| Description |
xi, 164 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Haworth criminal justice, forensic behavioral sciences, & offender rehabilitation |
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Haworth criminal justice, forensic behavioral sciences & offender rehabilitation.
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. Children's Memory in the Courtroom: What Do Children Remember? -- Ch. 2. The Effects of Stress, Prompting, and Imagination on Children's Recall -- Ch. 3. Suggestibility: Is the Witness Telling the Truth or Reacting to Suggestion? -- Ch. 4. Realities in the Research on Children's Suggestibility: Criticisms, Increasing Accuracy, and Situational Sources -- Ch. 5. Research on Authority: Can It Help Explain Children's Testimony? -- Ch. 6. Why People Obey: Milgram's Theory -- Ch. 7. Conclusions and Future Directions: How Can We Bolster Children's Testimony? |
| Summary |
The author (sociology, Rutgers University) combines discussion of work done on obedience to authority with the literature on suggestibility, to create a third literature. Her aim is to examine children's testimony from several perspectives and to suggest how to increase children's abilities to testify accurately |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Child witnesses.
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Memory in children.
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Recollection (Psychology)
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| LC no. |
96051807 |
| ISBN |
0789001675 (hc : alk. paper) |
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078900237X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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