Child victims, child witnesses

Gail S. Goodman

With the significant surge in child sexual abuse cases reported and prosecuted in recent years, the involvement of children in legal proceedings has emerged as a matter of great public and professional debate. Confronting the major issues, questions, and dilemmas that surround this debate, the editors of Child Victims, Child Witnesses have assembled an international array of noted authorities who discuss the most current findings of child witness research. Utilizing empirically based research that is clinically relevant, they address psychological and legal viewpoints on a range of critical issues including whether or not children have the cognitive capacity to recall and report past events accurately; if children are likely to conceal or fabricate information about past events, and if they are able to resist false suggestions; how socioemotional and motivational factors influence the...

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