Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Impact of developmental
psychology on children in the
legal system
- Introduction
- Thompson/Venables case - Nov 1993
- Implications and Reform
- Criminal responsibility - doli incapax
- Memorandum of Good Practice
(1992)
- Interviewing Protocol / Phases of interview
- video links
- Lyon & Saywitz (1999)
- 4-7 years old can distinguish a truth
from a lie, but not definition or explain
difference
- Maltreated children; developmental delay
- Ecological validity/response bias
- Hufman et al (1999)
- Elaborate TLD compared to standard or no TLD
- Built up more rapport?
- Sternberg et al, 2001
- 40% of interviewer utterances focused questions
- Half responses elicited by 4-6 yrs in response to
open-ended prompts
- Interviewer anxiety to elicit specific info
- Dent & Stephenson, 1979
- More errors elicited by focused
questions than free recall and
open-ended questioning
- Aldridge & Cameron, 1999
- No stat sig diff between interviewers that had
been trained and those that hadn't
- Small sample (N=19); did not account for
ind.diff in interviewing skills
- Conclusion
- Further work needed
- Diploma/MSc in Child Forensic studies -
theoretical knowledge of psych and law,
underpins practical learning