Commentary: The legal system response to child maltreatment

Legal actions are perhaps the most powerful responses to child maltreatment. Criminal and child protection investigation and forensic interviewing can provide the evidence needed to support a child victim’s disclosure. Prosecution of child maltreatment can hold perpetrators accountable. Juvenile and...

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Main Author: Cross, Theodore P. (Author)
Contributors: Block, Stephanie D. ; Vandervort, Frank E.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Child maltreatment
Year: 2023, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 399-402
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Child Abuse
Child witnesses
Foster care
Legal aspects
court testimony
forensic interviews