Accuracy of investigators' verbatim notes of their forensic interviews with alleged child abuse victims. Lamb, M. E., Orbach, Y., Sternberg, K. J., Hershkowitz, I., & Horowitz, D. Law and Human Behavior, 24(6):699–708, USA, 2000. abstract bibtex Verbatim contemporaneous accounts of 20 investigative interviews were compared with audiotaped recordings thereof. More than half (57%) of the interviewers' utterances along with 25% of the incident-relevant details provided by the children were not reported in the verbatim notes. The structure of the interviews was also represented inaccurately in these accounts. Fewer than half (44%) of the details provided by the children were attributed to the correct eliciting utterance type. Investigators systematically misattributed details to more open rather than more focused prompts. These results underscore the superiority of electronic recording when the content and structure of investigative interviews must be preserved.
@article{Lamb2000Accuracy,
author = {Lamb, M. E. and Orbach, Y. and Sternberg, K. J. and Hershkowitz, I. and Horowitz, D.},
title = {Accuracy of investigators' verbatim notes of their forensic interviews with alleged child abuse victims},
journal = {Law and Human Behavior},
address = {USA},
year = {2000},
volume = {24},
number = {6},
pages = {699--708},
isbn = {0147-7307 (Print) 0147-7307 (Linking)},
abstract = {Verbatim contemporaneous accounts of 20 investigative interviews were compared with audiotaped recordings thereof. More than half (57%) of the interviewers' utterances along with 25% of the incident-relevant details provided by the children were not reported in the verbatim notes. The structure of the interviews was also represented inaccurately in these accounts. Fewer than half (44%) of the details provided by the children were attributed to the correct eliciting utterance type. Investigators systematically misattributed details to more open rather than more focused prompts. These results underscore the superiority of electronic recording when the content and structure of investigative interviews must be preserved.},
keywords = {Adolescent; Child; Child Abuse/ legislation & jurisprudence; Child, Preschool; Crime Victims; Documentation; Female; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Male; Statistics, Nonparametric; Tape Recording; Truth Disclosure; Quantitative Research; Evaluation},
language = {English}
}
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