Interrogation/ police interview: myth, realities and challenges

[Bibliometric indicators realities, myth and prospective].

The impact factor of scientific reviews, calculated by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), is increasingly used to evaluate the performance of scientists and programmes. Bibliometric indicators, originally designed for other purposes than individual evaluation, are very useful tools provided their interpretation is not extrapolated beyond their limits of validity. Here we present a ...

The Police Interrogation of Children and Adolescents

Every year, there are substantial numbers of juveniles who come into contact with police and the legal system. In 2000, 2.4 million juveniles (17 years or younger) were formally arrested, 32% (758,208) of whom aged 14 years and younger (Snyder, 2002). Many more children interact with law enforcement but are not officially arrested. And, as the above quote indicates, what occurs during the polic...

Running Head : INTERVIEW OR INTERROGATION Interview or Interrogation ? : A Comment on

Police interviewing and interrogation: a self-report survey of police practices and beliefs.

By questionnaire, 631 police investigators reported on their interrogation beliefs and practices-the first such survey ever conducted. Overall, participants estimated that they were 77% accurate at truth and lie detection, that 81% of suspects waive Miranda rights, that the mean length of interrogation is 1.6 hours, and that they elicit self-incriminating statements from 68% of suspects, 4.78% ...

Interrogation and interview: strategies for obtaining clinical data.

During assessment of 55 outpatients, we recorded the numbers and kind of health problems noted during an open-ended interview and during an ;interrogation' based on a structured questionnaire. The combined strategies (interviews and questionnaires) identified a total of 269 problems which were clinically important (i.e. needed medical attention). One hundred and ninety-eight of these problems (...