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In sex crimes, the victim interview is usually your main evidence and your main source of evidence leads, more so than with any other crime. At the same time, the sex crime victim's telling of their stories is usually much more inhibited, guarded, and vulnerable to distortion than for victims of other crimes. Complicating the picture even more, no other crime victim interview tends to make the interviewer feel more uncertain about how best to proceed.DON'T - start your interview without again dedicating three or four minutes solely to addressing the victim's needs and concerns.
Sex crimes victims almost always arrive at the interview plagued with shame, anxieties, misinformation, and with fears of being judged. Even more significant, they usually come to these interviews still very uncertain about whether or not they really want to be going forward with the justice process.
This state of mind is in stark contrast, for example, to a robbery victim who is completely unconflicted about their outrage and can't wait to get the story on the record. As long as these anxieties and uncertainties of sex crimes victims remain unaddressed, chances are they're going to be very hesitant and holding back.
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