Police interviewing is a critical part of the justice process, and more attention is now being paid to training in interview techniques. This new study uses tools drawn from interactional sociolinguistics and conversation analysis for a detailed study of some police questioning of adult suspects, and work undertaken in the training of police in interviewing children - in which quite different approaches seem to be adopted. Critical discourse analytic techniques are used in interpreting the outcome and the implications for training are explored.

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Monash University, Australia

Georgina Heydon

About the author

GEORGINA HEYDON is a Research Fellow in the Linguistics Program at Monash University, Australia. She has also lectured in Linguistics at Aarhus University, Denmark.

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Book Title: The Language of Police Interviewing
Book Subtitle: A Critical Analysis
Authors: Georgina Heydon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502932
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1726-3Published: 07 December 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51331-4Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50293-2Published: 07 December 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 229
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Police Institutional Discourse

Tools for the Analysis of Police Interviews

An Analysis of the Interview Structure

The Institutional Embedding of Authority

Interviewing Children: the VATE Approach

Myths about Police Interviewing

Institutional Power

Back Matter

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