Christopher E Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher E Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Joseph's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0579-3479 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evidence presentation in suspect interviews
This review organises the literature on presenting evidence in police interviews for researchers and practitioners to capture the breadth of the topic, and it is organised around the question of why evidence is presented during an interview. The literature was also coded for what type of evidence is presented and with what technique, when evidence is presented, and how it is presented. We found no support for the notion that presenting evidence w…
The Changing Landscape of Police Interviewing and Interrogation
This article reviews the research on interrogation, a practice that has been undergoing a period of reform such that the terms investigative interviewing and police interviews are now commonly used when referring to the police questioning of suspects. Tracing the evolution of practice and research, we argue that the former has been heavily influenced by the latter and a robust literature on effective and ethical approaches to suspect questioning …
The interrogator‐suspect dynamic in custodial interrogations for high‐stakes crimes in Sweden
This archival study was the first in Sweden, and the first outside of the US and the UK, to apply the (Kelly et al., Psychology, Public Policy, and Law , 9 , 165–178, 2013) taxonomy of interrogation methods framework to repeated police interrogations of adult suspects in high‐stakes crimes. Audio/video recordings ( N = 19) were collected from the Swedish Police Authority of repeated interrogations of three suspects in three criminal cases. The in…
Sensitivity to Status-Based Rejection
Now more than ever, criminal justice agencies are looking to fill their ranks with a diverse workforce that reflects the populations they serve. Criminal justice is a field where diversity matters, is encouraged, and is sought after in recruitment efforts. Also, research shows that females are highly effective in this discipline due to their unique communication skills. Therefore, it is important for females and minorities to feel they are welcom…
Just a Normal Conversation
The majority of research on investigative interviewing has been on police attempting to solve a crime by obtaining a confession or gathering information, and comparatively fewer studies have examined interviewing at points “downstream” in the process, such as in the courts or correctional system. Furthermore, the focus of the research has been to measure the variable techniques or questioning strategies that produce confessions or information at …
On the road (to admission)
© 2019 American Psychological Association. The concept of minimization has been a focal point of research on police interrogations in part because of its widespread use and endorsement in interrogation training. Minimization, however, refers to a wide range of specific techniques, and research into it has tended to focus almost exclusively on suspect admissions at the expense of other suspect behaviors. Our purpose in the present study was to scr…
Improving the Effectiveness of Suspect Interrogations
The past two decades of research on interrogation were spurred, in large part, by the specter of false confessions and the resulting miscarriages of justice. More recently, interest in the topic has been fueled by the need to develop evidence-based methods that improve the collection of diagnostic confession evidence and accurate intelligence from human sources. In this review, we update the research on false confessions and describe recent asses…
Life or death
Examining the meso-level domains of the interrogation taxonomy
A taxonomy of interrogation methods
With a few notable exceptions, the research on interrogation, suspect interviewing, and intelligence collection has been predominantly focused on either broad categories of their methods (e.g., information gathering vs. accusatorial models) or very specific techniques (e.g., using open-ended questions, appealing to the source’s conscience). The broad categories, however, are not meaningful enough to fully describe the dynamic between interrogator…
Where concerned citizens perceive police as more responsive to troublesome teen groups
The current investigation extends previous work on citizens' perceptions of police performance. It examines origins of between-community differences in concerned citizens' judgements that police are responding sufficiently to a local social problem. The problem is local unsupervised teen groups, a key indicator for both the revised systemic social disorganisation perspective and the incivilities thesis. Four theoretical perspectives predict ecolo…
Where concerned citizens perceive police as more responsive to troublesome teen groups
The current investigation extends previous work on citizens' perceptions of police performance. It examines origins of between-community differences in concerned citizens' judgements that police are responding sufficiently to a local social problem. The problem is local unsupervised teen groups, a key indicator for both the revised systemic social disorganisation perspective and the incivilities thesis. Four theoretical perspectives predict ecolo…
A taxonomy of interrogation methods
