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: 6162472
• 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/6162472
• 关键词: Israel; United States; adolescence (12-20); audiotape; behavioral /social science research tag; 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 separate projects. The goal of the major 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 in Israel provided transcripts of audio- or videotaped interviews along with 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. Further research showed that CBCA criteria were more commonly found in richer, more detailed statements elicited from free recall memory. 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 in both Israel and the United States. The goal of the other 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. The children, their parents, and their teachers were reinterviewed in 1995 and 1996, and analyses of the data are now in progress. To date, reports have focused on demonstrating and evaluating the implications of major discrepancies between reports by different informants concerning both family violence and children's adjustment.

这个研究计划包括两个独立的项目。的目标 主要项目是开发和评估技术，以提高 儿童证人的信息量和评估 他们的账户。 在一项研究中，以色列的研究人员提供了 录音或录像采访的记录沿着案件事实 独立于声明。 这些陈述是使用 修订基于标准的内容分析（CBCA）技术， 使用“基本事实”评估对病例事实进行独立评定 SSED工作人员开发的量表。 对事件的描述 可能发生的事件确实包含了更多的CBCA标准，而不是帐户 这似乎令人难以置信，尽管差别不大。 进一步的研究表明，CBCA标准更常见于 更丰富，更详细的陈述来自自由回忆记忆。 其他 研究项目中的研究集中在 采访者的风格和年轻人提供的信息的质量 孩子 几项研究证实，开放式问题 比更集中的问题更长更详细的回答， 无论经历了多少次事件， （英语或希伯来语），其中进行了采访。 使用 解剖娃娃既不影响关联，也不增强 幼儿的知识性。 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设计的旨在探测回忆记忆的协议， 减少对更集中的问题的依赖，这些问题更有可能 引出错误信息 目前，正在努力 在以色列和其他国家推广和评估这些采访协议， 美国的 另一个项目的目标是探索国内的影响， 暴力侵害儿童的行为，这些儿童要么是身体虐待的受害者， 配偶虐待，受害者和证人，或既不是受害者， 证人 这些儿童于1988/1989年首次接受评估， 年龄在8到12岁之间孩子们，他们的父母， 1995年和1996年再次对教师进行了访谈， 正在进行中。 迄今为止，报告的重点是展示和 评估报告之间重大差异的影响， 关于家庭暴力和儿童暴力的不同举报人 加强结构性改革