Vera Cuzzocrea 1,*Gian Luigi Lepri 2Patrizi Patrizia 3 Abstract: In recent years, national legislation and international legal doctrine and the psychological knowledge have developed a growing and ever more specific attention to the victims of crime, to the need to define the characteristics and rights, and to promote activities and policies of prevention risk of victimization and to identify and disseminate minimum rules and practices for the protection and assistance, in relation to the functions and procedures of criminal justice. We have witnessed the evolution of scientific contributions in the field of psychology and legal systems to try to increase the protection of the alleged victims of crime, in the direction of improving knowledge on the subject of testimony in childhood, methodologies, conditions and techniques used in the course of the preliminary investigation. This type of listening is characterized as an activity of a specialist psychology and law that require specific training and professional experience. It is not an evaluation or therapeutic intervention. A good listening must be able to ensure the necessary psychological protection to the child/adolescent (clinical valence) and, in parallel, to respond to the need to acquire investigation of the sources of evidence useful for the reconstruction of the facts and the possible identification of the culprit (criminology valence). The dual purpose of listening to maximize the information to be collected while minimizing possible sources of stress to the child and possible contamination in the recovery of memory therefore requires the interviewer to possess not only in-depth knowledge regarding psychology and law, psychology of the testimony and developmental psychology but also have a background in the use of specific protocols established by the investigative interview. In this report we present the first results of an exploratory research. The data that have been collected will be analyzed both with a descriptive and qualitative methodology. The data collected are about: sex, age, duration of the first statement, type of offense, number of statements, relationship with the author.
The collection of the first statements of minors involved in criminal proceeding as possible victims and/or witnesses of abuse and neglect after the ratification of the Lanzarote Convention in Italy: procedures, problems and open questions / Cuzzocrea, V; Lepri, Gian Luigi; Patrizi, Patrizia. - (2014). (Intervento presentato al convegno 28° International Congress of Applied Psychology tenutosi a Paris nel 8-13 lugli 2014).
The collection of the first statements of minors involved in criminal proceeding as possible victims and/or witnesses of abuse and neglect after the ratification of the Lanzarote Convention in Italy: procedures, problems and open questions
LEPRI, Gian Luigi;PATRIZI, Patrizia
2014-01-01
Abstract
Vera Cuzzocrea 1,*Gian Luigi Lepri 2Patrizi Patrizia 3 Abstract: In recent years, national legislation and international legal doctrine and the psychological knowledge have developed a growing and ever more specific attention to the victims of crime, to the need to define the characteristics and rights, and to promote activities and policies of prevention risk of victimization and to identify and disseminate minimum rules and practices for the protection and assistance, in relation to the functions and procedures of criminal justice. We have witnessed the evolution of scientific contributions in the field of psychology and legal systems to try to increase the protection of the alleged victims of crime, in the direction of improving knowledge on the subject of testimony in childhood, methodologies, conditions and techniques used in the course of the preliminary investigation. This type of listening is characterized as an activity of a specialist psychology and law that require specific training and professional experience. It is not an evaluation or therapeutic intervention. A good listening must be able to ensure the necessary psychological protection to the child/adolescent (clinical valence) and, in parallel, to respond to the need to acquire investigation of the sources of evidence useful for the reconstruction of the facts and the possible identification of the culprit (criminology valence). The dual purpose of listening to maximize the information to be collected while minimizing possible sources of stress to the child and possible contamination in the recovery of memory therefore requires the interviewer to possess not only in-depth knowledge regarding psychology and law, psychology of the testimony and developmental psychology but also have a background in the use of specific protocols established by the investigative interview. In this report we present the first results of an exploratory research. The data that have been collected will be analyzed both with a descriptive and qualitative methodology. The data collected are about: sex, age, duration of the first statement, type of offense, number of statements, relationship with the author.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
