Police Interviews – How the legal process creates criminal evidence
Online Evening Lecture
Police-suspect interviews go through significant transformation along their route through the criminal justice system from interview room to courtroom. The talk draws on analysis of multiple stages of the legal process using an interdisciplinary approach involving linguistic analysis of interview data, focus groups with police practitioners, and a critical socio-legal evaluation of the consequences of the research findings, focusing on the validity of the current treatment of interviews as criminal evidence.