PEACE in fraud interviews: Assumptions and detection of guilt and the impact on interviewer behaviour

Shawyer, Andrea; Milne, Rebecca

doi:10.1057/cpcs.2014.16

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“…To prevent instances of biased interviews, several interview models (e.g., the PEACE model used in the United Kingdom) include the recommendation that interviewers should avoid assumptions of guilt (Shawyer, Milne, & Bull, ). However, a recent survey of officers trained in the PEACE model revealed that 97.1% reported to have "sometimes" and even "always" already believed that fraud suspects were guilty prior to interviewing them (Shawyer & Milne, ), suggesting that the recommendation to avoid guilt presumption is not necessarily being adhered to.…”

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“I think you did it!”: Examining the effect of presuming guilt on the verbal output of innocent suspects during brief interviews

Portnoy¹,

Hope²,

Vrij³

et al. 2019

Journal Invest Psychology

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Innocent suspects interviewed by a guilt‐presumptive versus innocence‐presumptive or neutral interviewer may tend more to display non‐verbal behaviours which neutral judges consider indicative of guilt. We examined the effects of interviewer's presumption of guilt on innocent mock suspects' alibis. Participants (N = 90) provided an alibi to convince an interviewer of their innocence of a theft after she implied that she believed that they were guilty or innocent or that she had no belief about their veracity. On the basis of existing conflicting findings for suspects' verbal behaviour during accusatory interviews, we predicted that alibis in the guilt‐belief condition would contain the highest or lowest number of correct details with overall higher or poorer accuracy rates, respectively. Although participants perceived the interviewer's presumptive approach, the number of correct details provided and accuracy rates of alibis did not differ significantly between conditions. We propose explanations to these findings and future research paths.

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“I think you did it!”: Examining the effect of presuming guilt on the verbal output of innocent suspects during brief interviews

Portnoy¹,

Hope²,

Vrij³

et al. 2019

Journal Invest Psychology

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Perceptions of Barriers to Conducting Effective AML Investigations

Vineer¹

2020

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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For many years, banks have been spending billions of pounds to combat money laundering and terrorist-financing activity but are falling short of both local and global expectations, despite extensive regulatory guidance. The aim of this research was to examine what barriers there might be in conducting effective anti-money laundering (AML) investigations. There is little guidance to help banks consider the difficulties that might be faced when raising awkward questions with customers. The few studies that were identified accentuated poor internal practices and inadequate skills; however, there is little examination of the specific problems encountered. A mixed methods form of research was adopted using surveys and interviews, targeted at bank staff involved in AML investigations. The results indicated numerous difficulties when conducting enquiries, many of which centred around a fear of offending the customer. If bank staff are fearful of asking questions, it is clearly impossible to conduct satisfactory investigations.

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Direct observation as data-collection method: Application in a commercial forensic interview

Graan,

Roos,

Katjene

2024

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In applying direct observation to obtain data, few researchers in the field of commercial forensic interviewing (CFI) have to date focused on the design and implementation of direct observation and descriptive analysis. Direct observations are useful for collecting data, due to the sensitive nature of a commercial forensic interview (CFI) involving Commercial Forensic Practitioners (FPs) and interviewees. The aim of this study is twofold: First, develop an observational checklist. Second, to apply it in a CFI to document direct observation of the interactional style of FPs, interactions, and relational dynamics. A descriptive analysis checklist was developed, drawing on interview techniques previously identified as permissible in a South African legal context and developed by applying directed content analysis. Two observers, FPs trained as academic researchers, independently documented their observations in the CFI context. The observers’ responses yielded significant levels of consensus (≥ 80%), and the results demonstrated several relational qualities which successfully identify the FP’s interactional style; the relational dynamics at play during the interview (by observing the actions, impact, and reactions of the participants), and ineffective relational dynamics, which thwarted the goal of eliciting useful information. This study highlights the need for direct observation and contributes to the development of an effective observational checklist unique to the CFI context.

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PEACE in fraud interviews: Assumptions and detection of guilt and the impact on interviewer behaviour

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

“I think you did it!”: Examining the effect of presuming guilt on the verbal output of innocent suspects during brief interviews

“I think you did it!”: Examining the effect of presuming guilt on the verbal output of innocent suspects during brief interviews

Perceptions of Barriers to Conducting Effective AML Investigations

Direct observation as data-collection method: Application in a commercial forensic interview

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