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Children and the Law: The Essential Readings

ISBN: 978-0-631-22683-3

August 2001

Wiley-Blackwell

448 pages

Description
This volume brings together thirteen essential readings illustrating the most important issues in dealing with children as victims, witnesses or perpetrators of crime.
About the Author
Ray Bull is Professor of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. He has published widely in the area of children and the law, especially on the topic of children as witnesses. Most recently, he has co-edited the Handbook of the Psychology of Interviewing (1999) and the Handbook of Psychology in Legal Contexts (1999) and co-authored Investigative Interviewing: Psychology and Practice (1999).
Features

  • Brings together key papers on child development and the law.

  • Helps readers understand how to assist children to give truthful accounts.

  • Examines how children can best be accommodated in our legal systems.

  • Makes the link between child victimisation and children who go on to commit crime.