Children and the Law – The Essential Readings

Acknowledgements.
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>Part I: Child Victimization:.</p>
<p>1. Victimization of Children: David Finkelhor and Jennifer Dzuiba–Leatherman.</p>
<p>2. Impact of Sexual Abuse on Children: A Review and Sysnthesis of Recent Empirical Studies: Kathleen A. Kendall–Tachett, Linda Meyer Williams and David Finkelhor.</p>
<p>3. Community–Level Factors and Child Maltreatment Rates: Beth Paterson..</p>
<p>Part II: Reliability of Children′s Accounts:.</p>
<p>4. Reliability and Credibility of Young Children′s Reports: From Research to Polity and Practice: Maggie Bruck, Stephen J. Ceci and Helene Hembrooke.</p>
<p>5. Emotion and Memory: Children′s Long–Term Remembering, Forgetting and Suggestibility: Jodi A. Quas, Ggail S. Goodman, Ssue Bidrose, Margaret–Ellen Pipe, Susan Craw and Deborah S. Ablin.</p>
<p>6. Assessing the Accuracy of Young Children′s Reports: Debra Poole and D. Stephen Lindsay.</p>
<p>7. Eyewitness Identification Accuracy of Children: A Summary: Joanna D. Pozzulo and Rod Lindsay..</p>
<p>Part III: Truth and Lies:.</p>
<p>8. Breaking the Mould: A Fresh Look at Children′s Understanding of Questions about Lies and Mistakes: Michael Siegal and Candida C. Peterson.</p>
<p>9. Discussing Truth and Lies in Interviews with Children: Whether, Why, and How?: Mary Lyn Huffman, Amye R. Warren and Susan M. Larson..</p>
<p>Part IV: Children and the Legal System:.</p>
<p>10. Face–to–Face Confrontation: Effects of Closed–Circuit Technology on Children′s Eyewitness Testimony and Jurors′ Decisions: Gail S. Goodman, Ann E. Tobey, Jennifer M. Batterman–Faunce, Holly Orcutt, Sherry Thomas, Cheryl Shapiro and Toby Sachsenmaier.</p>
<p>11. When Lawyers Question Children: Is Justice Served?: Nancy W. Perry, Bradley D. McAuliff, Paulette Tam, Linda Claycomb, Colleen Dostal and Cameron Flanagan..</p>
<p>Part V: Children as Perpetrators:.</p>
<p>12. The Development of Male Offending: Key Findings from the First Decade of the Pittsburgh Youth Study: Rolf Leober, DavidP. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer–Loeber, Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi.</p>
<p>13. Child and Adolescent Sex Abuse Perpetrators: A Review of the Research Literature: Eileen Vizared, Elizabeth Monck and Peter Misch.</p>
<p>Index.</p>