Affidavit for Rebutting Testimony Regarding Domestic Violence (Intimate Partner Violence)
Requesting a forensic psychologist to rebut counter-intuitive testimony regarding domestic violence (IPV).
Tag: IPV (Intimate Partner Violence)
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.
Borderline Personality and False Allegations of Sexual Assault
This topic paper examines the relationship between Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and false allegations of sexual assault. We’ll first review what are the common features
ADD/ADHD and Violence
It is well established in the research literature that individuals with ADHD have difficulty with “executive functioning” – the processes that reside in the frontal
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
IPV: Female Initiated Violence Against Men
Intimate partner violence directed against men by women.
IPV: Violence and Sexual Assault
Intimate Partner Violence (domestic violence) relationship to sexual assault.