Assignment Details Scenario: You are an investigator for Child Protective Services in your community. One of the most difficult aspects of interviewing is the interview of a suspected victim of child sexual abuse. Often, the first interviewers are detectives or investigators from the police department with little or no training for interviewing child sexual abuse victims. The Commander of the Sex Crimes Unit would like to you to identify errors in interviewing by police investigators when questioning child sex crime victims about the circumstances during the alleged offense(s). The psychopathology of the suspect and the victim are very important, but the victim can be misled unintentionally by police resulting in false or inaccurate complaint information. The Commander of the Sex Crimes Unit would like you to outline and explain the specific areas to be avoided when questioning a child as a sex crime victim. Specifically, he is concerned with the following: The use of suggestive questions The implication of confirmation by other people Use of positive and negative consequences Repetitious questioning Inviting speculation In a 3–5-page paper, address the specific concerns, and explain why it is preferable to have the child interviewed by a person with the qualifications to potentially testify as an expert witness in subsequent criminal trials .

1. Assignment Details
Scenario:
You are an investigator for Child Protective Services in your
community. One of the most difficult aspects of interviewing is
the interview of a suspected victim of child sexual abuse. Often,
the first interviewers are detectives or investigators from the
police department with little or no training for interviewing
child sexual abuse victims. The Commander of the Sex Crimes
Unit would like to you to identify errors in interviewing by
police investigators when questioning child sex crime victims
about the circumstances during the alleged offense(s). The
psychopathology of the suspect and the victim are very
important, but the victim can be misled unintentionally by
police resulting in false or inaccurate complaint information.
The Commander of the Sex Crimes Unit would like you to
outline and explain the specific areas to be avoided when
questioning a child as a sex crime victim.
Specifically, he is concerned with the following:
The use of suggestive questions
The implication of confirmation by other people
Use of positive and negative consequences
Repetitious questioning
Inviting speculation
In a 3–5-page paper, address the specific concerns, and explain

2. why it is preferable to have the child interviewed by a person
with the qualifications to potentially testify as an expert witness
in subsequent criminal trials