Improving the evidential quality of child witness statements about sexual abuse
Institution: | Deakin University |
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Department: | School of Health, School of Psychology |
Year: | 2014 |
Record ID: | 1032905 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30067341 |
Child sexual abuse cases are often not prosecuted because of poor evidential quality of the visually recorded investigative interview. This thesis examined prosecutors’ perceptions of interviews and took a constructive approach to determine how the evidential quality and usefulness of interviews could be improved.