Practical Psychology for Forensic Investigations and Prosecutions
Chapter One
Interviewing Victims of Crime,
Including Children and People
with Intellectual Disabilities
Becky Milne and Ray Bull
INTRODUCTION
This chapter examines the importance within investigations of victims
of crime and witnesses to crime and will emphasize that assisting victims/witnesses
to provide as full an account as possible of "what happened"
is a complex process for which interviewers need to be properly
trained. Psychology needs to rise to the challenge of (i) translating what
is known from laboratory and field research into this applied arena and
(ii) developing new theories and techniques to the extent that current
laboratory research on memory and communication provid ... read full excerpt from Practical Psychology for Forensic Investigations and Prosecutions ebook
