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Essay Galaxy - Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court?
Should Children Be Allowed To Testify In Court?
Over the past ten years, more research has been done involving
children's testimony than that of all the prior decades combined. Ceci & Bruck
(93) have cited four reasons for this :
- The opinion of psychology experts is increasingly being accepted by courts as
testimony,
- Social research is more commonly being applied to the issues of children's
rights,
- More research into adult suggestibility in accordance with reason naturally
leads to more research into child suggestibility,
- Children are more commonly being used as witnesses in cases where they are
directly involved (i.e. sexual abuses cases), requiring the development of
better ways for dealing with them as special cases.
Some psychologists deem children to be “Highly resistant to suggestion,
as unlikely to lie, and as reliable as adult wit....
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