Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559074

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0559074

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Optimising recall in children's testimony: The challenge of repeated questions. One of the threats to a healthy start in life for Australian children, and one which imposes substantial financial and emotional cost on the Australian community, is child abuse and neglect. This project addresses a key stumbling block in obtaining evidence from child victims/witnesses- their tendency to inconsistent testimony under repeated questioning. It seeks to understand the conditions under which inconsistency is minimized, as a basis for developing empirically and theoretically based ways to optimise the accuracy and legal utility of children's testimony. As a signatory to the United National Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990), Australia has a legal as well as a moral responsibility in this regard.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 16-02-2005

End Date: 20-05-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $175,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychology | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Developmental Psychology And Ageing

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Youth/child development and welfare |

Other Keywords

Developmental Psychology And Ageing | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Learning, Memory, Cognition And Language | Psychology | Youth/child development and welfare

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