Child Abuse and Neglect examines the latest research on this important topic, discussing
what it entails, how to recognize it, and how to report it. The book begins with an overview of …

The vast majority of guidelines recommend that developing rapport with children is essential
for successful forensic child interviewing; however, the question remains as to whether there …

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and
respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the …

An alarming number of youth worldwide are victims of commercial sexual exploitation,
particularly sex trafficking. Normative developmental processes and motivations across the …

Interviewers face a dilemma when questioning children in a forensic context--an inherent
mismatch between the needs of the legal system and the capabilities of young children. This …

Research on child interviewing has burgeoned over the past 25 years as expectations about
children's agency, competence, and participation in society have changed. This article …

OBJECTIVE: After maltreated children are taken into protective custody, dependency courts
determine the children's placements. Many, if not most, maltreated children never attend …

Techniques in the investigative interviewing and interrogation of victims, witnesses and
suspects of crime vary around the world, according to a country's individual legal system …

Despite concerns being routinely raised about psychological consequences for child victims
of participation in criminal proceedings, empirical research remains limited, and findings …

Research examining children's temporal knowledge has tended to utilize brief temporal
intervals and singular, neutral events, and is not readily generalizable to legal settings in …