A STUDY ON CHILD WITNESS AND FORENSIC INTERVIEW OF YOUNG CHILDREN

Best Citation – Aarthy.G, A STUDY ON CHILD WITNESS AND FORENSIC INTERVIEW OF YOUNG CHILDREN, 2 LIU & 11 (2022)

ABSTRACT

A witness is somebody who has, who professes to have, or is thought, by somebody with power to constrain declaration, to have information applicable to an occasion or other matter of intrigue. In law a witness is somebody who, either wilfully or under impulse, gives evidence, either oral or composed, of what the person knows or cases to think about the issue before some authority approved to take such a declaration. A percipient witness or eyewitness is one who affirms what they saw through his or her detects (e.g. seeing, hearing, smelling, contacting). That observation may be either with the unaided human sense or with the guide of an instrument, e.g. magnifying lens or stethoscope, or by other logical methods, e.g. a synthetic reagent which changes shading within the sight of a specific substance. An empirical research was done for the purpose of this study using random sampling method.1583 respondents were met which makes the sample size equal to 1583. The independent variables of the study are age, gender and educational qualification. The dependent variable is age restriction in court witness, affecting the psychology of the children. From the responses collected for the research we conclude that the people don’t support the practise of making a child as witness in cases. This is because they have a fear that this affects the child’s life mentally. The aim of the study is to know what people think about child witnessing.(Mellor and Dent 1994; Post 2015)

Keywords: child witness, psychology, eye witness.