Vulnerable victims in court: from childhood to senescence by Iris Almeida, Ana Filipa Fernandes, Catarina Frade, Carolina Nobre, Lúcia Osório

“…We evaluate 98 female victims and 42 male victims, aged between 4 and 79 years old (M = 14.06, SD = 11.32).The relationship between victims and defendants are: 55 sons and daughters, 49 others situations, mostly more than one defendant (like parent and stepfather, grandmother and uncle), 16 stepchild, 6 ex-girlfriend and others (neighbour, grandchild, unknow).Discussion and conclusions It can be seen that the statements for future memory diligence is properly present in the current reality, and it can be concluded that the use of a structured protocol allows to benefit the quantity and quality of information, promoting, within what is a particularly vulnerable victim experience, making it very effective. …”
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