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Trial reportJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020

Mock Juror Perceptions of Child Witnesses on the Autism Spectrum: The Impact of Providing Diagnostic Labels and Information About Autism.

Laura Crane, Rachel Wilcock, Katie L Maras, Wing Chui, Carmen Marti-Sanchez, Lucy A Henry

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Trial report in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Mock juror perceptions of an adult autistic witness: effect of diagnostic label and witness intermediary presence.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026
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  4. Disclosing an autism diagnosis improves ratings of candidate performance in employment interviews.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024
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  6. Autism and the criminal justice system: An analysis of 93 cases.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022
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  9. Mock Juror Perceptions of Credibility and Culpability in an Autistic Defendant.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Laura CraneCentre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE), UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, WC1H 0NU, UK. L.Crane@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4161-3490
Rachel WilcockDepartment of Psychology, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK.
Katie L MarasDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Wing ChuiDepartment of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.
Carmen Marti-SanchezDepartment of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.
Lucy A HenryDivision of Language and Communication Science, City, University of London, London, UK.
City, University of London · GBGoldsmiths University of London · GBUniversity of Bath · GBUniversity of Winchester · GB

Funding

Economic and Social Research Council ES/J020893/2Economic and Social Research Council ES/N001095/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research suggests that autistic children can provide accurate and forensically useful eyewitness evidence. However, members of a jury also rely on non-verbal behaviours when judging the credibility of a witness, and this could determine the verdict of a case. We presented mock jurors with videos (from an experimental study) of one of two child witnesses on the autism spectrum being interviewed about a mock minor crime. Results demonstrated that providing jurors with generic information about autism and/or informing them of the child's diagnostic label differentially affected credibility ratings, but not for both children. Implications for how to present information about child witnesses with autism to a jury-highlighting the need for approaches tailored to individual children-are discussed.

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Judicial RoleAdolescentAdultAgedAutism Spectrum DisorderChildCrimeCriminal LawDecision MakingFemaleHumansJudgmentMaleMental CompetencyMiddle AgedPerceptionAutismCredibilityCriminal justiceEyewitness memoryJury

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PMID30056502
PMCPMC7211190
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