Police-suspect interviews in a unique institutional context and discourse framework is a topic of crucial importance around the world. Adopting both quantitative and qualitative approaches, this volume makes a major contribution to the study on the complexities of communicative situations in police interviews as well as interpreter-assisted police interviews, bridging a research gap between police interviews and pragmatics in legal genres. The volume is also a valuable addition to the field of applied pragmatic analysis of legal genres in the social and cultural context and the study of communication of police interviews in particular. With expertise and actionable knowledge in both research and practice, it will appeal to scholars and practitioners who take an interest in linguistic and pragmatic analysis of legal communication and legal translation, thereby improving professional practice and training.

- Ning Ye, Zhejiang Police College, in Journal of Pragmatics 191 (2022).,

This is a valuable and timely collection focussing on communication problems and the use of interpreters in police interview contexts. It provides a considerable addition to the growing literature which brings perspectives from linguistic investigative interviewing research. In this collection linguistic research can be seen to supplement and sometimes problematise the work of psychologists in this area – focussing on the communicative context and pragmatic approaches brings a richness of linguistic methods and findings. This combined with analyses of a multilingual and multi-jurisdictional dataset make a unique contribution to investigative interviewing research.

- Tim Grant, Aston University,

Interviewing by police officers (and other agencies) is a topic of crucial importance around the world. How best to conduct such interviews in an effective yet ethical manner is of widespread concern, including to the United Nations which has accepted that a substantial guidance document on this topic be produced. The present volume is a significant contribution to this topic, with a commendable focus not only on the conducting of interviews but on the meaning of what is communicated.

- Ray Bull, University of Leicester,