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Should children be allowed to testify in court?
Title: Should children be allowed to testify in court?
Category: Social Sciences / Education
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Should children be allowed to testify in court?
SHOULD CHILDREN BE ALLOWED TO TESTIFY IN COURT?
Over the past ten years, more research has been done involving children's testimony
than that of all the prior decades combined. Ceci & Bruck (93) have cited four reasons for this :
* The opinion of psychology experts is increasingly being accepted by courts as testimony,
* Social research is more commonly being applied to the issues of children's rights,
* More research into adult suggestibility in accordance with reason naturally leads …showed first 75 words of 2315 total…
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