Coping with suggestion and deception in children’s accounts

The Detection of Deception in Forensic Contexts

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 148-171

  Davies, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33645458697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511490071.007     Document Type: Chapter

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