儿童证人证言可靠性的影响因素评述

Comment on the factors influencing the reliability of children witnesses' testimony

证人证言在立案侦查、审讯和庭审等过程中起着很重要的作用。儿童作为一个特殊的证人群体,引起了研究者们的关注。西方国家对儿童证人证言可靠性进行了大量的实证研究。通过回顾儿童证人证言的研究,总结出影响儿童证人证言可靠性的因素主要有编码策略、相似性、环境信息、询问方式、社会期待压力和列队辨认方式等,并且对未来的研究进行了展望。

Witness＇ testimony plays an important role in the process of filing, interrogating and adjudication. Children as a special group of witnesses have attracted the attention of researchers. A lot of empirical research on the reliability of children witnesses＇ testimony have been done in western countries. By reviewing the research on children witnesses＇ testimony, it is concluded that the factors influencing the reliability of children witnesses＇ testimony include coding strategy, similarity, environmental information, inquiry mode, pressure of social expectation and queuing identification method, and the future research is forecasted.