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dc.contributor.authorAlison, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorKebbell, Mark
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Penney
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:28:08Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:28:08Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.date.modified2009-11-05T06:05:34Z
dc.identifier.issn1076-8971
dc.identifier.doi10.1037/1076-8971.12.4.419
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/14214
dc.description.abstractIn this article, the authors argue that a variety of psychological factors stand in the way of providing expert advice to the courts in terms of assessing the credibility of a complainant's account of sexual abuse when there is a significant delay in reporting. These include difficulties in assessing (a) the complainant's account of how he or she claims to have remembered or forgotten the abuse, (b) whether (and how) the claim of abuse originated within a therapeutic setting, and (c) the difficulty of generalizing from empirical evidence. It is argued that all of these issues can be more easily avoided if experts maintain a case-specific focus. In this article, the authors review both the psychological and legal controversies surrounding the false-recovered memory debate, discuss how courts approach the admissibility and use of recovered memory testimony, and conclude that expert witnesses should carefully consider the above points before drawing general conclusions from the literature and applying them to individual cases.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association
dc.publisher.placeUSA
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.apa.org/journals/law/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom419
dc.relation.ispartofpageto441
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPsychology, Public Policy, and Law
dc.relation.ispartofvolume12
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.titleConsiderations for experts in assessing the credibility of recovered memories of child sexual abuse: the importance of maintaining a case-specific focus
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2006
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKebbell, Mark R.


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