Forensic Topics
Common Topics
CHILD: Age-Discordant Sexual Relationships and Adolescent Girls
Age-discordant sexual relationships between adults and teenage girls.
CHILD: Bias in Forensic Child Interviews
Examining bias in forensic child interviews.
CHILD: Conduct Disorder
DSM-5 description of conduct disorder in children and adolescents.
CHILD: Delayed Disclosure
Research on delayed disclosure of sexual abuse in children.
CHILD: False Child Abuse Allegations
Exploring false allegations of child abuse.
CHILD: False Indicators of Child Abuse
Scientific challenge to claims of “symptoms” of hidden child abuse.
CHILD: Forensic Child Interviews – US Dept of Justice
US Department of Justice standards for forensic child interviews
CHILD: Forensic Interviewing
Principles of child forensic interviewing.
CHILD: Forensic Interviewing of Children
Research regarding the forensic interviewing of children.
CHILD: Memory and Delay Effects
Delayed recall’s effects on children’s memory.
CHILD: Memory and Suggestibility,
Memory and suggestibility in children.
CHILD: Suggestibility
Suggestibility in children.
CHILD: Testimony
Research regarding child testimony.
CONFESSIONS: An Overview of False Confessions
An overview of false confessions.
CONFESSIONS: Intellectual Disability
False confession and intellectual disabilities.
CONFESSIONS: Investigative Interviewing
Literature review of investigative interviewing.
CONFESSIONS: PEACE Interviewing Technique
Overview of the PEACE interview technique.
CONFESSIONS: Reid Technique
False confessions and the Reid technique.
CONFESSIONS: Videotaping
Videotaping confessions and jury bias.
CONFESSIONS: Voluntariness Doctrine
Review of the Voluntariness Doctrine for confessions.
COUNTERING Counterintuitive Testimony (Adult, handout)
Often prosecution utilizes a counterintuitive “expert” to explain away problematic behaviors on the part of the complaining witness. Dr. Simpson offers a CLE training and 85-page handout on how to effectively challenge their expert.
- Seven specific strategies for cross
- A cure for a non-problem
- Accounting for true, unfounded, or false sexual assault claims
- Symptoms are not falsifiable
- Motivations for intentional false reporting
- Failure to account for confounding variables
- Confirmation bias
- The devil is in the details.
- Critique of:
- Freeze-Flight-Fight and Tonic Immobility
- Acting normal following the alleged assault
- Delayed disclosure
- Continued relationship with the accused
- Inconsistent, piecemeal, changing or incomplete memories
- Recantation
COUNTERING Counterintuitive Testimony (Child, handout)
Handout for a three-hour CLE provided to the State Bar of Arizona
Dissociative Disorder and Malingering
Susceptibility of common self-report measures of dissociation to malingering. Gilbertson, Alan D., et.al. Dissociation: Progress in the Dissociative Disorders, Vol 5(4), Dec, 1992. pp. 216-220. Abstract: Examined the extent to which common self-report measures of dissociation may be consciously distorted …
DRUG: Ambien Side Effects
Ambien’s effects on memory and behavior. Complications when combined with alcohol.
DRUG: Cocaine
The basics about cocaine.