The Resource Child witnesses : fragile voices in the American legal system, Lucy S. McGough
Child witnesses : fragile voices in the American legal system, Lucy S. McGough
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- Summary
- Children are frequently called to testify in court in criminal prosecutions, divorce and child custody hearings, dependency abuse proceedings, and other disputes. But is their testimony reliable? This book carefully assesses research on the cognitive capabilities of children as well as the emotional, social, and moral influences that might affect children's potential reliability, and it recommends reforms in American legal processes that will protect child witnesses from trauma and ensure accurate testimony. Lucy S. McGough, a specialist in family law, examines the known developmental facts on perception, memory, and reporting that affect children's ability to serve as trial witnesses. She also analyzes many actual trials, including the McMartin Pre-School prosecution in California, the Morgan-Foretich custody and visitation controversy, and the five U.S. Supreme Court child sexual abuse cases, assessing how a child witness may be more prone to memory-fade, suggestibility, or fantasy than an adult witness. McGough also examines the legal processes and rules of evidence that affect how eyewitness accounts by children are received: trial processes for evaluating the credibility of witnesses; the hearsay rule and its exceptions; the Constitution's confrontation clause; and the use and abuse of expert witnesses. And she presents a proposal for the early videotaping of a child's eyewitness account in order to minimize the most serious potential reliability risks posed by child witnesses. The product of ten years of research and investigation, this book should help remedy the failure of American law to take into account all that we now know about the fragility of children's memories
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
- Contents
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- The child witness revolution
- Sensory capability, attentiveness, and encoding experience
- Confabulation and trama
- Memory and suggestibility
- Conscious deception
- On the witness stand : competency to testify and credibility
- Civil proceedings : the hearsay rule and child witnesses
- Criminal proscecutions and the confrontation clause
- Videotaping children's accounts
- Expert testimony : asessing a child's credibility
- Label
- Child witnesses : fragile voices in the American legal system
- Title
- Child witnesses
- Title remainder
- fragile voices in the American legal system
- Statement of responsibility
- Lucy S. McGough
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Children are frequently called to testify in court in criminal prosecutions, divorce and child custody hearings, dependency abuse proceedings, and other disputes. But is their testimony reliable? This book carefully assesses research on the cognitive capabilities of children as well as the emotional, social, and moral influences that might affect children's potential reliability, and it recommends reforms in American legal processes that will protect child witnesses from trauma and ensure accurate testimony. Lucy S. McGough, a specialist in family law, examines the known developmental facts on perception, memory, and reporting that affect children's ability to serve as trial witnesses. She also analyzes many actual trials, including the McMartin Pre-School prosecution in California, the Morgan-Foretich custody and visitation controversy, and the five U.S. Supreme Court child sexual abuse cases, assessing how a child witness may be more prone to memory-fade, suggestibility, or fantasy than an adult witness. McGough also examines the legal processes and rules of evidence that affect how eyewitness accounts by children are received: trial processes for evaluating the credibility of witnesses; the hearsay rule and its exceptions; the Constitution's confrontation clause; and the use and abuse of expert witnesses. And she presents a proposal for the early videotaping of a child's eyewitness account in order to minimize the most serious potential reliability risks posed by child witnesses. The product of ten years of research and investigation, this book should help remedy the failure of American law to take into account all that we now know about the fragility of children's memories
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McGough, Lucy S
- Dewey number
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- 347.73/66
- 347.30766
- 347.3066083
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- KF9672
- LC item number
- .M37 1994
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Child witnesses
- Enfants témoins
- Child witnesses
- United States
- Getuigenverklaringen
- Kinderen
- Bewijsrecht
- Label
- Child witnesses : fragile voices in the American legal system, Lucy S. McGough
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The child witness revolution -- Sensory capability, attentiveness, and encoding experience -- Confabulation and trama -- Memory and suggestibility -- Conscious deception -- On the witness stand : competency to testify and credibility -- Civil proceedings : the hearsay rule and child witnesses -- Criminal proscecutions and the confrontation clause -- Videotaping children's accounts -- Expert testimony : asessing a child's credibility
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)47011203
- Label
- Child witnesses : fragile voices in the American legal system, Lucy S. McGough
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The child witness revolution -- Sensory capability, attentiveness, and encoding experience -- Confabulation and trama -- Memory and suggestibility -- Conscious deception -- On the witness stand : competency to testify and credibility -- Civil proceedings : the hearsay rule and child witnesses -- Criminal proscecutions and the confrontation clause -- Videotaping children's accounts -- Expert testimony : asessing a child's credibility
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 339 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)47011203
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