
Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting
Context, Challenges, and Strategies
Apple Academic Press Inc.
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2014
Book
Hardback
147 pages
978-1-4822-4255-3 (ISBN)
Description
Police interviews with suspects and witnesses provide some of the most significant evidence in criminal investigations. Frequently challenging, they require special training and skills. This interaction process is further complicated when the suspect or witness does not speak the same language as the interviewer. A professional reference that can be used in police training or in any venue where an interpreter is used, Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting: Context, Challenges, and Strategies provides solutions for the range of interview demands found in today's multilingual environments.
Topics include:
What interpreting is, the skills required, and the role of interpreters in any job context
Investigative interviewing in law enforcement
Concerns about interpreter intervention and its impact on interview outcomes
The value of word-based over meaning-based interpretation in police and legal contexts
Nonlinguistic factors that can have an impact on the interpreting process
The book explores the multi-faceted dynamics of conducting investigative interviews via interpreters and examines current investigative interviewing paradigms. It offers strategies to help interpreters and law enforcement officers and provides examples of interpreted interview excerpts to enable understanding. Although the subject matter and the examples in this book are largely limited to police interview settings, the underlying rationale applies to other professional areas that rely on interviews to collect information, including customs procedures, employer-employee interviews, and insurance claim investigations.
This book is part of the CRC Press Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series.
Topics include:
What interpreting is, the skills required, and the role of interpreters in any job context
Investigative interviewing in law enforcement
Concerns about interpreter intervention and its impact on interview outcomes
The value of word-based over meaning-based interpretation in police and legal contexts
Nonlinguistic factors that can have an impact on the interpreting process
The book explores the multi-faceted dynamics of conducting investigative interviews via interpreters and examines current investigative interviewing paradigms. It offers strategies to help interpreters and law enforcement officers and provides examples of interpreted interview excerpts to enable understanding. Although the subject matter and the examples in this book are largely limited to police interview settings, the underlying rationale applies to other professional areas that rely on interviews to collect information, including customs procedures, employer-employee interviews, and insurance claim investigations.
This book is part of the CRC Press Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oakville
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen
5 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4822-4255-3 (9781482242553)
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Sedat Mulayim | Miranda Lai | Caroline Norma
Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting
Context, Challenges, and Strategies
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Sedat Mulayim | Miranda Lai | Caroline Norma
Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting
Context, Challenges, and Strategies
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Routledge
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Sedat Mulayim | Miranda Lai | Caroline Norma
Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting
Context, Challenges, and Strategies
E-Book
09/2014
1st Edition
Routledge
€67.49
Available for download
Persons
Sedat Mulayin is the current discipline head of translating and interpreting at RMIT University in Australia.
Miranda Lai is currently a lecturer and trainer in translating and interpreting at RMIT University in Australia.
Caroline Norma, Ph.D, is a lecturer in the Master of Translation Studies degree at RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia.
Miranda Lai is currently a lecturer and trainer in translating and interpreting at RMIT University in Australia.
Caroline Norma, Ph.D, is a lecturer in the Master of Translation Studies degree at RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia.
Content
The Interpreting Profession. What Is Interpreting? The Interpreting Process. Skills Required for Interpreting. Modes of Interpreting. The Professional Role of Interpreters in Legal Settings. Investigative Interviewing. The Significance of Investigative Interviews. Main Features of Police Discourse. Two Major Police Interview Models. Overview of Interpreting Challenges and Interpreter Conduct Issues. Overview of Interpreter Intervention. The Role of Professional Interpreters. Conduct Issues of Professional Interpreters. Linguistic Transfer Issues in Police. Interpreting and Recommended Strategies. Style of Interpreting: Free versus Literal. The Law and Words. The Power of Words. Handling Interviewer's Rapport-Building Strategies. Misinterpreting Lexical Items/Collocations. Misinterpreting Grammatical Structures/Units. Personality and Linguistic Skills: Author Profiling. Managing Speech Styles of Speakers. Other Linguistic Related and Nonlinguistic Issues in Police. Interpreting and Recommended Strategies. Managing Turn-Taking. Managing Overlapping Turns in Police Interviews. Managing Deliberate Attempts to Undermine Communication. Dealing With Nonfluency and Paralinguistic Features. Maintaining "Hedges". Strengthening/Clarifying Answers. Hyperformality. Managing Multicomponent Questions and Answers: "Chunking" Issues. Managing Clarification. Conclusion. References. Index.