Vulnerable adult and child witnesses / Kevin Smith and Steve Tilney.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Police questioning -- Great Britain.

Interviewing in law enforcement -- Great Britain.

Witnesses -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain.

Child witnesses -- Great Britain.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. Identifying vulnerable and intimidated witnesses

Initial action

Offences commonly experienced by vulnerable witnesses

Human trafficking

Multi-agency working

Special measures

Consent: whose decision is it anyway?

Competence and compellability

Medical examination

Witness interview strategies

Planning and preparing for interviews

Conducting interviews

Storage and retention of recordings

Ongoing protection orders

Witness intimidation

Pre-trial therapy

What's on the horizon?

This book considers the many changes and developments in the treatment of vulnerable witnesses over the past 20 years.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780199214105

[xii], 234 p. ; 24 cm