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The relationship between within-interview contradictions and eliciting interviewer utterances.

Y Orbach1, M E Lamb

  • 1Section on Social and Emotional Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Child Abuse & Neglect
|June 21, 2001
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Forensic interviewers should avoid suggestive questions. Poor interviewing practices, like option-posing, elicit inaccurate details, especially central ones, compromising child sexual abuse investigations.

Area of Science:

  • Forensic Psychology
  • Child Development

Background:

  • Investigating allegations of child sexual abuse requires accurate information retrieval.
  • Previous research in laboratory settings identified interview practices linked to inaccurate reporting.

Observation:

  • A forensic interview with a 5-year-old alleged victim of sexual abuse was analyzed.
  • Content analysis focused on informative, contradictory, central, and peripheral details, and elicitation methods.

Findings:

  • Suggestive and option-posing interview utterances elicited 90% of contradictory details.
  • Nearly all contradicted details (98%) were central to the allegation.
  • Open-ended questions did not elicit contradictory details.

Implications:

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  • Poor forensic interviewing techniques can introduce significant inaccuracies into child witness accounts.
  • Interviewers must use open-ended questions to promote free recall and enhance the accuracy of critical information.
  • Avoiding suggestive or option-posing questions is crucial for reliable forensic evidence.