Police interviewing styles and confessions in Japan

Wachi, Taeko; Watanabe, Kazumi; Yokota, Kaeko; Otsuka, Yusuke; Kuraishi, Hiroki; Lamb, Michael E.

doi:10.1080/1068316x.2013.854791

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“…Although there have been a few studies on Japanese police interrogations, a recent study conducted by Wachi et al (2014) reported findings that were consistent with Holmberg andChristianson's (2002) andkebbell et al's (2010) studies. Wachi et al (2014) surveyed 276 Japanese police officers who interviewed adult offenders suspected of murder, robbery, rape, arson, forcible indecency, and kidnapping.…”

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Japanese Interrogation Techniques From Prisoners’ Perspectives

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Watanabe²,

Yokota³

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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This study examined responses to a self-report questionnaire on interviewing techniques administered to 291 incoming adult male prison inmates across Japan who were convicted of murder, robbery, arson, rape, forcible indecency, or kidnapping. The questionnaire focused on interrogations that led to confessions. Four interview styles (Evidence-confrontational, Relationshipfocused, Undifferentiated-high, and Undifferentiated-low) were identified. For prisoners who had already decided to confess before their interrogation, interview styles had no effect on the tendency to confess. However, when prisoners were undecided about confessing or had previously decided to deny allegations, the Relationship-focused and Undifferentiated-high interview styles were associated with confessions. Furthermore, prisoners who experienced Relationship-focused interviews were more likely to provide previously undisclosed information to the police.

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Japanese Interrogation Techniques From Prisoners’ Perspectives

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…focused on the five factors identified in the Wachi et al (2014) survey of police officers' reported interviewing styles: Presentation of Evidence, Confrontation, Active Listening, Rapport Building, and Discussion of the Crime. Presentation of Evidence referred to techniques that involved showing evidence to suspects.…”

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“…Researchers in Western countries have conducted a number of studies focused on effective and ethical interviewing techniques that elicit information and/or confessions from suspects (e.g., Kebbell et al 2008;Russano et al 2005;Soukara et al 2009), but only a small number of empirical studies have been conducted in Japan (Wachi et al 2014;. Recently, however, the Japanese police force published a basic manual for interviewing witnesses/victims and cooperative suspects which underscored the importance of incorporating lessons learned from empirical research on interview practices .…”

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“…For example, Leo (1996) used four categories, namely, no incriminating statement, incriminating statement, partial admission, and full confession, which the author coded by observing the interviews. The survey of Japanese police officers conducted by Wachi et al (2014) considered two categories, full confession and partial confession, examples of which were selected by the responding police officers. In the current study, as in Wachi et al's (2014) study, we asked the responding prisoners to rate the degree to which they had confessed during the police interviews after first defining confession as Badmitting to the offenses you were arrested for and telling the truth.^When the prisoners answered that they had confessed fully, we defined these as full confessions.…”

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Japanese Suspect Interviews, Confessions, and Related Factors

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Watanabe

Yokota

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J Police Crim Psych

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Two hundred and ninety-one new adult male inmates convicted of murder, robbery, arson, rape, forcible indecency, and kidnapping completed questionnaires about their pretrial interviews. Logistic regression analyses revealed that marital status, feelings of guilt, and perceptions of the strength of the evidence significantly affected the likelihood of confession by those who had already decided to confess prior to interview. By contrast, prior arrest history and interview style affected the likelihood of confession by those who had not previously decided to confess. Suspects who had no previous arrests and had undergone either Undifferentiated-high or Relationship-focused interviews were more likely to make full confessions. In Undifferentiated-high interviews, police officers employed all of the interviewing techniques examined: they listened closely to the suspects' accounts, attempted to build good relationships, and discussed the crimes, while also presenting evidence and confronting the suspects. In Relationship-focused interviews, police officers listened attentively to the offenders' accounts, tried to build good relationships, and discussed the crimes directly. Prisoners who experienced Relationship-focused interviews felt satisfied with their confessions and admitted guilt at trial.

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“…To date, this aspect of interviewing/ interrogative techniques has received very little attention, particularly in Europe. However, researchers in Japan have recently reported that a relationship-focused interviewing style resulted in increased information gain and more confessions compared with an evidence-focused approach to interviewing (Wachi et al, 2014).…”

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Empathy in the field: Towards a taxonomy of empathic communication in information gathering interviews with suspected sex offenders

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Oxburgh

2016

The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context

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a b s t r a c tResearch suggests that those suspected of sexual offending might be more willing to reveal information about their crimes if interviewers display empathic behaviour. However, the literature concerning investigative empathy is in its infancy, and so as yet is not well understood. This study explores empathy in a sample of real-life interviews conducted by police officers in England with suspected sex offenders. Using qualitative methodology, the presence and type of empathic verbal behaviours displayed was examined. Resulting categories were quantitatively analysed to investigate their occurrence overall, and across interviewer gender. We identified four distinct types of empathy, some of which were used significantly more often than others. Female interviewers displayed more empathic behaviour per se by a considerable margin. La empatía sobre el terreno: hacia una taxonomía de la comunicación empática en las entrevistas para recoger información de presuntos agresores sexuales Palabras clave: Delincuentes sexuales Entrevista de investigación Empatía Recopilación de información r e s u m e n La investigación indica que las personas sospechosas de agresión sexual podrían estar más dispuestas a revelar información sobre sus delitos si los entrevistadores muestran un comportamiento empático. No obstante, los estudios sobre la empatía en la investigación están aún en mantillas, por lo que aún no se entiende bien. Este estudio explora la empatía en una muestra de entrevistas en la vida real realizadas por agentes de policía en Inglaterra con presuntos delincuentes sexuales. Se analizó mediante metodología cualitativa la presencia y el tipo de comportamientos verbales empáticos mostrados. Las categorías obtenidas se analizaron cuantitativamente con el fin de investigar su aparición global y en función del sexo del entrevistador. Se identificaron cuatro tipos diferentes de empatía, algunos de ellos utilizados con más frecuencia que otros. Las entrevistadoras mostraron mayor comportamiento empático per se por un margen considerable. Interviews conducted by police officers with a person suspected of wrongdoing 1 are complex social interactions during which interviewers are tasked with gathering information about 1 From here on 'suspects' is used to describe people who are suspected of having committed an offence, and who are being formally investigated.http://dx

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Police interviewing styles and confessions in Japan

Cited by 43 publications

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Japanese Interrogation Techniques From Prisoners’ Perspectives

Japanese Interrogation Techniques From Prisoners’ Perspectives

Japanese Suspect Interviews, Confessions, and Related Factors

Empathy in the field: Towards a taxonomy of empathic communication in information gathering interviews with suspected sex offenders

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