Children and the Law The Essential Readings

Name: Children and the Law The Essential Readings
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ISBN: 9780631226833

ISBN-10: 0631226834

ISBN-13: 9780631226833

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ray Bull

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Growing awareness of children's involvement in crime, whether as victims, witnesses or perpetrators, has given rise to new research into how to treat children in legal settings. This volume brings together thirteen of the most significant recent papers, offering an overview of current knowledge. The readings illustrate important issues in five key areas: child victimisation, the reliability of children's accounts, truth and lies, children and the legal system, and children as perpetrators. Taken together, they encourage a multi-faceted approach, combining knowledge from biological, social, cognitive and developmental psychology in an interdisciplinary context. Each paper is introduced…

Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Child Victimization



Victimization of Children




Impact of Sexual Abuse on Children: A Review and Sysnthesis of Recent Empirical Studies




Community-Level Factors and Child Maltreatment Rates




Reliability of Children's Accounts



Reliability and Credibility of Young Children's Reports: From Research to Polity and Practice




Emotion and Memory: Children's Long-Term Remembering, Forgetting and Suggestibility




Assessing the Accuracy of Young Children's Reports




Eyewitness Identification Accuracy of Children: A Summary




Truth and Lies



Breaking the Mould: A Fresh Look at Children's Understanding of Questions about Lies and Mistakes




Discussing Truth and Lies in Interviews with Children: Whether, Why, and How?




Children and the Legal System



Face-to-Face Confrontation: Effects of Closed-Circuit Technology on Children's Eyewitness Testimony and Jurors' Decisions




When Lawyers Question Children: Is Justice Served?




Children as Perpetrators



The Development of Male Offending: Key Findings from the First Decade of the Pittsburgh Youth Study




Child and Adolescent Sex Abuse Perpetrators: A Review of the Research Literature



Index