<p> The purpose of this study was to develop the Rapport Scales for Investigative Interviews and Interrogations (RS3i), a measure of rapport for use in the context of investigative interviews and interrogations. Eighty "source" participants were interviewed by 80 "interview" participants. Each source rated the interview using the Prototype RS3i-Source Version. Observer participants each viewed and rated two interviews. Exploratory analyses were done on 374 observer ratings of 20 interviews to explore the factor structure of the items and develop the final scales. The final version of the RS3i contained 32 items comprising 8 rapport scales and one Commitment to Communication scale. The internal reliability of these scales was determined to be adequate. The validity of the scales was examined using 80 source ratings and a second sample of 246 observer ratings. Limited evidence of validity was found. The scales are recommended as a starting point for future research and training in building rapport during investigative interviews.</p>

<p> Assured by the City and County of Denver (CCD) to be a compassionate initiative, the Unauthorized Camping Ordinance (UCO) enacted in May 2012 has resulted in a form of social action that contradicts the notion of compassion. For example, in opposition to its presentation as an measure intended to benefit homeless persons, violation can result in citation, fines, arrest, and incarceration. Using critical discourse analysis, the rhetoric of place, legal and political history, communication studies, and stigma theory, my study examines aspects of the UCO's and CCD's contradictory disregard of Denver's unhoused residents, suggesting that the ordinance imposes disadvantages that exceed the advantages promised by the CCD. Taken at face value, the UCO stipulates that violators must be referred to services. In actuality, rather than connecting homeless people with these services, the outworking of the ordinance has resulted the routinized utterance of the phrase "move along" by Denver police officers. In stark contrast to compassion, "move along" signals to Denver's unhoused residents that they are unwelcome in Denver. Moreover, the ordinance and officials of the CCD incorrectly imply that there is sufficient and adequate shelter space for Denver's unhoused residents to inhabit. This conveys to the public that resolving the issue of homelessness in Denver rests upon whether homeless persons unquestioningly comply with the ordinance and inhabit shelters. On top of this, evidence suggests that some homeless persons reasonably decide against inhabiting such shelters. In spite of their decision, the CCD continues to enforce an ordinance that, by and large, excludes and obscures homeless persons from public view, all the while calling the measure an act of "compassion." The end result is the disaffiliation, displacement, and dehumanization of Denver's homeless persons, encouraging their social exclusion and potentially justifying hate crimes against them. The contradictory disregard of the UCO and the CCD alike significantly limits and deteriorates the political and physical places allotted to homeless people, diminishing connections to the social power and capital they need to cultivate and maintain stable living. </p>

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-28T10:24:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 José Rubens Demoro Almeida.pdf: 568544 bytes, checksum: 547032b4e3e228943eb73649618abbff (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-28T10:24:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 José Rubens Demoro Almeida.pdf: 568544 bytes, checksum: 547032b4e3e228943eb73649618abbff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-15 / This issue aims to verify some characteristics of the legal speech, its rhetoric and language and also aims to build the reality of the legal phenomenon and establish a parallel with the movie language once its also allows an understanding of reality from its sounds, images and movements which cause an impact in the senses. These discussions are presented in order to rework reflexively a world vision, towards a philosophical attitude. The starting point to discuss the mentioned relations consists in presenting law and movies as cultural expressions, which operate in and to the human interaction and which use a specific communication language to describe, direct and dictate behaviour, in order to persuade and seduce the receptor (in law) or the spectator (in movies). So, could the legal speech, mainly directed to the constitution of realities and to order the human behaviour, be known also by the movies and by its language and speech? Could philosophy mediate this contact, establishing a dialogue with the movies to provide a better effectiveness of law? To reach this aim, it is presented a theoretical research related to legal history and speech, its rhetoric and also the development of the movie language. The objective is to demonstrate that it is possible to find huge relations between the legal and movie approaches of the human life / Este trabalho tem como objetivo verificar algumas características da linguagem do direito, de seu discurso e retórica, na medida em que pretende constituir a realidade do fenômeno jurídico e estabelecer um paralelo com a linguagem do cinema, que também permite uma apreensão do real, a partir de imagens, sons e movimentos, que impactam os sentidos, para reelaborar reflexivamente uma visão de mundo, própria da atitude filosófica. O ponto de partida para estabelecer tais relações consiste em abordar, tanto o direito como o cinema, como expressões culturais, que atuam no e para o convívio humano, e que se utilizam de uma linguagem de comunicação própria para descrever , dirigir e prescrever comportamentos, no intuito de persuadir e seduzir o receptor (no direito) ou o espectador (no cinema). Assim, poderia o discurso jurídico fundamentalmente direcionado à constituição de realidades e de ordenamento de condutas humanas, ser conhecido também pelo cinema e por sua linguagem e discurso? Poderia a filosofia mediar este contato, estabelecendo um diálogo com o cinema de modo a propiciar maior efetividade do direito? Para tanto, a pesquisa teórica e histórica do discurso jurídico, de sua retórica e do desenvolvimento da linguagem cinematográfica são aqui abordadas, a demonstrar que é possível estabelecer grandes relações entre as visões jurídica e cinematográfica da vida humana