Law Enforcement Officers as Investigators and Therapists in Child Sexual Abuse - A Training Model

• NCJ Number: 103262
• Journal: Child Abuse and Neglect Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Dated: (1984) Pages: 75-82
• Author(s): L E Stone; R P Tyler; J J Mead
• Date Published: 1984
• Length: 8 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Curriculum
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Presented at the Fourth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Paris, September 1982

Annotation

The described model for the police handling of child sexual abuse cases discusses theoretical issues, explains sex offense types and physical examinations of sexual abuse victims, and considers techniques for interviewing sexually abused children.

Abstract

The training curriculum encompasses three 2-hour sessions. The first session explains the history and background of child sexual abuse, presents a film depicting the dynamics and progression of incest behaviors, lectures on the dynamics of child sexual abuse and the difference between intrafamilial and extrafamilial child sexual abuse, and presents an audiotape or videotape of the actual interrogation of offenders and victims. The second session explains sex offense types and the victim physical examination and presents graded slides of physical trauma to teach wound identification. The third session, which focuses on victim interviewing, addresses interviewing techniques, the difference between interviewing and interrogating, the use of videotape in interviews, interview role playing, modeling by the instructor, and the presentation of an actual videotaped interview. The content for the three sessions is summarized. 5 references.