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Principles of child forensic interviewing include preparation, developmentally appropriate practice, and careful attention to how information is elicited. The DOJ bulletin summarizes interview stages and cautions about repeated or duplicative questioning, while a research review addresses assumptions about children’s testimonial accuracy.
The resource describes sex history, offense-specific, and periodic monitoring polygraphs as tools used in some psychosexual evaluations and supervision. It also summarizes National Research Council concerns about test accuracy and field conditions, alongside a review concluding that evidence for post-conviction polygraph effectiveness and deterrence remains limited.
The source surveys hebephilia, a contested term used in discussions of sexual interest in pubescent adolescents. It contrasts proposed definitions of pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia, reviews debate over diagnostic classification, and summarizes studies assessing sexual-interest indicators and overlap between hebephilia and pedophilia among people who offended.
The cited research examines age-discordant sexual relationships involving adolescent girls and adult men. One study considers girls’ recalled explanations for entering these relationships and contextual factors in the United States, while related research considers sexual motives, relationship settings, and links with sexual risk-taking.
The study investigates how evaluator attitudes may contribute to bias in forensic child sexual abuse assessments. It surveyed child-maltreatment professionals and identified attitudes related to sensitivity, specificity, and skepticism toward children’s reports, finding that these attitudes helped explain differing credibility judgments across decision exercises.
The collection reviews research on children’s testimony and the factors that shape its reliability. The studies address children’s eyewitness accounts, memory, suggestibility, interviewing, and credibility, including factors associated with false allegations and jurors’ responses to education about child sexual abuse misconceptions in trial settings.
The source introduces exhibitionism and summarizes clinical and research perspectives on the behavior. The material describes exhibitionistic disorder, including diagnostic framing, possible subtypes, symptoms, causes, and treatment references, alongside writing that discusses fantasy and inhibition and research describing exhibitionism as non-contact sexual aggression and prevention.
Research on delayed disclosure describes disclosure as potentially unfolding over time rather than occurring in a single, immediate account. The resource reviews studies of children’s disclosure patterns, including findings on prior disclosure, age, interview context, tentative statements, denial, recantation, and later reaffirmation.
False allegations of child abuse are considered through a compilation of studies and clinical literature. The material reviews reported frequency estimates and exonerations, then presents a clinical typology covering allegations in custody disputes, psychological disturbance, conscious manipulation, and suggestive or other iatrogenic influences.
Delayed recall can affect how much information children remember about witnessed events. The source reviews a study comparing children and adults over a five-month interval, then discusses broader research on children’s suggestibility and the implications for investigative interviews.
