The Long Game: Memory Matters. Finland's Legal Psychology Revolution

Dr Ivar Fahsing speaks with Dr Julia Korkman — psychologist, researcher, and one of the leading voices in legal psychology in the Nordic region — about what investigative interviewing looks like in Finland: what works, what doesn't, and why the gaps matter.

In this episode:

- Why human memory is the core material of criminal justice — and why so few professionals are trained in it

- How the desire to help children speak can introduce the very errors it's meant to prevent

- The Kailinna wrongful conviction case and the cost of confirmation bias

- Cultural humility in cross-border and multilingual interviews — from Finland's sauna culture to collective societies in Southeast Asia

- What a nationwide survey of Finnish police officers revealed about knowledge of interviewing methods

- Why Norway's shift to recording succeeded — and what Finland can learn from it

- How AI is being used to generate alternative hypotheses in child abuse investigations

- Remote hearings, automated transcription, and the future of technology in investigative interviewing

Guest: Dr Julia Korkman, Docent in Psychology, Åbo Akademi University

Host: Dr Ivar Fahsing