness
Jane Tudor-Owen, Celine van Golde, and David Gee

Chapter 10 - Interviewing suspects with intellectual and learning impairments
Celine van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David Gee

Chapter 11 - Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) and First Nations suspects
Celine van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David Gee

Chapter 12 - Interviewing in the context of gender and sexual diversity
Jane Tudor-Owen, Celine van Golde, and David Gee

Chapter 13 - Interviewing suspects with a hearing impairment
Celine van Golde, Jane Tudor-Owen, and David Gee

Conclusion

Biography

Jane Tudor-Owen is an Honorary Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology and Criminology at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, and a practising lawyer. As an academic, her primary area of research is investigative interviewing.

Celine van Golde is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. Her primary research focus is on the reliability of memory in children and adults, specifically how interviewing techniques, such as those used by police, lawyers, and judges, can affect memory accuracy.

Ray Bull is (part time) Professor of Criminal Investigation at Derby University, UK. His main topic of expertise is investigative interviewing and he has been invited to give presentations on this in dozens of countries. He has written expert reports in around 200 cases and testified in over 20.

David Gee (MBE) is a former Head of CID in the Derbyshire Police and has held numerous national lead roles, most notably on the investigation and prosecution of sex offences, homicide review, and as advisor to the Home Office and ACPO (now NPCC) on the investigation of rape.