| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 299 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Stephen J. Ceci and Helene Hembrooke -- Use of expert testimony in child sexual abuse cases / Lucy Berliner -- Role of experts in the common law and the civil law: a comparison / John R. Spencer -- Moral justifications for limits on expert testimony / Michael Lavin and Bruce D. Sales -- Trials and tribulations of a novice expert witness / Maggie Bruck -- Expert witness in child sexual abuse cases: a clinician's view / Richard J. Lawlor. |
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Psychological and ethical considerations in the preparation of the mental health professional as expert witness / Kyle D. Pruett and Albert J. Solnit -- Expert as educator / Joseph S. Miller and Ronald J. Allen -- How valid are child sexual abuse validations? / Celia B. Fisher and Katherine A. Whiting -- Expert scientific testimony on child witnesses in the age of Daubert / Margaret Bull Kovera and Eugene Borgida -- Expert testimony regarding the characteristics of sexually abused children: a controversy on both sides of the bench / Mary Ann Mason. |
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Psychologist as expert witness: a comment / Peter A. Ornstein and Betty N. Gordon -- Where researchers fear to tread: interpretative differences among testifying experts in child sexual abuse cases / Thomas D. Lyon and Jonathan J. Koehler -- Legal commentary: the impact of Daubert on 21st-century child sexual abuse prosecutions / Lucy McGough. |
| Summary |
Lawyers, psychologists, and social workers discuss the thornier aspects of testimony and provide recommendations on the proper role of the expert witness. In each chapter, one or more current problem areas associated with expert testimony in cases of child abuse are described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Form |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Ovid PsycBooks. |
| Issued By |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Evidence, Expert -- United States.
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Child Abuse -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
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Expert Testimony -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Ceci, Stephen J.
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Hembrooke, Helene.
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American Psychological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Expert witnesses in child abuse cases (print) (DLC) 98013683 (OCoLC) 38527884 |
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