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Brennan, Mark; Brennan, Roslin E. – 1990
The experience of the child victim as a courtroom witness in sexual abuse cases is examined in this study of a testing program involving 30 children aged 6 to 15. The purpose of the study was to identify needs not recognized by courts that can be responded to, denied, or exacerbated through language. Based on court transcripts, differences were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Child Abuse, Children