EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND EVALUATION OF CHILDREN'S TESTIMONY

这项研究计划涉及两个项目。第一个的目标 该项目旨在探索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，两者 受害者和目击者，或者既不是受害者也不是目击者。这些孩子 第一次评估是在1988/9年度，当时他们在8到12岁之间 年龄，孩子们，他们的父母和他们的老师从那以后 重新接受采访后，对数据的分析目前正在进行中。到目前为止， 分析的重点是论证和评估这些影响 不同举报人的报告之间存在重大差异的原因 包括家庭暴力和儿童适应。第二个目标 该项目旨在开发和评估技术，以增强 儿童证人的信息性和评价 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 利用案件档案确定独立于陈述的案件事实。 这些陈述是使用基于标准的修订版进行评估的 内容分析(CBCA)技术，而案件事实独立 使用社科院工作人员开发的“真实情况”评价表进行评级。 对看起来很可能真的发生的事件的描述 包含比看似不可信的账户更多的CBCA标准， 虽然差异并不大。研究中的其他研究 节目的重点是面试者风格和 幼儿提供的信息的质量。几项研究 已经证实，开放式问题会引出更长和更详细的问题 回答比更有针对性的问题更多，无论有多少 所经历的事件和所使用的语言(英语或希伯来语) 进行了访谈。解剖玩偶的使用也不会影响 协会也不能提高幼儿的信息量。近期 研究表明，面试官可以增加面试的篇幅和丰富性 通过遵循SSED设计的协议来管理儿童帐户 探索回忆记忆，减少对更有针对性的问题的依赖 这更容易引出错误的信息。目前， 目前正在努力推广和评估这些面谈程序。

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.