Discuss with a group your thoughts on using techniques like CCTV to help improve the reliability of child witness testimonies while lessening their distress.Do you believe the benefits outweigh the potential downfalls? Do you believe the rights of defendants outweigh the potential distress of child witnesses?

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The Answer is Open response.For example Goodman et al.'s 2006)study found that children testifying live in court were perceived as more credible and elicited greater sympathy.Troxel et al.2009)reported that the use of closed-circuit television does not influence jurors' abilities to detect deception in children's testimony and that there is no support for the theory that jurors reach the truth better when children testify in open court versus testifying by closed- circuit television.

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