FORENSIC INTERVIEW WITH CHILDREN VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN TURKEY: THE INTERVIEWER'S SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE

Child abuse and neglect is an important social problem affecting millions of children and their families around the world. Regardless of the physical, emotional or sexual abuse, in the judicial process regarding child abuse, it is very important to collect and evaluate the physical, biological and psychological findings correctly, as well as forensic interviews with the victim child. Forensic interview is an interview in which information about the incident is collected, whether the crime has been revealed, and the obtained information is analyzed in a psychological and legal framework, with an impartial approach to the victim or suspect in judicial incidents. In this direction, the aim of our research is to try to create a descriptive framework for the competence and effectiveness of forensic interviewing through qualitative analysis. Forensic interviewers from 3 different cities with forensic interview experience were selected in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the interviewees by using the interview form prepared in accordance with the working areas and interview processes of the forensic interviewers, and the interview records were evaluated using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (YFA). As a result of the examination of the interviews, seven repetitive themes were determined and concrete quotations from the discourses of the participants were given for each top theme.The results obtained are discussed in the literature.