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: 8892760
• 负责人: THOMAS D LYON
• 金额: $ 8.24万
• 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 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8892760
• 关键词: 9 year old; Address; Adult; Affect; Behavior; Caregivers; Child; Child Abuse and Neglect; Child Sexual Abuse; Development; Disclosure; Family; Incentives; 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; public health relevance; 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（由申请人提供）： 虐待儿童被广泛认为是对儿童福祉最严重的威胁之一，据估计，每年仅性虐待造成的损失就达 230 亿美元。儿童的报告，包括他们与嫌疑人的互动以及他们对虐待行为的披露 虽然儿童可能会与许多人谈论他们的指控（护理人员、医疗专业人员、社会工作者、有罪者），但人们对儿童如何记住或报告之前的对话知之甚少。这些先前的谈话成为后来对儿童可信度的评估的核心；事实上，有证据表明，几乎所有在刑事法庭上作证的儿童都被询问了他们与嫌疑人以及他们所向其披露虐待行为的人的谈话。将确定有助于儿童准确报告之前谈话的访谈方法，同时最大限度地减少虚假报道 该项目将实现三个具体目标：1) 评估儿童对先前与涉嫌违法行为的成年人的对话的回忆；2) 评估儿童对披露对话的回忆；3) 找出在引出儿童报告违法行为时的语言困难。 这项研究将考察孩子们在不同条件下回忆对话的情况，包括是否发生越轨行为、涉嫌越轨行为的煽动者鼓励孩子报告什么，以及采访者向孩子提出的建议。这些研究结果将对我们有所帮助。设计有关对话的问题，这些问题既可以用于我们检查调查访谈的实地研究，也可以最终用于向儿童询问虐待问题的专业人士。