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Swedish legal professionals' opinions on child or adult witness memory-reporting capabilities: using the method of indirect comparisons

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

Legal professionals' opinions about the memory abilities of child and adult witnesses are important in the legal process. We surveyed 266 legal professionals (Swedish police, prosecutors, and attorneys) and 33 lay judges about their beliefs about child and adult eyewitnesses' recall and metacognitive abilities. Prior research has usually asked for direct comparisons of children and adults but this may be rare in forensic practice. The respondents completed a story questionnaire (about a 9- or 45-year-old person witnessing an event), allowing indirect, or researcher-made, comparisons. In contrast to previous research (direct comparisons), our participants mostly rated children and adults to be on an equal level, but within-group consensus was low. Also, fairly few differences emerged between the groups' beliefs. Finally, the participants' opinions in our study were less in line with results from eyewitness research, compared with previous research using direct comparisons. Implications for legal and research practice are discussed.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

392-406

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volym

29

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Psychology

Nyckelord

  • LEGAL professions
  • MEMORY
  • WITNESSES
  • METACOGNITION
  • QUESTIONNAIRES

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0888-4080