Interviewing Victims of Crime, Including Children and People with Intellectual Disabilities

Practical Psychology for Forensic Investigations and Prosecutions

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 7-23

  Milne, Becky ^a   Bull, Ray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applied arena; Field research; Investigation process; Psychology; Role of witnesses and victims

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889394585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713389.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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