Rebecca Milne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3838544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Milne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Milne |
| SIGNATURE | MILNE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4542-8495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Adnyamathanha and Archaeological Views on Warratyi Rock Shelter (The Rock), a 50,000-Year-Old Site in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
This paper examines the perspectives of Adnyamathanha people and archaeologists regarding the Warratyi rock shelter, also known as “The Rock,” an archaeological site in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges, dated to approximately 49,000 years BP (Hamm et al. 2016). While the scientific significance of such sites is often emphasized, the views and knowledge of the communities who are the traditional custodians of these lands are rarely discussed. Thi…
Orochi impact formula: An evidence-based approach for quantifying the societal harm of County Lines drug supply
The County Lines (CL) drug supply model is a rapidly increasing threat. Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime have developed a statistical formula, referred to as ‘Orochi impact formula’ for conservatively quantifying the quantity and monetary value of drugs sold per line. The novel formula, which uses known average daily consumption rates of Class A drug and customer demand telephony data, conservatively indicates deal line trade, systematically …
An Exploratory Thematic Analysis of the Decision Challenges Faced by Emergency Responders During the 2017 Manchester Arena Attack
On 22 May 2017, the Manchester Arena bombing resulted in twenty-two fatalities, marking the United Kingdom’s most lethal terrorist attack since 2005. A subsequent public inquiry revealed the necessity for improved operational, tactical and strategic response and management strategies, and highlighted the barriers to effective decision-making processes of those present during the incident. Integrating macro-level societal ideologies, meso-level gr…
An analysis of interview strategies in high-stakes crime investigations in the UK: Are they fit for purpose
Providing strategic advice to the Senior Investigating Officer is a key element of the role of the Interview Manager in high-stakes crime investigations. However, no actual evaluation of such strategies has been undertaken. This exploratory study examined 15 interview strategies from three UK police forces in connection with high-stakes crime investigations. Overall, the analysis illustrated that the strategies were poorly designed, vague and lac…
The Indigenisation of Australian Archaeology
The role of the Interview Manager (IM) in UK policing: Perceptions and experiences of the IM when deployed in high stakes crime investigations
The Garden at Pingle Farm: An Unsettling Investigation
This paper presents a reflection on the process and results of an historical archaeological investigation of a South Australian colonial farm garden. It demonstrates how the researcher allowed the emotions evinced by the site’s history as a frontier site to contribute to the discussion of the research’s relevance for contemporary Australian society, related to themes of national identity and coming to terms with a colonial past
Personality and hardiness differences between Norwegian police and psychology students
The present study investigated: (1) differences in personality traits and hardiness between police and psychology students; and (2) the relationship between personality traits and hardiness. To achieve these aims, we obtained scores using the Big Five Inventory‐20 and the Dispositional Resilience Scale‐15‐R from n = 125 police students and n = 177 psychology students. Police students relative to psychology students, as expected, scored significan…
Retracted: Responding to reticence in investigative interviews of alleged victims with a mental illness: Maintaining rapport
Investigative interviews of people with severe mental illness are potentially challenging for police interviewers. The purpose of the study was to explore how police interviewers respond to interviewees’ expressions of reticence to maintain rapport. To reach our research aims, we studied transcripts of all police interviews with adult victims with a mental illness classified as vulnerable and conducted at Barnahus (Children’s House) in Norway bet…
Oitivas e interrogatórios baseados em evidências: Considerações Sobre Entrevista Investigativa Aplicado Na Investigação Criminal
Policiais realizam entrevistas com vítimas, testemunhas, e suspeitos para obter informações, sendo a acurácia e a quantidade destas informações diretamente relacionadas às técnicas de entrevista utilizadas. Uma entrevista com técnicas inadequadas tende a gerar poucas informações e potencialmente imprecisas, prejudicando o processo investigativo e o sistema de justiça. Já uma entrevista com técnicas adequadas é capaz de resultar em um maior número…
Personality and Hardiness Among Police Students: An Evaluative Pilot Study
The purpose of the current pilot study was to evaluate the suitability and usefulness of short-form measures of personality (BFI-20) and hardiness (DRS-15-R) for an upcoming research project. We used a sample of police students (N = 129) to investigate: (1) the rudimentary psychometric properties of the instruments, and (2) the covariation between the obtained scores on these measures. The results showed that hardiness and Emotional stability had…
An analysis of the quality of investigative interviews with children in France: Age of the witness does matter
A context-driven analysis was performed to assess the quality of French investigative interviews with three age groups of child witnesses (under 7 years old, 7–10 years old, and 11–17 years old). We measured how age was related to the quality of 24 real-life interviews by evaluating how child-centered the interview was: (i) did it follow recommendations for each phase of the interview and, (ii) was the questioning style appropriately adapted to t…
Exploring investigative interviewing: A Dubai perspective
Miscarriages of Justice: Causes, consequences and remedies
It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand miscarriages of justice. This text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of miscarriages of justice, highlighting difficulties in defining them, examining their dimensions, forms, scale and impact and exploring key cases and their causes.
One step forward and two steps back? The ‘20 Principles’ for questioning vulnerable witnesses and the lack of an evidence-based approach
It is a widely held belief that questioning vulnerable witnesses is a specialist skill. In England and Wales vulnerable witness advocacy training built around ‘20 Principles’ has been developed and is being delivered. The 20 Principles do not cite a tested theoretical framework(s) or empirical evidence in support. This paper considers whether the 20 Principles are underpinned by research evidence. It is submitted that advocacy training and the ap…
Regulating and coping with distress during police interviews of traumatized victims
The findings of the study show the importance of relational processes in investigative interviewing of traumatized interviewees, particularly with regard to coping with emotions. The results suggest that if the police investigator who is conducting an investigative interview can offer a trusting, safe and compassionate relationship, or if he or she steers the relational dynamics toward safety in the present moment when distress arises, he or she …
Want a Better Criminal Justice Response to Rape? Improve Police Interviews With Complainants and Suspects
Achieving just outcomes in rape cases is difficult, but there are ways we can improve the investigation and prosecution of these crimes, now. We outline how targeting variables, within control of the criminal justice system, can improve the quality of information police obtain from interviews with complainants and suspects. We explore how, by preserving these accounts on video, the criminal justice process can better use this information to impro…
Peace in fraud interviews: Assumptions and detection of guilt and the impact on interviewer behaviour
Towards a more effective detective
The characteristics that detectives believe are required to be an ‘effective detective’ were explored in this study. A Repertory Grid Technique and Critical Incident Technique were used to explore in detail the views of experienced detectives (N = 30) from five different police services in Australia and New Zealand about what makes an effective detective. The findings suggest that detectives hold a complex and challenging role that requires 11 ke…
The prospective detective: Developing the effective detective of the future
This study explored the challenges to ensuring detectives are effective in the future.Semistructured interviews were conducted with thirty experienced detectives from five different police services in Australia and New Zealand.A content analysis of the interviews identified four main challenges for the futurethe retention and recruitment of detectives, the rapid growth of technology, training and on-going professional development, and accountabil…
Evaluating police interviewing practices with suspects in child-sexual abuse cases
This article examined adherence to current best practice recommendations for police interviewing of individuals suspected of committing child-sexual offences. We analysed 81 police records of interviews (electronically recorded and then transcribed) with suspects in child-sexual abuse cases in England and Australia. Overall we found areas of skilled practice, indicating that police interviewing in Australia and England is in a far better place th…
Além das técnicas de entrevista: Características Individuais Em Entrevista Investigativa Com Testemunhas
A literatura psicológica sugere que a experiência da testemunha não se resume a um fenômeno mnêmonico, refletindo, também, a influência de forças sociais. No contexto forense a atitude do entrevistador, primeiro ponto de contato com a vítima ou testemunha, é crucial para o processo de obtenção de informação e o provável sucesso da investigação. O presente estudo refere-se ao levantamento de características do entrevistador que se mostram relevant…
Perceptions of Benefit Fraud Staff in the Uk: Giving P.E.A.C.E. A Chance
This article reports a study concerning perceptions of benefit fraud staff and of management concerning their own interviewing techniques and standards, and their views pertaining to a preferred model of interviewing. Interviewing fraud suspects forms an important task performed by Fraud Investigators (FIs) within the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK. Given this significance, it is surprising that there has been little analysis of …
Want a Better Criminal Justice Response to Rape? Improve Police Interviews With Complainants and Suspects
Achieving just outcomes in rape cases is difficult, but there are ways we can improve the investigation and prosecution of these crimes, now. We outline how targeting variables, within control of the criminal justice system, can improve the quality of information police obtain from interviews with complainants and suspects. We explore how, by preserving these accounts on video, the criminal justice process can better use this information to impro…
The prospective detective: Developing the effective detective of the future
This study explored the challenges to ensuring detectives are effective in the future.Semistructured interviews were conducted with thirty experienced detectives from five different police services in Australia and New Zealand.A content analysis of the interviews identified four main challenges for the futurethe retention and recruitment of detectives, the rapid growth of technology, training and on-going professional development, and accountabil…
Personality and Hardiness Among Police Students: An Evaluative Pilot Study
The purpose of the current pilot study was to evaluate the suitability and usefulness of short-form measures of personality (BFI-20) and hardiness (DRS-15-R) for an upcoming research project. We used a sample of police students (N = 129) to investigate: (1) the rudimentary psychometric properties of the instruments, and (2) the covariation between the obtained scores on these measures. The results showed that hardiness and Emotional stability had…
