Facilitating Children's Accurate Reporting of Prior Conversations about Adult Transgressions

帮助儿童准确报告之前有关成人越轨行为的对话

• 批准号: 9022505
• 负责人: THOMAS D LYON
• 金额: $ 8.17万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9022505
• 关键词: 9 year old; Address; Adult; Affect; Behavior; Caregivers; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Sexual Abuse; Development; Disclosure; Family; Health; Indium; Individual; Interview; Interviewer; Language Development; Lawyers; Lead; Linguistics; Medical; Methods; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Play; Predisposition; Process; Reporting; Research; Secrecy; Sexual abuse; Social Development; Social Workers; Toy; cognitive development; cost; court; design; improved; innovation; maltreatment; man; perpetrators; programs; success; willingness

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Child maltreatment is widely recognized as one of the most serious threats to children's well-being. The cost of sexual abuse alone has been estimated at $23 billion annually. The most important evidence in child sexual abuse cases is the child's report, including their interactions with suspects and their disclosures of abuse. Although children are likely to talk with many individuals about their allegations (caregivers, medical professionals, social workers, attorneys), little is known about how children remember or report prior conversations about abuse. These prior conversations become central in later assessments of children's credibility; indeed, there is evidence that virtually all children testifing about sexual abuse in criminal court are questioned about their conversations with the suspect and with persons to whom they disclosed abuse. The current study will identify interviewing methods that facilitate children's accurate reporting of prior conversations while minimizing false reports. The project will address three specific aims: 1) To assess children's recall of prior conversations with adults suspected of transgressions; 2) To assess children's recall of disclosure conversations; 3) To identify linguistic difficulties in eliciting children's reports of conversations. The study will examine how well children recall conversations under different conditions, varying whether a transgression occurs, what the instigator of the alleged transgression has encouraged the child to report, and what an interviewer has suggested to the child. The findings will help us design questions about conversations that can be used both in our field research examining investigative interviews and, ultimately, by professionals who question children about maltreatment.

 描述（由适用提供）：虐待儿童被广泛认为是对儿童福祉最严重的威胁之一。仅性虐待的成本估计为每年230亿美元。儿童性虐待案件中最重要的证据是儿童的报告，包括他们与嫌疑犯的互动及其虐待披露。尽管儿童可能会与许多人谈论他们的指控（看护人，医疗专业人员，社会工作者，律师），但对于孩子如何记住或报告有关虐待的事先对话，知之甚少。这些先前的对话在以后对儿童信誉的评估中成为中心。确实，有证据表明，几乎所有在刑事法院进行性虐待的儿童都询问他们与犯罪嫌疑人的对话以及与他们披露虐待的人的对话。当前的研究将确定访谈方法，以促进儿童准确地报告先前的对话，同时最大程度地减少虚假的对话 报告。该项目将针对三个具体目标：1）评估儿童对涉嫌翻译的成年人的先前对话； 2）评估儿童关于披露对话的召回； 3）在引起儿童的报告中确定语言困难 对话。该研究将研究孩子在不同条件下的对话，是否发生翻译，所指控的翻译的煽动者鼓励孩子报告的内容以及面试官对孩子的建议。这些发现将帮助我们设计有关对话的问题，这些问题既可以在我们的实地研究中使用，以检查调查性访谈，并最终受到质疑儿童虐待的专业人员。