Children and the Law The Essential Readings

by Bull, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780631226826
• ISBN10: 0631226826
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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