Crane, LM;
Wilcock, R;
Maras, K;
Chui, W;
Marti-Sanchez, C;
Henry, LA;
(2018)
Mock juror perceptions of child witnesses on the autism spectrum: the impact of providing diagnostic labels and information about autism.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
10.1007/s10803-018-3700-0.
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Abstract
Research suggests that autistic children can provide accurate and forensically useful eyewitness evidence. However, members of a jury also rely on non-verbal behaviours when judging the credibility of a witness, and this could determine the verdict of a case. We presented mock jurors with videos (from an experimental study) of one of two child witnesses on the autism spectrum being interviewed about a mock minor crime. Results demonstrated that providing jurors with generic information about autism and/or informing them of the child’s diagnostic label differentially affected credibility ratings, but not for both children. Implications for how to present information about child witnesses with autism to a jury—highlighting the need for approaches tailored to individual children—are discussed.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Mock juror perceptions of child witnesses on the autism spectrum: the impact of providing diagnostic labels and information about autism |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10803-018-3700-0 |
| Publisher version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3700-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Autism, Criminal justice, Jury, Credibility, Eyewitness memory |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10052920 |
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