Interviewing Children: The Science of Conversation in Forensic Contexts

by Debra A. Poole

Because of children's incomplete language development, their greater risk of retrieving inaccurate information in response to memory cues, and their desire to say what they think the interviewer wants to hear (whether truthful or not), child eyewitness testimony can be unreliable.

In this book, Debra Ann Poole presents a flexible, evidence-based approach to interviewing children that reduces the ambiguities and errors in children's responses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433822156
• ISBN13: 9781433822155
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.2"