O depoimento especial e os danos que este pode acarretar nas crianças vítima de violência sexual.

Abstract

The present monograph has as its theme: "the special testimony and the harm that this can cause in children victims of sexual violence." The problem that the research seeks to analyze, through the opinion of psychologists in the area of Psychology and Law, the credibility of child testimony as evidence in the crimes of sexual violence and what are the damages that the special testimony causes in the child victim. Throughout the text, one can perceive the existing convergences and divergences on the subject addressed, fomenting a debate necessary to find ways to protect the child and punish the aggressor. Its main objective is to give visibility to the theme and to promote the debate between Psychology and Law so that together they can seek the best way to obtain justice to these crimes without revictimizing the child. As specific objectives we have: to verify the relationship between Psychology and Law over the years, as its junction was essential to understand human relations; understand the figure of the legal psychologist and his contribution in litigation; analyze the problem of child sexual violence and the traumas caused to the child when the process begins; to analyze the child as the only witness in a process and the reliability of his memory; analyze the opinions of psychology and law scholars on the special testimony and its regulations. Throughout the research the method of deductive approach was chosen. As for the procedure method, the adopted method is the comparative one and as to the approach of the problem the modality used is qualitative, explanatory. As for the technical procedure, the bibliographic-documentary was adopted, since it was elaborated from laws, books, internet and periodical articles, with content analysis. Structurally, the monograph is divided into three chapters. In the first one, the "status" of Legal Psychology in Brazil will be approached, the concept of legal psychology and its historical evolution in the country will be addressed. In the second, sexual violence and its consequences of the child victim. Finally, in the third, the quality of infant memory and its reliability as evidence in the process.