Children and the Law The Essential Readings

This volume brings together thirteen essential readings illustrating the most important issues in dealing with children as victims, witnesses or perpetrators of crime.

Ray Bull is Professor of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. He has published widely in the area of children and the law, especially on the topic of children as witnesses. Most recently, he has co-edited the Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing (1999) and the Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts (1999) and co-authored Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice (1999).

Acknowledgements

ix

Introduction

xi

Part I Child Victimization

1

(82)

Victimization of Children Introduction

3

(2)

Victimization of Children

5

(26)

David Finkelhor

Jennifer Dziuba-Leatherman

The Impact of Sexual Abuse on Children Introduction

29

(2)

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

31

(47)

Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

Linda Meyer Williams

David Finkelhor

Child Maltreatment Rates Introduction

77

(1)

Community-Level Factors and Child Maltreatment Rates

78

(5)

Beth Paterson

Part II Reliability of Children's Accounts

83

(102)

Reliability and Credibility of Children's Reports Introduction

85

(2)

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

87

(39)

Maggie Bruck

Stephen J. Ceci

Helene Hembrooke

Children's Long-Term Remembering Introduction

125

(1)

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

126

(48)

Jodi A. Quas

Gail S. Goodman

Sue Bidrose

Margaret-Ellen Pipe

Susan Craw

Deborah S. Ablin

Children's Reports of Abuse Introduction

173

(1)

Assessing the Accuracy of Young Children's Reports

174

(6)

Debra Poole

D. Stephen Lindsay

Child Eyewitness Accuracy Introduction

179

(1)

Eyewitness Identification Accuracy of Children

180

(5)

Joanna D. Pozzulo

Rod Lindsay

Part III Truth and Lies

185

(62)

Children's Understanding About Lies Introduction

187

(2)

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

189

(36)

Michael Siegal

Candida C. Peterson

Discussing Truth and Lies with Children Introduction

223

(2)

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

225

(22)

Mary Lyn Huffman

Amye R. Warren

Susan M. Larson

Part IV Children and the Legal System

247

(86)

Closed-Circuit Television and Children's Testimony Introduction

249

(2)

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

251

(53)

Gail S. Goodman

Ann LE. Tobey

Jennifer M. Batterman-Faunce

Holly Orcutt

Sherry Thomas

Cheryl Shapiro

Toby Sachsenmaier

The Effect of 'Lawyerese' on Children Introduction

303

(1)

When Lawyers Question Children: Is Justice Served?

304

(29)

Nancy W. Perry

Bradley D. McAuliff

Paulette Tam

Linda Claycomb

Colleen Dostal

Cameron Flanagan

Part V Children as Perpetrators

333

(86)

The Development of Offending Introduction

335

(1)

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

336

(46)

Rolf Loeber

David P. Farrington

Magda Stouthamer-Loeber

Terrie E. Moffitt

Avshalom Caspi

Children as Abuse Perpetrators Introduction

381

(1)

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

382

(37)

Eillen Vizard

Elizabeth Monck

Peter Misch

Index

419

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