Child witnesses : fragile voices in the American legal system /
Children are frequently called to testify in court in criminal prosecutions, divorce and child custody hearings, dependency abuse proceedings, and other disputes. But is their testimony reliable? This book carefully assesses research on the cognitive capabilities of children as well as the emotional...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1994
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Table of Contents:
- The child witness revolution
- Sensory capability, attentiveness, and encoding experience
- Confabulation and trama
- Memory and suggestibility
- Conscious deception
- On the witness stand : competency to testify and credibility
- Civil proceedings : the hearsay rule and child witnesses
- Criminal proscecutions and the confrontation clause
- Videotaping children's accounts
- Expert testimony : asessing a child's credibility