iWitnessed: Capturing Contemporaneous Accounts to Enhance Witness Evidence

Paterson, Helen M.; Golde, Celine van; Devery, Chris; Cowdery, Nicholas; Kemp, Richard I.

doi:10.1080/10345329.2018.12036102

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“…Crime prevention app development is substantially driven by software engineering considerations, with only limited evidence of a productive dialogue between computational and criminological knowledge in designing apps. Indeed, only seven articles included in our review were published in criminology journals or books (Ceccato, 2019;Charitou et al, 2018;Fidow et al, 2019;Kersten et al, 2019;Natarajan, 2016;Paterson et al, 2018;Revier, 2020). Beyond the computational sciences and engineering, social scientific studies of primary crime prevention apps have overwhelmingly concerned not their efficacy, but their potential unintended consequences.…”

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“…Although crime reporting apps vary in their features, several employ novel and smartphone-dependent features to improve particular elements of the reporting process, including the quality or utility of the information reported. One notable example of the latter is the recently developed iWitnessed app, developed by Paterson et al (2018) at the University of Sydney, Australia. Drawing on memory research, the iWitnessed app employs guided recall to improve witness accounts of crimes (Paterson et al, 2018).…”

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“…One notable example of the latter is the recently developed iWitnessed app, developed by Paterson et al (2018) at the University of Sydney, Australia. Drawing on memory research, the iWitnessed app employs guided recall to improve witness accounts of crimes (Paterson et al, 2018). Researchers have proposed a number of advantages to such apps.…”

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Primary Crime Prevention Apps: A Typology and Scoping Review

Wood

Ross

Johns

2021

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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In the last decade, an array of smartphone apps have been designed to prevent crime, violence, and abuse. The evidence base of these apps has, however, yet to analyzed systematically. To rectify this, the aims of this review were (1) to establish the extent, range, and nature of research into smartphone apps with a primary crime prevention function; (2) to locate gaps in the primary crime prevention app literature; and (3) to develop a typology of primary crime prevention apps. Employing a scoping review methodology and following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, studies were identified via Web of Science, EBSCOhost, and Google Scholar. We included English-language research published between 2008 and 2020 that examined smartphone applications designed explicitly for primary crime prevention. Sixty-one publications met our criteria for review, out of an initial sample of 151 identified. Our review identified six types of crime prevention app examined in these publications: self-surveillance apps, decision aid apps, child-tracking apps, educational apps, crime-mapping/alert apps, and crime reporting apps. The findings of our review indicate that most of these forms of primary crime prevention apps have yet to be rigorously evaluated and many are not evidence-based in their design. Consequently, our review indicates that recent enthusiasm over primary crime prevention apps is not supported by an adequate evidence base.

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Primary Crime Prevention Apps: A Typology and Scoping Review

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Johns

2021

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“…The current study sought to replicate the three child studies investigating the effects of recalling generic script information before individual episodes, using an adult sample. Like guidelines for interviewing children about repeated events, current procedures for interviewing adults focus on eliciting information about individual incidents, rather than eliciting generic information (e.g., see Paterson et al, 2018; Rivard et al, 2014). Therefore, the aim of the current study was to determine whether recommendations to elicit accounts of individual episodes first are supported experimentally for adult witnesses or—like findings with children—reports are more detailed when generic information is reported first.…”

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The effects of recalling generic versus episodic information first on adults' reports of a repeated event

Danby

Sharman

Claringbold

2022

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Witnesses reporting repeated crimes—like family violence—must report detailed information about individual incidents. Previously, recalling generic information about a repeated event before individual episodes has helped children report more information overall. The current study examined whether adults would also benefit from recalling generic event information first. Seventy‐eight adults completed four activity sessions and were later interviewed about them. All interviews included a generic phase where participants were prompted to recall what usually happens, and an episodic phase where they recalled two individual episodes of the activities. Participants were randomly assigned to receive the generic (n = 38) or the episodic phase first (n = 40). During the generic phase, the generic‐first participants reported more details. However, when reporting the second individual episode, episodic‐first participants reported more details. Findings suggest mild benefits from describing generic event information first, but potential detrimental impacts on subsequent episodic reports are discussed.

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“…Researchers have recently sought to adapt self‐interviewing approaches to the virtual context. For example, Paterson et al (2018) worked in collaboration with the New South Wales police to adapt the SAI to a virtual context with the creation of iWitness, a mobile phone application. The benefits of their application included a choice between typed and spoken (i.e., recorded accounts or voice‐to‐text) modality for witnesses recording their accounts, the option to include photos, and indicate on a map where the event took place.…”

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Testing a digital self‐interview approach: The virtual memory assistance tool

Larivière

Snow

Spyksma

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Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Technology‐mediated interviews are a promising supplement to in‐person interviews for questioning eyewitnesses. We sought to develop and test a virtual self‐administered memory‐elicitation procedure—The virtual memory assistance tool (VMAT). The VMAT is a web‐based memory retrieval tool designed around the principles of the Cognitive Interview. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants (N = 135, N = 127) watched a target video and then received either VMAT or Control instructions, reporting their memory either by Typing into a textbox or Speaking into their device's microphone. In Experiments 3 and 4, participants (N = 89, N = 78) watched a target video and then received either VMAT or Control instructions presented in either Audio or Video format. Our findings suggest that a virtual tool for memory elicitation seems effective independent of Interview Procedures, Response Modalities, and Instruction Modalities and across differing target stimuli (mock‐crime vs. content of a sexual nature).

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iWitnessed: Capturing Contemporaneous Accounts to Enhance Witness Evidence

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

Primary Crime Prevention Apps: A Typology and Scoping Review

Primary Crime Prevention Apps: A Typology and Scoping Review

The effects of recalling generic versus episodic information first on adults' reports of a repeated event

Testing a digital self‐interview approach: The virtual memory assistance tool

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