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The Effects Of The Courtroom Context On Children’S Memory And Anxiety, Rebecca Nathanson Jan 2003

The Effects Of The Courtroom Context On Children’S Memory And Anxiety, Rebecca Nathanson

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Modifications of the courtroom environment have been proposed to enhance the ability of child witnesses to offer complete and accurate testimony and reduce system-induced stress. However, these interventions have often been conceived without the benefit of empirical data demonstrating intervention efficacy. The present study examines the effects of the courtroom context on children's memory and anxiety. Eighty-one eight- to ten-year-olds participated in a staged event involving bodily touch, and two weeks later their memory for the event was tested. Half of the children were questioned in a mock courtroom in a university law school, and half were questioned in a …


Battered Women, Child Maltreatment, Prison, And Poverty: Issues For Theory And Practice, Naomi R. Cahn Jan 2003

Battered Women, Child Maltreatment, Prison, And Poverty: Issues For Theory And Practice, Naomi R. Cahn

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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The "Pitiless Double Abuse" Of Battered Mothers, Justine A. Dunlap Jan 2003

The "Pitiless Double Abuse" Of Battered Mothers, Justine A. Dunlap

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Introduction To Symposium, The Rights Of Parents With Children In Foster Care: Removals Arising From Economic Hardship And The Predicative Power Of Race, Ann Cammett Jan 2003

Introduction To Symposium, The Rights Of Parents With Children In Foster Care: Removals Arising From Economic Hardship And The Predicative Power Of Race, Ann Cammett

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Professor Cammett introduces a symposium at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York exploring the predicament posed by the surge of child removals through neglect petitions, and the subsequent placement of those children in foster care. The panel’s published comments offer some poignant reflections on the crisis of the child welfare system.