With a few notable exceptions, the research on interrogation, suspect interviewing, and intelligence collection has been predominantly focused on either broad categories of their methods (e.g., information gathering vs. accusatorial models) or very specific techniques (e.g., using open-ended questions, appealing to the source’s conscience). The broad categories, however, are not meaningful enough to fully describe the dynamic between interrogator…
Improving the Effectiveness of Suspect Interrogations
The past two decades of research on interrogation were spurred, in large part, by the specter of false confessions and the resulting miscarriages of justice. More recently, interest in the topic has been fueled by the need to develop evidence-based methods that improve the collection of diagnostic confession evidence and accurate intelligence from human sources. In this review, we update the research on false confessions and describe recent asses…
Examining the meso-level domains of the interrogation taxonomy
Life or death
Where concerned citizens perceive police as more responsive to troublesome teen groups
The current investigation extends previous work on citizens' perceptions of police performance. It examines origins of between-community differences in concerned citizens' judgements that police are responding sufficiently to a local social problem. The problem is local unsupervised teen groups, a key indicator for both the revised systemic social disorganisation perspective and the incivilities thesis. Four theoretical perspectives predict ecolo…
A taxonomy of interrogation methods
With a few notable exceptions, the research on interrogation, suspect interviewing, and intelligence collection has been predominantly focused on either broad categories of their methods (e.g., information gathering vs. accusatorial models) or very specific techniques (e.g., using open-ended questions, appealing to the source’s conscience). The broad categories, however, are not meaningful enough to fully describe the dynamic between interrogator…
Examining the meso-level domains of the interrogation taxonomy
Improving the Effectiveness of Suspect Interrogations
The past two decades of research on interrogation were spurred, in large part, by the specter of false confessions and the resulting miscarriages of justice. More recently, interest in the topic has been fueled by the need to develop evidence-based methods that improve the collection of diagnostic confession evidence and accurate intelligence from human sources. In this review, we update the research on false confessions and describe recent asses…
Life or death
On the road (to admission)
© 2019 American Psychological Association. The concept of minimization has been a focal point of research on police interrogations in part because of its widespread use and endorsement in interrogation training. Minimization, however, refers to a wide range of specific techniques, and research into it has tended to focus almost exclusively on suspect admissions at the expense of other suspect behaviors. Our purpose in the present study was to scr…
Just a Normal Conversation
The majority of research on investigative interviewing has been on police attempting to solve a crime by obtaining a confession or gathering information, and comparatively fewer studies have examined interviewing at points “downstream” in the process, such as in the courts or correctional system. Furthermore, the focus of the research has been to measure the variable techniques or questioning strategies that produce confessions or information at …
Sensitivity to Status-Based Rejection
Now more than ever, criminal justice agencies are looking to fill their ranks with a diverse workforce that reflects the populations they serve. Criminal justice is a field where diversity matters, is encouraged, and is sought after in recruitment efforts. Also, research shows that females are highly effective in this discipline due to their unique communication skills. Therefore, it is important for females and minorities to feel they are welcom…
The interrogator‐suspect dynamic in custodial interrogations for high‐stakes crimes in Sweden
This archival study was the first in Sweden, and the first outside of the US and the UK, to apply the (Kelly et al., Psychology, Public Policy, and Law , 9 , 165–178, 2013) taxonomy of interrogation methods framework to repeated police interrogations of adult suspects in high‐stakes crimes. Audio/video recordings ( N = 19) were collected from the Swedish Police Authority of repeated interrogations of three suspects in three criminal cases. The in…
Evidence presentation in suspect interviews
This review organises the literature on presenting evidence in police interviews for researchers and practitioners to capture the breadth of the topic, and it is organised around the question of why evidence is presented during an interview. The literature was also coded for what type of evidence is presented and with what technique, when evidence is presented, and how it is presented. We found no support for the notion that presenting evidence w…
The Changing Landscape of Police Interviewing and Interrogation
This article reviews the research on interrogation, a practice that has been undergoing a period of reform such that the terms investigative interviewing and police interviews are now commonly used when referring to the police questioning of suspects. Tracing the evolution of practice and research, we argue that the former has been heavily influenced by the latter and a robust literature on effective and ethical approaches to suspect questioning …
Deception detection and forensic psychology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Interrogation (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Suspect (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works)