Interviewing Eyewitnesses

Julie Gawrylowicz; Amina Memon

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_669

Interviewing Eyewitnesses

Julie Gawrylowicz, Amina Memon

Psychology

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Abstract

Eyewitness researchers have attempted to take what we know about memory and social influence and wrap it into a set of procedures for interviewing eyewitnesses. This has resulted in a number of empirically based investigative interviewing tools. Some of these tools have been successfully implemented into current police practice. The most developed and researched procedural package for gathering detailed reports from cooperative eyewitnesses without compromising overall accuracy is the Cognitive Interview (CI). Since its development 25 years ago, novel and alternative interviewing strategies have been developed, including the Self-Administered Interview© (SAI), a pen-and-paper version of the CI. The SAI can be administered at the crime scene and to multiple witnesses simultaneously, thereby reducing police time and resources.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Publisher	Springer
Pages	2679-2688
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4614-5690-2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4614-5689-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_669
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Keywords

interview
eye witness
self-administered interview
cognitive interview

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Gawrylowicz, J., & Memon, A. (2014). Interviewing Eyewitnesses. In Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (pp. 2679-2688). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_669

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