PSYC 3600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Publication Ban, Richard Ofshe, Canada Evidence Act
16 Mar 2017
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Child sexual abuse: evaluating the memory of children and memories of abuse. A comprehensive resource on the general prevalence rates of child maltreatment is the canadian. Incidence study of reported child abuse and neglect (cis). Nico trocme sorted investigations of child maltreatment into five categories: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, emotional maltreatment, and exposure to intimate partner violence: combinations of these forms of maltreatment are often experienced simultaneously. In 2008, it was estimated that 174 411 maltreatment investigations were conducted: of these, 10 173 involved an allegation of sexual abuse as the primary form of maltreatment. Sexual abuse often remains hidden from the criminal justice system. Very young children sometimes have difficulty distinguishing between imagined events and real events. Because the ability to encode, store, and retrieve information is not fully developed in young children, the problems surrounding memory are significantly more pronounced.
