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The criminal justice system relies heavily on eliciting truthful information from suspects to solve crimes. A paramount problem with this approach involves the questioning of young suspects. Numerous studies support the conclusion that youth is a risk factor for providing false information during police questioning. The present study examined the influence of temporal discounting (the tendency for individual’s behavior to be influenced more strongly by proximal than distal factors; Berns, Laibson, & Loewenstein, 2007; Critchfield & Kollins, 2001) and other developmental factors (i.e., impulse control, future orientation, and sensation seeking) thought to underlie youths’ increased interrogative vulnerability. In line with previous research examining developmental differences in confession decisions, it was predicted that youth would be more likely than adults to provide false admissions to escape the immediate consequences of the situation. Furthermore, it was predicted that youth demonstrating lower impulse control, deficits in future orientation, and increased sensation seeking would be most likely to engage in this tendency. Using a randomized experimental design 205 adult and youth participants were questioned about their engagement in 20 criminal and unethical behaviors. Participants were told responding “yes” or “no” to these questions would have either immediate consequences (i.e., answering a series of repetitive questions) or future consequences (i.e., meeting with a police officer in a few weeks). Analyses revealed evidence of temporal discounting: Participants provided more admissions when denials, rather than admissions, were punished with immediate consequences. Contrary to hypotheses, age, impulse control, future orientation and sensation seeking did not moderate this relationship. Similarly, hypotheses regarding the relationship between age group, impulse control, and future orientation were unsupported. Compared to adults, adolescents did not exhibit less impulse control or future orientation. The current study was the first to experimentally examine factors thought to underlie youths’ increased proclivity to provide false information in interrogation. Justice system involved youth may differ from youth in the current study in key ways that help explain the lack of support for study hypotheses. Because of these differences, it is imperative that future research focuses on youth who are most at risk of encountering the justice system as suspects.

Claims of insufficient knowledge, such as I don’t know or no idea, are observable in a variety of contexts in spoken interaction. This discourse analytic study focuses on how six murder suspects in police interrogations formulate claims of insufficient knowledge and what spoken strategies police officers employ in responding to them. The data consists of audio-recorded transcripts of six police interrogations carried out in English, which resulted in a corpus of 170 115 word tokens, featuring 287 claims of insufficient knowledge in total, with the most frequently used one being I don’t know. Six different strategies of how police officers manage claims of insufficient knowledge were identified. The study also provides examples of the interactional outcome of the strategies utilized. The findings reveal that close-ended questions were deployed twice as much as open-ended questions, even though open-ended questions usually result in more informative responses, which one would expect to be a goal of police interrogations.

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The thesis examines the process of recruitment of German prisoners of war (the former Wehrmacht soldiers) to the Czechoslovak foreign army in the West. Based on a wide variety of sources mainly of military origin, the thesis investigates the process of enlistment with all its specific regional features (the recruitment differed slightly based on the country where it took place). More specifically, the thesis also deals with questions concerning the German captives' security clearance, e. g. to which extent the actual recruitment followed the official instructions and guidelines, in which ways the captives presented themselves and what image they tried to create, how they were appraised and perceived by the Czechoslovak authorities and by officers, etc. The final mosaic should demonstrate that recruitment of the former Wehrmacht soldiers was not only inevitable, but also vital and necessary for completion of Czechoslovak armed forces. The vetting itself was a very strict and thorough process aimed on preventing potentially dangerous, unreliable individuals who might have posed a security risk from joining the Czechoslovak army.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2017-03-21T15:30:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilajulioguedespinto.pdf: 806114 bytes, checksum: 5945ef44664b16faa058ec7813d8aa52 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-03-22T11:46:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilajulioguedespinto.pdf: 806114 bytes, checksum: 5945ef44664b16faa058ec7813d8aa52 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-22T11:46:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilajulioguedespinto.pdf: 806114 bytes, checksum: 5945ef44664b16faa058ec7813d8aa52 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-30 / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo descrever algumas práticas sequenciais de negociação, desempenhadas pelo inspetor de polícia nos interrogatórios policiais da Delegacia de Repressão a Crimes Contra a Mulher (DRCCM). Utiliza-se como referencial teóricometodológico a Análise da Conversa de base Etnometodológica para o mapeamento sequencial dessas práticas que são organizadas sequencialmente