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When Is a Child's Forensic Statement Deemed Credible? A Comparison of Physical and Sexual Abuse Cases
- Source :
- Child maltreatment. 23(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- A large national sample of 4,775 reports of child physical and sexual abuse made in Israel in 2014 was analyzed in order to examine whether assessments of credibility would vary according to abuse type, physical or sexual, and whether child and event characteristics contributing to the probability that reports of abuse would be determined as credible would be similar or different in child physical abuse (CPA) and child sexual abuse (CSA) cases. Results revealed that CPA reports were less likely to be viewed as credible (41.9%) compared to CSA reports (56.7%). Multigroup path analysis, however, indicated equivalence in predicting factors. In a unified model for both types of abuse, salient predictors of a credible judgment were older age, lack of a cognitive delay, and the alleged abusive event being a onetime less severe act. Over and beyond the effects of these factors, abuse type significantly contributed to the prediction of credibility judgments.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Poison control
Truth Disclosure
Suicide prevention
Child Advocacy
Occupational safety and health
Developmental psychology
Injury prevention
Credibility
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Israel
Child
Medical History Taking
0505 law
05 social sciences
Human factors and ergonomics
Child Abuse, Sexual
Forensic Psychiatry
Sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
050501 criminology
Female
Psychology
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15526119
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Child maltreatment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bbfeff04e37c08862902e0982fa35437