EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND EVALUATION OF CHILDREN'S TESTIMONY

家庭暴力的影响和儿童证词的评估

• 批准号: 2575671
• 负责人: M E LAMB
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2575671
• 关键词: Israel; United States; adolescence (12-20); audiotape; child (0-11); child abuse; child psychology; clinical research; crime victims; human subject; informatics; interview; legal /correctional; memory; sex offenses; spouse abuse; videotape /videodisc; violence

This program of research involves two projects. The goal of the first project is to explore the effects of domestic violence on children who were either victims of physical abuse, witnesses of spousal abuse, both victims and witnesses, or neither victims nor witnesses. These children were first assessed in 1988/9 when they were between 8 and 12 years of age, and the children, their parents, and their teachers have since been reinterviewed, analyses of the data are now in progress. To date, analyses have focused on demonstrating and evaluating the implications of major discrepencies between reports by different informants concerning both family violence and children's adjustment. The goal of the second project is to develop and assess techniques for enhancing the informativeness of child witnesses and for evaluating the credibility of their accounts. In one study, investigators around the United States and in Israel provided transcripts of audio- or videotaped interviews along with case files to establish case facts independent of the statements. The statements were assessed using a revision of the Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) technique, while case facts were independently rated using "ground truth" assessment scales developed by SSED staff. Accounts of events that appeared very likely to have happened indeed contained more CBCA criteria than accounts that appeared implausible, although the differences were not large. Other studies in the research program have focused on the relationship between interviewer style and the quality of information provided by young children. Several studies have confirmed that open-ended questions elicit longer and more detailed responses than more focused questions, regardless of the number of incidents experienced and the language (English or Hebrew) in which the interview was conducted. The use of anatomical dolls neither affects the association nor enhances the informativeness of young children. Recent studies have shown that interviewers can increase the length and richness of children's accounts by following SSED-designed protocols designed to probe recall memory and reduce the reliance on more focused questions which are more likely to elicit erroneous information. Currently, efforts are being made to extend and evaluate these interview protocols.

该研究计划涉及两个项目。 第一个目标 该项目旨在探讨家庭暴力对儿童的影响， 要么是身体虐待的受害者要么是配偶虐待的目击者 受害者和证人，或既不是受害者也不是证人。 这些孩子 首次评估是在1988/1989年，当时他们的年龄在8到12岁之间。 年龄，和孩子们，他们的父母，和他们的老师， 重新访谈后，目前正在对数据进行分析。 到目前为止， 分析的重点是展示和评估影响， 不同举报人就下列问题的报告之间存在重大差异： 家庭暴力和孩子的适应。 第二个目标 该项目旨在开发和评估各种技术， 儿童证人的信息量和评估 他们的账户。 在一项研究中，美国各地的调查人员和 在以色列提供了录音或录像采访的文字记录，沿着 与案件档案建立独立于陈述的案件事实。 这些声明是使用修订的基于标准的 内容分析（CBCA）技术，而案件事实独立 使用SSED工作人员开发的“地面实况”评估量表进行评级。 对事件的描述看起来很有可能确实发生了 包含更多的CBCA标准比帐户似乎难以置信， 虽然差别不大。 研究中的其他研究 该计划侧重于面试官风格和 幼儿提供的信息质量。 几项研究 我已经证实，开放式问题会引出更长、更详细的问题， 答案比更集中的问题，无论数量多少， 所经历的事件和语言（英语或希伯来语）， 进行了采访。 使用解剖娃娃既不影响 也不能提高幼儿的信息量。 最近 研究表明，采访者可以增加长度和丰富性， 通过遵循SSED设计的协议， 探索回忆记忆，减少对更集中问题的依赖 更容易引出错误的信息 目前的情况， 目前正在努力推广和评估这些面谈程序。