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Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck
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LIST PRICE: $24.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $24.95
336 pages
ITEM #: 4318351
ISBN: 1-55798-632-0
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-632-0
PUBLICATION DATE: September 1999
EDITION: Softcover
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The credibility of children's testimony is a hotly debated topic in America's courtrooms, universities, and professional organizations. Are children more suggestible than adults, and if so, what are the implications for those who work with child witnesses?
Using rigorous techniques of analysis, the authors examine real-life cases in which children were key witnesses in criminal child abuse trials. Written in lively, accessible language by acknowledged experts in the field, this book will be an invaluable guide for expert witnesses and all those who work with child witnesses, including therapists, social workers, law enforcement personnel, and lawyers.
Book Reviews
This book is, by a wide margin, the best available volume of its kind.
—C. J. Brainerd and D. Hill, reviewed in Contemporary Psychology
We believe that this book would be useful reading for any lawyer who practices family law or prosecutes or defends child abuse cases. It deals with several highly publicized cases which were based on children's testimony…This is an often fascinating book. It is a careful, thoughtful study. The authors appreciated the jurisprudential difficulties of their subject. They demonstrate the wisdom, compassion, and ethical sensitivity which their subject demands. The book is rich in useful information, insight, and astuteness. It is both scholarly and highly readable.
—Appellate Practice Journal, American Bar Association, Vol. XVIV, No. 3
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