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Child witnesses --- #RBIB:XTOF --- Child witnesses - United States.
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Court rooms are frightening places for anyone testifying. Even adults are fearful about giving evidence in front of magistrates and judges, and about being questioned by prosecutors and defence lawyers. Imagine how much more scary that must be for a child. Even worse, in sexual offences children have to talk about embarrassing things, for which they do not even have an adequate or accurate vocabulary. South African law has excellent provisions which allow children to testify via intermediaries and in separate rooms, so that they need not encounter the offender. But this is only as good as the provisioning allows. In the 2009 case of Director of Public Prosecutions v the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, the Court laid emphasis on these special arrangements, and at the time directed the Minister of Justice to place a report before the Constitutional Court on the readiness of the courts to provide the specialised services. Five years on, this report looks at the statistical evidence that is currently available, coupled with empirical evidence gathered from visits to sexual offences court, to determine how much progress has been made towards the goal of children being able to testify in a safe, child-friendly environment.
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Court rooms are frightening places for anyone testifying. Even adults are fearful about giving evidence in front of magistrates and judges, and about being questioned by prosecutors and defence lawyers. Imagine how much more scary that must be for a child. Even worse, in sexual offences children have to talk about embarrassing things, for which they do not even have an adequate or accurate vocabulary. South African law has excellent provisions which allow children to testify via intermediaries and in separate rooms, so that they need not encounter the offender. But this is only as good as the provisioning allows. In the 2009 case of Director of Public Prosecutions v the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, the Court laid emphasis on these special arrangements, and at the time directed the Minister of Justice to place a report before the Constitutional Court on the readiness of the courts to provide the specialised services. Five years on, this report looks at the statistical evidence that is currently available, coupled with empirical evidence gathered from visits to sexual offences court, to determine how much progress has been made towards the goal of children being able to testify in a safe, child-friendly environment.
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Court rooms are frightening places for anyone testifying. Even adults are fearful about giving evidence in front of magistrates and judges, and about being questioned by prosecutors and defence lawyers. Imagine how much more scary that must be for a child. Even worse, in sexual offences children have to talk about embarrassing things, for which they do not even have an adequate or accurate vocabulary. South African law has excellent provisions which allow children to testify via intermediaries and in separate rooms, so that they need not encounter the offender. But this is only as good as the provisioning allows. In the 2009 case of Director of Public Prosecutions v the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, the Court laid emphasis on these special arrangements, and at the time directed the Minister of Justice to place a report before the Constitutional Court on the readiness of the courts to provide the specialised services. Five years on, this report looks at the statistical evidence that is currently available, coupled with empirical evidence gathered from visits to sexual offences court, to determine how much progress has been made towards the goal of children being able to testify in a safe, child-friendly environment.
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Plus souvent déniée que sacralisée, la parole de l'enfant en justice est un sujet passionné, pollué par de nombreuses représentations idéologiques parfois copieusement servies par des théories pseudo-scientifiques. Le témoignage d'un enfant peut être contaminé par des interrogatoires répétés et être influencé par toutes sortes de facteurs : la perte de confiance de l'enfant, son niveau développemental, les émotions ressenties pendant l'interrogatoire, les menaces ou pressions directes ou indirectes, et bien entendu les symptômes associés à un état de stress post-traumatique comme l'évitement ou les troubles dissociatifs.Les connaissances scientifiques concernant le témoignage des enfants ont explosé au cours des trente dernières années. Elles ont permis de mieux baliser la pratique de l'audition des mineurs et de tout entretien requis à des fins d'expertise ou d'évaluation auprès d'enfants. Cet ouvrage offre aux intervenants une synthèse des connaissances acquises, ainsi qu'un éclairage sur les implications de celles-ci pour la conduite d'entretiens dans les meilleures conditions possibles.Sont examinés, entre autres, un protocole actuellement utilisé en France, l'Entretien par étapes progressives, et le protocole du National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), qui est le protocole le plus reconnu, et le mieux validé, à l'échelle mondiale.
Child witnesses. --- Abused children. --- Cross-examination.
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"This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century. It uses the stories and experiences of over 200 children, in many cases using their own words from press reports, to highlight how the relevant law was ? or was not - applied throughout this period. The law was sympathetic to the plight of child witnesses and exhibited a significant degree of pragmatism to receive the evidence of children but was equally fearful of innocent men being wrongly convicted. The book highlights the impact ?safeguards? like corroboration and closed court rules had on the outcome of many cases and the extent to which fear ? of children, of lies (or the truth) and of reform ? influenced the criminal justice process. Over a century of children giving evidence in court it is `clear that the more things changed, the more they stayed the same"--From the publisher.
Child witnesses. --- Children as witnesses --- Child witnesses --- Witnesses --- Legal status, laws, etc.