범죄피해자 진술청취시 공감적 조사기법의 활용에 관한 연구

A Study on Using of Empathic Interview Technique to Crime Victim

Although the psychological therapy is different from victim interview by investigation officer, they both have something in common with each other such as the power, nonverbal behavior and empathy training etc., which can be adopted and shared. When it comes to interviewing victims in criminal cases, investigative agency tends to focus on substantial truth discovery to bring the suspect to the justice. But one of the role of the victim interviewer must be to help shield victims from the inconvenient realities, counsel and make them aware of their rights and what lay ahead. That is the way how it can do the most good by interviewing victim empathically as an integral part of an investigation. Here is suggested a scale for valuation of the empathic attitudes (15 items) by means of surveying 104 police investigative officers from 4 police stations in Seoul, Daejeon (2) and Asan, along with lecturing half of them the empathic techniques and with individual interviewing some of them, which should be verified in further study afterwards. While there is no doubt that interviewing officers should have the capacity to empathize with victims by education and special training, this study might be criticized in perspective of its limitations which is lacking considering of pressures of heavy work.