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This sample declaration illustrates how a forensic psychologist might describe alcohol-related memory effects and related psychological concepts in a request for expert assistance. It discusses blackouts, reconstructive recall, source misattribution, suggestibility, and other possible influences, then applies them cautiously to a hypothetical case while noting the need to review case evidence.
This resource reviews research on juvenile sexual offending and explains why youth should not be assumed to share the developmental profile of adult offenders. It discusses differences in risk assessment and treatment, research on recidivism and registries, and the role of developmental needs in intervention.
This resource describes research and clinical terminology for hebephilic and ephebophilic attraction, distinguishing interests associated with pubescent and later-adolescent ages from pedophilia. It discusses variation in age boundaries, proposed assessment findings, and debates over whether hebephilia should be classified as a disorder.
This resource compiles research on later offending among people convicted of child pornography offenses, including follow-up studies, risk assessment research, and comparisons with contact offenders. The studies report varied outcomes across samples and follow-up periods, with prior offending history and age among the factors associated with later offenses, and several reviews describe comparatively low rates of new contact sexual offenses in online-offender samples.
This National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism brochure explains that alcohol can change how medicines work and that medicines can alter alcohol’s effects. It gives examples of prescription and over-the-counter drug interactions, describes possible effects such as drowsiness and impaired coordination, and includes guidance on reading medication labels and finding further information.
This May 2023 continuing-education handout reviews alcohol blackouts and their relevance to allegations of sexual offenses. It covers memory impairment, blackout types, toxicology, and legal strategies, and includes research abstracts on alcohol-related behavior, blackouts, memory for events, and estimates of drinking.
The article examines why drinkers may underestimate how much alcohol they have consumed or how intoxicated they are. Its cited studies report estimation errors associated with heavier drinking and, among bar patrons already above the legal driving threshold, frequent underestimation of breath alcohol concentration, especially among women and people under 21.
This collection reviews research on alcohol-related disinhibition and behavior, especially sexual responses, decision-making, and risk-taking. The included studies discuss social disinhibition alongside learning, expectations, and individual factors, showing that researchers have examined several possible pathways rather than treating disinhibition as a universal response to alcohol.
This article reviews how alcohol may affect memory formation and reconstruction for criminal events, including attention, episodic memory, and the encoding of new information. It also collects research on alcohol and eyewitness or suspect reporting, describing findings that vary across studies and memory tasks rather than treating intoxication as having one uniform effect.
This document compiles Department of Defense Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) statistics from annual reports covering 2004 through 2018. Its charts and tables summarize reported allegations, investigations, case dispositions, and trial outcomes, including counts classified as proven or unproven across multiple reporting years.
