Peitz, Nathan (2025) Phronesis in investigative interviewing: A scoping review. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
While evidence-based practice aspires to ground professional decision-making in empirical research, it often falls short in addressing the complexity, unpredictability, and moral ambiguity of real-world practice. This thesis argues that “phronesis” - understood as practical wisdom, situational awareness, and ethical discernment - is a supplementary approach to reach the goals of investigative interviewing. A distinction is made for instructions in manuals that are specific and ambiguous. Specific instructions are more useful in practice, but lack enough generalizability to be applicable to the case-by-case nature of investigative interviewing. Ambiguous instruction instead shows less utility, but can be applied to most cases a practitioner may encounter. Phronesis is observed in training manuals by understanding how practitioners act upon its ambiguous instructions. This paper attempts to answer the research question: is phronesis used to apply techniques for investigative interviewing? A scoping analysis on training manuals for investigative interviewers was conducted. Codes were created with a predetermined theoretical framework in the form of The Taxonomy of Interrogation Methods (Kelly, Redlich, & Kleinman, 2013). Results for this research demonstrate how training manuals expect practitioners to be phronetic. This implies for the training of interviewers that phronesis should be encouraged so practitioners are trained to make the best decisions at the best times.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Derksen, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2025 11:31 |
| Last Modified: | 08 May 2025 11:31 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4879 |
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