International perspectives on child abuse and children's testimony : psychological research and law / Bette L. Bottoms, Gail S. Goodman, editors. - 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

International perspectives on child witnesses : an introduction to the issues / Bottoms and Goodman -- Research on children's suggestibility : implications for the investigative interview / Warren and McGough -- Children's testimony in the Netherlands : a study of statement validity analysis / Lamers-Winkelman and Buffing -- Child sexual abuse investigations in Israel / Sternberg, Lamb, and Hershkowitz -- Children and the courts in Canada / Sas, Wolfe, and Gowdey -- The effect of child witness research on legislation in Great Britain / Bull and Davies. -- Children's evidence : Scottish research and law / Flin, Kearney, and Murray -- The child witness and legal reforms in Australia / Shrimpton, Oates, and Hayes -- Accommodating children's testimony : legal reforms in New Zealand / Pipe and Henaghan -- Listening to children in South Africa / Louw and Olivier -- Children's evidence : mandating change in the legal system of Hong Kong / Ho -- Children on the witness stand : the use of expert testimony and other procedural innovations in U.S. child sexual abuse trials / Kovera and Borgida -- A decade of international reform to accommodate child witnesses : steps toward a child witness code / Myers -- Children as witnesses : India is not ready / Segal.

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Child abuse--Law and legislation
Child witnesses
Forensic psychology.

K5189 / .I58 1996

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