Browsing by Author "Eastwood, Joseph"
Now showing items 1-9 of 9
-
Are we where we should be? Assessing investigative interviewing practices and training of officers in the Force Criminal Investigation Department of the Nigeria Police Force
Ogunseye, Funmilola (2023-06-01)In the criminal justice system, investigative interviewing is crucial for getting information that helps law enforcement agencies resolve cases. While there is a relative wealth of scholarly studies on investigative ... -
Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument
Kaplan, Jeffrey (2023-04-01)Confession evidence factors heavily in judicial decision making, and courts may call an expert social scientist to assess the coercive pressures of an interrogation and risk factors for false confession. At present, there ... -
Does mental context reinstatement mitigate Retrieval Induced Forgetting in eyewitnesses?
Crough, Quintan (2020-08-01)The current study sought to examine Retrieval Induced Forgetting (RIF) as it may occur within an investigative setting, while also assessing Mental Context Reinstatement (MCR) as a tool to mitigate this forgetting. Various ... -
The effects of rapport building on information disclosure in virtual interviews
Dion Larivière, Cassandre (University of Ontario Institute of Technology, 2022-06-01)Rapport-building has been identified as an effective tool when interviewing victims and witnesses of events that may be sensitive in nature. The objective of this study was to examine the rapport-building process within a ... -
An examination of the impact of corroborator age on alibi assessment
Snow, Mark D. (2018-06-01)The purpose of the current research was to assess the impact of the age of an alibi corroborator on the perceptions and decision-making of alibi assessors. Across two studies, adult participants were asked to assume the ... -
The impact of individual differences on the interviewing success and post-training performance of investigative interviewers
Akca, Davut (2019-08-01)In this thesis, whether and how personality characteristics affect the performance in investigative interviewing and the efficacy of training was examined in a three-step research design. In Study 1, the structure of a ... -
Negative emotion and eyewitness memory
Snow, Mark D. (2022-12-01)Witnessing or being the victim of a crime is often emotionally distressing, and this emotional distress reaction can influence the storage and retrieval of event-related memory. Eyewitness memory, therefore, cannot be ... -
Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
Hall, Victoria (2019-06-27)False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in Canada, suggesting a lack of protection against false confessions. Moreover, minimization tactics can increase the chance of false confessions. Current ... -
Toward assessing and improving the protective efficacy of Canadians’ interrogation rights: misinformation and caution comprehension
Connors, Christina J. (2022-08-01)The right to silence and right to counsel serve to protect detainees facing the power imbalance of police interrogation. Unfortunately, research indicates people are misinformed about their rights and struggle to comprehend ...