{"id":435226,"date":"2018-06-25T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/?p=29161"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:49:07","slug":"using-children-as-witnesses-in-court-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/using-children-as-witnesses-in-court-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Children as Witnesses in Court Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Using Children as Witnesses in Court Cases<\/h2>\n<div class=\"question-body\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>Your textbook discusses some of the issues related to using children as witnesses in court cases. \u00a0There have been many studies done relating to the unreliability of eyewitness testimony in both children and adults. \u00a0In the 1980&#8217;s and 1990&#8217;s, there was a series of court cases related to alleged multi-victim, multi-offender sexual and ritual abuse in day care centers across the country (the McMartin and Little Rascals cases being perhaps the most publicized).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please click on the two (2) links below and carefully read the articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/teachers-are-indicted-at-the-mcmartin-preschool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>http:\/\/littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please post thoroughly thought through answers to the questions below on the Discussion Forum for the week.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. How do you think that investigators and therapists, in their quest to find the truth, may have contributed to children making false or exaggerated allegations in these cases?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0What implications do these types of cases have for people who run childcare centers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0\u00a0What are the lessons learned from these cases?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0\u00a0How should investigators and therapists proceed when a child or their parent makes such \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0allegations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0How can the investigators and therapists obtain the information they need without manipulating the child&#8217;s memory, even if inadvertently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cognitive Development<\/p>\n<p>Topics to be covered include:<br \/>\n\u25cf Piaget\u2019s theory of cognitive development<br \/>\n\u25cf Vygotsky\u2019s sociocultural theory of cognitive development<br \/>\n\u25cf The information-processing perspective of cognitive development<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"meta question-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Children as Witnesses in Court Cases Your textbook discusses some of the issues related to using children as witnesses in court cases. \u00a0There have been many studies done relating to the unreliability of eyewitness testimony in both children and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/using-children-as-witnesses-in-court-cases\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay-paper-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}