Best Practice Recommendations Still Fail to Result in Action: A National 10-Year Follow-up Study of Investigative Interviews in CSA Cases.
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| Title: | Best Practice Recommendations Still Fail to Result in Action: A National 10-Year Follow-up Study of Investigative Interviews in CSA Cases. |
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| Authors: | Johnson, Miriam, Magnussen, Svein, Thoresen, Christian, Lønnum, Kyrre, Burrell, Lisa Victoria, Melinder, Annika |
| Source: | Applied Cognitive Psychology. Sep/Oct2015, Vol. 29 Issue 5, p661-668. 8p. 2 Charts, 1 Graph. |
| Subjects: | Child sexual abuse, Follow-up studies (Medicine), Analysis of variance, Professional education |
| Geographic Terms: | Norway |
| Abstract: | The present study examined a national sample of Norwegian investigative interviews in alleged child sexual abuse cases (N = 224) across a 10-year period (2002-2012), in order to decide whether practice had improved over the decade in terms of the types of questions asked. The results indicate that the frequency of open-ended, directive, option-posing, and suggestive questions asked was unchanged during the 10-year period, but that the frequency of repeated questions had increased significantly. When analyzed together with the results from a previous study of interview practice covering the period of 1990-2002, long-term trends were found to be similarly stable, with no change in the frequency of open-ended and suggestive questions asked over a 22-year perspective. However, a decreasing frequency of option-posing questions observed accompanied by an increasing frequency of directive questions may be considered a positive trend. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | The present study examined a national sample of Norwegian investigative interviews in alleged child sexual abuse cases (N = 224) across a 10-year period (2002-2012), in order to decide whether practice had improved over the decade in terms of the types of questions asked. The results indicate that the frequency of open-ended, directive, option-posing, and suggestive questions asked was unchanged during the 10-year period, but that the frequency of repeated questions had increased significantly. When analyzed together with the results from a previous study of interview practice covering the period of 1990-2002, long-term trends were found to be similarly stable, with no change in the frequency of open-ended and suggestive questions asked over a 22-year perspective. However, a decreasing frequency of option-posing questions observed accompanied by an increasing frequency of directive questions may be considered a positive trend. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 08884080 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/acp.3147 |
