Collaborative Research: The Impact of Face-to-Face and Remote Interviewing

协作研究：面对面和远程访谈的影响

• 批准号: 1654828
• 负责人: Debra Poole
• 金额: $ 14.51万
• 依托单位: Central Michigan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1654828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Impact; Face; Remote

Despite widespread dissemination of best-practice standards for conducting forensic interviews, many jurisdictions lack the expertise to skillfully investigate crimes involving child witnesses. An efficient way to ensure that all jurisdictions have access to highly trained child interviewers is to conduct remote (live-streaming video) forensic interviews. Remote interviewing could reduce investigative response time, spare investigative resources, and accelerate case disposition. However, the ability of remote interviewing to elicit eyewitness evidence from children has not been sufficiently tested and, therefore, will certainly prompt challenges regarding children?s testimonial reliability. The current project is a comprehensive and theoretically grounded evaluation of the effectiveness of remote interviewing of child witnesses. Results will be disseminated to scientists and forensic professionals through publications and presentations, thereby informing policies and guidelines for the use of remote forensic interviews with children. Because remote interviewing increases access to specialized expertise, project results will also impact how children are questioned by electronic means in non-forensic contexts. The project will provide research training to dozens of students at two research sites and promote greater awareness of evidence-based practice through outreach to practitioners who work with child witnesses. Using an established paradigm that produces salient touching experiences, individual children at two sites (ages 4 to 8 years) will be told that a male assistant can no longer touch their skin when he delivers a germ education program. The assistant will touch each child once and realize an impending mistake before he completes a second touch. Afterward, children will hear a story from their parents that contains misinformation about the experience, including narrative about a nonexperienced touch. During interviews conducted in traditional face-to-face or remote formats, children will answer questions about the germ education event and answer a series of questions that tests their ability to distinguish experienced from suggested events. By comparing the completeness and accuracy of children?s testimonies across formats, this study will determine whether remote interviewing elicits testimony that is comparable in quality to the testimony elicited by face-to-face interviewing. Measures of behavioral inhibition and executive function will determine whether remote interviewing is beneficial for children who are behaviorally inhibited or contraindicated for typically-developing children who have poor cognitive control.

尽管广泛传播进行法医面谈的最佳做法标准，但许多司法管辖区缺乏熟练调查涉及儿童证人的犯罪的专门知识。确保所有司法管辖区都能获得训练有素的儿童采访者的有效方法是进行远程（直播视频）法医访谈。远程访谈可以缩短调查反应时间，节省调查资源，加快案件处理。然而，远程访谈从儿童那里获得目击者证据的能力尚未得到充分的测试，因此，肯定会在儿童方面引发挑战。证明的可靠性。目前的项目是对儿童证人远程访谈的有效性进行全面和有理论依据的评价。研究结果将通过出版物和演讲传播给科学家和法医专业人员，从而为使用对儿童进行远程法医访谈的政策和准则提供信息。由于远程访谈增加了获得专业知识的机会，项目结果也将影响在非法医情况下如何通过电子手段对儿童进行询问。该项目将为两个研究地点的数十名学生提供研究培训，并通过与与儿童证人打交道的从业人员进行接触，提高对循证实践的认识。使用产生显著触摸体验的既定范例，在两个地点（4至8岁）的个别儿童将被告知，当男性助理进行细菌教育项目时，他不能再触摸他们的皮肤。助理会触摸每个孩子一次，并在他完成第二次触摸之前意识到即将发生的错误。之后，孩子们会从父母那里听到一个包含错误信息的故事，包括关于没有经验的触摸的叙述。在以传统的面对面或远程形式进行的采访中，儿童将回答有关细菌教育事件的问题，并回答一系列测试他们区分经验事件和建议事件的能力的问题。通过比较儿童的完整性和准确性？本研究将确定远程访谈所引出的证词是否在质量上与面对面访谈所引出的证词相当。行为抑制和执行功能的测量将决定远程访谈对行为抑制的儿童是否有益，对认知控制能力差的典型发育儿童是否有禁忌。