Kyriakidou, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-9329-3425, Blades, M., Cherryman, J. et al. (2 more authors) (2023) The Impact of interviewer working hours on police interviews with children. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 38 (2). pp. 245-254. ISSN 0882-0783
Abstract
Fatigue resulting from unpredictable or extended working conditions is a factor that negatively impacts the performance of police officers. In this study, we considered how investigative interviewing of children is influenced by interviewer working conditions. We examined two working conditions concerning when interviews were conducted: (a) during early duty shift and (b) an hour before the end of an interviewer’s duty shift and after the end of a shift. We analysed 102 police interviews with children and identified clues that interviews which commenced during early duty shift had more appropriate approaches than interviews in the other condition. Inappropriate approaches were not significantly affected by interviewer working conditions. These outcomes suggest considering new knowledge specific to the behaviour of interviewers according to working conditions and provide promising foundations for further research.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Police interview; Cyprus; Children; Forensic; Working hour; Child sexual abuse |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2023 14:23 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2023 14:23 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11896-020-09372-4 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200350 |