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The ABC's of CBCA: Verbal credibility assessment in practice

Applied Issues in Investigative Interviewing, Eyewitness Memory, and Credibility Assessment, Page: 293-323
2014
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Book Chapter Description

Statement validity analysis (SVA) was developed during the 1960s and 1970s in the context of evaluating child witness statements of sexual abuse (e.g., Undeutsch, 1967, 1989). Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) is one component of SVA used to distinguish between event-based and intentionally fabricated statements of child and adult witnesses concerning sexual interactions and other topics (Vrij, 2005). It has become a widely accepted method of credibility assessment in many European courts (see Köhnken, 2004). The last author of the present chapter (JY) was instrumental in bringing this procedure to North America in the late 1980s (e.g., Yuille, 1988) and research conducted by him and other coauthors (DG, MT, BC) is presented in this chapter. Two of the authors (DG, DS) serve as expert witnesses who provide testimony on statement credibility in German courts. This chapter, thus, offers insights from both researchers' and practitioners' points of view, as well as from European and North-American perspectives.

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