EFFECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND EVALUATION OF CHILDREN'S TESTIMONY

这项研究计划涉及两个不同的项目。的目标是 主要项目是开发和评估技术，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，以色列的调查人员提供了 采访录音或录像的文字记录以及案件事实 与声明无关。这些报表是使用 修订基于标准的内容分析(CBCA)技术，而 案件事实使用“基本事实”评估进行独立评级 由SSED工作人员编制的量表。对事件的描述看起来非常 可能已经发生的情况确实包含了比帐户更多的CBCA标准 这似乎令人难以置信，尽管差异并不大。 进一步的研究表明，CBCA标准更常见于 从免费的召回内存中获得更丰富、更详细的陈述。其他 研究计划中的研究主要集中在 面试官的风格和杨致远提供的信息质量 孩子们。多项研究证实，开放式问题 比起更有针对性的问题，获得更长、更详细的答复， 无论经历过多少事件和语言 (英语或希伯来语)进行采访。对.的使用 解剖玩偶既不影响这种联系，也不会增强 幼儿的信息量。最近的研究表明， 面试者可以增加儿童记述的长度和丰富性 通过遵循SSED设计的协议来探测回忆记忆和 减少对更有针对性的问题的依赖，这更有可能 引出错误信息。目前，正在努力 在以色列和以色列扩展和评估这些面谈协议 美国。 另一个项目的目标是探索国内 对遭受身体虐待的儿童实施暴力，目击者 虐待配偶，包括受害者和目击者，或者既不是受害者也不是 目击者。这些儿童在1988/9年度首次接受评估，当时他们 8至12岁之间。孩子们、他们的父母和他们的 1995年和1996年对教师进行了重新采访，并对数据进行了分析 现在正在进行中。到目前为止，报告的重点是演示和 评价报告之间的重大差异所涉问题 关于家庭暴力和儿童暴力的不同线人 调整。

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.