Interrogation of a Child as a Witness in the Criminal Procedure – Selected Legal and Psychological Aspects

• Authors: Dagmara Smolarek-Kędziorek

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the essential problems related to the participation of a child as a witness in criminal proceedings. The author explains the key issue – who is a child in the light of the Polish criminal procedure regulations. In this context, also the legal and partly psychological aspects are presented, associated with determining the age limit for a child – the witness and the impact of age and ongoing developmental processes on child’s ability to testify.

Keywords

EN

psychology and law; criminal procedure; competency of child witnesses; child witness testimony

• Publisher: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 445-463

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Dagmara Smolarek-Kędziorek

Identifiers

DOI

10.7206/kp.2080-1084.93

Biblioteka Nauki

2011874