Interviewing Children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12795000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas D Lyons (0000-0001-8179-759X, University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-89 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110413-030913 |
| OpenAlex | W139318871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 104 |
This article reviews best practice for interviewing child witnesses. In most officially recognized abuse cases, the child previously disclosed abuse, making it possible to elicit disclosures without asking closed-ended questions. Interviewers nevertheless overuse closed-ended questions, which lead to short unelaborated responses, privilege the limited perspective of the interviewer, maximize the potential for linguistic difficulties, increase children's tendency to guess, and risk response biases. Interviewers can avoid closed-ended questions through narrative practice, in which interviewers ask children to narrate a recent innocuous event before introducing the abuse topic; cued invitations, in which interviewers repeat details reported by children and ask for elaboration; open-ended wh- questions; and interview instructions, including asking children to promise to tell the truth. A remaining challenge is how to elicit disclosures from reluctant children. Better understanding of the dynamics of abuse disclosure and optimal interviewing strategies can assist the legal system in assessing the veracity of children's reports
Child abuse · Computer security · Interview · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Poison control · Political science · Privilege (computing · Sexual abuse · Suicide prevention · Child Abuse and Trauma · Computer Science · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Law · Medicine · Memory Processes and Influences · Psychology · Social Psychology
Exploring interviews with adolescent victims of human trafficking
La entrevista videograbada de la Ley N° 21.057. Un instrumento que reivindica el interés superior de niños, niñas y adolescentes y su naturaleza jurídica como sujetos de derechos en Chile
Assessing Korean children’s comprehension of legal terms and roles across age groups
Untroubling children’s identity in child protection and welfare assessment through a postconventional analytic
Effects of caregiver support and interviewer attitude on the accuracy of children’s memory according to anxiety level
Usefulness of an e-Simulation in improving social work student knowledge of best-practice questions
The effectiveness of cognitive instructions when children provide true and false eyewitness reports of another’s transgression
Measuring Violence Against Children
Effects of Interviewer Support on Children’s Memory and Suggestibility
What do 3–6-year-old children in Finland know about sexuality? A child interview study in early education
Field Research on Law in Conflict Zones and Authoritarian States
The utility of the birthday prompt in narrative practice with maltreated and non-maltreated 4- to 9-year-old children
Interviewing Child Victims of Crime
From the Global North to the Global South
A qualitative evaluation of the challenges faced by dieticians when interviewing children
The feasibility of the In My Shoes computer assisted interview for eliciting evaluative content in interviews with young children
Guidelines for teachers to elicit detailed and accurate narrative accounts from children
And they gave me a shot, it really hurt” – Evaluative content in investigative interviews with young children
Evaluating Child Interviews Conducted by Child Protective Services Workers and Police Investigators
The Culture of Silencing Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
Legal Questioning of Commercially Sexually Exploited Boys in Court
Tell Me What Happened
Gender differences in social reactions to abuse disclosures, post-abuse coping, and PTSD of child sexual abuse survivors
Why children tell
Child abuse
The stability of child abuse reports
Exploring the disclosure of child sexual abuse with alleged victims and their parents
Reducing the Potential for Distortion of Childhood Memories
The suggestibility of children in interview studies
Delay in disclosure of childhood rape
Children’s lies and their detection
The nature of children’s true and false narratives
Facilitating the Communicative Competence of the Child Witness
The Willingness of Children to Lie and the Assessment of Credibility in an Ecologically Relevant Laboratory Setting
Young Children's Responses to Yes-No Questions
Expected Consequences of Disclosure Revealed in Investigative Interviews with Suspected Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
The Effects of Investigative Utterances on Israeli Children's Reports of Physical Abuse
Innovations for child witnesses
Current Information on the Scope and Nature of Child Sexual Abuse
A Descriptive Model of the Hunting Process of Serial Sex Offenders
Validity of adult retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences
Young children's emerging ability to make false statements
Constructive processing in children's event memory
Cues and secrets
The effects of stereotypes and suggestions on preschoolers' reports
Emergence of lying in very young children
Delayed disclosure of alleged child abuse victims in Israel
An overview of the question–response system in American English conversation
How attorneys question children about the dynamics of sexual abuse and disclosure in criminal trials
The effects of repeated questioning on young children's eyewitness testimony
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,91 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |