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Child Witnesses in Twentieth Century Australian Courtrooms (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Child Witnesses in Twentieth Century Australian Courtrooms (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Histories of Policing, Punishment and Justice
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This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child
witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth
century. It uses the stories and experiences of over 200 children,
in many cases using their own words from press reports, to
highlight how the relevant law was - or was not - applied
throughout this period. The law was sympathetic to the plight of
child witnesses and exhibited a significant degree of pragmatism to
receive the evidence of children but was equally fearful of
innocent men being wrongly convicted. The book highlights the
impact 'safeguards' like corroboration and closed court rules had
on the outcome of many cases and the extent to which fear - of
children, of lies (or the truth) and of reform - influenced the
criminal justice process. Over a century of children giving
evidence in court it is `clear that the more things changed, the
more they stayed the same'.
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