I am currently working on finding a relationship between abuse faced by children in family and their tendency to develop criminal behavior.
Hello Elsie Mishra,
in the clinical field, from my personal experiences with children and adolescents (few with toddlers) you cannot start with questions, and also you have to put more attention about the possible involontary manipulations. I mean, you can suggest unwittingly the information that you want hear.
If instead you want understand the law point of view you can look at this article:
Stolzenberg, S. N., & Lyon, T. D. (2014). How attorneys question children about the dynamics of sexual abuse and disclosure in criminal trials. Psychology, Public Policy, And Law, 20(1), 19-30. doi:10.1037/a0035000
Fully agree with the answer above. In view of children's suggestibility, you may want to ask instead what kind of questions should not be asked. Research shows that suggestibility is not limited to preschool kids, and even young adolescents remain more suggestible than adults and somewhat likely to cb
Fully agree with the answer above. In view of children's suggestibility, you may want to ask instead what kind of questions should not be asked. Research shows that suggestibility is not limited to preschool kids, and even young adolescents remain more suggestible than adults and somewhat likely to confabulate memories where they do not have an answer. You may want to check our Memory and Suggestibility in the Forensic Interview by Mitchell Eisen, Jodi Quas and Gail Goodman for further guidance. Good luck!
As per the sociological perspective, my views are not much different from the above-mentioned suggestions. But of course, before going to hit your required question, first you should inquire much about his/her perception and behaviour about their close kin, family members and friends circle. That may help you much understanding about his/her mental status and comfortability for querying such questions.
For the references, you may use the questionnaire as the base for your survey that was used for "Youth in India: Situation and Needs 2006–2007" by Population Council and IIPS, Mumbai and a. Along with that, you could see a book "Confronting child and adolescent sexual abuse" by Cynthia Crosson-Tower published by SAGE Publication. For this the link has added.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=5VQXBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA318&lpg=PA318&dq=confronting+child+and+adolescent+sexual+abuse+by+tower&source=bl&ots=h-AYQEpiyZ&sig=1c0VNBBenkw_pouFrt1g7f-ZtRs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CDIQ6AEwA2oVChMI38ufooS_yAIVz56OCh2sJQYz#v=onepage&q=confronting%20child%20and%20adolescent%20sexual%20abuse%20by%20tower&f=false
http://www.sagepub.in/books/Book242079?siteId=sage-india&prodTypes=any&q=confronting+child+and+adolescent+sexual+abuse+by+tower&fs=1
Hello Elsie!
A retrospective case-control study can help you to find out the relationship between Child abuse and criminal behavior. You start getting young criminal as cases and matching as much of you can with one or two Controls (no Young criminals with nearly the same characteristics: age, sex, SES, etc.). You need to be aware that perception of Child abuse has changed with the time in some societies and that there are different kind of Child abuse: physical, psychological and even sexual abuse. The level and frequency of the abuse during childhood is important to measure as well as who was the perpetrator. There are studies pointing out that abused boys usually turns in offender at youth age. The same relationship has not been found among abused Girls.
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