Extended Voir Dire in Child Sexual Abuse Trials

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrin Andersson ◽  
Jennifer A. Tallon ◽  
Jennifer L. Groscup
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Voir Dire ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse Trials

Parental response to child sexual abuse trials involving day care settings

1990 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann W. Burgess ◽  
Carol R. Hartman ◽  
Susan J. Kelley ◽  
Christine A. Grant ◽  
Ellen B. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Parental Response ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse Trials

scholarly journals Special Measures in Child Sexual Abuse Trials: Criminal Justice Practitioners’ Experiences and Views

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunro Lee ◽  
Jane Goodman-Delahunty ◽  
Megan Fraser ◽  
Martine B Powell ◽  
Nina J Westera
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Expert Witness ◽  
Waiting Times ◽  
Police Interviews ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse Trials ◽  
Vulnerable Adults ◽  
Criminal Justice Practitioners

Special measures have been implemented across the globe to improve evidence procedures in child sexual assault trials. The present study explored the day-to-day experiences and views on their use by five groups of Australian criminal justice practitioners (N = 335): judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers, police officers and witness assistance officers. Most practitioners reported routine use of pre-recorded police interviews and CCTV cross-examination of child complainants, but rare use with vulnerable adults. Despite persistent technical difficulties and lengthy waiting times for witnesses, high consensus emerged that special measures enhanced trial fairness and jury understanding. The perceived impact of special measures on conviction rates diverged widely. Defence lawyers disputed that this evidence was as reliable as in-person testimony. All practitioner groups endorsed expanded use of expert witness evidence and witness intermediaries. Ongoing professional development in all practitioner groups will further enhance justice outcomes for victims of child sexual abuse.    

Counterintuitive Expert Psychological Evidence in Child Sexual Abuse Trials in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Seymour ◽  
Suzanne Blackwell ◽  
Sarah Calvert ◽  
Briar McLean
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Psychological Evidence ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse Trials

Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Megan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
University Of Colorado

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

Finkelhor's Precondition Model of child sexual abuse: A critique.

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
Tony Ward ◽  
Stephen M. Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse
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