A systematic approach to quality assessment of expert testimony in cases of alleged child sexual abuse

被引：5

作者：

Gumpert, CH ^{[1
]}

Lindblad, F ^{[1
]}

Grann, M ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Karolinska Inst, Stockholm, Sweden

来源：

PSYCHOLOGY CRIME & LAW | 2002年 / 8卷 / 01期

关键词：

child sexual abuse; evaluations; assessment; report quality; quality assessment; expert testimony; expert witnesses;

D O I：

10.1080/10683160208401809

中图分类号：

DF [法律]; D9 [法律];

学科分类号：

0301 ;

摘要：

The evaluation of suspected child sexual abuse is one of the most complicated forensic assessments. This paper describes a method of translating guidelines concerning written expert testimony on child sexual abuse into a quality assessment protocol - the Structured Quality assessment of eXpert testimony, SQX-12 - thereby creating an evaluative tool to assess written expert testimony regarding child sexual abuse. The proposed tool consists of 12 items referring to different quality aspects of written expert testimony. Interrater reliability and some preliminary metric properties were found to be promising. It is concluded that the SQX-12 may provide a small, first step towards the conceptualisation of quality in forensic reports regarding child sexual abuse.

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页码：59 / 75

页数：17

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