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Inaccuracies in Children?s Testimony combines the literature on obedience to authority with that on suggestibility to create a third literature This book examines children?s testimony from several perspectives and gives you insightful suggestions for increasing children?s abilities to testify accurately about traumatic things that have happened to them. In doing so, you?ll learn how to ensure that those who abuse or sexually exploit children are brought to justice while those falsely accused are adequately protected.

How children are questioned to learn what they have witnessed is crucial due to the effects the questioning sessions may have on their testimonies--improper questioning may lead to inaccurate answers. This is just one of the many areas of children?s testimony covered in Inaccuracies in Children?s Testimony.

In each of the chapters you?ll discover new ways for increasing the accuracy and dependability of children?s testimony as you read about:

• factors that affect children?s testimonies
• suggestibility--definition and research, including sources of suggestibility
• how obedience to authority can explain children?s behavior as witnesses
• children?s memory in the courtroom and what they are able to remember
• how children?s involvement in the courts can be problematic
• free versus prompted recall--which is more accurate and why the “worst” method is often used with children
• Milgram?s theory of obedience to authority tied to children as witnesses
• review of the literature on the effects of stress, prompting, and imagination on children?s recall
• ideas for future research
  
  Experts in the field of legal testimony, legal personnel, child counselors, psychologists, social workers, and faculty and students of related courses will find Inaccuracies in Children?s Testimony an essential resource for understanding the importance of making the child victim/witness more believable and reliable.

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This digital document is an article from Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, published by Australian Academic Press Pty. Ltd. on August 1, 2004. The length of the article is 5101 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A reply to Buckingham's "newsmaking" criminology or "infotainment" criminology? Inaccuracy, distortion and feminist doctrine.(response to article by Judith Buckingham in this issue, p. 253)
Author: Greg Newbold
Publication:Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2004
Publisher: Australian Academic Press Pty. Ltd.
Volume: 37 Issue: 2 Page: 276(10)

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on December 7, 2004. The length of the article is 700 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Follow-up finds more schools meet criteria.(Schools)(The number of Oregon schools not meeting standards is whittled by 27 after initial inaccuracies are corrected)
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: December 7, 2004
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: d1

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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on September 17, 1990. The length of the article is 724 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Report calls for reform of state housing agency; Papandrea agrees with some recommendations, assails others, noting 'inexcusable' inaccuracies. (Maximus Inc.; John F. Papandrea)(Connecticut)
Publication:Fairfield County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 17, 1990
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: v21 Issue: n35 Page: p1(2)

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