Abstract 1. In the last decade the topic of children as witnesses has developed from a
minority interest studied by a handful of psychologists and lawyers to a subject which now
generates international media coverage. This book is therefore timely in that it offers the ...

Abstract: Results indicate that even 4-to 5-year-olds are able to resist misleading questions
and suggestive questioning. Children's recall errors generally have involved forgetting
things that had happened, rather than fabricating things that had not; although some ...

... in the reliability of children's reports, and propose general guidelines for interviewing children
in a sensitive and professional manner. Written in lively, accessible language by acknowledged
experts in the field, this book will be an invaluable guide for expert witnesses and all ...

... Citation. Database: PsycBOOKS. [ Book; Authored Book ]. Investigative interviews of children:
A guide for helping professionals. ... (1998). xi 295 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/10301-000. Abstract.
Interviewing children for investigative purposes is a specialized skill. ...

Abstract: In reviewing how children are viewed as witnesses by various participants in the
investigative and trial processes, various studies and surveys are cited. In discussing the
competence of child witnesses, one suggestion is that it may be useful to subject children ...

... based but clinically relevant. . . . Our second goal in conceiving this book was to
stimulate research and thinking about how to optimize children's performance as
accurate witnesses. Although debates about children's abilities ...

Abstract 1. This chapter reviews three knowledge sets that professionals rely on to navigate
cases involving child witnesses. The first set includes psychological principles that explain
why children's testimony can be amazingly rich and accurate in some instances and ...

Abstract Only recently have children been allowed to give testimony in cases of child abuse.
Lawyers, judges, social workers and police officers are learning in workshops conducted by
developmental psychologist Stephen Ceci how easily children's memories can be ...

Abstract 1. impartial investigations of child sexual abuse allegations are essential to
maximize the reliability of information obtained from children/statement validity analysis
(SVA) is a systematic method of obtaining and examining sexual abuse allegations by ...

Worldwide, many thousands–if not millions–of children serve as witnesses in legal actions
every year. Victims of child maltreatment as well as children who witness or experience
other types of illegal activity (for example, domestic violence, murder, kidnapping, robbery, ...