Home Page for Advanced Evidence
Advanced Evidence:
Materials on Notorious Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions: The Shaping and Fabrication of Children's Memories and Beliefs by Child Advocates?
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FRONTLINE Web Site
about Notorious Florida Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions in the
1980s:
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FRONTLINE Web Site
on "The Little Rascals Case" (North
Carolina):
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The Amirault Case(s) (Massachusetts):
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Randomly-Selected Web Sites about the Amirault Case(s):
http://www.ultranet.com/~kyp/amirault.html
http://www.ultranet.com/~kyp/dfafoj.html
Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly Editorial
(September 13, 1999)
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Massachusetts 1998 trial court ruling (Borenstein, J.) granting one of the Amirault defendants a new trial:
Transcript of Proceedings on June 12, 1998
Judge Borenstein's Written Opinion
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Three Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Opinions in the Amirault Cases:
Commonwealth v. LeFave, 407 Mass. 927, 556 N.E.2d 83 (1990)
Commonwealth v. Amirault, 424 Mass. 618, 677 N.E.2d 652 (1997)
Commonwealth v. LeFave, 430 Mass. 169, 714 N.E.2d 805 (1999)
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The New Jersey
Experience:
State v. Michaels,
136 N.J. 299, 642 A.2d 1372 (1994)
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Children's Memory:
David Faigman, David Kaye, Michael Saks & Joseph Sanders, "Children's Memory and Testimony" (Chapter 7), SCIENCE IN THE LAW: SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE ISSUES 308-367 (West Group 2002)
Memory in General: Suggestibility and the Constructive Nature of Memory:
Hypnosis & Witnesses & Subconscious Inference
Wikipedia on Perception
as Unconscious Inference
Psychology
and Crime News
(scroll for several items)
Alva Noë & Evan Thompson, VISION AND MIND: SELECTED READINGS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PERCEPTION (MIT Press, 2002)
Irvin Rock, The Logic of Perception (MIT Press, 1983)
Visual Perception: http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/~edelman/Course/perception/perception.html
Richard L. Gregory, Knowledge in Perception and Illusion, http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/knowl_illusion/knowledge-in-perception.pdf
Helmholtz H von, 1866/1962 Treatise
on Physiological Optics volume 2, translated by J P L Southall
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Professor Claudia Carello, U-Conn-(lovely!)-Web-Site-on-Perception, http://ione.psy.uconn.edu:16080/~psy132/Part1.pdf & http://ione.psy.uconn.edu:16080/~psy132/Part2.pdf
Patrick McDonald on Helmholtz, http://www.nd.edu/~ndcogsci/mcdonald-abstract.html
See also Material on "repressed and recovered" memory