No Words Needed: Working with Recanting and Nonverbal Victims
Course Description
Recantation is not a death blow to a prosecution. In fact, many child sexual abuse cases have been won by prosecutors even when the child victim recanted or was nonverbal. Learn the facts about recantation in confirmed cases of child sexual abuse, and develop strategies to prevent recantation, minimize its effects, support victims throughout the judicial process, and succeed at trial–no words needed.
Learning Objectives
1. Understand and apply approaches to identify the risk of victim recantation and appropriately intervene.
2. Deploy trial strategies to minimize the effects of victim recantation.
3. Describe methods for obtaining convictions when the victim is nonverbal.
2. Deploy trial strategies to minimize the effects of victim recantation.
3. Describe methods for obtaining convictions when the victim is nonverbal.
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