Tell Me What Happened: Questioning Children About Abuse, authored by Michael E. Lamb, represents a scholarly and ambitious attempt to improve the quality of interviews received by courts and minimize the risks of miscarriages of justice for both victims and defendants. This book updates the previous review of research on children’s testimony, reexamining and addressing how the quality of information provided by young witnesses is influenced by questioning methods. Drawing upon experimental and field studies conducted in various countries, it highlights evidence supporting the effectiveness of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Protocol, showcasing its superiority over other current interviewing techniques for eliciting detailed and forensically useful content from child complainants.

Written with both child protection professionals and researchers in mind, this book offers advice and opinions drawn from actual investigative interviews as well as academic research. Its insightful chapters cover a range of topics including children’s testimony, interview and questioning strategies, how investigators typically interview alleged victims, the impact that following the NICHD Protocol has on interviews and children’s responses, interviewing victims under the age of six, interviewing children with developmental disabilities, using tools and props to complement the Protocol, training and maintaining good interviewing practices, and more.

Published by Wiley-Blackwell on September 11, 2018, this book has a print length of 344 pages and is available in English. Its dimensions are 6 x 0.78 x 9 inches with an ISBN-10 of 1118881672 and ISBN-13 of 978-1118881675.