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Direct linkKatz, Carmit; Hershkowitz, Irit – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Objective: The present study was designed to test the effects of repeated retrievals in the course of forensic investigations with children who are the alleged victims of sexual abuse. Method: Using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development protocol, 56 children participated in a first free-recall interview that was followed by…
Descriptors: Interviews, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Victims of Crime
Hershkowitz, Irit – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objectives: A commonly cited risk factor for sexually intrusive behavior (SIB) among children and adolescents is a history of abuse. Based on a large and non-clinical nationwide sample of children who were investigated as abuse victims and suspects of SIBs in Israel over a decade, the present study examines the rate of abuse history among child…
Descriptors: Siblings, Child Abuse, Family Characteristics, Risk
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
Hershkowitz, Irit; Lanes, Omer; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objective: The goal of the present study was to examine how children disclosed sexual abuse by alleged perpetrators who were not family members. Methodology: Thirty alleged victims of sexual abuse and their parents were interviewed. The children were interviewed using the NICHD Investigative Interview Protocol by six experienced youth…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Victims of Crime
Peer reviewedSternberg, Kathleen J.; Lamb, Michael E.; Hershkowitz, Irit; Yudilevitch, Liora; Orbach, Yael – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
Fourteen interviewers conducted 51 investigations of child sexual abuse with children (ages 4.5 to 12.9 years). Interviewers used a script including either open-ended questions or direct questions. Both rapport-building scripts took about seven minutes. Children who had received the open-ended training provided twice as many details and words…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Disclosure, Interviews
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)
Hershkowitz, Irit; Horowitz, Dvora; Lamb, Michael E.; Orbach, Yael; Sternberg, Kathleen J. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2004
Objective: To introduce and evaluate a structured interview protocol designed for investigative interviews of youthful alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Method: Seventy-two alleged perpetrators ranging from 9 to 14 years of age (M=12 years) were interviewed by 1 of 13 experienced youth investigators, employed by the Israeli Ministry of…
Descriptors: Interviews, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Incidence
Hershkowitz, Irit; Horowitz, Dvora; Lamb, Michael E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2005
Objective: To identify characteristics of suspected child abuse victims that are associated with disclosure and nondisclosure during formal investigations. Methodology: The database included all suspected cases of physical and sexual abuse investigated in the state of Israel between 1998 and 2002. All investigative interviews were conducted using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Investigations, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse
