Developmental Considerations in How Defense Attorneys Employ Child Sexual Abuse and Rape Myths When Questioning Alleged Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
Myths and misconceptions surrounding the nature of sexual assault play a role in shaping the perceptions of victims as credible and perpetrators as culpable. Defense attorneys often capitalize on myths in court as an element of their defense strategies. Researchers have established that myths about...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | ; |
| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
2023
|
| En: |
Journal of interpersonal violence
Año: 2023, Volumen: 38, Número: 23/24, Páginas: 11914-11934 |
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Journals Online & Print: | Gargar...
|
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Palabras clave: |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000caa a22000002c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 1869085027 | ||
| 003 | DE-627 | ||
| 005 | 20250112054929.0 | ||
| 007 | cr uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 231103s2023 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1177/08862605231189512 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-627)1869085027 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)KXP1869085027 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-627 |b ger |c DE-627 |e rda | ||
| 041 | |a eng | ||
| 084 | |a 2,1 |2 ssgn | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Denne, Emily |e VerfasserIn |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Developmental Considerations in How Defense Attorneys Employ Child Sexual Abuse and Rape Myths When Questioning Alleged Victims of Child Sexual Abuse |
| 264 | 1 | |c 2023 | |
| 336 | |a Text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a Computermedien |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a Online-Ressource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | |a Myths and misconceptions surrounding the nature of sexual assault play a role in shaping the perceptions of victims as credible and perpetrators as culpable. Defense attorneys often capitalize on myths in court as an element of their defense strategies. Researchers have established that myths about both rape generally, and child sexual abuse (CSA) specifically, appear with regularity in criminal trials of children who have made an allegation of CSA. Yet no work has systematically and quantitatively examined the impact of a child’s age on the probability that attorneys will ask a myth-consistent question in criminal trials of CSA. In the current study, we examine 6,384 lines of questioning across 134 criminal trials of CSA to assess whether defense attorneys employ developmentally sensitive strategies when asking children questions that draw upon myths about sexual violence (CSA myths: disclosure myths, extent of harm, a child’s positive relationship with their perpetrator, and the presence of witnesses; Rape myths: force and resistance, motives to lie, victim precipitation, and character issues). We found that attorneys did not vary their use of CSA myths by the age of the child. However, the probability that a child would receive a rape myth-consistent line of questioning, increased with a child’s age. This work suggests that attorneys are, at times, strategic in their use of myths and employ these adult rape myths in ways that are plausible, purposeful, and likely impactful. The strategic use of these questions may acknowledge young children’s limited development but may place too great a demand on older children’s developmental capacities. Prosecutors should be prepared to counterquestion these myths in redirect examination. | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a child sexual abuse myths | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Rape Myths | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Sexual Abuse | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Child Abuse | |
| 700 | 1 | |a George, Suzanne St |e VerfasserIn |4 aut | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Stolzenberg, Stacia N. |e VerfasserIn |4 aut | |
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Enthalten in |t Journal of interpersonal violence |d London [u.a.] : Sage, 1986 |g 38(2023), 23/24, Seite 11914-11934 |h Online-Ressource |w (DE-627)324614721 |w (DE-600)2028900-5 |w (DE-576)276556305 |x 1552-6518 |7 nnas |
| 773 | 1 | 8 | |g volume:38 |g year:2023 |g number:23/24 |g pages:11914-11934 |
| 856 | |u https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/08862605231189512 |x unpaywall |z Vermutlich kostenfreier Zugang |h publisher [open (via page says license)] | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231189512 |x Resolving-System |z kostenfrei |3 Volltext |
| 935 | |a mkri | ||
| 951 | |a AR | ||
| ELC | |a 1 | ||
| LOK | |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 | ||
| LOK | |0 001 4401164539 | ||
| LOK | |0 003 DE-627 | ||
| LOK | |0 004 1869085027 | ||
| LOK | |0 005 20231103043605 | ||
| LOK | |0 008 231103||||||||||||||||ger||||||| | ||
| LOK | |0 035 |a (DE-2619)KrimDok#2023-11-02#8E655744CB7AA793482655DFD87BB647DDD498DD | ||
| LOK | |0 040 |a DE-2619 |c DE-627 |d DE-2619 | ||
| LOK | |0 092 |o n | ||
| LOK | |0 852 |a DE-2619 | ||
| LOK | |0 852 1 |9 00 | ||
| LOK | |0 935 |a zota | ||
| OAS | |a 1 | ||
| ORI | |a SA-MARC-krimdoka001.raw | ||