e construídas localmente nas interações de cinco interrogatórios policiais. Considerando que o inspetor de polícia executa atividades que extrapolam a sua tarefa principal de interrogar as partes, no sentido stricto sensu, como a prática de negociação, a análise parte da verificação de quais práticas sequenciais de negociação são executadas pelo policial, e o que é negociado nesse ambiente. A partir disso, elabora-se um quadro que sintetiza essas práticas que são utilizadas pelo inspetor para a resolução de conflitos e tomadas de decisão. Esse estudo evidencia que tais práticas sequenciais de negociação contribuem para que os policiais reflitam sobre as suas atuações no ambiente da DRCCM, uma vez que não só atuam como investigadores, mas também como terceiras partes (negociadores), tentando resolver os problemas familiares levados pelas partes à DRCCM, e aprimorem as suas habilidades interacionais dentro desse ambiente institucional para melhor atender a população. / This dissertation will attempt to describe sequential practices of negotiation led by the police officer in the police inquiries at an All-Female Police Station. The methodological and theoretical references to map the practices sequentially are based on the Conversation Analysis Ethnomethodology. The sequential practices of negotiation were organized in series and locally built with the interaction of five police inquiries. It will be considered that the police officer performs extra activities besides their major task of inquiring - in strict sensu - as a negotiation practice. The analysis will attempt to validate which sequential practices of negotiation are performed by the police officer, and what is negotiated in the work environment. Based on the aforementioned theories, a synthesis of the practices performed by the police officer to solve conflicts and take decisions will be depicted. This study will show that sequential practices of negotiation may contribute to the police officers' consideration of their own acts in the work environment, once they do not work only as investigators. They receive other functions besides trying to resolve the victim's family's problems, for instance, and also improve their interaction within the All-Female Police Station institutional environment in order to serve the population with more quality.

Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-02-24T14:37:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 deboramarques.pdf: 1655800 bytes, checksum: 53c0dd4460a3dca22dd0b14bb5e5d537 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-02-24T15:38:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 deboramarques.pdf: 1655800 bytes, checksum: 53c0dd4460a3dca22dd0b14bb5e5d537 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-24T15:38:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 deboramarques.pdf: 1655800 bytes, checksum: 53c0dd4460a3dca22dd0b14bb5e5d537 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-23 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho objetiva mapear e descrever - sob a perspectiva teórico-metodológica da Análise da Conversa de base Etnometodológica (ACe) - a organização estrutural global em termos de fases e tarefas desempenhadas pelo inspetor nos interrogatórios policiais. Foram gerados dados em uma Delegacia de Repressão a Crimes Contra a Mulher (DRRCM) no estado de Minas Gerais, posto que a violência contra a mulher, ou aquela cometida contra indivíduos que possuam relações de afetividade entre si, é vista como um problema social. No ambiente da DRCCM, mapeou-se o evento interrogatório em três fases distintas: (i) a fase da identificação dos participantes, na qual o inspetor coleta informações sobre a identidade (enquanto pessoa física) das partes envolvidas; (ii) a tarefa de leitura do Boletim de Ocorrência (BO), na qual as partes são informadas sobre a natureza da intimação e (iii) a tarefa do interrogatório em si, em que, propriamente, as perguntas se direcionam à tentativa de apurar a verdade dos fatos e são organizadas, sequencialmente, em pares adjacentes de Pergunta-Resposta (P-R). Cabe destacar que esse ordenamento sequencial coloca em evidência a relação assimétrica entre os participantes, dado que é o inspetor, representante legal, quem tem o direito e o poder para coordenar a interação que é co-construída por todos os interagentes no ambiente institucional da DRCCM. / This research aims to map and describe - in the theoretical-methodological perspective within the framework of Conversation Analysis (CA) - the overall structural organization in terms of phases and tasks performed by inspectors in the police interrogations. Thus, data were generated in an All-female Police Station in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, since violence against women, or that one committed against individuals who have affection relations between them, is considered a social problem. In the environment of the All-female Police Station, we divided the interrogatory event in three distinct phases: (i) the stage of identifying the participants, in which the inspector collects information on identity (as a natural person) of the parties involved, (ii) the task of reading the Incident Report, in which the parties are informed about the nature of the subpoena and (iii) the task of questioning, in which the questions are specifically directed to the attempt of ascertain the truth of the facts and they are organized, sequentially, in adjacent pairs of Question-Answer (Q-A). It is relevant to note that the sequential order highlights the asymmetric relationship between the participants, since it is the inspector, legal representative, who has the right and the power to coordinate the interaction that is co-constructed by all interlocutors in the institutional environment of the All-female Police Station.

Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-04-27T12:57:08Z No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilajulioguedespinto.pdf: 3970525 bytes, checksum: 39e07f9cc235df6c2bbd16e72422bb54 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-05-12T15:48:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilajulioguedespinto.pdf: 3970525 bytes, checksum: 39e07f9cc235df6c2bbd16e72422bb54 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T15:49:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilajulioguedespinto.pdf: 3970525 bytes, checksum: 39e07f9cc235df6c2bbd16e72422bb54 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-24 / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo mapear as práticas de apurar crimes, desempenhadas por um inspetor de polícia, nos interrogatórios policiais da Delegacia de Repressão a Crimes Contra a Mulher (doravante DRCCM). A relevância deste trabalho deve-se ao fato de a atividade de apurar crimes, nos interrogatórios policiais, ser fundamental para a composição do processo criminal, encaminhado ao judiciário para punição dos acusados. Esta pesquisa baseia-se no referencial teórico-metodológico da Análise da Conversa de base Etnometodológica (SACKS, SCHEGLOFF e JEFFERSON (2003 [1974]) para o mapeamento sequencial dessas práticas, que são construídas localmente nas interações dos interrogatórios policiais. O trabalho insere-se no panorama da Linguística Aplicada das Profissões (SARANGI, 2005). Considerando que a apuração se processa, sobretudo, por meio de sequências de pares adjacentes de pergunta e resposta, a análise parte do estudo das práticas de apurar crimes executadas por um policial, e das perguntas e/ou afirmações que as implementam. Este estudo evidencia que, através de tais práticas, o policial atinge a sua meta institucional, tentando coletar informações que comprovem a materialidade dos delitos. Os resultados desta pesquisa mostram que das oito práticas detectadas, em apenas duas, o policial consegue as informações criminais que ele busca obter. Apesar de a maioria dessas práticas não tenham sido eficazes para o policial comprovar a materialidade dos delitos, destaca-se que o conhecimento adquirido pelos policiais civis dessas práticas possa contribuir para o desenvolvimento do trabalho policial nas Delegacias de Polícia, de modo que os próprios policiais reflitam sobre o seu fazer investigativo e busquem novas práticas que possam ajudá-los na obtenção de informações relacionadas aos delitos. / The purpose of this thesis is to map out the practices of investigating crimes led by the police officer in the police interrogations at an All-female Police Station. The relevance of this work is due to the fact that the act of investigating crimes in police interrogations is fundamental for the whole criminal process that it is then sent to the court for the correct punishment of the accused. This research is based on the methodological and theoretical references of Conversation Analysis Ethnomethodology (SACKS, SCHEGLOFF e JEFFERSON (2003 [1974]) for the sequential mapping out of these practices, which are done locally in the interactions of the police interrogations. This work is part of the so called Applied Linguistics of Professions panorama (SARANGI, 2005). Considering that the investigation is processed, above all, through the adjacent pairs of question and answer sequences, the analysis goes from the study practices of investigating crimes done by a police officer, and the questions and/or statements that they implement. This study shows that, through such practices, the police officer reaches his institutional goal in trying to collect information to prove the materiality of crimes. The results of this research show that of the eight practices detected, in only two, the police officer collects the criminal information that he seeks to obtain. Although most of these practices have not been effective to the police officer proves the materiality of crimes, it is emphasized that the knowledge gained of these practices by the police officers can contribute to the development of police work within the Police Stations, in a way that the police officers can reflect upon their interrogation techniques and seek new ways to help them get information related to the crimes.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-10-10T12:33:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Paola Gabriela Konrad_.pdf: 4247741 bytes, checksum: 078c837af4cb5360b2b5636814fdd828 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-10T12:33:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paola Gabriela Konrad_.pdf: 4247741 bytes, checksum: 078c837af4cb5360b2b5636814fdd828 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-08-28 / UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos / A prática de perguntar e de responder consiste em uma atividade trivial na vida das pessoas, seja na fala-em-interação mundana ou institucional. Nesta dissertação, analisam-se sequências de perguntas e respostas, bem como as consequências por elas ocasionadas, em um evento interacional de caráter institucional permeado pela prática de perguntar e de responder: o interrogatório policial. O objetivo consiste em investigar, por meio do arcabouço teórico-metodológico da Análise da Conversa de base etnometodológica (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974), como ocorre a busca vs. o resguardo de informações acerca dos crimes sob investigação em interrogatórios policiais de três Delegacias de Polícia do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Propõe-se, de maneira específica, analisar e descrever as implicações interacionais: (1) dos formatos das perguntas utilizados pelos policiais investigadores na busca por informações concernentes aos crimes; e (2) dos recursos por meio dos quais os participantes dos interrogatórios resguardam informações acerca dos crimes sob investigação. O corpus deste estudo advém de gravações em áudio e/ou vídeo de dez interrogatórios policiais ocorridos em três Delegacias de Polícia Civil, entre abril de 2017 e janeiro de 2018. No que concerne à busca dos fatos dos crimes, a análise evidencia que é a partir das perguntas de formatos menos abertos e de formato fechado, ou então do estreitamento sequencial de perguntas de formato aberto para perguntas de formato fechado, que informações acerca dos crimes são alcançadas pelos policiais investigadores. Essas informações são seguidas de justificativas e/ou informações adicionais que podem não apenas ser substanciais para as investigações, como também podem ser usadas em favor da própria inocência dos interrogados. Em relação ao resguardo das informações acerca dos crimes sob investigação, a análise revela que ele pode ser: (1) realizado pelos interrogados em seus turnos de fala responsivos; e (2) oportunizado pelos policiais investigadores em suas perguntas. Os interrogados resguardam os fatos dos crimes ao resistirem ao provimento das informações solicitadas pelos policiais e ao fornecerem respostas não conformativas àquelas tornadas relevantes nas perguntas, cujas ações consistem em declarações de desconhecimento, deslembrança e dessaber, dentre outras. Os policiais oportunizam que informações concernentes aos crimes sejam resguardadas pelos interrogados quando realizam perguntas cuja composição integra verbos de cognição, tais como “saber” e “lembrar”, possibilitando, assim, que os interrogados declarem, em suas respostas, dessaber e/ou deslembrança sem que revelem resistência ou não conformidade em relação à pergunta. A partir desses resultados, reflete-se sobre a interface entre a ciência da linguagem e as ciências jurídicas, bem como sobre as contribuições que este estudo linguístico-interacional tem a oferecer ao contexto de investigação e ao aparato da Análise da Conversa. / Questioning and answering are trivial activities in people's lives, either in mundane or institutional talk-in-interaction. This dissertation analyzes sequences of questions and answers, as well as its consequences, in interactional and institutional events constituted by questioning and answering practices: police interrogations. The objective is to investigate, supported by the theoretical and methodological framework of Conversation Analysis (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974), how pursuit vs. preservation of information concerning crimes under investigation occur in police interrogations of three Police stations in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. More specifically, it proposes to analyze and describe the following interactional implications: (1) question formats used by police agents in the pursuit of information concerning crimes; and (2) resources through which interrogated individuals preserve information related to crimes under investigation. The corpus of this study is composed of audio and/or video recordings of ten police interrogations from three Civilian Police stations, collected between April, 2017 and January, 2018. Regarding pursuit of crime facts, the analysis shows that information about crimes is obtained by police agents when they use less open or closed questions, as well as when they switch from open to closed-question sequences. This information precedes justifications and/or additional information, which not only can be substantial for the investigation process, but also can be used in favor of the innocence of the individual being interrogated. Concerning preservation of information related to crimes under investigation, the analysis demonstrates that it can be: (1) carried out by interrogated individuals in their responsive turns; and (2) enabled by police agents due to the question formats they choose. Interrogated individuals preserve crime facts when resisting to provide information requested by police agents and when supplying nonconforming responses concerning answers that are made relevant by the question format, performing actions such as lack of knowledge, forgetfulness and unawareness declarations, among others. Police agents enable information related to crimes to be protected by interrogated individuals when they choose question formats which include cognition verbs, such as “to know” and “to remember”, which makes possible, thus, that interrogated people, in their answers, declare ignorance and/or lack of memory without demonstrating resistance or nonconformity towards the question being answered. Based on these results, the study reflects on the interface between linguistic and legal sciences, as well as on contributions that this linguistic and interactional study has to offer to the investigated context and to the Conversation Analysis framework.