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Jeopardy in the Courtroom : A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony

Stephen J. Ceci & Maggie Bruck

(1995) 336 Pages

This comprehensive resource helps the reader evaluate and understand children's statements in the courtroom. Noting that in many instances testimony is elicited from children using questionable techniques that may be damaging to both defendant and accused, Ceci and Bruck describe procedures that will ensure that interviews and analysis are conducted in a sensitive and professional manager.
The credibility of children's testimony is a highly debated topic in America's courtrooms, universities, and living rooms. Does the ingenuousness of children assure that their testimony will always be truthful? Or are children easily misled by overzealous investigators and therapists into making untrue allegations? Stephen J. Ceci and Maggie Bruck contend that the truth falls somewhere between these extremes. Using case studies ranging from the Salem Witch Hunt to the Little Rascals Day Care case to illustrate their argument, Jeopardy in the Courtroom draws from the vast corpus of scientific research to clarify what is most relevant for evaluating and understanding children's statements made in the legal arena.

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The MMPI, MMPI-2, & MMPI-A in Court: A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses & Attorneys

Kenneth S. Pope, James N. Butcher, Joyce Seelen

(1996) 400 Pages

This book is the authoritative forensic source concerning numerical, research, and reference data about the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). A practical guide for both psychologists and attorneys, this book draws together diverse psychometric, legal, scientific, and professional information into a comprehensive resource for those who testify about psychological assessment as well as those who challenge inadequate assessments and misleading testimony. 1993. 400 pages. Hardcover.
"This book is literally an encyclopedic attempt to detail the use of the MMPI, MMPI-2, and MMPI-A in forensic situations.... Especially significant is material comparing the old MMPI with the two newer versions.... Other issues are dealt with exhaustively, particularly the deposition and cross-examination questions.... Considering that this book is addressed to two readerships, they have done a good job.... Strongly recommended." - American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry

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Living in Prison: The Ecology of Survival

Hans Toch, Frank Porporino

(1993) 403 Pages

Living in Prison offers a comprehensive inmates' view of prison life, set against a backdrop of "objective" information to understand how individual prisoners relate to and cope with their environment. It captures the flavor of inmate life and presents fully documented evidence that stress can be ameliorated through direct and practical intervention.

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Eyewitness Testimony

Elizabeth F. Loftus

(1996) 253 Pages

As pertinent today as when it was first published more than a decade ago, this engaging and highly praised study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ones altered in subtle ways. She thus calls into question today's widely held assumption of eyewitness authority over the details of a crime or other events. Eyewitness Testimony provides a sobering counterpoint to today's theatrical reliance on eyewitness accounts in the media, and should be required reading for trial lawyers, psychologists, jurors, and anyone who considers the chilling prospect of confronting an eyewitness accusation in a court of law.

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The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories & the Accusations of Sexual Abuse

Elizabeth F. Loftus

(1996) 336 Pages

As a cognitive psychologist, Loftus has acquired extensive insight into the malleability of memory. For example, her research has shown that false traumatic childhood "memories" can be readily induced in adults, who then enrich the implanted memory with detail and emotion. The results of such studies and a total lack of evidence of memory repression lead Loftus and other eminent psychologists to attribute the wide prevalence of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse and satanic ritual abuse to therapist bias. Coauthor Ketcham and Loftus describe the anguish of the accused and of the families shattered by disastrous combinations of ill-trained, overzealous therapists, suggestibility of vulnerable patients, and group-therapy pressure to exhume and share monstrous memories. They neither dispute the reality of childhood sexual abuse nor the existence of traumatic memories, but they reject the true believers' assertions that "incest is epidemic, repression is rampant" and that "skeptics" are "in denial."

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