Distortions of the police interview process revealed by video-tape

Gibbons, John

doi:10.1558/ijsll.v3i2.289

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“…Features, such as hesitations, interjections, stuttering, silence and even poor quality of recording, have been noted in the transcripts (cf. Gibbons, 1996). This is because such features are important to the interpretation of accounts, and also because some features, especially hesitations and silence, can produce a number of different interpretations in the course of the legal process (cf.…”

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Mozambican police interviews: The interaction between official language and legal pluralism

Mabasso¹,

Heydon²

2022

Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics From Africa and Beyond

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1. Portuguese shall be the language for courtroom sessions.2.Those who do not speak Portuguese and wish to be heard shall, however, [be permitted to do so] in a language other than Portuguese, provided that, if deemed necessary, a sworn interpreter is appointed to ensure communication.(*) Note * The use of interpreters is necessary not only when foreigners are involved, but also with Mozambicans who speak languages other than Portuguese.Article 139 clearly states that access to the legal system for non-Portuguese speakers will be provided through an interpreter. Reports predating this article have found that, generally, courts have attempted to provide interpretation services as required, although the quality has frequently been poor. This is particularly true at the district level, where interpreters are not professionals and are often simply drafted in on the day. In fact, in many district courts, if judges speak the local language, they conduct proceedings directly in that language, or play the role of interpreter themselves (Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2006:111). While the more recent amendments 2 This may appear quaint to 'non-traditional' societies, but in fact it is not dissimilar to the reverence for the past that serves to preserve the use of archaic English and Latin in English-language courtrooms.

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Mozambican police interviews: The interaction between official language and legal pluralism

Mabasso¹,

Heydon²

2022

Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics From Africa and Beyond

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“…This can be exemplified by language studies in police investigations and court proceedings. In the police investigation process, research can be carried out to determine the strategy of police investigators in examining a criminal case [9]; [10]; [11]; [12]). While in the trial process in the court, research can be conducted to find out how judges, prosecutors, lawyers, witnesses and defendants communicate [4]; [13]; [6].…”

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“…Forensic linguistics can be defined as the application of linguistics in the legal field [1]; [10]; [2]; [3]. Hence, forensic linguistics is the application of linguistic science that can include theories, methods and language analysis for legal purposes, for example, criminal law, civil law, constitutional law, customary law, environmental law, and others.…”

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Analysing Forensic Speaker Verification by Utilizing Artificial Neural Network

Susanto¹,

Nanda²

2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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In this paper, we describe the use of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to compute the acoustic features in analysing forensic speaker verification. In the computation, there are two datasets derived from speech recording of a simulated human trafficking crime, namely Forensic Evidence Data (FED) and Comparative Evidence Data (CED). In both datasets, sound segmentation is performed and then the acoustic features (Formant Frequencies F1, F2, F3, and F4) are extracted. The acoustic feature values are computed with ANN to predict an output with a targeted sound classification /a/, /i/ and /u/. The results are interpreted as forensic evidence against sound data in recorded evidence. With a result rate of more than 80%, this method might be studied more deeply to be developed and applied in evaluating recorded sound evidence for the legal case process.

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“…Diversos estudos prévios na área da Linguística Forense, nomeadamente no contexto anglo-saxónico (e.g. Aldridge, 2010;Auburn et al, 1995;Gibbons, 1996;Heydon, 2012;Holt e Johnson, 2010;Rock, 2001Rock, , 2010, revelaram a importância da linguagem em situações de violência doméstica, e sobretudo em entrevistas e interrogatórios policiais. No caso da língua portuguesa, e salvo alguns estudos realizados no Brasil (e.g.…”

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Da “intimidação intencional” aos “ciúmes excessivos”: uma análise linguística forense das Fichas de Avaliação de Risco

Ferreira¹,

Sousa‐Silva²

2019

Language and Law

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Domestic violence and its legal processing involve language to a large extent. In Portugal, one of the resources used to handle accusations of domestic violence is the Risk assessment forms (Fichas de Avaliação de Risco) -a set of 20 questions asked by the police or legal o cer to the victim. This article presents the results of a forensic linguistic analysis of these questions. The analysis shows that these questions have several linguistic problems that may hamper the e ectiveness of the risk assessment forms at the level of syntax, semantics, lexis/terminology and pragmatics/discourse. Consequently, the victim may misinterpret the questions, and their answer can in turn be misinterpreted by the o cers. The level of risk for the victim can, as a result, be wrongly assessed and eventually jeopardise the victim's safety.

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Distortions of the police interview process revealed by video-tape

Abstract: This article uses transcript of a police interview with an Aboriginal suspect to show, firstly, the dangers of interviewing non-native speakers without the help of an interpreter and secondly that non-native responses cannot be taken to have their face value meaning.

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Mozambican police interviews: The interaction between official language and legal pluralism

Mozambican police interviews: The interaction between official language and legal pluralism

Analysing Forensic Speaker Verification by Utilizing Artificial Neural Network

Da “intimidação intencional” aos “ciúmes excessivos”: uma análise linguística forense das Fichas de Avaliação de Risco

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