PSYCHOLOGY

Forensic Psychology: Child Witness

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Forensic Psychology: Child Witness

Introduction

Forensic Psychology is a legal psychology dealing with the legal justice within the judicial level. It gets regarded as the division of applied psychology at the collection, analysis and presentation of psychological evidence for judicial purposes. It includes the psychological assessment and analysis of law in the jurisdiction, for understanding their substantive and procedural logics. The professional of this field use the psychotherapy process (usually with prisoners) to student the relationship and conduction of crime with the patient (Duntley, 2006).

A study revealed that only 24% of the cases of child abuse got reported as emotional abuse, while the rest, (as identified by the medico-legal system) got reported either physical or sexual abuse. It is very difficult to identify the abuse of the children and the consequences by them. Child witnesses typically go through the abuses before delivering any predictions and these abuses results in the formulation of either negative or positive results in the life of people.

Thesis Statement

The emotional abuse of the child is comprehensive attitude in developing the child behavior in the long term (Gudjonsson, 2011).

Case Study: Forensic Psychology, Child Witness

Martha was the unwanted child to her unmarried mother. Jane (Martha's Mother) always treated her as the other person in the home, but she always fulfilled her needs and requirements of her daughters. She made sure that her daughter gets everything she wants. Jane got married to Gill when Martha was 4. Jane's husband was a good father and Martha became close to him. After 5 years of marriage, Jane filed a divorce from her Husband. By that time, Martha had already developed close bonding with Gill as a father and Jones (brother).

Before the trail, Jane wanted to keep Martha and Jones with her. Martha always felt ...