Child's right to developmentally sensitive forensic interviewing
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2019
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Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research
Abstract
The paper examines the adequacy of the way in which, during a judicial procedure,
child victims and witnesses are accepted, supported and questioned so that they
maximise their developmental capacities and provide reliable testimony.
The purpose of the paper is to, by critically analysing the state of theory and
research, extract and demonstrate legally established, developmentally sensitive
and empirically demonstrated effective models, protocols and methodology of
forensic interviewing of child victims and witnesses, which are based on the
Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The paper considers the following questions: (a) definitions, development and
characteristics of forensic interviewing of children (b) capacities (limitations and
potentials) of a child to provide credible and reliable testimony; (c) models,
protocols and core phases of forensic interview with the child; (d) validated
effective methodologies of interviewing children; (e)interviewer’s role,
competencies and training, as well as (f) open-ended questions, needs and
directions of further improvements of theory and practice of child forensic
interviewing
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International Resources, research, child victims, child witness, forensic interviewing, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, child abuse
Citation
Stakić, Đ. (2019). Child's right to developmentally sensitive forensic interviewing. HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION OF THE RIGHT’S OF THE CHILD, 333.