A review of factors affecting jurors’ decisions in child sexual abuse cases

The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume I: Memory for Events

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 509-545

  Bottoms, Bette L ^a   Golding, Jonathan M ^b   Stevenson, Maggie C ^a   Wiley, Tisha R A ^a   Yozwiak, John A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315086309-21     Document Type: Chapter

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