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Front Psychol. 2021 Jul 09;12:606774. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.606774. eCollection 2021.

Swedish and Norwegian Police Interviewers' Goals, Tactics, and Emotions When Interviewing Suspects of Child Sexual Abuse.

Frontiers in psychology

Mikaela Magnusson, Malin Joleby, Timothy J Luke, Karl Ask, Marthe Lefsaker Sakrisvold

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
  2. Research Department, Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway.

PMID: 34305696 PMCID: PMC8298905 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.606774

Abstract

As the suspect interview is one of the key elements of a police investigation, it has received a great deal of merited attention from the scientific community. However, suspect interviews in child sexual abuse (CSA) investigations is an understudied research area. In the present mixed-methods study, we examine Swedish (

Copyright © 2021 Magnusson, Joleby, Luke, Ask and Lefsaker Sakrisvold.

Keywords: Norway; Sweden; child sexual abuse; emotion; interrogation; investigative interview; police; suspect

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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