Criteria-Based Content Analysis (CBCA) can effectively discriminate the veracity of child statement in sexual abuse cases. Therefore, CBCA is widely used to evaluate the credibility in cases of suspected child sexual abuse. However, the validity of an CBCA procedure is limited by its low inter-rater reliability. In order to identify the cause of low inter-rater reliability and solve this problem, this study proposed a method for re-establishing the definition of CBCA criteria and the evaluation principle. Hence, 13 domestic papers using CBCA and CBCA manuals of the police and prosecutors were reviewed. Accordingly, problems such as names of CBCA critera, ambiguous operational definitions, and lack of clear evaluation principle were identified. Based on this result, we proposed a specific operational definition and evaluation principle along with a unified name. Trained for 10hours evaluators analyzed transcripts of 84 sexual assault victim statements using reestablished CBCA criteria. As a result, it was found that the inter-rater reliability (ICC) for each criterion was .697-.949, which was satisfactory. Finally, the practical application of the redefined concept in this study and the future development direction were discussed.
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Moon et al. (2022) studied this question.