Richards, Y. and Keatley, D. (2023)

When investigating missing persons cases, witness and suspect statements are often the only available evidence to investigators. As such, forensic linguistics can be useful to police when seeking information from individuals during investigative interviews. The presumption of innocence must be maintained in an investigation, and therefore this study aims to use a method focused on veracity detection, rather than the majority of studies using deception detection approaches.

This open access document is available to view online. In Journal of Criminal Psychology, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-11-2022-0032

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