Towards a more effective detective
The characteristics that detectives believe are required to be an ‘effective detective’ were explored in this study. A Repertory Grid Technique and Critical Incident Technique were used to explore in detail the views of experienced detectives (N = 30) from five different police services in Australia and New Zealand about what makes an effective detective. The findings suggest that detectives hold a complex and challenging role that requires 11 ke…
Evaluating police interviewing practices with suspects in child-sexual abuse cases
This article examined adherence to current best practice recommendations for police interviewing of individuals suspected of committing child-sexual offences. We analysed 81 police records of interviews (electronically recorded and then transcribed) with suspects in child-sexual abuse cases in England and Australia. Overall we found areas of skilled practice, indicating that police interviewing in Australia and England is in a far better place th…
Perceptions of Benefit Fraud Staff in the Uk: Giving P.E.A.C.E. A Chance
This article reports a study concerning perceptions of benefit fraud staff and of management concerning their own interviewing techniques and standards, and their views pertaining to a preferred model of interviewing. Interviewing fraud suspects forms an important task performed by Fraud Investigators (FIs) within the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK. Given this significance, it is surprising that there has been little analysis of …
Perceptions of Benefit Fraud Staff in the Uk: Giving P.E.A.C.E. A Chance
This article reports a study concerning perceptions of benefit fraud staff and of management concerning their own interviewing techniques and standards, and their views pertaining to a preferred model of interviewing. Interviewing fraud suspects forms an important task performed by Fraud Investigators (FIs) within the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK. Given this significance, it is surprising that there has been little analysis of …
Evaluating police interviewing practices with suspects in child-sexual abuse cases
This article examined adherence to current best practice recommendations for police interviewing of individuals suspected of committing child-sexual offences. We analysed 81 police records of interviews (electronically recorded and then transcribed) with suspects in child-sexual abuse cases in England and Australia. Overall we found areas of skilled practice, indicating that police interviewing in Australia and England is in a far better place th…
Além das técnicas de entrevista: Características Individuais Em Entrevista Investigativa Com Testemunhas
A literatura psicológica sugere que a experiência da testemunha não se resume a um fenômeno mnêmonico, refletindo, também, a influência de forças sociais. No contexto forense a atitude do entrevistador, primeiro ponto de contato com a vítima ou testemunha, é crucial para o processo de obtenção de informação e o provável sucesso da investigação. O presente estudo refere-se ao levantamento de características do entrevistador que se mostram relevant…
Towards a more effective detective
The characteristics that detectives believe are required to be an ‘effective detective’ were explored in this study. A Repertory Grid Technique and Critical Incident Technique were used to explore in detail the views of experienced detectives (N = 30) from five different police services in Australia and New Zealand about what makes an effective detective. The findings suggest that detectives hold a complex and challenging role that requires 11 ke…
The prospective detective: Developing the effective detective of the future
This study explored the challenges to ensuring detectives are effective in the future.Semistructured interviews were conducted with thirty experienced detectives from five different police services in Australia and New Zealand.A content analysis of the interviews identified four main challenges for the futurethe retention and recruitment of detectives, the rapid growth of technology, training and on-going professional development, and accountabil…
Peace in fraud interviews: Assumptions and detection of guilt and the impact on interviewer behaviour
Regulating and coping with distress during police interviews of traumatized victims
The findings of the study show the importance of relational processes in investigative interviewing of traumatized interviewees, particularly with regard to coping with emotions. The results suggest that if the police investigator who is conducting an investigative interview can offer a trusting, safe and compassionate relationship, or if he or she steers the relational dynamics toward safety in the present moment when distress arises, he or she …
Want a Better Criminal Justice Response to Rape? Improve Police Interviews With Complainants and Suspects
Achieving just outcomes in rape cases is difficult, but there are ways we can improve the investigation and prosecution of these crimes, now. We outline how targeting variables, within control of the criminal justice system, can improve the quality of information police obtain from interviews with complainants and suspects. We explore how, by preserving these accounts on video, the criminal justice process can better use this information to impro…
Miscarriages of Justice: Causes, consequences and remedies
It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand miscarriages of justice. This text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of miscarriages of justice, highlighting difficulties in defining them, examining their dimensions, forms, scale and impact and exploring key cases and their causes.
