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Materials on Notorious Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions: The Shaping and Fabrication of Children's Memories and Beliefs by Child Advocates?

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Professor Peter Tillers

 

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FRONTLINE Web Site about Notorious Florida Child Sexual Abuse Prosecutions in the 1980s:

The Child Terror

 

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FRONTLINE Web Site on "The Little Rascals Case" (North Carolina):

Innnocence Lost

 

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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:


The Kelly Michaels Trial

 

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 (New York: Dover) pp 264--301 [originally published as Handbuch der physiologischen Optik (1866, Leipzig: Voss)]

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

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See also Material on "repressed and recovered" memory



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