Eyewitness Memory in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Interviewing alleged victims with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities and autism: A field study of police‐investigated cases of physical and sexual abuse in a Norwegian national sample

“…However, cognitive delays are not a part of the diagnostic features of autism (World Health Organization 2019). Research indicates that these groups of victims encounter barriers in their interaction with the criminal justice system, particularly during police investigation, owing to impairments according to their diagnosis (Petersilia 2001;Crane et al 2016;Beckene et al 2017;Carlin 2018;Olsen et al 2018). Scholars have therefore developed best-practice recommendations to safeguard the robust witness testimonies of PWID and PWA when entering the criminal justice system as alleged victims of abuse (Bull 2010;Wyman et al 2018;Lamb et al 2018b;Morrison et al 2019;Maras et al 2020).…”