Techniques Used in Forensic Psychological Examinations in Cases of Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse

The Decline in Child Sexual Abuse Cases

The Office of Juuenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to improving the justice system's response to crimes against children. OJJDP recognizes that children are a t increased risk for crime victimization. Not only ore children the victims of many of the same crimes that victimize adults, they are subject to other crimes, like child abuse and neglect, that are specific to...

Protecting child witnesses in sexual abuse cases.

[Clinical forensic examination findings and legal outcome in cases of suspected sexual child abuse].

The clinical forensic examinations conducted at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the Hanover Medical School between 1999 and 2008 in cases of suspected sexual abuse of children were evaluated retrospectively and analysed with regard to their legal outcome. In total, the study included 223 children (172 girls, 51 boys) with a median age of 8.6 years. In 34 children (15.2%), forensically releva...

Forensic, cultural, and systems issues in child sexual abuse cases--part 2: research and practitioner issues.

This article introduces the second issue of the special double issue focusing on forensic, cultural, and systems issues in child sexual abuse cases. We briefly review the articles, which include a discussion of child sexual abuse myths, an empirical analysis of extended child sexual abuse evaluations, an article on the role of the medical provider in child sexual abuse evaluations, a study of s...

Forensic, cultural, and systems issues in child sexual abuse cases--part 1: an introduction.

This article introduces the first in a two-part special issue focusing on forensic, cultural, and systems issues in child sexual abuse cases. The five articles contained in this issue include a diversity of perspectives on approaches to extended interviews and evaluations of child sexual abuse suspicions, an exploration of the ways culture affects child sexual abuse disclosure and reporting, co...