Gathering human intelligence via repeated interviewing: further empirical tests of the Scharff technique

Research on investigative interviewing has only recently started to compare the efficacy of different techniques for gathering intelligence from human sources. So far the research has focused exclusively on sources interviewed once, thus overlooking that most sources are interviewed multiple times....

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Authors: Debout-Oleszkiewicz, Simone 1919- (Author) ; Granhag, Pär Anders 1964- (Author) ; Kleinman, Steven M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 7, Pages: 666-681
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