One step forward and two steps back? The ‘20 Principles’ for questioning vulnerable witnesses and the lack of an evidence-based approach
It is a widely held belief that questioning vulnerable witnesses is a specialist skill. In England and Wales vulnerable witness advocacy training built around ‘20 Principles’ has been developed and is being delivered. The 20 Principles do not cite a tested theoretical framework(s) or empirical evidence in support. This paper considers whether the 20 Principles are underpinned by research evidence. It is submitted that advocacy training and the ap…
Exploring investigative interviewing: A Dubai perspective
An analysis of the quality of investigative interviews with children in France: Age of the witness does matter
A context-driven analysis was performed to assess the quality of French investigative interviews with three age groups of child witnesses (under 7 years old, 7–10 years old, and 11–17 years old). We measured how age was related to the quality of 24 real-life interviews by evaluating how child-centered the interview was: (i) did it follow recommendations for each phase of the interview and, (ii) was the questioning style appropriately adapted to t…
Oitivas e interrogatórios baseados em evidências: Considerações Sobre Entrevista Investigativa Aplicado Na Investigação Criminal
Policiais realizam entrevistas com vítimas, testemunhas, e suspeitos para obter informações, sendo a acurácia e a quantidade destas informações diretamente relacionadas às técnicas de entrevista utilizadas. Uma entrevista com técnicas inadequadas tende a gerar poucas informações e potencialmente imprecisas, prejudicando o processo investigativo e o sistema de justiça. Já uma entrevista com técnicas adequadas é capaz de resultar em um maior número…
Personality and Hardiness Among Police Students: An Evaluative Pilot Study
The purpose of the current pilot study was to evaluate the suitability and usefulness of short-form measures of personality (BFI-20) and hardiness (DRS-15-R) for an upcoming research project. We used a sample of police students (N = 129) to investigate: (1) the rudimentary psychometric properties of the instruments, and (2) the covariation between the obtained scores on these measures. The results showed that hardiness and Emotional stability had…
Personality and hardiness differences between Norwegian police and psychology students
The present study investigated: (1) differences in personality traits and hardiness between police and psychology students; and (2) the relationship between personality traits and hardiness. To achieve these aims, we obtained scores using the Big Five Inventory‐20 and the Dispositional Resilience Scale‐15‐R from n = 125 police students and n = 177 psychology students. Police students relative to psychology students, as expected, scored significan…
Retracted: Responding to reticence in investigative interviews of alleged victims with a mental illness: Maintaining rapport
Investigative interviews of people with severe mental illness are potentially challenging for police interviewers. The purpose of the study was to explore how police interviewers respond to interviewees’ expressions of reticence to maintain rapport. To reach our research aims, we studied transcripts of all police interviews with adult victims with a mental illness classified as vulnerable and conducted at Barnahus (Children’s House) in Norway bet…
An analysis of interview strategies in high-stakes crime investigations in the UK: Are they fit for purpose
Providing strategic advice to the Senior Investigating Officer is a key element of the role of the Interview Manager in high-stakes crime investigations. However, no actual evaluation of such strategies has been undertaken. This exploratory study examined 15 interview strategies from three UK police forces in connection with high-stakes crime investigations. Overall, the analysis illustrated that the strategies were poorly designed, vague and lac…
The Indigenisation of Australian Archaeology
The role of the Interview Manager (IM) in UK policing: Perceptions and experiences of the IM when deployed in high stakes crime investigations
The Garden at Pingle Farm: An Unsettling Investigation
This paper presents a reflection on the process and results of an historical archaeological investigation of a South Australian colonial farm garden. It demonstrates how the researcher allowed the emotions evinced by the site’s history as a frontier site to contribute to the discussion of the research’s relevance for contemporary Australian society, related to themes of national identity and coming to terms with a colonial past
Adnyamathanha and Archaeological Views on Warratyi Rock Shelter (The Rock), a 50,000-Year-Old Site in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
This paper examines the perspectives of Adnyamathanha people and archaeologists regarding the Warratyi rock shelter, also known as “The Rock,” an archaeological site in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges, dated to approximately 49,000 years BP (Hamm et al. 2016). While the scientific significance of such sites is often emphasized, the views and knowledge of the communities who are the traditional custodians of these lands are rarely discussed. Thi…
Orochi impact formula: An evidence-based approach for quantifying the societal harm of County Lines drug supply
The County Lines (CL) drug supply model is a rapidly increasing threat. Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime have developed a statistical formula, referred to as ‘Orochi impact formula’ for conservatively quantifying the quantity and monetary value of drugs sold per line. The novel formula, which uses known average daily consumption rates of Class A drug and customer demand telephony data, conservatively indicates deal line trade, systematically …
An Exploratory Thematic Analysis of the Decision Challenges Faced by Emergency Responders During the 2017 Manchester Arena Attack
On 22 May 2017, the Manchester Arena bombing resulted in twenty-two fatalities, marking the United Kingdom’s most lethal terrorist attack since 2005. A subsequent public inquiry revealed the necessity for improved operational, tactical and strategic response and management strategies, and highlighted the barriers to effective decision-making processes of those present during the incident. Integrating macro-level societal ideologies, meso-level gr…
Psychology (18 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (8 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Applied Psychology (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Interview (6 works) · Law (6 works)