Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Children's testimony |
Subtitle of host publication | a handbook of psychological research and forensic practice |
Editors | Michael E. Lamb, David J. La Rooy, Lindsay C. Malloy, Carmit Katz |
Place of Publication | Chichester |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 15-48 |
Number of pages | 34 |
Edition | 2nd |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781119998495 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780470686782, 9780470686775 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2011 |
Publication series
Name | Wiley Series in the Psychology of Crime, Policing and Law |
---|---|
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Keywords
- Child witnesses
- Interviewing in law practice
- Setting realistic expectations - capacities and limitations
- Children, sources of information - as victims or witnesses
- Information reliability, and children - children's developmental level
- Children's testimony - affected by communicative abilities
- Accuracy of children's accounts - linguistic style and language complexity
- Children's comprehension-monitoring skills - and misunderstandings
- Child witnesses - multi-victim sexual abuse in child care centres
- Kelly Michaels case, and investigative interviewers - children's sensitivity
- Suggestibility, multiply determined - cognitive, social, motivational variables
- Marked individual differences - accuracy of information recalled