Police records drawn up during or after a suspect's police interrogation play a crucial role in
judicial systems and should therefore be factual representations of what occurred in the …

Recent research (Haworth 2018) has demonstrated how investigative interview data are
(unintentionally) distorted as they pass through the criminal justice system, and the survey …

Written police records play an important role in the future of a suspect. In the Netherlands a
police record—the written statement written up by a police officer based on the interrogation …

The backbone of Dutch criminal procedure is the case file including a large number of
written records. In Dutch courts the focus is primarily on evaluation of written records. The …

Contradictory empirical findings and theoretical accounts exist that are in favor of either a
written or a spoken superiority effect. In this article, we present two experiments that put the …

Objective: Police must properly evaluate evidence to make consequential decisions, but
erroneous evaluations of evidence could begin a process that leads to wrongful convictions …

In this paper I discuss the many complexities that police officers have to deal with in their
communication with suspects. Investigative interviewing is a very complex communicative …

The effects of working circumstances and intended uses on the transcripts of police
interrogations cannot be underestimated. In the Netherlands, police transcripts are usually …

This article examines whether the representation of linguistic features within transcripts and
audio recordings of police interviews can influence people's perceptions of the interviewee …

Four years ago, my friend Hannah introduced me to running. When she ran the Dam tot
Damloop in 2007, two months after I started this PhD project, I thought: I want to be able to …