Memory and Testimony in the Child Witness

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Juvenile/Youth Crime (General)

January 1995 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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The assessment and improvement of eyewitness testimony of children is the topic of this volume. The first section examines factors that contribute to the reliability and accuracy of testimony, including the effects of extended delays, repeated questioning and exposure to leading questions.

The second part describes techniques that have been developed to improve the quality of children's testimony, including interview techniques and the use of anatomically correct dolls, and explores their empirical and theoretical underpinnings. The final chapters focus on policy issues, including psychological research designed to guide legal reforms for accommodating child witnesses into the legal system.

Maria S Zaragoza

Introduction

PART ONE: APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S EYEWITNESS MEMORY

Sean M Lane

Introduction

Robyn Fivush and Jennifer Shukat

Content, Consistency and Coherence of Early Autobiographical Recall

Debra Ann Poole and Lawrence T White

Tell Me Again and Again

Stability and Change in the Repeated Testimonies of Children and Adults

Amye R Warren and Peggy Lane

Effects of Timing and Type of Questioning on Eyewitness Accuracy and Suggestibility

Lynne Baker-Ward et al

How Shall a Thing be Coded? Implications of the Use of Alternative Procedures for Scoring Children's Verbal Reports

D Stephen Lindsay, Valerie Gonzales and Karen Eso

Aware and Unaware Uses of Memories of Postevent Suggestions

PART TWO: IMPROVING CHILDREN'S TESTIMONY

Jennifer K Ackil

Introduction

Karen J Saywitz

Improving Children's Testimony

The Question, the Answer and the Environment

Ronald P Fisher and Michelle McCauley

Improving Eyewitness Testimony with the Cognitive Interview

Judy S DeLoache

The Use of Dolls in Interviewing Young Children

Ray Bull

Innovative Techniques for the Questioning of Child Witnesses Especially Those Who are Young and Those with Learning Disability

PART THREE: SOCIAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Karen L Chambers

Introduction

Graham Davies and Helen Westcott

The Child Witness in the Courtroom

Empowerment or Protection?

Ann E Tobey et al

Balancing the Rights of Children and Defendants

Effects of Closed-Circuit Television of Children's Accuracy and Jurors' Perceptions

Rhona Flin

Children's Testimony

Psychology on Trial

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