| Description |
372 pages |
| Contents |
1. Interviewing Children About Abuse: An Overview and Introduction -- 2. Factors Affecting the Capacities and Limitations of Young Witnesses -- 3. How do Investigators Typically Interview Alleged Victims? -- 4. The NICHD Investigative Interview Protocols for Young Victims and Witnesses -- 5. Does Use of the Protocol Affect the Way Investigators Interview Alleged Victims and Witnesses? -- 6. Interviewing Suspected Victims Under Six Years of Age -- 7. The Effects of the Protocol on the Broader Investigative Process -- 8. Interviewing Reluctant Suspected Victims and Suspects -- 9. Interviewing Children with Intellectual and Communicative Difficulties -- 10. Promoting and Maintaining Developmentally-Appropriate Interviewing by Training Interviewers -- 11. What Has Been Achieved: What Else Needs to Be Done? -- App. 1. Investigative Interview Protocol -- App. 2. Focused Questions about Tactile Contact [Touching] -- App. 3. Interview Guide for Youthful Suspects |
| Summary |
"Intense professional and popular interest in child sexual abuse has been fed by dramatic increases in the numbers of reported cases and by awareness that many instances of abuse might go unrecognised because the only possible sources of information - the victims - give little useful information to investigators." "Interviewers and researchers have thus made considerable efforts to understand how to make children's testimony as useful and reliable as possible. At the same time, highly publicised cases in the United States, Norway, New Zealand, the UK, and Italy, have drawn attention to the counterproductive ways in which many alleged victims of sexual abuse are interviewed."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Child abuse -- Investigation.
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Interviewing in child abuse.
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Abused children.
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Child witnesses.
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| Author |
Hershkowitz, Irit.
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Orbach, Yael.
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| LC no. |
2008007649 |
| ISBN |
9780470518656 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780470518663 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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