Collaborative Research: The Impact of Disclosure History and Interviewing Protocol on Children's Eyewitness Testimony

合作研究：披露历史和访谈协议对儿童目击者证词的影响

• 批准号: 1121890
• 负责人: Jason Dickinson
• 金额: $ 12.71万
• 依托单位: Montclair State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1121890&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Impact; Disclosure; History

Currently, there is no consensus on which interviewing techniques provide the most reliable evidence from alleged victims of child physical and sexual abuse. One style of interviewing, which reflects decades of research on children's eyewitness testimony, encourages children to describe events in their own words and avoids specific questions and props. In contrast, another style seeks to maximize disclosures through the use of body diagrams and specific questions about touching. Unfortunately, the debate over which method best distinguishes abused from nonabused children, and the field of children's eyewitness testimony itself, are at an impasse. This research project uses a new approach that allows researchers to safely and ethically test between these two different approaches in a laboratory setting. Results will determine whether eyewitness findings vary for children with different disclosure histories and whether the positioning of body diagrams in interviews influences rates of true and false reports. Information about optimal interviewing practices has the potential to influence state and national-level interviewing policies utilized by law enforcement officials.

目前，对于哪种面谈技术能够为据称遭受身体虐待和性虐待的儿童提供最可靠的证据，还没有达成共识。有一种采访方式，反映了几十年来对儿童目击者证词的研究，鼓励儿童用自己的话描述事件，避免具体的问题和道具。相比之下，另一种风格试图通过使用身体图和关于触摸的具体问题来最大限度地披露信息。不幸的是，关于哪种方法最能区分受虐待儿童和非受虐待儿童的辩论，以及儿童目击者证词本身的领域，都陷入了僵局。该研究项目使用了一种新的方法，允许研究人员在实验室环境中安全和道德地测试这两种不同的方法。结果将确定目击者的发现是否会因儿童的不同披露历史而有所不同，以及访谈中身体图的位置是否会影响真实和虚假报告的比率。 关于最佳面谈做法的信息有可能影响执法官员使用的州和国家一级的面谈政策。