OBJECTIVE This survey examined current law enforcement beliefs and practices about interviewing and interrogation to gauge whether they have evolved given the research and training developed over the past 20 years. HYPOTHESES We hypothesized that police beliefs and practices would have evolved along with research findings over the past 20 years. METHOD We surveyed 526 law enforcement officers about the practices and beliefs regarding interviewing and interrogation. We asked questions about officers' beliefs about rates of true and false confessions, time spent in the interrogation room, beliefs about their ability to detect deception, training experience, practices of recording interrogations, and their self-reported use of interrogation techniques. RESULTS Overall, when we compared our survey with Kassin et al.'s (2007) seminal survey, we found both similar results and evolving positive trends. The average interview was reportedly 1.6 hr, virtually no different from that in Kassin and colleagues' study. In addition, our sample reported that 26.2% of innocent suspects at least partially falsely confessed. Further, whereas Kassin and colleagues found that fewer than one in 10 interrogations were video recorded, we found that now more than half of interrogations are recorded in this way. CONCLUSIONS In a geographically diverse sample of U.S. law enforcement officers, we found significant positive trends toward knowledge and practices informed by research generated over the past decades on interviewing and interrogation. Although causality could not be determined, these findings indicate an evolution of the U.S. law enforcement mindset in a more science-based direction. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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20 年后的采访和审讯实践和信仰：美国警察的全国自我报告调查。


目的 这项调查考察了当前执法部门关于约谈和审讯的信念和做法，以衡量它们是否随着过去 20 年的研究和培训的发展而发生了变化。假设 我们假设警察的信念和做法会随着过去 20 年的研究结果而演变。方法 我们对 526 名执法人员进行了调查，了解有关访谈和审讯的做法和信念。我们询问了警官对真假口供率的信念、在审讯室度过的时间、对自己侦破欺骗的能力的信念、培训经验、记录审讯的做法以及他们自我报告的审讯技术使用情况等问题。结果 总体而言，当我们将我们的调查与 Kassin 等人 (2007) 的开创性调查进行比较时，我们发现了相似的结果和不断发展的积极趋势。据报道，平均访谈时间为 1.6 小时，与 Kassin 及其同事的研究几乎没有什么不同。此外，我们的样本显示，26.2% 的无辜嫌疑人至少有部分错误供述。此外，卡辛和同事发现只有不到十分之一的审讯是通过视频录制的，但我们发现现在超过一半的审讯都是以这种方式录制的。结论 在美国执法人员的不同地理位置样本中，我们发现过去几十年关于访谈和审讯的研究所提供的知识和实践呈现出显着的积极趋势。尽管无法确定因果关系，但这些发现表明美国执法思维正在朝着更加科学的方向发展。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。