Facilitating effective participation by children in the legal system

Lindsay C. Malloy, David J. La Rooy, Michael E. Lamb

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationChildren's testimony
    Subtitle of host publicationa handbook of psychological research and forensic practice
    EditorsMichael E. Lamb, David J. La Rooy, Lindsay C. Malloy, Carmit Katz
    Place of PublicationChichester
    PublisherWiley-Blackwell
    Chapter20
    Pages423-429
    Number of pages7
    Edition2nd
    ISBN (Electronic)9781119998495
    ISBN (Print)9780470686782, 9780470686775
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jun 2011

    Publication series

    NameWiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law
    PublisherWiley-Blackwell

    Keywords

    • Child witnesses
    • Interviewing in law practice
    • Facilitating effective participation - by children in legal system
    • Forensic interviewers, and other individuals - and children's testimony
    • Foundational knowledge - understanding children's testimony
    • Children, not being the only ones - whose capacities and limitations can be considered
    • Normal memory processes, of forgetting - affecting children and adults alike
    • Planning, for helping interviewers - whether intellectual disabilities or emotional issues
    • Techniques enhancing children's reports - for cognitive and social reasons
    • Interviewers, time to update knowledge - via continual training
    • NICHD Protocol, freely available - the public domain
    • Working together - building mutually beneficial and lasting relationships

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