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19 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. 411 (2014)
Children's Memory for Conversations about Sexual Abuse: Legal and Psychological Implications

handle is hein.journals/rwulr19 and id is 410 raw text is: Children's Memory for Conversations About Sexual Abuse: Legal and Psychological Implications Thomas D. Lyon* & Stacia N. Stolzenberg** I. INTRODUCTION The legal and psychological literature on children's testimony in child sexual abuse cases has largely focused on whether children are allowed to testify, how children testify, and what happens after they do. Those concerned about false convictions have emphasized the benefits of mechanisms to exclude children's testimony that is unreliable because of pre-trial influence or developmental immaturity and the utility of expert testimony on children's suggestibility.2 Those concerned about false acquittals have argued for eliminating barriers to receiving children's * Thomas D. Lyon is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Chair in Law and Psychology at the University of Southern California. The research described in this paper was supported by NICHD Grant HD047290. We thank Vera Chelyapov, Alexander Dumer, Pratusha Erraballi, Emma Stokes- Raab, Christen Phillips and Jennifer Mascia for their research assistance. ** Stacia N. Stolzenberg is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the ** Stacia N. Stolzenberg is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Southern California. 1. See, e.g., Laurie Shanks, Evaluating Children's Competency to Testify: Developing a Rational Method to Assess a Young Child's Capacity to Offer Reliable Testimony in Cases Alleging Sexual Abuse, 58 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 575, 580-81, 593-94 (2010). 2. See, e.g., Livia L. Gilstrap, Kristina Fritz, Amanda Torres, & Annika Melinder, Child Witnesses: Common Ground and Controversies in the Scientific Community, 32 WM. MITCHELL L. REv. 59, 71-73 (2005); Julie A. Buck, Kamala London & Daniel B. Wright, Expert Testimony Regarding Child Witnesses: Does it Sensitize Jurors to Forensic Interview Quality?, 35 L. & HUM. BEHAV. 152, 153 (2011). 411

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