Predicting expert social science testimony in criminal prosecutions of historic child sexual abuse

Purpose. Recently courts in several Common Law jurisdictions have been faced with the daunting task of adjudicating criminal complaints of child sexual assault that are alleged to have occurred in the distant past (historic child sexual abuse; HCSA). In the present data set, alleged offences ended b...

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Autores principales: Connolly, Deborah A. (Autor) ; Price, Heather L. (Autor) ; Read, J. Don (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
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Publicado: 2006
En: Legal and criminological psychology
Año: 2006, Volumen: 11, Número: 1, Páginas: 55-74
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