探尋對台灣兒童進行司法訪談的最佳實務

The Investigative Interviewing of Children in Taiwan: The Search for Best Practice Methods

在台灣，兒童證人的可信度持續引發激烈爭辯，而日漸增加的兒童性侵案件更突顯出司法體系在兒童偵訊方法上有明顯的重大缺失。台灣在詢問兒童證人方面所面臨的問題主要在於缺乏兒童司法訪談與證詞方面的心理專才。此外，西方發展的最佳實務是否能直接套用於台灣司法詢問作業上亦尚無定論。換言之，我們缺乏足夠的實證來發展契合本土文化背景、以實證為基礎的實務。因此，本文嘗試列舉出對發展台灣本土兒童司法詢（訊）問最佳實務有所裨益的研究領域，並提出或許應納入考量的文化因素，以供專家學者參考。

 

The credibility of child witnesses has been an ongoing fierce debate in Taiwan, with an increasing number of child sexual abuse cases highlighting serious flaws in how child witnesses are being interviewed in the justice system. The problems with the interviewing of child witnesses in Taiwan stem primarily from the lack of psychological expertise on children’s testimony and investigative interviewing. It is also unclear whether the best practice guidelines developed in the West can be applied directly to investigative interviewing practice in Taiwan. In other words, we lack the evidence necessary for developing culturally appropriate evidence-based practice. Hence this paper attempts to present the areas of research that are pertinent to achieving best practice in investigative interviewing of children in Taiwan, as well as highlight potential cultural issues that may need to be considered by researchers.