Wrongful allegations of sexual and child abuse / edited by Ros Burnett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burnett, Ros, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child abuse--Investigation.

Child abuse.

Physical Description:

xxi, 304 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse' fills a gap for an authoritative and considered text focused on false accusations of recent or historical abuse, both as a miscarriage of justice and as an ordeal which impairs lives even when it does not result in criminal charges. It brings together experts from different disciplinary backgrounds and relevant specialisms to explicate the context, causes, and processes that foster erroneous or fabricated allegations and to consider ways of reducing their incidence and the injustices that follow them.

Contents:

Wrongful allegations of sexual and child abuse : a neglected and expanding category of injustice / Ros Burnett

Experiencing false allegations of abuse : first-person accounts / edited by Ros Burnett

Demons, devils, and ritual abuse : interdisciplinary perspectives / Mary deYoung

Moral crusades, child protection, celebrities, and the duty to believe / Frank Furedi

Telling stories? : adults' retrospective narratives of abuse in residential child care / Mark Smith

"Rape culture" narrative, state feminism, and the presumption of guilt / John Brigham

Making accusations : precautionary logic and embedded suspicion in an insecure and uncertain world / Bill Herbenton and Toby Seddon

Why and how false allegations of abuse occur : an overview / Felicity Goodyear-Smith

The compensations of being a victim / Barbara Hewson

His story; her story : sexual miscommunication, motivated remembering, and intoxication as pathways to honest false testimony regarding sexual consent / J. Guillermo Villalobos, Deborah Davis, and Richard A. Leo

Beliefs about memory, childhood abuse, and hypnosis among clinicians, legal professionals, and the general public / Christopher C. French and James Ost

To catch a sex offender : police, trawls, and personal injury solicitors / David Rose

When exoneration seems hopeless : the special vulnerability of sexual abuse suspects to false confession / Deborah Davis and Richard A. Leo

Complaints of sexual abuse and the decline of objective prosecuting / Luke Gittos

"In denial" : the hazards of maintaining innocence after conviction / Daniel S. Medwed

When juries find innocent people guilty : strengths and limitations of the appellate system in England and Wales / Michael Zander

Reducing harm resulting from false allegations of child sexual abuse : the importance of corroboration / Steve Herman

Advances in lie detection : limitations and potential for investigating allegations of abuse / Galit Nahari

Toward reconciliation of the true and false recovered memory database / Robert F. Belli

The defendant's plea of innocent in sexual abuse cases / Tim Bakken

Reducing the incidence and harms of wrongful allegations of abuse / Ros Burnett.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198723301

019872330X

OCLC:

960822712

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