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Hershkowitz, Irit; Fisher, Sara; Lamb, Michael E.; Horowitz, Dvora – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objectives: The study was designed to explore whether the credibility of children's statements regarding their alleged experiences of child sexual abuse could be assessed in a more valid and reliable way when investigative interviews were conducted using the NICHD protocol rather than in an unstructured manner. Methods: Forty-two experienced…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Credibility, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse
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Lamb, Michael; Orbach, Yael; Hershkowitz, Irit; Esplin, Phillip W.; Horowitz, Dvora – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objective: To show how the results of research on children's memory, communicative skills, social knowledge, and social tendencies can be translated into guidelines that improve the quality of forensic interviews of children. Method: We review studies designed to evaluate children's capacities as witnesses, explain the development of the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Sexual Abuse, Interviews, Crime
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Hershkowitz, Irit; Orbach, Yael; Lamb, Michael E.; Sternberg, Kathleen J.; Horowitz, Dvora – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2006
Objectives: The present study was designed to explore structural differences between forensic interviews in which children made allegations and those in which children did not make allegations. Methodology: Fifty forensic interviews of 4- to 13-year-old suspected victims of abuse who did not disclose abuse during the interview were compared with…
Descriptors: Interviews, Victims of Crime, Child Abuse, Self Disclosure (Individuals)