The expert witness in child abuse and neglect: An interdisciplinary process
dc.contributor.author | Duquette, Donald N. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T18:12:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T18:12:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1981 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Duquette, Donald N. (1981)."The expert witness in child abuse and neglect: An interdisciplinary process." Child Abuse & Neglect 5(3): 325-334. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/24553> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V7N-4642574-5P/2/c0bbb4bd9f72f220d85b7e95488b8dae | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/24553 | |
dc.description.abstract | The legal system is an important part of a society's response to child abuse and child neglect. Courts need to be guided in their deliberations by experts from many different professions. Consultation and in-court expert testimony is necessary from medicine, psychology, psychiatry, social work and other professions both to prove child abuse and neglect and establish the power of the court to act on behalf of a child but also to guide the court in the intervention strategy most suited to the needs of the child and his family. Non-lawyers often feel uncomfortable in the legal setting. The adversary process is foreign to their training and professional experience. Collaboration with a lawyer greatly improves their effectiveness in court. Lawyers, on the other hand, need to make maximum use of medical and social-psychological experts in the court process in the interests of their clients; but to do so lawyers need a basic understanding of the other professions. With an emphasis on a process of mutual education, the paper presents a framework for collaboration between lawyers and expert witnesses in child abuse and neglect cases. "Expert witness" is defined; informal consultation is encouraged; suggestions for selecting a collaborator are made; initial contracts between lawyer and expert, case conferencing and preparation for trial are discussed; specific advice on direct and cross examination is provided. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 918778 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | The expert witness in child abuse and neglect: An interdisciplinary process | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Social Work | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, 1015 E. Huron, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/24553/1/0000833.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0145-2134(81)90016-8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Child Abuse & Neglect | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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