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Interpreted investigative interviews: What do interpreters want police investigators to know?
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Howes, LM, Interpreted investigative interviews: What do interpreters want police investigators to know?, 37th annual congress of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL), Perth, Australia (2017) [Conference Extract]
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Abstract
This presentation discusses police investigative interviews and procedural justice.
Procedural justice encompasses neutrality, which refers to the absence of bias, particularly
in police dealings with minority groups. Interpreters play an essential role in facilitating
communication between the police and people who are not proficient in the language. Yet
research findings suggest that interpreters’ presence, behaviour, and interpreting choices
can impact negatively on the fairness of police investigative interviews. This study explored
the under-researched topic of interpreters’ experiences of police investigative interviews.
Twenty community interpreters from diverse languages participated in interviews.
Transcripts were analysed thematically. Interpreters’ accounts demonstrated the perception
that effective interpreting is impeded both by practical issues within the investigative
interviewing context, and by systemic issues in the structure of the interpreting profession.
Practical implications to enhance the fairness of interpreted interviews include the need to
understand the structure of the interpreting profession, and suggestions for working
effectively with interpreters throughout the interpreting assignment.
Item Details
Item Type: | Conference Extract |
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Keywords: | interpreters, police interviews, procedural justice |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Criminology |
Research Field: | Police administration, procedures and practice |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Justice and the law |
Objective Field: | Criminal justice |
UTAS Author: | Howes, LM (Dr Loene Howes) |
ID Code: | 123176 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2017-12-19 |
Last Modified: | 2020-02-13 |
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