CRJ335 Colorado State Child Witnesses and Legal Procedures Research Paper
CHILD WITNESSES
According to this week’s textbook readings, laws have been enacted to protect children and to minimize emotional damage when it comes to the involvement of children as witnesses. For this assignment, address the following items in a paper.
- Research the history of children as witnesses in court in order to describe the evolution of legal procedures that regulate practice with respect to child witnesses.
- Identify statutes that aid children as witnesses.
- Describe the procedures by which children are aided.
- Explain how the process protects children while gathering facts to use as evidence.
- Explain how these laws/statutes you identified in #2, above, relate to the historical reasons why U.S. rules are more restrictive than those established by other countries. (In answering this last question, you may consider evidence law generally and not only laws specific to child witnesses.)
Paper Instructions:
- Your paper should be 2-3 pages in length (not including the required title and reference pages).
- Include discussion and citation of at least three credible sources other than (or in addition to) the course textbook. You can find these sources in the CSU-Global Library. Be sure to examine the Library’s special section for Criminal Justice (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
- Your document’s formatting and source citations should conform to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
