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: 5203347
• 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/5203347
• 关键词: Israel; United States; adolescence (12-20); audiotape; child (0-11); child psychology; 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 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 results of these assessments have been reported in previous annual reports. The children, their parents, their teachers, and their schools are now being reinterviewed. These assessments will be completed early in FY 96 and analyses of the data will then begin. The goal of the second study is to assess the field reliability and validity of a system for eliciting and assessing statements by children who are alleged to have witnessed sexual abuse. Sites around the United States and in Israel are providing transcripts of audio- or videotaped interviews along with case files to establish case facts independent of the statements. The statements are being assessed using a revision of the Criterion-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) techniques, while case facts are independently rated using "ground truth" assessment scales developed by SSED staff. Other analyses are focused on the relationship between interviewer style and quality of information provided by the child. 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. Recent studies have shown that interviewers can increase the length and richness of children's accounts by following SSED-designed protocols designed to enhance reliance or recall memory.

该研究计划涉及两个项目。 第一个目标 是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，两者都有 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，这些评估的结果已在之前的报告中报告 年度报告。 孩子们，他们的父母，他们的老师， 学校正在重新接受采访。 这些评估将在 然后开始对数据进行分析。 第二项研究的目标是评估现场可靠性， 收集和评估儿童陈述的系统的有效性 据称目击了性虐待 美国各地的网站 美国和以色列正在提供录音或录像的文字记录， 沿着与案件档案面谈，以确定独立于 陈述 对这些陈述的评估采用的是 基于标准的内容分析（CBCA）技术，而案例事实 使用开发的“地面实况”评估量表进行独立评级 SSED工作人员 其他分析集中在以下方面的关系 访谈者的风格和儿童提供信息的质量。 几项研究证实，开放式问题引发的时间更长， 更详细的回答，而不是更集中的问题， 所发生事件的数量和语言（英语或希伯来语） 在那里进行了采访。 最近的研究表明 采访者可以增加儿童叙述的长度和丰富性， 通过遵循SSED设计的旨在增强可靠性的协议， 回忆记忆