@article{ref1,
title="The relationship between job status, interviewing experience, gender, and police officers' adherence to open-ended questions",
journal="Legal and criminological psychology",
year="2009",
author="Smith, Rebecca M. and Powell, Martine B. and Lum, Jarrad",
volume="14",
number="1",
pages="51-63",
abstract="Purpose. The current study examined whether several factors related to the job and demographic profile of police officers are associated with adherence to best-practice guidelines when interviewing children.Method. One hundred and seventy-eight police officers completed a standardized (simulated) interview regarding an allegation of abuse by a 5-year-old child. Immediately prior to this interview, details were obtained from the officers' regarding their job status, gender, interview experience, the timing and nature of prior training/supervision, and experience outside the policing profession with young children.Results. The results showed that timing of training was the only factor that related to interview performance. The proportion of open-ended questions among participants who completed their interviewer training course less than 1 month prior to the simulated interview was better than those who completed the training earlier. Interestingly, the performance of the latter group was identical to that of a group of participants who had not yet received any formal interview training. The implications of the findings are discussed, along with directions for future research.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1355-3259",
doi="10.1348/135532507X262360",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/135532507X262360"
}