The young eyewitness : how well do children and adolescents describe and identify perpetrators? /

"Every year, numerous crimes occur involving child eyewitnesses. In some cases, children are the only eyewitnesses, which makes them especially critical for solving the cases. But how reliable is child eyewitness evidence? This book summarizes the research on how well children can describe an e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pozzulo, Joanna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2017.
Subjects:
Child witnesses > United States.
Forensic child psychology > United States.
Forensic psychiatry.
Child psychology.
Forensic Psychiatry
Psychology, Child
Child Behavior
Enfants témoins > États-Unis.
Enfants > Psychologie légale > États-Unis.
Psychiatrie médico-légale.
Enfants > Psychologie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
LAW / Witnesses
Forensic psychiatry
Child psychology
Child witnesses.
Forensic child psychology.
Augenzeuge
Identifikation
Jugend
Kind
Täter
Kinderpsychologie
United States.
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of forensic concepts
  • Ability of young eyewitnesses to describe a person
  • Techniques to improve the amount and accuracy of recall information
  • Effects of lineup construction and procedures
  • Other factors influencing the young eyewitness's identification accuracy
  • Why recall and identification abilities differ between young and adult eyewitnesses
  • Relation between describing the perpetrator and identifying the perpetrator
  • Jurors' perceptions of the young eyewitness
  • Policy implications
  • Future directions for young eyewitness research.

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