Children's Memory: Psychology and the Law (Understanding Children's Worlds)

This text makes a major contribution to debates about children’s credibility in the courtroom, by examining them from the perspective of memory development.

• Provides a comprehensive and well-organized review of the latest applied research on children’s testimony
• Connects this research to different theories of memory development
• Covers a broad range of topics, including children’s recollection of traumatic events and sources of distortion of autobiographical memory