COUNTERING Counterintuitive Testimony (Child, handout)
Handout for a three-hour CLE provided to the State Bar of Arizona
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Memory and Drift
Warning signals, receiver psychology and predator memory Michael P.Speed Animal Behaviour. Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2000, Pages 269-278 Abstract This review identifies four receiver
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
BDSM
Consensual Sadomasochistic Sex (BDSM): The Roots, the Risks, and the Distinctions Between BDSM and Violence Eva Jozifkova Curr Psychiatry Rep (2013) 15:392 Abstract When practiced
Alcohol, Marijuana and Blackouts
Marijuana, gender, and health-related harms: Disentangling marijuana’s contribution to risk in a college ‘party’ context. Weiss, Karen G. and Dilks, Lisa M.. Sociological Spectrum, Vol
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