How It Begins and Ends: Temporal Positions of Linguistic Indicators in Staged and Authentic Emergency Calls

Serena Elms; David Clarke; David Keatley

doi:10.1007/s11896-024-09712-8

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How It Begins and Ends: Temporal Positions of Linguistic Indicators in Staged and Authentic Emergency Calls

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How It Begins and Ends: Temporal Positions of Linguistic Indicators in Staged and Authentic Emergency Calls

Serena Elms, David Clarke and David Keatley

Journal of police and criminal psychology

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-024-09712-8

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Abstract

911

Emergency calls

Forensic linguistics

Staged calls

Proximity coefficients

The utilisation of emergency calls to stage false and misleading narratives can assist offenders in concealing their criminal activity. The majority of emergency call analyses focus on detecting deception; however, investigating the complex temporal ordering of verbal indicators with a measure of proximity may offer new inductive investigative insights. The current research took a novel approach to analysing emergency calls by focusing on the temporal placement of verbal indicators with a measure of proximity coefficients. Results showed that several important differences existed in the temporal ordering of indicators that occur at the start and end of staged and authentic calls. These findings offer an insight as to influence of saliency and the competing priorities that exist between staged and authentic emergency calls. This is the first research to explore the temporal ordering of indicators in emergency calls and to provide a basis for its tentative application to interview strategies.

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Title: How It Begins and Ends: Temporal Positions of Linguistic Indicators in Staged and Authentic Emergency Calls
Authors/Creators: Serena Elms - Murdoch University
David Clarke
David Keatley - Murdoch University, Centre for Biosecurity and One Health
Publication Details: Journal of police and criminal psychology
Publisher: Springer Nature
Number of pages: 10
Grant note: Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. Research was conducted under scholarship funding.
Identifiers: 991005707251807891
Murdoch Affiliation: School of Law and Criminology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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