Funzioni e competenze della Polizia Giudiziaria nella raccolta delle ...

Tesi di dottorato in Scienze della Governance e Sistemi complessi - XXI ciclo - Dott. Anna Bussu
Funzioni e competenze della Polizia Giudiziaria nella raccolta delle dichiarazioni probatorie.
Center for Qualitative Psychology
10 th Worshop Qualitative Research in Psychology (2009)
Topic: Beyond text: Video and other medium use in qualitative research
(Germania, Febbraio 2009)
Theoretical and Methodological Implications from a study on Judicial Police’s
training requirements:
The analysis of video through ATLAS.ti
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The research objective is linked to the International Project on “The study of false testimony
within Social Psychology and Law: a study on the coding and decoding aspects of false
communication among justice operators”, co-ordinated by the University of Bergamo and of which
The University of Sassari’s Dept. of Economics Institutions and Society – Center for Urban Studies
– and the University of Portsmouth are partners. The empirical research focuses on the Judicial
Police’s training requirements for evidence collection. In this respect, there are not national
protocols for conducting interrogations and the Judicial Police’s training is based on field
experience. Through six focus groups, held during two years, this study has investigated individual
techniques, sometimes adopted as standard procedures, employed to conduct interrogations; the
main operational strategies; the issues that have arisen in the field when collecting evidence; the
elements that help define a “good testimony”; personal competences and abilities; explicit and
implicit training requirements that Judicial Police officers could benefit from in order to improve the
quality and effectiveness of their work. This article describes the analysis procedures in details and
discusses the main issues on using videos for qualitative and computer-assisted research with the
qualitative analysis software ATLAS.ti. The whole research process has benefited from using video
recordings, particularly when analysing non verbal communication and participants’ reactions to the
researchers’ presence, as well as the researcher’s reflective process.
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