Revictimizing Child Abuse Victims: An Empirical Rebuttal to the Open Juvenile Dependency Court Reform Movement
Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 38, pp. 303-350, 2005
Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Date Written: July 22, 2005
Abstract
This article presents a summary of contemporary child and adolescent psychiatric data demonstrating the short and long-term psychological harm to child abuse victims forced to testify in public hearings. In addition, it provides an empirical study of the numerous instances in which the press has published identifying information about child abuse victims and discusses the psychiatric literature that delineates how that public exposure exacerbates abuse children’s psychopathology and makes therapeutic intervention more difficult and more protracted.
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Patton, William Wesley, Revictimizing Child Abuse Victims: An Empirical Rebuttal to the Open Juvenile Dependency Court Reform Movement (July 22, 2005). Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 38, pp. 303-350, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1437804
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