Are you talking to me? Influencing behaviour and culture in police interviews

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 597-617

  Beune, Karlijn ^a   Giebels, Ellen ^a   Sanders, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Culture; Detective strategies; Influencing behaviour; Investigative interviewing; Low context high context

Indexed keywords

EID: 74949087897     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160802442835     Document Type: Article

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