title: Field test of the Cognitive Interview: enhancing the recollection of actual victims and witnesses of crime.
abstract: The Cognitive Interview was tested in the field to enhance the recollection of actual victims and witnesses of crime. The technique is based on laboratory-tested principles of memory retrieval, knowledge representation, and communication. Seven experienced detectives from the Metro-Dade Police Department were trained to use the technique and were compared with 9 untrained detectives. Before and after training, all detectives tape-recorded interviews with victims and witnesses of crime. The trained detectives elicited 47% more information after than before training, and 63% more information than did the untrained detectives. Overall collaboration rates (94%) were extremely high and were equivalent for pre- and posttrained interviews. Because the Cognitive Interview reliably enhances memory and is easily learned and administered, it should be useful for a variety of investigative interviews.
authors: R P
authors: RP
authors: Fisher
authors: R E
authors: RE
authors: Geiselman
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Amador
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime; D003416:Criminal Law; D005431:Florida; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008568:Memory