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Urgent issues and prospects at the intersection of culture,memory, and witness interviews: Exploring the challenges for research and practice |
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| Authors: | Lorraine Hope Nkansah Anakwah Jan Antfolk Sonja P. Brubacher Heather Flowe Fiona Gabbert Ellen Giebels Wangu Kanja Julia Korkman Akira Kyo Makiko Naka Henry Otgaar Martine B. Powell Hedayat Selim Jenny Skrifvars Isaac Kwasi Sorkpah Emmanuel A. Sowatey Linda C. Steele Laura Stevens Nathanael E. J. Sumampouw Paul J. Taylor Javier Trevino-Rangel Tanja van Veldhuizen Jianqin Wang Simon Wells Anonymous |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK;2. Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK Faculty of Law, Criminal Law and Criminology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Contribution: Project administration (equal), Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);3. Faculty of Humanities, Psychology and Theology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);4. Centre for Investigative Interviewing, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld, Australia Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);5. School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);6. Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);7. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);8. Wangu Kanja Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);9. Law School, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);10. Department of Comprehensive Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);11. Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);12. National Police Training School, Accra, Ghana Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);13. Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Visiting lecturer, Police Academy, Accra, Ghana Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);14. National Children’s Advocacy Center, Huntsville, Alabama, USA Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);15. Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia, Kota Depok, Indonesia Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);16. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);17. Department of Social Sciences, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);18. Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);19. Fudan University, Shanghai, China Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);20. Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, Lancaster, UK Contribution: Writing - original draft (equal), Writing - review & editing (equal);21. London, UK |
| Abstract: | The pursuit of justice increasingly relies on productive interactions between witnesses and investigators from diverse cultural backgrounds during investigative interviews. To date, the role of cultural context has largely been ignored by researchers in the field of investigative interviewing, despite repeated requests from practitioners and policymakers for evidence-based guidance for the conduct of interviews with people from different cultures. Through examining cultural differences in human memory and communication and considering specific contextual challenges for investigative interviewing through the lens of culture, this review and associated commentaries highlight the scope for considering culture and human diversity in research on, and the practice of, investigative interviewing with victims, witnesses, and other sources. Across 11 commentaries, contributors highlight the importance of considering the role of culture in different investigative interviewing practices (e.g., rapport building, questioning techniques) and contexts (e.g., gender-based violence, asylum seeking, child abuse), address common areas of cultural mismatch between interviewer–interviewee expectations, and identify critical future routes for research. We call for an increased focus in the investigative interviewing literature on the nature and needs of our global community and encourage constructive and collaborative discussion between researchers and practitioners from around the world to better identify specific challenges and work together towards evidence-based solutions. |
| Keywords: | child interviewing cross-cultural communication culture eyewitness memory investigative interviewing memory rapport |